Camp coffee

[Black Hand]

If one can secure some milk and sugar...

I guess it would depend on the tea...

 

[tenngun]

I was making coffee yesterday and my French press pot broke. So today I got out a half gallon camp pot, boiled up some camp coffee on my stove.

 

[Nativearizonan]

I was using a French press for a while, and it also broke. I had been warming water for the press in an old stainless coffee pot with the percolator guts removed. I just started making camp coffee in it, and have been doing it now for the last couple months. My coffee now is every bit as good as that made in the press. I don't see any reason to replace the press. I think using one for a while improved my camp coffee making skills, though.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

The press was simply a time saving device..., well a simpler, more sure way of filtering out grounds. Otherwise, you are quite right, steeping grounds in the hot water in the pot, then performing one of several techniques to settle the grounds...., the results are very like a press...or the press is very like the pot depending on one's perspective.

LD

 

[NeilMacleod]

press/bodum is what I use every morning, very handy, cheap if you get it from the right place. Never use paper, ruins the taste.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I roast coffee regularly, wo batches today, the home made stuff is way better then the store stuff, buycoffeecanada.com

At first glance I thought that was a cast iron pan....I see now it's a springform pan

 

[NeilMacleod]

This is for cooling, cast iron keeps the heat too long and would overcook the beans, so pour them into another pan to cool

 

[coloradoclyde]

Right you are :thumbsup: .....I transfer mine to a half sheet pan and keep stirring to cool quickly...

 

[NeilMacleod]

The spring pan lets you shake them like a gold pan to keep them moving so they cool faster

 

[coloradoclyde]

I can shake them in the half sheet pan too....
The aluminum and large surface area dissipates the heat quickly.

Aluminum dissipates heat very quickly.

I like your idea too.... :thumbsup:

 

[Artificer]

When I was in the Army, 50+ years ago, we got instant coffee in C rations. You could mix it up in a canteen cup, if you carried one, and few of us did, so it mainly was thrown away. It wasn't Latte, but it was better than tea, for Christ's sake.

Ah well having had C-Rations, then MRE's while I was in the Corps, 30+ years ago, the coffee is sour..., it has some Vitamin C added to it. We used to pour it into the bag of hot chocolate, add enough cold water to liquefy the whole into a sort of thin "gravy" and eat the "mocha" with a spoon. :wink: Pepped you up, and you captured the calories, and didn't have to use a heat source that might give you away.

TEA? Sir, a properly prepared cup of tea is Vastly Superior to any form of "instant coffee". If one can secure some milk and sugar, it affords the drinker a small portion of genteel civilization often in the most inhospitable situations, and does not weigh much to do so. :wink:

LD

Yeah, I get it, the Tea in Boston Harbor has almost steeped long enough for a "civilized" cup of tea. :haha:

Was on active duty long enough I wished we had gone BACK to C Rats on more than one occasion.

I beg to differ on the instant coffee, Swiss Mocha has been my favorite for years. Matter of fact I considered it so essential, I put some cans of it in our Mount Out Boxes when we went to Mogadishu, Somalia.

In Somalia, I came up with a concoction I called "Sun Coffee." Empty half a water bottle, add two packages of MRE Coffee, one or two packages of MRE sugar and two or three spoonfuls of Swiss Mocha. Shake extremely vigorously and add more water to fill the bottle up about 3/4 full and shake vigorously again. Now it LOOKED terrible, but it tasted good and kept me going for the long days in Mogadishu.

Gus

 

[gearheart]

If you need milk to cut the bitter flavor in the tea then you have steeped it too long. 4 minutes is the max.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

No, I just like the richness and the calories from the whole milk.
:shocked2:

LD

 

[LongrifleDoc]

Thanks for your service.

And thanks to all the service members away from home on this holiday. Merry Christmas.

 

[satx78247]

WELL SAID. May every one have the merriest possible Christmas, given that they may be far from home & family.

yours, satx

 

[NeilMacleod]

Buying better quality tea will cut the bitterness, I do 7min max for loose leaf and no bitterness.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Been doing a bunch of roasting since I got my new order of 17lbs, 8 varieties. Did three roasts of one type and the flavour is always different, trying to get this one flavour from it but its hit and miss and hope I hit it soon.

Cooling off in mason jar.

 

[Black Hand]

Looks a little pale for my tastes - I like a French, Italian or Espresso roast.

 

[tenngun]

Yup, try getting it a little darker and I think you will find a better flavor

 

[NeilMacleod]

Totally depends on the type of Beans. Once their "Burnt" they loose most of their flavour and you end up with that Starpucks manure. 30secs will change the taste.