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martin schulz
06-10-2003, 12:44 PM
...very much Boat-related!
Sailing on American Charter Boats I have often seen, used and enjoyed making coffee with a rather peculiar coffee-pot.
Not unlike a normal espresso-pot you just pour water in it, place a small tube with a net-like cup attached inside and put the whole "apparat" on the stove. When the water starts to boil it moves up the tube spills over the coffee (which was poured in the "cup") and drops (now hot coffee) though the net-like cup back into the pot.
To check if the coffee is done you only needed to look at a transparent little dome on top the lid. When the boiling water, you could see bubbling in the dome, turned black you knew that the coffee was ready(now this has been difficult for me to explain).
If you guys know what I am talking about - where can I get such a coffee-pot?
Over here nobody has ever seen one or even knows what I am talking about. But I don't want to fumble around with the "normal" way to make a coffee (although it tastes better) using a kettle with boiling water a pot a funnel and a coffee-filtre.
martin schulz
06-10-2003, 12:44 PM
...very much Boat-related!
Sailing on American Charter Boats I have often seen, used and enjoyed making coffee with a rather peculiar coffee-pot.
Not unlike a normal espresso-pot you just pour water in it, place a small tube with a net-like cup attached inside and put the whole "apparat" on the stove. When the water starts to boil it moves up the tube spills over the coffee (which was poured in the "cup") and drops (now hot coffee) though the net-like cup back into the pot.
To check if the coffee is done you only needed to look at a transparent little dome on top the lid. When the boiling water, you could see bubbling in the dome, turned black you knew that the coffee was ready(now this has been difficult for me to explain).
If you guys know what I am talking about - where can I get such a coffee-pot?
Over here nobody has ever seen one or even knows what I am talking about. But I don't want to fumble around with the "normal" way to make a coffee (although it tastes better) using a kettle with boiling water a pot a funnel and a coffee-filtre.
martin schulz
06-10-2003, 12:44 PM
...very much Boat-related!
Sailing on American Charter Boats I have often seen, used and enjoyed making coffee with a rather peculiar coffee-pot.
Not unlike a normal espresso-pot you just pour water in it, place a small tube with a net-like cup attached inside and put the whole "apparat" on the stove. When the water starts to boil it moves up the tube spills over the coffee (which was poured in the "cup") and drops (now hot coffee) though the net-like cup back into the pot.
To check if the coffee is done you only needed to look at a transparent little dome on top the lid. When the boiling water, you could see bubbling in the dome, turned black you knew that the coffee was ready(now this has been difficult for me to explain).
If you guys know what I am talking about - where can I get such a coffee-pot?
Over here nobody has ever seen one or even knows what I am talking about. But I don't want to fumble around with the "normal" way to make a coffee (although it tastes better) using a kettle with boiling water a pot a funnel and a coffee-filtre.
Sounds like an old-fashioned percolater.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ivy/antique-shop/percolater11.jpg
Sounds like an old-fashioned percolater.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ivy/antique-shop/percolater11.jpg
Sounds like an old-fashioned percolater.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ivy/antique-shop/percolater11.jpg
NormMessinger
06-10-2003, 01:00 PM
What you wanna know for? Boiled coffee isn't that good and that's what those things do. It's called a "percolator." It perks coffee by boiling the water as you described but as the weak, ever stronger coffee falls through the grounds it is boiled and reboiled until it looks like real coffee. Nasty stuff.
Now if you want a really good cupa use a Chemex, which I think might be of German origin. It looks like a biology lab beaker. A paper filter with finely ground coffee goes in the top and you pour hot water a couple of degrees below boiling over the grounds, just enough to wet the grounds at first. Wait a couple of minutes for them to soak and get ready to release their essesence. Then fill the top of the Chemex beaker and wait a few minutes. A beautiful dark, clear, tasty brew flows in to the lower portion.
Now if you plan to be back packing or otherwise roughing it just boil water in any suitable container, set it off the fire to stop the rolling boil, throw in a handfull of grounds maybe a few chips of egg shell to settle the grounds. Wait a few minutes. Pour it into your cup, twist to break off the flow and enjoy. Best cupa I ever had was brewed thusly by an old cowboy cook on the Pranty Creek Fire back in ought and 68.
NormMessinger
06-10-2003, 01:00 PM
What you wanna know for? Boiled coffee isn't that good and that's what those things do. It's called a "percolator." It perks coffee by boiling the water as you described but as the weak, ever stronger coffee falls through the grounds it is boiled and reboiled until it looks like real coffee. Nasty stuff.
Now if you want a really good cupa use a Chemex, which I think might be of German origin. It looks like a biology lab beaker. A paper filter with finely ground coffee goes in the top and you pour hot water a couple of degrees below boiling over the grounds, just enough to wet the grounds at first. Wait a couple of minutes for them to soak and get ready to release their essesence. Then fill the top of the Chemex beaker and wait a few minutes. A beautiful dark, clear, tasty brew flows in to the lower portion.
Now if you plan to be back packing or otherwise roughing it just boil water in any suitable container, set it off the fire to stop the rolling boil, throw in a handfull of grounds maybe a few chips of egg shell to settle the grounds. Wait a few minutes. Pour it into your cup, twist to break off the flow and enjoy. Best cupa I ever had was brewed thusly by an old cowboy cook on the Pranty Creek Fire back in ought and 68.
NormMessinger
06-10-2003, 01:00 PM
What you wanna know for? Boiled coffee isn't that good and that's what those things do. It's called a "percolator." It perks coffee by boiling the water as you described but as the weak, ever stronger coffee falls through the grounds it is boiled and reboiled until it looks like real coffee. Nasty stuff.
