All this talk about beans is giving me gas. Any good quality Arabica bean works for me.
My thing is the water. Here in Minnesota we have very good water quality. I use only untreated water directly from the Prairie Du Chien aquifer. No chlorates, thank you.
Nothing fancy, boil water in the teakettle, pour it into the thermos/travel cup and pop in a Folger's coffee single. Same routine I use for starting the morning from a rest stop, then hunt for a doughnut.
Saint Paul, MN tap water comes out at 8.4pH and is so alkaline an alka-seltzer nearly levitates above the water with a whirring noise, and dissolves in about twenty seconds... and when summer algae blooms in the shallow lakes they use for summer supplement it smells like a fishing pond straight from the tap... Its a buck a gallon for decent water in this neck of the woods...
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I use the propane stove to heat water and brew the coffee in a french press. Can also heat water on one of our coleman white gas stoves, outside.
Don't make more than we can drink in one sitting, so keeping it hot isn't a problem.
^ Thats what we do too.
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Hi, we have a pot just like the one in post #3; I think it is a Coleman. And we only use bottled water. Oh yeah, so far we haven't even used it yet, we have been useing the 110 volt coffee maker. We have not been without 110 power since we bought the stove top model.
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I'm a coffeeholic and the lexan grinder is a GREAT idea. The two best things for coffee are: Filtered water and Fresh beans freshly ground.
Even Starbucks admits that coffee is 99.7% water so while I do drink tap water without reserve, when traveling especially I use bottled for coffee. Let's face it, water tastes different in different areas, and what you carry in your fresh water tank can go a bit off too over time.
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We also use a Melitta into a thermal carafe. I think the cone method is much easier to clean than a french press. (For us, the easier the better when we're camping!)
Me too, boondocking or not. If I'm not in a hurry, sometimes I use the french press for full flavor. But I insist on fresh ground. I have a small old-fashioned Armin Trosser coffee grinder powered by elbow grease.
French press is the way to go. It makes such good coffee that we have tossed out the electric drip percolator.
Our french press is a 33 ounce insulated stainless steel model that keeps coffee hot for hours.
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We actually bought this at walmart for 38.00 before we got the Stream when we had planned on going tent camping. We actually tried it out on a small coleman stove and it worked great. Problem i guess would be storage. Just an idea. Then again, you should be able to sit it on top of the gas stove when not boondocking. Too bad we gave it all away, darn! Its called a Coleman Camp Coffee Maker.
[QUOTE=balrgn]So how do you make Coffee and keep it hot while your boondocking?
Coffee Brewing Methods
Right up there with bacon, whole-hog sausage, and Free-Range RedNeck eggs...Coffee! Make it fresh and when it cools...do it again.
Some very fine approaches listed! And, yes, the water and the beans are the foundation.
My favorite 5 ways of brewing coffee...
5. Sniffing out the best smelling A/S in the morning. Be sure to bring trade goods, your own mug and a very helpless-looking demeanor.
4. Boil water in the washed (optional) bean can from last night, remove from the fire, drop in 1/2 crushed eggshell and 1 handful of coarse ground coffee. Let sit for 3 minutes, add one small glug of cold water to settle the grounds, bite the end off and light the Romeo y Julieta Pyramides vintage #6 cigar and get ready for the launch. Amenities of this method: lead and other metals from the can, ashes from the fire, grounds in your teeth, 2nd & 3rd degree burns on your fingers from picking up the can, total privacy and undisturbed seclusion for masculine, morning macho meditation (cigar smoke repels most upright-walking organisms and Ruby, my JRT.)
3. Stove top espresso in Stainless Steel maker
2. Toddy Cold Water Extract Coffee Concentrate. Make it before the trip. Concentrate yield is about 1 quart per pound of coffee. I use this one after a week of #s 4 & 3. This method is a low acid brew that has the added advantage of being a very high quality instant. Just pour 1 shot of the concentrate into a preheated mug. Add boiling water and you are there. To prepare, buy 1 lb. of very coarsely ground coffee (caf or decaf or mix of both). Place felt filter and plug into bottom of brew decanter. Add coffee. Add Reverse-Osmosis (RO) water and let sit overnight (12-16 hours). Pull plug and set onto supplied glass receiver decanter. Allow concentrate to drain for a couple of hours. Refrigerate concentrate till ready to use. I use Grolsch Beer bottles for taking the concentrate camping. They have a wire-bail ceramic stopper with a rubber gasket and are indestructible.
1. Chem-X drip coffee maker. Just another drip method using delicate and artful glass (not plastic) brewer. Have had this one for 25 years or more and it miraculously has not exploded.
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I roast my green beans in a hot air popcorn popper till they are a nice dark brown .... let it rest a day ... ... grind it on a burr plate grinder and then measure 6 grams per cup when I brew it in a drip cone filter into a hot pot (like you see in any good coffee shop). It stays warm for a few hours if we don't drink it all right away. When you drink real fresh roasted coffee its hard to drink it any other way!
I simply stck the antenna for my handheld CB (linear amp'd, of course) and press talk. The RF(maybe it's BS, I forget) does the rest
Professor Excella,
I seem to have a dim memory on something else like this.
Somewhere in the Pacific, Freeman Dyson lit a cigarette off of a nuclear test blast.
Seems he calculated the wavelength of the particular light from the blast, fashioned a sort of dish and placed an alligator clip at the focal point of the dish and inserted the cigarette.
When he turned around after the blast, the cigarette was lit. (Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee)
Is your vice-grip tool from Hansford Nuclear Reservation? Roast the bean when crushing?
Guess you wouldn't need a flashlight very early in the morning or when enjoying coffee after dinner.
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