The idea of a world where electricity is illegal may be unthinkable to many, since so much of our day-to-day activities currently depend on it. However this possibility is not so foreign to some. I, for example, live in a country where, although electricity is not illegal, it is a scarce and difficult to access resource.
It has been many years since the electric service started to become unpredictable, but as of the year 2019 the dystopia started to materialize and become closer and closer. That year a blackout left the entire country without electric power for more than four days, when the authorities restored the service nothing was the same again. Since then we cannot always count on electricity, we have daily rationing of 6 to 8 hours, in addition to some spontaneous outages that respond to all the failures that undermine the electric power system nationwide.
In 2019 no one gave a concrete answer as to what had happened, the government spoke of a cyber terrorist attack to our electric service. On the other hand, its opponents claimed that it was due to the lack of maintenance and the neglect of the state regarding the system that provides us with electricity. In short, it became a political issue and different campaigns were made to make money out of the situation, while millions of people were drowning in despair.
But you know what? In the midst of all this madness, there was never a shortage of coffee. Many things changed about the purchase and consumption of our favorite beverage, but we always had a good cup of steaming coffee in our hands. How did we do it? At first we opted for ground and packaged coffee, in our region there are good brands, since we are a producing area par excellence. An old greca on the gas stove was our best friend for a long time.
Later my partner and I had to move to a small rural town, where we rarely got gas for our cooking. So we took up the ancestral ways of cooking with firewood, at that time we explored a traditional way of preparing coffee, which consists of boiling the water using a hot wood. I must add that this was my first post in this beautiful community and although at that time I was much more optimistic than now. I remember with great joy that time I recorded the preparation of coffee with tizón to share it with you.
Anyway, we have had to go back to old ways of preparing coffee. Sometimes we have bought the coffee beans that our neighbors produce and grind them in the manual machine. We do this among several families so that the process of roasting and grinding the beans is easier and less expensive. It is not like drinking it freshly ground but if it is well preserved it keeps its flavor and aroma for a long time.
So in answer to this week's question, what I would do in a dystopian reality where electricity was illegal, would be exactly what I do now: take up traditional, ancestral ways of brewing. No matter how hard things have become, we have never lacked coffee, we have even prepared it by burning sticks or twigs, even old papers or cartons. We have had to survive and will continue to do so, but always with a cup of coffee in our hands.
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The traditional way has been maintained over time, although it is an arduous process to process coffee beans manually, the effort will be worth it and its exquisite flavor. Greetings @jetta.amaya
It's arduous but it's worth it. Thank you very much for visiting me and commenting. Greetings
i have to say that traditional way of making make us appreciate more or even something new experience.
Valuing our traditions means maintaining and transmitting them. Thank you very much for visiting me and for your comment. Greetings
Very good story...to think that many of us have had to anticipate this fictional future and live it day by day.
Thanks for sharing, let's enjoy a good Creole coffee.
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Thanks for your support friend! I'm so glad you liked it and identified with it!!!
Having firsthand experience on this reality gives your response to the prompt a lot of soul. The old ways of making coffee are tried and true, and we always have them to rely on. Thanks for sharing 😁
Thanks for visiting and commenting, when I saw the proposal I didn't feel it was far away, so I just decided to tell my experience to continue enjoying a good cup of coffee. Greetings
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What you propose in the post is very interesting, the ancient ways of preparing coffee caught my attention. What I mean by this is that human beings will continue to look for alternatives to replace electricity.
May the delight of coffee always be with you.☕
Good day.
Thanks for sharing.
Good day
Thanks for visiting and commenting. Always looking for how to have a good cup of coffee no matter the adversities, so the best way to do it is to look for the ways our ancestors did it. Greetings
Coffee lovers would find a way no matter what, heh?
I love that vintage-looking cup, and your own photos definitely match the story:)
Absolutely, we can always find a way to continue enjoying a good cup of coffee!!!! Thanks for your comment dear Milly, I'm glad you enjoyed my photos. a hug!
This post and the smell of hot brewed coffee all over it took me traveling back in time to my grandparent's home. This is the same way tea and coffee are made at dawn. A massive pot over burning coal. It feeds almost an entire clan. Hehe.
How nice that it made you relive those pleasant moments with your grandparents and family. Thank you for visiting and commenting. A big hug.
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