Now if you want a really good cupa use a Chemex, which I think might be of German origin. It looks like a biology lab beaker. A paper filter with finely ground coffee goes in the top and you pour hot water a couple of degrees below boiling over the grounds, just enough to wet the grounds at first. Wait a couple of minutes for them to soak and get ready to release their essesence. Then fill the top of the Chemex beaker and wait a few minutes. A beautiful dark, clear, tasty brew flows in to the lower portion.
Now if you plan to be back packing or otherwise roughing it just boil water in any suitable container, set it off the fire to stop the rolling boil, throw in a handfull of grounds maybe a few chips of egg shell to settle the grounds. Wait a few minutes. Pour it into your cup, twist to break off the flow and enjoy. Best cupa I ever had was brewed thusly by an old cowboy cook on the Pranty Creek Fire back in ought and 68.
Rather strange to hear a percolater called peculiar. That is the way we made coffee for years until the electric coffee pot came to the general public. You can buy these at any Wal-Mart here in the states ($15-$30).
Chad
Rather strange to hear a percolater called peculiar. That is the way we made coffee for years until the electric coffee pot came to the general public. You can buy these at any Wal-Mart here in the states ($15-$30).
Chad
Rather strange to hear a percolater called peculiar. That is the way we made coffee for years until the electric coffee pot came to the general public. You can buy these at any Wal-Mart here in the states ($15-$30).
Chad
Ken Hutchins
06-10-2003, 01:03 PM
I know just what you mean, a good old fashioned coffee pot, I have one at my camp. tongue.gif But here is a place that has them
Percolator (http://www.campinggurus.com/olststcope.html)
and another percolator2 (http://www.newsearching.com/camping_cookware/GSI_Outdoors_Sierra_8_Cup_Coffee_Percolator.html)
Ken Hutchins
06-10-2003, 01:03 PM
I know just what you mean, a good old fashioned coffee pot, I have one at my camp. tongue.gif But here is a place that has them
Percolator (http://www.campinggurus.com/olststcope.html)
and another percolator2 (http://www.newsearching.com/camping_cookware/GSI_Outdoors_Sierra_8_Cup_Coffee_Percolator.html)
Ken Hutchins
06-10-2003, 01:03 PM
I know just what you mean, a good old fashioned coffee pot, I have one at my camp. tongue.gif But here is a place that has them
Percolator (http://www.campinggurus.com/olststcope.html)
and another percolator2 (http://www.newsearching.com/camping_cookware/GSI_Outdoors_Sierra_8_Cup_Coffee_Percolator.html)
IMHO, the best coffee afloat is made in a stainless steel french press.
http://www.bigpockets.com/catalog/gifts/images/bistro_00.jpg
IMHO, the best coffee afloat is made in a stainless steel french press.
http://www.bigpockets.com/catalog/gifts/images/bistro_00.jpg
IMHO, the best coffee afloat is made in a stainless steel french press.
http://www.bigpockets.com/catalog/gifts/images/bistro_00.jpg
Wayne Jeffers
06-10-2003, 01:12 PM
Originally posted by cs:
. . . That is the way we made coffee for years until the electric coffee pot came to the general public. . . .
You're showing your youth, Chad. Electric percolators were commonplace in the 50's and 60's, before Joe DiMaggio invented the electric drip coffeemaker. ;) At the time, I thought my parents were weird because they used an old-fashioned drip coffee pot instead of an electric percolator.
Wayne
[ 06-10-2003, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Jeffers ]
Wayne Jeffers
06-10-2003, 01:12 PM
Originally posted by cs:
. . . That is the way we made coffee for years until the electric coffee pot came to the general public. . . .
You're showing your youth, Chad. Electric percolators were commonplace in the 50's and 60's, before Joe DiMaggio invented the electric drip coffeemaker. ;) At the time, I thought my parents were weird because they used an old-fashioned drip coffee pot instead of an electric percolator.
Wayne
[ 06-10-2003, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Jeffers ]
Wayne Jeffers
06-10-2003, 01:12 PM
Originally posted by cs:
. . . That is the way we made coffee for years until the electric coffee pot came to the general public. . . .
You're showing your youth, Chad. Electric percolators were commonplace in the 50's and 60's, before Joe DiMaggio invented the electric drip coffeemaker. ;) At the time, I thought my parents were weird because they used an old-fashioned drip coffee pot instead of an electric percolator.
Wayne
[ 06-10-2003, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Jeffers ]
Well I ain't that old, I was thinking more of the modern type of electric coffee maker. We always had the old-fashioned perculator.
Can you believe these guys with all their fancy ways of making coffee?
Chad
Well I ain't that old, I was thinking more of the modern type of electric coffee maker. We always had the old-fashioned perculator.
Can you believe these guys with all their fancy ways of making coffee?
Chad
Well I ain't that old, I was thinking more of the modern type of electric coffee maker. We always had the old-fashioned perculator.
Can you believe these guys with all their fancy ways of making coffee?
Chad
Wayne Jeffers
06-10-2003, 01:21 PM
Originally posted by cs:
. . .
Can you believe these guys with all their fancy ways of making coffee? . . . Well, I don't understand the attraction.
I don't drink very much coffee anymore, but I never had much use for anything other than good old Maxwell House/Folgers, served black. :D
Wayne
Wayne Jeffers
06-10-2003, 01:21 PM
Originally posted by cs:
. . .
