Tag: kitchen

I descaled the coffee machine yesterday. We live in an exceptionally hard-water area and this maintenance was long overdue.

This morning I turned the machine on and something felt unfamiliar and wrong. I couldn't put my finger on what, until I realised...

...I'd gotten so-used to seeing the "descaling needed" light illuminated that I'd subconsciously forgotten that it wasn't supposed to be always-lit! Turns out that a warning left long enough becomes not just invisible but normalised!

(Next, maybe I should do something about the 'check engine' light in the car. It's been on for a while too...)

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Close-up of the buttons on an automatic/beans-to-cup coffee machine.

There are many things I don't like about the kitchen in the Chicory House where we're living medium-term following our house flood.

But I like the fact that the integrated spice rack makes it much easier to see where we perhaps have a very-specific blind spot for "buying a new one where the last one's still more than half-full".

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Close-up of a spice rack containing not one, not two, not three but four tubs of 'ground white pepper by Sainsburys'.