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Old 06-13-2007, 12:31 PM   #1
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Coffee anyone?

So how do you make Coffee and keep it hot while your boondocking?

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Old 06-13-2007, 12:39 PM   #2
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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.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:42 PM   #3
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Walmart perk

I use a perk type that sits on the stove top. Walmart used to carry them. Works fast, makes excellent coffee, stays warm, and its shiny!
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:45 PM   #4
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I use a perk type that sits on the stove top. Walmart used to carry them. Works fast, makes excellent coffee, stays warm, and its shiny!
I have what you have, never used a French Press. I keep mine in a vintage carafe to hold the heat.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:48 PM   #5
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I have used this farberware pot for years while tent camping with a small camp stove and now it is a fixture in the AS.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:55 PM   #6
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We use our espresso machine and generator, need to charge the batteries in the morning anyway

We have friends who full-time in a 40' Beaver. They have a stove top espresso machine and a cone filter to make espresso and brewed coffee respectively.

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Old 06-13-2007, 01:00 PM   #7
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We heat the water in a teakettle on the cook-top (propane) and drip it into a coffee thermos using a cone filter. Stays hot long enough for a couple of leisurely cups each.
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I use a similar method...heat the water on the stove top and then pour through a Melitta type cone filter into a stainless thermos. It stays hot for hours.

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Old 06-13-2007, 01:21 PM   #9
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We, too, use a percolator...stainless steel. We really have only had it a couple of months.

Question: Any favorite coffees for a percolator? If we use the same brand that we use in our standard coffee pot in the house, it's just not as good. My parents used to use a percolator when they camped and I remember it tasted pretty good...so it's the coffee not the device.
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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!)
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Old 06-13-2007, 01:35 PM   #11
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We only drink one cup each so we use a single cup Melita filter. If we make more we use a French press. But when boondocking the Melita is MUCH easier to clean and therefore uses much less water.
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We have always used a stove top espresso pot as in post #6.
But last week I got a Honda 3000... :-) Now I'll have real espresso!!
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Old 06-13-2007, 01:51 PM   #13
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Before we found out about the French press (from Janet's post way back when) which we love and now use, we used the percolator and the campstove. Also boiled water on the campstove and ran the hot water through the filter over the Mr. Coffee. The French press gets the coffee nice and strong! It is more clean up than the others but I think its worth it, and since I do the cleaning well now that says something.
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One reason we like the small espresso pot, (besides the taste) is that it uses less coffee than french press. We get two servings out of one pot, and I normally order a 4 shot americano in a small at the local shop.
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Old 06-13-2007, 01:58 PM   #15
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We use a Revere Copper Bottom perculator. We grind our coffee beans before we leave and place them in a sealed container. Perk on the propane stove.
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Old 06-13-2007, 02:07 PM   #16
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French press

We just got a french press with an insulated pot and it's shiny! We grind at home if we are boondocking. Cleanup isn't all that bad and it makes great coffee.
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Old 06-13-2007, 03:29 PM   #17
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Same as Bob & Carla. We use the French Press at home and on the road. Water is heated in shiney stainless pot, then pressed. The press doubles as a vacuum insulated carafe, so it stays warm for a long time.
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Old 06-13-2007, 03:32 PM   #18
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I use a similar method...heat the water on the stove top and then pour through a Melitta type cone filter into a stainless thermos. It stays hot for hours.

(Hi janetb!)
Oh, Laura, thank you. My brother in law gives of-the-wall gifts with all the gift giving opportunities. A couple of months ago I unwrapped my birthday gift from him anticipating another wierd gift. He did not disappoint me. NOW I am not disappointed thanks to your post. I unwrapped an old collectible type ribbed aluminum thermos, with a cork for a stopper and red cup cap. I am not a coffee junky but do enjoy a morning cup occassionally. With a smiley blank stare I said "Thank you, Steve?" In his explanation he said,"For your Airstream." NOW I will carefully place it into our Airstream.

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Old 06-13-2007, 04:13 PM   #19
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We're from Santa Monica (where the foam meets the flakes) and as such we don't drink no coffee out of pots (just allow me to Vente a little)! We, bean' gourmets, only drink brew from just ground beans that have been carefully packed to prevent bruising. We would roast fresh beans, but the aroma brings the weak-willed sniffing around the door and if we give them any coffee, they're likely to whine about not being able to sleep. Since we dont have 110V when boondocking, we simply crush each individual bean with a pair of vice-grips or and use individual filters made from virgin wood pulp (G** forbid recycled-you just don't know where it's been). Tedious you say? Maybe, but counting the beans gives accurate reproducibility from cup to cup. There is no accounting for taste among bean counters! If part of a cup is allowed to get cold (we would normally throw it the street if we were in town and go back to Star*****) 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 SALUD! Gosh! This is such an exciting topic. I think I'll go make a cup of coffee and try to calm down.
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On the boat, we heat water in a teapot and grind beans in a GSI Lexan Coffee Grinder sitting on a 33 ounce GSI Lexan JavaPress

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Coffee is served in two 16 ounce wide-base Sea Bowld Stainless Steel Travel Mugs that keep it hot for quite awhile. The press also has an insulating wrap.



Coffee never tasted so good as it does when kicked back in the cockpit at anchor on a cool, calm morning out on the water.
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