Can you believe these guys with all their fancy ways of making coffee? . . . Well, I don't understand the attraction.
I don't drink very much coffee anymore, but I never had much use for anything other than good old Maxwell House/Folgers, served black. :D
Wayne
Wayne Jeffers
06-10-2003, 01:21 PM
Originally posted by cs:
. . .
Can you believe these guys with all their fancy ways of making coffee? . . . Well, I don't understand the attraction.
I don't drink very much coffee anymore, but I never had much use for anything other than good old Maxwell House/Folgers, served black. :D
Wayne
Garrett Lowell
06-10-2003, 02:23 PM
I agree with Donn, though mine is made of glass.
Garrett Lowell
06-10-2003, 02:23 PM
I agree with Donn, though mine is made of glass.
Garrett Lowell
06-10-2003, 02:23 PM
I agree with Donn, though mine is made of glass.
ErikH
06-10-2003, 03:21 PM
When I wa a kid we had a stovetop percolator. never drank from it myself but my momo (still a coffe addict) says taht it makes horrible coffee, for the reasons heretofore mentioned.
Melitta drips work well. So do french press units, which have the advantage of coming in many sizes depending on your crew, and not requiring any replaceable elements. best of all they can be had in unbreakable Lexan or stainless.
We would use a french press, or else set a drip unit to go straight into a SS thermos bottle. Stays hot for hours especially if you preheat the bottle, but you do have to stand there and pour it as it drips.
ErikH
06-10-2003, 03:21 PM
When I wa a kid we had a stovetop percolator. never drank from it myself but my momo (still a coffe addict) says taht it makes horrible coffee, for the reasons heretofore mentioned.
Melitta drips work well. So do french press units, which have the advantage of coming in many sizes depending on your crew, and not requiring any replaceable elements. best of all they can be had in unbreakable Lexan or stainless.
We would use a french press, or else set a drip unit to go straight into a SS thermos bottle. Stays hot for hours especially if you preheat the bottle, but you do have to stand there and pour it as it drips.
ErikH
06-10-2003, 03:21 PM
When I wa a kid we had a stovetop percolator. never drank from it myself but my momo (still a coffe addict) says taht it makes horrible coffee, for the reasons heretofore mentioned.
Melitta drips work well. So do french press units, which have the advantage of coming in many sizes depending on your crew, and not requiring any replaceable elements. best of all they can be had in unbreakable Lexan or stainless.
We would use a french press, or else set a drip unit to go straight into a SS thermos bottle. Stays hot for hours especially if you preheat the bottle, but you do have to stand there and pour it as it drips.
TimothyB
06-10-2003, 03:46 PM
I agree. French press is the best coffee. Measure out 1 Tblsp per cup, stir with wooden spoon, let steep for 3 minutes and squeeze! (Make sure the water is REALLY boiling though before you put it in)
For a boat its perfect to have one made out of stainless steel! I have to get me one of those. All I could find in SS was a percolater. ;)
--T
[ 06-10-2003, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: TimothyB ]
TimothyB
06-10-2003, 03:46 PM
I agree. French press is the best coffee. Measure out 1 Tblsp per cup, stir with wooden spoon, let steep for 3 minutes and squeeze! (Make sure the water is REALLY boiling though before you put it in)
For a boat its perfect to have one made out of stainless steel! I have to get me one of those. All I could find in SS was a percolater. ;)
--T
[ 06-10-2003, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: TimothyB ]
TimothyB
06-10-2003, 03:46 PM
I agree. French press is the best coffee. Measure out 1 Tblsp per cup, stir with wooden spoon, let steep for 3 minutes and squeeze! (Make sure the water is REALLY boiling though before you put it in)
For a boat its perfect to have one made out of stainless steel! I have to get me one of those. All I could find in SS was a percolater. ;)
--T
[ 06-10-2003, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: TimothyB ]
paladin
06-10-2003, 05:02 PM
I have been looking for YEARS for a stainless steel drip coffee maker...no luck..
paladin
06-10-2003, 05:02 PM
I have been looking for YEARS for a stainless steel drip coffee maker...no luck..
paladin
06-10-2003, 05:02 PM
I have been looking for YEARS for a stainless steel drip coffee maker...no luck..
Stainless Steel Drip Coffee Maker (http://www.intgoods.com/main_3_29.htm)
How's your Korean?
Stainless Steel Drip Coffee Maker (http://www.intgoods.com/main_3_29.htm)
How's your Korean?
Stainless Steel Drip Coffee Maker (http://www.intgoods.com/main_3_29.htm)
How's your Korean?
NormMessinger
06-10-2003, 05:16 PM
Yeah, the French press deal is okay but it has been my experience that stiring the grounds causes them to settle out. This eliminates the coffee grounds acting as a filter and getting more of the fines or cloudyness out. Is it the wooden spoon that makes the difference?
NormMessinger
06-10-2003, 05:16 PM
Yeah, the French press deal is okay but it has been my experience that stiring the grounds causes them to settle out. This eliminates the coffee grounds acting as a filter and getting more of the fines or cloudyness out. Is it the wooden spoon that makes the difference?
NormMessinger
06-10-2003, 05:16 PM
Yeah, the French press deal is okay but it has been my experience that stiring the grounds causes them to settle out. This eliminates the coffee grounds acting as a filter and getting more of the fines or cloudyness out. Is it the wooden spoon that makes the difference?
Nicholas Carey
06-10-2003, 05:43 PM
Originally posted by martin schulz:
Sailing on American Charter Boats I have often seen, used and enjoyed making coffee with a rather peculiar coffee-pot.
