How do you make Coffee?

[lwehrly]

After a recent trip to Ft. Bragg, I learned several things:
1. You can buy a camping percolator, stainless steel, with the little glass top at WalMart for $32.00 before you go on the trip.
2. All the other campers in town beat me to the thrift shop.
3. All the other campers in town beat me to the local Rite-Aid.
4. The one coffee pot left at Ace Hardware had no guts.
5. There are no WalMarts in Ft. Bragg, CA
6. The one surplus store in town had one coffee pot, old blue enamel look, for $24.00
7. Drip filters folded over don't make good perc filters. The water doesn't drain through fast enough.
8. Paper towels torn properly and folded over (about 1/4 of a towel) make great perc filters.
9. Coffee is the reason one must have a cook top in a trailer. Especially if you pour up the water and get the percolator ready the night before. Turn on the coffee, crawl back under the covers and wait for the chill to leave the trailer. Turn off stove and sip first cup under covers.

I recently bought a toddy coffee maker. Had one years ago. Don't know what happened to it. The stuff is great. I'll take it along on the trip. This is especially good for folks that like lattes. Heat the milk and pour in concentrate. MMMMMMMMm. rich taste.
I'll probably also take along the percolator. (See 9 above.)

Why aren't any of the happy faces drinking coffee????

[Tom Trostel]

Here is a recipe for "cowboy coffee". Put 2 measured cups of water in a pot and heat until it just starts to boil. Lower heat to a simmer, and add 3 level tablespoons of ground coffee, and stir once. Remove from the heat after 4 minutes. Place one ice cube in pot (or small amount of cold water) and let sit for 1 minute. Pour carefully (or use a ladle) unless you like chewy coffee.

I'm a retired Army cook and made coffee by this method for years in a "field kitchen". Of course, we were using 15 gallon pots and fixing breakfast for 300+ soldiers. It's not Starbucks, but it will give you a recommended daily allowance of caffine.

Tom Trostel

[james kent]

I found a personal coffee maker at Wal Mart in their camping section. It consists of a cup, a top section for coffee, and a lid. You add one spoonful of coffee, a cup of boiling water and let it drip through. Takes about a minute or two and you've got your coffee high.

[Bonnie B.]

I have tried a lot of ways--but my favorite has been the Coleman Drip Coffee maker.
Make a great pot of coffee---goes over the burner on the stove.
I think Target carries them in the camping section---only $30 something, I think.

[Karen K.]

The Coleman drip coffee maker is our choice. Or actually my husbands choice since I found out he hated the cowboy coffee I was making. So, I found the coleman under the Christmas tree last year and it wasn't even on my list.

Karen K.

[Gina D.]

So, I found the coleman under the Christmas tree last year and it wasn't even on my list.

And how long before you let him out of his room to give it a try???

[John Perry]

We are going on our first campout in our Scamp, and I have our old tenting camp utensils including a small coffee pot thing--but it has nothing inside. Am I missing parts i don't remember, or can you make coffee in this thing. Most rv sites say get a percolator pot for stovetop or campstove. I do have a french press, but it's glass.
any suggestions, recipes???

I cannot wake up in the AM until I have had at least 2 cups of coffee. I cannot stand perked, boiled, coffee.
I was at wal- mart yesterday and found a Coleman 10 cup drip coffee maker in the camping section. I tried it this AM on my gas range in the kitchen and the coffee was just as good as if I made it in my everday drip coffe maker.
It is designed to fit on gas campstoves. It fits my burro range well and cost $39.95.

Hope this helps,
John Perry

[jimtesla]

I cannot wake up in the AM until I have had at least 2 cups of coffee. I cannot stand perked, boiled, coffee.
I was at wal- mart yesterday and found a Coleman 10 cup drip coffee maker in the camping section. I tried it this AM on my gas range in the kitchen and the coffee was just as good as if I made it in my everday drip coffe maker.
It is designed to fit on gas campstoves. It fits my burro range well and cost $39.95.

Hope this helps,
John Perry

I am sold.....this is one thread I have been folowing......I am going with the coleman as my first coffee making thing a ma jig...........I just hope for no drama at the local Wal Mart
thats twice in 1 year we have had Wacko's with guns here in Simi...and of all places...Wal Mart?

Cover me..Im going in

[Bigfoot Mike]

I am sold.....this is one thread I have been folowing......I am going with the coleman as my first coffee making thing a ma jig...........I just hope for no drama at the local Wal Mart
thats twice in 1 year we have had Wacko's with guns here in Simi...and of all places...Wal Mart?

Cover me..Im going in

Hi,

I saw the story on the TV.

We have the coleman too and it makes great coffee. It is just too slow. I have a small 2 cup pot for a quick cup in the morning.

[Alf S.]

Hi,

I saw the story on the TV.

We have the coleman too and it makes great coffee. It is just too slow. I have a small 2 cup pot for a quick cup in the morning.

Hi: Just bought a Black & Decker 5 cup(dcm500) Cofeemaker. Seems the right size for a 13' boler. Everything must be teeny tiny... Being Canadian I bought at Canadian Tire store as I don't like Wally Mart either...but I don't own a gun either... from the north shore of Lake Erie

[Alf S.]

Hi: Just bought a Black & Decker 5 cup(dcm500) Cofeemaker. Seems the right size for a 13' boler. Everything must be teeny tiny... Being Canadian I bought at Canadian Tire store as I don't like Wally Mart either...but I don't own a gun either... from the north shore of Lake Erie

P.S. I forgot to mention the price $9.95C. D.

[Byron Kinnaman]

Hi: Just bought a Black & Decker 5 cup(dcm500) Cofeemaker. Seems the right size for a 13' boler. Everything must be teeny tiny... Being Canadian I bought at Canadian Tire store as I don't like Wally Mart either...but I don't own a gun either... from the north shore of Lake Erie

This looks like a very nice coffee maker, just about the right size. One problem for many of us, it requires a 120 AC current bush or tree to work.
Thanks for pointing this one out. I would probably get one if I was usually camped with hook-ups.

I wish Coleman made a stove top this size.

[jack maloney]

Stick with your press pot, Byron - the consensus of coffee cognoscenti is that press pots make the best java!

Check: http://www.ico.org/making_coffee.asp - "The plunger method, said to have been invented in 1933, extracts the most flavour from the ground beans."

And you can't beat it for convenience, either.

[Byron Kinnaman]

Stick with your press pot, Byron - the consensus of coffee cognoscenti is that press pots make the best java!

Check: http://www.ico.org/making_coffee.asp - "The plunger method, said to have been invented in 1933, extracts the most flavour from the ground beans."

And you can't beat it for convenience, either.

Ya, I really like the coffee out of the press. I'd complain about the clean up, but since Anne takes care of that, it works great for me. She doesn't seem to mind the clean up. I guess we'll stick with that.