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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:52 am
by hoggtyed
Hey the cowboy method is what I use ! It'll put hair on your chest and fire in your tank.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:18 pm
by Laredo
Simple recipe:

http://www.blackcat.ca/lifeline/gallery ... ery=COFFEE

One large cup very strong fresh black coffee
1/3 can Magnolia sweetened condensed milk
six regular ice cubes
Jar with screw-top lid

In jar, mix all ingredients. Add lid. Tighten. Shake well.
Makes 2 servings. Unless it's first thing in the morning.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:30 pm
by Joseph
Woody wrote:You oughta try Cowboy coffee, that will put hair on ya. Throw the grounds in, bring the pot to a boil. While boiling the coffee grounds are free floating in the pot. When ready throw some cold water in, it shocks the grounds and they settle to the bottom. Pour off the coffee, not distrubing the grounds that settled, into a mug. Enjoy

I've never used the cold water trick. Once it boils, set it aside and the grounds will settle on their own.

Coffee grounds + water = coffee. Anything else is just affectation. 8)

Joseph

PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:27 am
by Joseph
Joseph wrote:Coffee grounds + water = coffee. Anything else is just affectation.

Having said that, I have been known to use those Maxwell House Filter Packs. Two packs in my coffee pot are about perfect. :thumbsup:

Joseph

PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:32 pm
by fornesto
I have one of those little 12V coffee makers...very slow. I think it will be used for clean up (face and hand washing) more than anything. It makes a happy little cup of hot water in about 20 minutes. I am hoping for a Melitta setup for Father's Day. I'll use the trusty thermos to keep it hot. Since wife-ey is a tea drinker, we'll bring the teapot...Boil it up, she gets half with a tea bag, I get half over the Melitta!

[img]http://www.melitta.com/images/P121.jpg[img]

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:37 pm
by Laredo
ingredients:

1 small can evaporated milk
1/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon rum flavoring
1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

1 quart hot strong coffee.

Mix well. Put into thermos. Sip along the road. Can skip meal stops. Should always buy gas in places with plumbing.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 5:54 pm
by ceebe
I found a nice lexan french press. Its dam' near bulletproof
and makes excellent coffee

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:24 pm
by ceebe
I found a nice lexan french press. Its dam' near bulletproof
and makes excellent coffee

PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:19 pm
by Marck
I have a pla in old 12 cup perculator, barely ever end up with grounds in the bottom....just lucky I guess.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:57 am
by Geron
I tried both the cold brew (too much trouble and taste was off just a bit)
And the Miletta single cup brew. We really like this method. We have an electric kettle which makes the heating of the water easy.

only down side is it seems to take more coffee grounds. I use 1/8 cup grounds for 1 cup hot water and run it through the grounds twice. Yum Yum :twisted:

g

Roughing it??????

PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:28 pm
by cracker39
Sheesh...I thought this was camping, not gormet dining in the woods!!! I used a small aluminum percolator ofer a fire or camp stove for years camping. So, what are a few grounds in the cup? My father-in-law made his coffee all his life by putting grounds and water in a pot and boiling it. He took it off the fire, added a little cold water, let the grounds settle for a few minutes, then poured a cup. I shared this boiled coffee lots of times. Yeah, you just have to be careful sipping those last few drops, not to get grounds in your mouth...LOL.

Dale

What's the big deal????

PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:23 pm
by ka9nyn
I have used a stainless stovetop perk with the round paper filters (hole in center, like a buck for 50) for years. No grounds, good coffee. By the way, that is what nuclear power plants run on: uranium, paper, and coffee.... real strong coffee.

:lol:

PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:13 pm
by Cutterpup
Dale
Sheesh...I thought this was camping, not gormet dining in the woods!!!


It it just as easy to make good tasting food as it is to heat the beans and roast the hot dogs. My boy scouts learned this the hard way when the scouts selected their own menu and the adults theirs. Now just sometimes I go the extra mile.

I have made shrimp scampy at 10,000 feet in the New mexico Dessert high country for a fellow BACKPACKER after 4 days on the trail! (it was her anniversary). So if I can make shrimp scampy backpacking just think what I can make with a full galley kitchen. By the way, Why should we settle for camp food anyway.

Dan

PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:13 am
by cracker39
Dan, You're right of course. I've roughed it in my youth, and still have fond memories of those days. I also have some horrid memories that I'd prefer not to think about. Like trying to cook under a canopy while rain was blowing in, bugs biting us, tent floor feeling like one of those inflatable "bouncy" contraptions kids like because 3 inches of water was running under it, and everything getting wet and soggy. All said and done, at my age (66), I'll prefer some civilized ameneties when we go "camping". I know that my wife will. If we know we're going somewhere that will have AC available, I'm sure I'll take a toaster, electric skillet and my 4-cup Mr. Coffee maker with me. Heck, I don't even have the aluminum percolator anymore...I'd have to go buy a new one.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:36 am
by benroy44
I make my coffee the moutan man way take a large pot hang it over the fire and leave it there the whole time your camped add water and a hand full of coffee to the pot when it gets low just ad more coffee and water never clean out the pot and by sunday moring you got good coffee
Cya Duane