Not unlike a normal espresso-pot you just pour water in it, place a small tube with a net-like cup attached inside and put the whole "apparat" on the stove. When the water starts to boil it moves up the tube spills over the coffee (which was poured in the "cup") and drops (now hot coffee) though the net-like cup back into the pot.
To check if the coffee is done you only needed to look at a transparent little dome on top the lid. When the boiling water, you could see bubbling in the dome, turned black you knew that the coffee was ready(now this has been difficult for me to explain).
If you guys know what I am talking about - where can I get such a coffee-pot?
Over here nobody has ever seen one or even knows what I am talking about. But I don't want to fumble around with the "normal" way to make a coffee (although it tastes better) using a kettle with boiling water a pot a funnel and a coffee-filtre.What you're talking about is known as a 'vacuum coffee maker'. Here a picture of one:
http://store4.yimg.com/I/coffeeandkitchen_1745_171310 (http://www.coffee-makers-espresso-machines.com/dripandfrenp.html)
They make great coffee, but they're a little fragile (all that blown pyrex). here's a oneline store selling and reviewing (http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.brewers.vacuum.shtml) several of these types of coffee makers.
The vacuum coffee maker was a French invention, it shouldn't be too difficult to find. The Bodum Santos was a big design hit in 1958 or so, designed by Kaas Klaeson (Danish architect).
And Amazon (DE) has it on sale here (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008WU9J/ref=br_lf__2/302-2030653-9684000).
A friend of mine discovered that if you put 2 fresh, whole eggs in the upper chamber, when the coffee is done you also have the perfect soft-boiled egg, ready to eat for breakfast. The shell's a light brown, but the contents are untouched.
Hope this helps!
Nicholas Carey
06-10-2003, 05:43 PM
Originally posted by martin schulz:
Sailing on American Charter Boats I have often seen, used and enjoyed making coffee with a rather peculiar coffee-pot.
Not unlike a normal espresso-pot you just pour water in it, place a small tube with a net-like cup attached inside and put the whole "apparat" on the stove. When the water starts to boil it moves up the tube spills over the coffee (which was poured in the "cup") and drops (now hot coffee) though the net-like cup back into the pot.
To check if the coffee is done you only needed to look at a transparent little dome on top the lid. When the boiling water, you could see bubbling in the dome, turned black you knew that the coffee was ready(now this has been difficult for me to explain).
If you guys know what I am talking about - where can I get such a coffee-pot?
Over here nobody has ever seen one or even knows what I am talking about. But I don't want to fumble around with the "normal" way to make a coffee (although it tastes better) using a kettle with boiling water a pot a funnel and a coffee-filtre.What you're talking about is known as a 'vacuum coffee maker'. Here a picture of one:
http://store4.yimg.com/I/coffeeandkitchen_1745_171310 (http://www.coffee-makers-espresso-machines.com/dripandfrenp.html)
They make great coffee, but they're a little fragile (all that blown pyrex). here's a oneline store selling and reviewing (http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.brewers.vacuum.shtml) several of these types of coffee makers.
The vacuum coffee maker was a French invention, it shouldn't be too difficult to find. The Bodum Santos was a big design hit in 1958 or so, designed by Kaas Klaeson (Danish architect).
And Amazon (DE) has it on sale here (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008WU9J/ref=br_lf__2/302-2030653-9684000).
A friend of mine discovered that if you put 2 fresh, whole eggs in the upper chamber, when the coffee is done you also have the perfect soft-boiled egg, ready to eat for breakfast. The shell's a light brown, but the contents are untouched.
Hope this helps!
Nicholas Carey
06-10-2003, 05:43 PM
Originally posted by martin schulz:
Sailing on American Charter Boats I have often seen, used and enjoyed making coffee with a rather peculiar coffee-pot.
Not unlike a normal espresso-pot you just pour water in it, place a small tube with a net-like cup attached inside and put the whole "apparat" on the stove. When the water starts to boil it moves up the tube spills over the coffee (which was poured in the "cup") and drops (now hot coffee) though the net-like cup back into the pot.
To check if the coffee is done you only needed to look at a transparent little dome on top the lid. When the boiling water, you could see bubbling in the dome, turned black you knew that the coffee was ready(now this has been difficult for me to explain).
If you guys know what I am talking about - where can I get such a coffee-pot?
Over here nobody has ever seen one or even knows what I am talking about. But I don't want to fumble around with the "normal" way to make a coffee (although it tastes better) using a kettle with boiling water a pot a funnel and a coffee-filtre.What you're talking about is known as a 'vacuum coffee maker'. Here a picture of one:
http://store4.yimg.com/I/coffeeandkitchen_1745_171310 (http://www.coffee-makers-espresso-machines.com/dripandfrenp.html)
They make great coffee, but they're a little fragile (all that blown pyrex). here's a oneline store selling and reviewing (http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.brewers.vacuum.shtml) several of these types of coffee makers.
The vacuum coffee maker was a French invention, it shouldn't be too difficult to find. The Bodum Santos was a big design hit in 1958 or so, designed by Kaas Klaeson (Danish architect).
And Amazon (DE) has it on sale here (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008WU9J/ref=br_lf__2/302-2030653-9684000).
A friend of mine discovered that if you put 2 fresh, whole eggs in the upper chamber, when the coffee is done you also have the perfect soft-boiled egg, ready to eat for breakfast. The shell's a light brown, but the contents are untouched.
