O Holy Crap

You probably have a typical coffee brewer. Those aren’t too picky about their grind, but they take up a lot of space and only do one thing. Most don’t last long.

You could instead get a V60 for about $10 and a nice hand grinder, neither of which take much space. Combine those with an electric tea kettle, and you’ve got nicer coffee in a smaller footprint. The tea kettle still takes up space, but it’s a tea kettle. The grinder is the size of a pepper mill, and the V60 is an indestructible little plastic cone. Tired of cranking the grinder by hand? Hook it up to a drill.

You could use a blender-style grinder with a V60, but you’re going to run into trouble getting it to work right.

Everything is a compromise.

No one? Was it just me then?

Cheap imitations of an artifact from a bygone era. Where playing with it too much or too hard will it break.

They're more of a display item than an actual appliance. Only meant for looking at and instilling the idea of a useful tool. But don't dare use it!

The reason is producers don't care if it works or not. The product is successful so long as they can trick enough people into buying it.

The mental, emotional, and financial exhaustion borders on psychological warfare from foreign advisories.

America needs to reboot it's manufacturing base with a focus on absolute best quality hands down, no excuses, survive nuclear winter American made products.

Let's break this wasteful Earth destroying, GHG creating cycle of madness!

Many other things seem to have gotten worse though, like clothes and linens. I suspect there's some pattern to those things that have improved and those that have declined, and everything in between, but I couldn't explain it.