Lessons in Debugging Coffee · Jamie Schembri

Our coffee machine is currently at the shop for repair, so we’re stuck drinking instant. It’s not fantastic, but it’s really all right in a pinch. In fact, my parents exclusively drink instant because it’s what they’re used to — seems like a pretty common thing in the UK and is probably a war relic or something (I haven’t looked it up).Instant coffee is really easy to make: you take some coffee granules1 from a jar, put them in a cup and add hot water. If you’re an uncivilised barbarian, you then add milk and/or sugar. And this is what my fiancée2 — let’s call her Evelien because that’s her actual name — was doing on this hot Sunday morning while I was still lazing in bed.