Hope this helps!
Nicholas Carey
06-10-2003, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by NormMessinger:
...a "percolator." perks coffee by boiling the water as you described but as the weak, ever stronger coffee falls through the grounds it is boiled and reboiled until it looks like real coffee. Nasty stuff.The scary thing about percolators is that they're making a comeback. Appliance companies are making them again. Evidently there are a lot of people around—in the US anyway—who equate the tast of coffee with that produced by a percolator :eek:
Meep!
Nicholas Carey
06-10-2003, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by NormMessinger:
...a "percolator." perks coffee by boiling the water as you described but as the weak, ever stronger coffee falls through the grounds it is boiled and reboiled until it looks like real coffee. Nasty stuff.The scary thing about percolators is that they're making a comeback. Appliance companies are making them again. Evidently there are a lot of people around—in the US anyway—who equate the tast of coffee with that produced by a percolator :eek:
Meep!
Nicholas Carey
06-10-2003, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by NormMessinger:
...a "percolator." perks coffee by boiling the water as you described but as the weak, ever stronger coffee falls through the grounds it is boiled and reboiled until it looks like real coffee. Nasty stuff.The scary thing about percolators is that they're making a comeback. Appliance companies are making them again. Evidently there are a lot of people around—in the US anyway—who equate the tast of coffee with that produced by a percolator :eek:
Meep!
Scott Rosen
06-10-2003, 05:52 PM
I'm the only coffee drinker in my family. I have a melita one cup coffee maker that I use on the boat and at home. It's ideal. You place the plastic cone on top of your cup, insert a paper filter, add a heaping (or more) tbs of ground coffee and then pour on the boiling water.
I don't like keeping coffee in vaccuum pots or on a hot burner.
Scott Rosen
06-10-2003, 05:52 PM
I'm the only coffee drinker in my family. I have a melita one cup coffee maker that I use on the boat and at home. It's ideal. You place the plastic cone on top of your cup, insert a paper filter, add a heaping (or more) tbs of ground coffee and then pour on the boiling water.
I don't like keeping coffee in vaccuum pots or on a hot burner.
Scott Rosen
06-10-2003, 05:52 PM
I'm the only coffee drinker in my family. I have a melita one cup coffee maker that I use on the boat and at home. It's ideal. You place the plastic cone on top of your cup, insert a paper filter, add a heaping (or more) tbs of ground coffee and then pour on the boiling water.
I don't like keeping coffee in vaccuum pots or on a hot burner.
Venchka
06-10-2003, 06:22 PM
I know less than nothing about boatbuilding. Coffee is different. Down in the Swamp, first you make a roux...no, no, no, that's gumbo.
Coffee. One of these, http://www.thecajunconnection.com/toddy.gif
plus a pound of this http://thecajunconnection.com/cdm2.jpg
Store the resulting extract in the fridge. Add water and pop in the microwave. For the boat, I'll have to heat water. No worries.
I have an Italian vacuum stove top style to use on a backpacking stove.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/espressozone_1740_7267889 It's ready in minutes and I pour the coffee in a Stanley SS thermos bottle.
Last week in Wally-Mart I spotted a Mr. Coffee style drip maker that worked on a Coleman stove.
http://www.landbigfish.com/images/articles/cole-coffee.jpg
Of course, if you don't have CDM dark roast coffee and chicory, you really don't have coffee.
[ 06-10-2003, 06:30 PM: Message edited by: Venchka ]
Venchka
06-10-2003, 06:22 PM
I know less than nothing about boatbuilding. Coffee is different. Down in the Swamp, first you make a roux...no, no, no, that's gumbo.
Coffee. One of these, http://www.thecajunconnection.com/toddy.gif
plus a pound of this http://thecajunconnection.com/cdm2.jpg
Store the resulting extract in the fridge. Add water and pop in the microwave. For the boat, I'll have to heat water. No worries.
I have an Italian vacuum stove top style to use on a backpacking stove.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/espressozone_1740_7267889 It's ready in minutes and I pour the coffee in a Stanley SS thermos bottle.
Last week in Wally-Mart I spotted a Mr. Coffee style drip maker that worked on a Coleman stove.
http://www.landbigfish.com/images/articles/cole-coffee.jpg
Of course, if you don't have CDM dark roast coffee and chicory, you really don't have coffee.
[ 06-10-2003, 06:30 PM: Message edited by: Venchka ]
Venchka
06-10-2003, 06:22 PM
I know less than nothing about boatbuilding. Coffee is different. Down in the Swamp, first you make a roux...no, no, no, that's gumbo.
Coffee. One of these, http://www.thecajunconnection.com/toddy.gif
plus a pound of this http://thecajunconnection.com/cdm2.jpg
Store the resulting extract in the fridge. Add water and pop in the microwave. For the boat, I'll have to heat water. No worries.
I have an Italian vacuum stove top style to use on a backpacking stove.
http://store6.yimg.com/I/espressozone_1740_7267889 It's ready in minutes and I pour the coffee in a Stanley SS thermos bottle.
Last week in Wally-Mart I spotted a Mr. Coffee style drip maker that worked on a Coleman stove.
http://www.landbigfish.com/images/articles/cole-coffee.jpg
Of course, if you don't have CDM dark roast coffee and chicory, you really don't have coffee.
[ 06-10-2003, 06:30 PM: Message edited by: Venchka ]
Steve Paskey
06-10-2003, 07:54 PM
All this talk of coffee on boats reminds me of a story. I swear to god this is true.
