Notthemama I discovered those individual coffee things when our power was out. We had gas, so I could cook, but could not use any electrical appliances for a couple of weeks. We lived in the country at the time, and those ice storms bring down the power lines all the time.

I wouldn't have been clever enough to boil the water and run it through the coffee. Who can think while caffine deprived? I supposed necessity IS the mother of invention. I bow to Ray's ability to solve her problem.