Here's
a tip you may not need. I will not rule out the possibility that
I am the only bonehead in the world who has ever tried this, however, should there be more of you who are
like me out there,
learn from my mistake.
DO NOT add cocoa powder with your
ground coffee to the
filter of a
drip coffee maker. You will be sorry when the steaming water hits the
powder, causing it to form
lumps of evil clogging nastiness and exploding in a steaming
floe of wet
coffee grounds all over your counter. The cocoa powder (or possibly the
cocoa butter in the powder) clumps up at the
nozzle which drips into the pot, clogging it completely. The water in the filter then backs up and over the lip of the coffee maker, making it look like your
coffee pot is
possessed when it spews grounds in a gurgling
cascade of horrifying (though, admittedly
yummy-smelling) near-
boiling water. It takes a long time to
clean up. If you want mocha in your coffee, do it on a cup-by-cup basis.
rootbeer277 says re Cocoa Powder: I suppose you could put the cocoa powder into the empty carafe, too.
preach on, brother...