Couple of years ago I went on an overnight sailing trip with some friends and my fiance Maggy. (She was then "only" my girlfriend.) We're partial to a dark-roasted Sumatra and took some with us. Got up the next morning, put the water on to boil, pulled out the Melita plastic-thingy and . . . NO FILTERS. No paper towels. Nothing.
I was prepared to live without coffee, but Maggy was not. She used a clean pair of her underwear as a filter.
Steve Paskey
06-10-2003, 07:54 PM
All this talk of coffee on boats reminds me of a story. I swear to god this is true.
Couple of years ago I went on an overnight sailing trip with some friends and my fiance Maggy. (She was then "only" my girlfriend.) We're partial to a dark-roasted Sumatra and took some with us. Got up the next morning, put the water on to boil, pulled out the Melita plastic-thingy and . . . NO FILTERS. No paper towels. Nothing.
I was prepared to live without coffee, but Maggy was not. She used a clean pair of her underwear as a filter.
Steve Paskey
06-10-2003, 07:54 PM
All this talk of coffee on boats reminds me of a story. I swear to god this is true.
Couple of years ago I went on an overnight sailing trip with some friends and my fiance Maggy. (She was then "only" my girlfriend.) We're partial to a dark-roasted Sumatra and took some with us. Got up the next morning, put the water on to boil, pulled out the Melita plastic-thingy and . . . NO FILTERS. No paper towels. Nothing.
I was prepared to live without coffee, but Maggy was not. She used a clean pair of her underwear as a filter.
Gary Bergman
06-10-2003, 08:57 PM
Won't she give up the used ones??? :D
Gary Bergman
06-10-2003, 08:57 PM
Won't she give up the used ones??? :D
Gary Bergman
06-10-2003, 08:57 PM
Won't she give up the used ones??? :D
Ed Harrow
06-10-2003, 09:17 PM
Egads, is Maggie an Aussie? During one of my visits down under me mates was havin a barbie, and a core component was missing at the barbie pit at the park. I can't tell the rest of the story as someone of you might be eating and the rest of the story is, as my father would have said, enough to gag a maggot off a gut cart. Like Maggie, they were inventive and not about to be denied, and nobody died, either.
Ed Harrow
06-10-2003, 09:17 PM
Egads, is Maggie an Aussie? During one of my visits down under me mates was havin a barbie, and a core component was missing at the barbie pit at the park. I can't tell the rest of the story as someone of you might be eating and the rest of the story is, as my father would have said, enough to gag a maggot off a gut cart. Like Maggie, they were inventive and not about to be denied, and nobody died, either.
Ed Harrow
06-10-2003, 09:17 PM
Egads, is Maggie an Aussie? During one of my visits down under me mates was havin a barbie, and a core component was missing at the barbie pit at the park. I can't tell the rest of the story as someone of you might be eating and the rest of the story is, as my father would have said, enough to gag a maggot off a gut cart. Like Maggie, they were inventive and not about to be denied, and nobody died, either.
martin schulz
06-11-2003, 03:31 AM
Sorry I couldn't pitch in but the time you guys were discussing I was sound asleep.
wow - a lot of responses. Seems this is an interessting subject.
I do know, of course about italian espresso-pots. and I already have those french-pots you mentioned, but those things are tricky to handle on board, especially while sailing. What I was looking for is exactly what Donn mentioned first - the pot you call percolater.
As for what was first - I always thought it the original way to make coffee like the turks do it. Just pour hot water in a pot with coffee in it, let it settle and then pour the hot coffee while trying to keep the coffee-sediment inside the pot.
Thanks for your help. Now I need to find a shop that sells the percolator over here.
martin schulz
06-11-2003, 03:31 AM
Sorry I couldn't pitch in but the time you guys were discussing I was sound asleep.
wow - a lot of responses. Seems this is an interessting subject.
I do know, of course about italian espresso-pots. and I already have those french-pots you mentioned, but those things are tricky to handle on board, especially while sailing. What I was looking for is exactly what Donn mentioned first - the pot you call percolater.
As for what was first - I always thought it the original way to make coffee like the turks do it. Just pour hot water in a pot with coffee in it, let it settle and then pour the hot coffee while trying to keep the coffee-sediment inside the pot.
Thanks for your help. Now I need to find a shop that sells the percolator over here.
martin schulz
06-11-2003, 03:31 AM
Sorry I couldn't pitch in but the time you guys were discussing I was sound asleep.
wow - a lot of responses. Seems this is an interessting subject.
I do know, of course about italian espresso-pots. and I already have those french-pots you mentioned, but those things are tricky to handle on board, especially while sailing. What I was looking for is exactly what Donn mentioned first - the pot you call percolater.
As for what was first - I always thought it the original way to make coffee like the turks do it. Just pour hot water in a pot with coffee in it, let it settle and then pour the hot coffee while trying to keep the coffee-sediment inside the pot.
Thanks for your help. Now I need to find a shop that sells the percolator over here.
Scott Rosen
06-11-2003, 09:48 AM
Steve, that's a good trick to know about. But why did you think it necessary to mention that she used CLEAN underwear? :D
Scott Rosen
06-11-2003, 09:48 AM
Steve, that's a good trick to know about. But why did you think it necessary to mention that she used CLEAN underwear? :D
Scott Rosen
06-11-2003, 09:48 AM
Steve, that's a good trick to know about. But why did you think it necessary to mention that she used CLEAN underwear? :D
Bob Perkins
06-11-2003, 09:59 AM
FWIW:
We were on vacation in Hawaii last October and did the coffee plantation tours. It's a miracle coffee was ever invented. There are a lot of steps between bean and cup..
