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Coffee Set Ups
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For the discussion about getting the grounds to drop in a pot of boiling water... put a splash of cold water in the pot and the grounds will settle. No need to swing it around, lol.
For cowboy coffee don't put the grinds in until the water cools off the boiling point. Boiling water releases a lot of the acid in the coffee making it bitter. Lesson learned the hard way. While I currently use a Stanley press for overlanding, with a larger group I go back to cowboy coffee with a 2 liter titanium Mors pot (or 2 or 3) surrounded by a cozy after the water is heated. Let the coffee mixture set for 10 minutes, a bit of cold water on top if the grounds haven't settled, and pour gently. The cozy will keep the rest of the pot warm for a while, getting stronger all the time.
Im planning on taking an aeropress, a Hario V60 (plastic), and a grinder, scale, and kettle along with some great whole bean coffee, on my camping trip next week. All said and done everything should only weigh a few pounds and should fit into a large ammo can. I'll be using my jet boil with the gooseneck pour over kettle for hot water, so in less than 10 minutes I should be able to make 2 cups of coffee that any barista would approve of.
If anyone wants to get real ambitious you should try roasting some green coffee beans in cast iron over an open fire! It's a lot of work but I'm sure it would be fulfilling! It's a shame I'm not that ambitious
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If anyone wants to get real ambitious you should try roasting some green coffee beans in cast iron over an open fire! It's a lot of work but I'm sure it would be fulfilling! It's a shame I'm not that ambitious
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I spent my childhood waking up to the sound of the percolator on the stove! That being said I don't drink coffee and so I don't have a coffee maker of any sort...but I do miss waking up to the percolator :)
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french press. fits in my mug that i can use for soup, hot chocolate or porkchops. just wash it well in between.
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Have tried a GSI Expresso maker, was ok but leaky and a lot of effort for an expresso. Toured with a double walled steel french press and ground coffee several times but hated how much water was needed to clean it up, great for filling the Kanteen for the drive ahead though.
Toured with coffee bags, meh the taste is boring but tolerable, and good coffee bags impossible find outside of the city.
I always keep my screw-on GSI H2JO and Klean Kanteen in the LandCruiser with a bag of ground coffee, tastes as good as french pressed.
For my birthday I received a Handpresso Auto 12v Expresso machine, can take ESE pods or ground coffee, cant wait to try it out, looks like luxury, through the used paper pods in the fire.
Toured with coffee bags, meh the taste is boring but tolerable, and good coffee bags impossible find outside of the city.
I always keep my screw-on GSI H2JO and Klean Kanteen in the LandCruiser with a bag of ground coffee, tastes as good as french pressed.
For my birthday I received a Handpresso Auto 12v Expresso machine, can take ESE pods or ground coffee, cant wait to try it out, looks like luxury, through the used paper pods in the fire.
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Jet boil and via coffee packets for us. I like having a cup ready in a couple minutes while I'm getting breakfast started and nothing to clean up. It also works well when in a hurry in the morning and not breaking out the kitchen for breakfast. I found the mtm survivor plastic box fits the jetboil flash and a pack of the via packets perfectly so we can have our coffee situation separate from the other gear and easily accessible
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Starbucks VIA and bottled drinks. I always have at least two Starbucks bottles in my fridge, and fallback on VIA when I'm out of bottles.
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I use a full size nespresso but I have 400ah of usable agm goodness and 600w of solar
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Tested out the Handpresso Auto today, cleanup included wiping steam off the lid and throwing away a paper filter containing the grounds. Oh and wiping out the coffee cups after. Wow! Coffee was insanely good. 16bar of pressure gives a mean expresso. Takes probably a minute per cup?
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I just read through all of this, lots of great insight.
I'm in the Starbucks Via or pourover group. If it's a hard morning I'll start with via because it's just so fast, I'll be halfway through with a cup before some of my friends are done grinding their beans. With more time I'll do a pourover.
I grew up with pourover, we never called it that and I still find it funny calling it that, it was just how we made coffee and I still preference it to other brewing methods today. Espresso is a different world for me though and I will snob out on that. I've found French press just too messy and time consuming for me, but I see the value for larger groups.
It's funny, I still use the cheap plastic pourover holders my mom gave me when I left for college 13 years ago. I tried a porcelain one a couple years back but unless you preheat the filter holder I find it takes too much heat away from the brew.
A friend of mine brought one of those beehive gooseneck water kettles camping once and I swear it took 15-minutes to boil, I think the thin stainless steel walls made for a very inefficient heat transfer. He was using a Coleman 2-burner.
I'll have to try the aeropress some of you mentioned, maybe do a taste test to see how it fairs. Oh And I found these recently, they look a little flimsy but I may give them a shot.. could be a good space saver.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01IBXADOK/ref=pd_aw_sim_79_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1BKQMVD2GJDWJBV62RSJ&dpPl=1&dpID=61ygYQu2xDL
I'm in the Starbucks Via or pourover group. If it's a hard morning I'll start with via because it's just so fast, I'll be halfway through with a cup before some of my friends are done grinding their beans. With more time I'll do a pourover.
I grew up with pourover, we never called it that and I still find it funny calling it that, it was just how we made coffee and I still preference it to other brewing methods today. Espresso is a different world for me though and I will snob out on that. I've found French press just too messy and time consuming for me, but I see the value for larger groups.
It's funny, I still use the cheap plastic pourover holders my mom gave me when I left for college 13 years ago. I tried a porcelain one a couple years back but unless you preheat the filter holder I find it takes too much heat away from the brew.
A friend of mine brought one of those beehive gooseneck water kettles camping once and I swear it took 15-minutes to boil, I think the thin stainless steel walls made for a very inefficient heat transfer. He was using a Coleman 2-burner.
I'll have to try the aeropress some of you mentioned, maybe do a taste test to see how it fairs. Oh And I found these recently, they look a little flimsy but I may give them a shot.. could be a good space saver.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01IBXADOK/ref=pd_aw_sim_79_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1BKQMVD2GJDWJBV62RSJ&dpPl=1&dpID=61ygYQu2xDL
Coffee is one of the most important parts of the day. If we are trying to be light we stick with instant (Yuck), but if we have a sight we go with one of 2 options. The first is a Bodum Pour Over with a metal filter and the second is a classic percolator. Nothing like a traditional cup from a traditional method!
I'd never heard of bodum before. Just ran a search and see that they make a double-walled bpa free poly carafe, that makes a lot of sense to me!
Edit: Cancel that, the filter part is bpa free plastic, the carafe is still glass.
We are always pretty nervous bringing the glass carafe, but the coffee is sooooo good.