The roasters all liked the vacume type the best. No filter to *change the taste* etc....
I live 3 blocks from a Dunkin Donuts, so I never make coffee at home - but the system looked like fun smile.gif
[ 06-11-2003, 10:00 AM: Message edited by: Bob Perkins ]
Bob Perkins
06-11-2003, 09:59 AM
FWIW:
We were on vacation in Hawaii last October and did the coffee plantation tours. It's a miracle coffee was ever invented. There are a lot of steps between bean and cup..
The roasters all liked the vacume type the best. No filter to *change the taste* etc....
I live 3 blocks from a Dunkin Donuts, so I never make coffee at home - but the system looked like fun smile.gif
[ 06-11-2003, 10:00 AM: Message edited by: Bob Perkins ]
Bob Perkins
06-11-2003, 09:59 AM
FWIW:
We were on vacation in Hawaii last October and did the coffee plantation tours. It's a miracle coffee was ever invented. There are a lot of steps between bean and cup..
The roasters all liked the vacume type the best. No filter to *change the taste* etc....
I live 3 blocks from a Dunkin Donuts, so I never make coffee at home - but the system looked like fun smile.gif
[ 06-11-2003, 10:00 AM: Message edited by: Bob Perkins ]
Meerkat
06-11-2003, 03:57 PM
Originally posted by paladin:
I have been looking for YEARS for a stainless steel drip coffee maker...no luck..Starbucks sells two models of stainless steel drip coffee makers under their own brand. One larger one with a clock/timer (8 cup) and a smaller basic model with no timer (4 cup).
I have the larger 8 cup model and like it a lot. The water resevoir detaches for filling at the sink and it has the usual flow interrupter for that "must have it NOW" first cup.
For the $20 price difference, the 8 cupper is the way to go: nothing like waking up to the heavenly aroma of fresh brewed coffee to entice you out of bed.
Meerkat
06-11-2003, 03:57 PM
Originally posted by paladin:
I have been looking for YEARS for a stainless steel drip coffee maker...no luck..Starbucks sells two models of stainless steel drip coffee makers under their own brand. One larger one with a clock/timer (8 cup) and a smaller basic model with no timer (4 cup).
I have the larger 8 cup model and like it a lot. The water resevoir detaches for filling at the sink and it has the usual flow interrupter for that "must have it NOW" first cup.
For the $20 price difference, the 8 cupper is the way to go: nothing like waking up to the heavenly aroma of fresh brewed coffee to entice you out of bed.
Meerkat
06-11-2003, 03:57 PM
Originally posted by paladin:
I have been looking for YEARS for a stainless steel drip coffee maker...no luck..Starbucks sells two models of stainless steel drip coffee makers under their own brand. One larger one with a clock/timer (8 cup) and a smaller basic model with no timer (4 cup).
I have the larger 8 cup model and like it a lot. The water resevoir detaches for filling at the sink and it has the usual flow interrupter for that "must have it NOW" first cup.
For the $20 price difference, the 8 cupper is the way to go: nothing like waking up to the heavenly aroma of fresh brewed coffee to entice you out of bed.
Kermit
06-17-2003, 12:39 PM
Wow. Rum, beer, scotch, even tea have been discussed here. Now coffee makers?
Best coffee I've had was made by a friend who had a campfire/cowboy coffee trick that's not suited to a boat. She'd thorw a carefully measured handful of ground coffee into a campfire boiler made from a #10 can with a wire bail, fill almost full with cold crick water, and bring it just to a boil over the fire. As soon as it boiled, it was taken off the fire and set on the ground just long enough to pick up a 6' length of stout cord which she looped under the bail. Then, grabbing both ends in her hand, she began to swing it side to side in ever-increasing arcs, eventually taking the BIG RISK and swinging it full circle several orbits. After re-entry the grounds had been forced to the bottom, and the steaming coffee was poured. Her technique was dubbed the "cowboy press" method. I always watched from a safe distance.
A friend who owns a local coffee joint told me the strangest request she ever got was from a sweet lady tourist from the Midwest. The request was for a "normal" cup of coffee, the kind served after church back in Kansas, where you can see the bottom of the cup through the coffee. She poured a half-cup of her drip coffee into a cup and filled it with hot water from the tap. The customer was delighted.
Kermit
06-17-2003, 12:39 PM
Wow. Rum, beer, scotch, even tea have been discussed here. Now coffee makers?
Best coffee I've had was made by a friend who had a campfire/cowboy coffee trick that's not suited to a boat. She'd thorw a carefully measured handful of ground coffee into a campfire boiler made from a #10 can with a wire bail, fill almost full with cold crick water, and bring it just to a boil over the fire. As soon as it boiled, it was taken off the fire and set on the ground just long enough to pick up a 6' length of stout cord which she looped under the bail. Then, grabbing both ends in her hand, she began to swing it side to side in ever-increasing arcs, eventually taking the BIG RISK and swinging it full circle several orbits. After re-entry the grounds had been forced to the bottom, and the steaming coffee was poured. Her technique was dubbed the "cowboy press" method. I always watched from a safe distance.
A friend who owns a local coffee joint told me the strangest request she ever got was from a sweet lady tourist from the Midwest. The request was for a "normal" cup of coffee, the kind served after church back in Kansas, where you can see the bottom of the cup through the coffee. She poured a half-cup of her drip coffee into a cup and filled it with hot water from the tap. The customer was delighted.
Kermit
06-17-2003, 12:39 PM
Wow. Rum, beer, scotch, even tea have been discussed here. Now coffee makers?
Best coffee I've had was made by a friend who had a campfire/cowboy coffee trick that's not suited to a boat. She'd thorw a carefully measured handful of ground coffee into a campfire boiler made from a #10 can with a wire bail, fill almost full with cold crick water, and bring it just to a boil over the fire. As soon as it boiled, it was taken off the fire and set on the ground just long enough to pick up a 6' length of stout cord which she looped under the bail. Then, grabbing both ends in her hand, she began to swing it side to side in ever-increasing arcs, eventually taking the BIG RISK and swinging it full circle several orbits. After re-entry the grounds had been forced to the bottom, and the steaming coffee was poured. Her technique was dubbed the "cowboy press" method. I always watched from a safe distance.
A friend who owns a local coffee joint told me the strangest request she ever got was from a sweet lady tourist from the Midwest. The request was for a "normal" cup of coffee, the kind served after church back in Kansas, where you can see the bottom of the cup through the coffee. She poured a half-cup of her drip coffee into a cup and filled it with hot water from the tap. The customer was delighted.
Chris Rogers
06-17-2003, 09:32 PM
In Italy, if you order Cafe, you get a nice, strong, flavorful beverage. Bliss. Over the years, the Italians have learned that some American tourists won't drink the stuff, so they came up with Cafe American....which is simply half a cup of the good stuff they normally serve filled the rest of the way with warm tap water.
Chris Rogers
06-17-2003, 09:32 PM
In Italy, if you order Cafe, you get a nice, strong, flavorful beverage. Bliss. Over the years, the Italians have learned that some American tourists won't drink the stuff, so they came up with Cafe American....which is simply half a cup of the good stuff they normally serve filled the rest of the way with warm tap water.
Chris Rogers
06-17-2003, 09:32 PM
In Italy, if you order Cafe, you get a nice, strong, flavorful beverage. Bliss. Over the years, the Italians have learned that some American tourists won't drink the stuff, so they came up with Cafe American....which is simply half a cup of the good stuff they normally serve filled the rest of the way with warm tap water.
Peter Kalshoven
06-17-2003, 11:52 PM
Ok, I grew up in the Midwest. Let me explain Midwestern coffee. Yes, it's basically colored water with a slight coffee taste. And yet, it's practical. Ya see, you drink coffee in the winter when it's cold. Now I don't mean Seattle-chilly-rain cold. Nor do I mean Buffalo-32-degrees-won't-stop-snowing cold. I mean, Holy SHit, 30 below zero, wind chill of 85 below, crack your bones cold. You need to drink coffee all freaking day, just to keep from freezing to death. And if you slug down 30-40 espresso shots everyday, you're going to be vibrating like Kramer on Seinfeld, until the point where your head explodes. So the midwestern coffee is utilitarian.
It also sucks.
Our rig is one of those Cuisanarts that goes off on a timer, grinds the beans, and makes incredibly fresh coffee so that my first cup is less than 5 minutes old when I stumble into the kitchen. A nice mix of Columbian and French Roast beans.
Ahhh, bliss.
Peter Kalshoven
06-17-2003, 11:52 PM
Ok, I grew up in the Midwest. Let me explain Midwestern coffee. Yes, it's basically colored water with a slight coffee taste. And yet, it's practical. Ya see, you drink coffee in the winter when it's cold. Now I don't mean Seattle-chilly-rain cold. Nor do I mean Buffalo-32-degrees-won't-stop-snowing cold. I mean, Holy SHit, 30 below zero, wind chill of 85 below, crack your bones cold. You need to drink coffee all freaking day, just to keep from freezing to death. And if you slug down 30-40 espresso shots everyday, you're going to be vibrating like Kramer on Seinfeld, until the point where your head explodes. So the midwestern coffee is utilitarian.
It also sucks.
Our rig is one of those Cuisanarts that goes off on a timer, grinds the beans, and makes incredibly fresh coffee so that my first cup is less than 5 minutes old when I stumble into the kitchen. A nice mix of Columbian and French Roast beans.
Ahhh, bliss.
Peter Kalshoven
06-17-2003, 11:52 PM
Ok, I grew up in the Midwest. Let me explain Midwestern coffee. Yes, it's basically colored water with a slight coffee taste. And yet, it's practical. Ya see, you drink coffee in the winter when it's cold. Now I don't mean Seattle-chilly-rain cold. Nor do I mean Buffalo-32-degrees-won't-stop-snowing cold. I mean, Holy SHit, 30 below zero, wind chill of 85 below, crack your bones cold. You need to drink coffee all freaking day, just to keep from freezing to death. And if you slug down 30-40 espresso shots everyday, you're going to be vibrating like Kramer on Seinfeld, until the point where your head explodes. So the midwestern coffee is utilitarian.
It also sucks.
Our rig is one of those Cuisanarts that goes off on a timer, grinds the beans, and makes incredibly fresh coffee so that my first cup is less than 5 minutes old when I stumble into the kitchen. A nice mix of Columbian and French Roast beans.
Ahhh, bliss.
For those coming to the SEBB&BD get together I will be having good old fashioned cooked on the camp stove in a perculator coffee. :D
Chad
For those coming to the SEBB&BD get together I will be having good old fashioned cooked on the camp stove in a perculator coffee. :D
Chad
For those coming to the SEBB&BD get together I will be having good old fashioned cooked on the camp stove in a perculator coffee. :D
Chad
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