Cowboy Coffee
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Topic: Cowboy Coffee
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Cowboy Coffee
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 4:42pm
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If I can have my morning cup of coffee while all this is going on, life would seem alot more normal. I wanted to find something that made multiple cups (like the drip pot I have now) but all I could find on the internet were perculators. Thought I could save $ and fuel by rigging something with a permanent filter that I already have. Anyone done this? Also found a good idea here: Cowboy Coffee, Backpacker Style
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1. Bring one quart of water to a boil in a saucepan. 2. Add 3/4 cup of ground coffee. 3. Return to boil. 4. Immediately remove from heat and cover. 5. Wait till the grounds sink (approximately 5 minutes). 6. Serve. When you pour the coffee handle the pot as gently as possible so as not to disturb the grounds. http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/cowboycoffee/ |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 6:50pm
| How about using a tea strainer .... like I remember using as a little girl for loose tea leaves??? or couldn't you run the coffe through a coffee filter into a thermal coffee thermos? Then it'll stay hot for the next cup!-k |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 6:58pm
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Walmart has a camping coffee pot for 24.00 It goes over any heat. Stove, camping stove, camping fire. The have smaller one for less. I bought the larger coffee pot
It look like an old fashion coffee maker that perculates...Except no cord...
It perculates and makes a great cup of coffee...No filter need and no coffee grounds in you coffee. You can see it perculating because it has a Glass top...When it stop percolating its done..
Go to the camping Isle....
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 6:59pm
I cant wait to try your method as well.... Thanks
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 7:24pm
| I have been using an old fashoned percolator (stove version), for years while camping, in the motor home or during power outages. The only reason I don't use it all the time is that I have a Bunn machine that only takes about 2 min. When the electric Bunn takes a dump, I probably will use the percolator full time. The taste is so much better even though it takes longer, and works great on a camp stove, RV stove etc. I have GOT to have my coffee in the morning and late afternoon! |
Posted By: Gladys
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 7:56pm
| Getting Ready: if you pour a small amount of cold water into the pot after removing from heat the grounds will immediately settle to the bottom. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 8:50pm
| thanks guys - WOW this really IS a cool place to come! A whole bunch of useful answers! I like the idea of the filter-into-the-thermos idea, ReadyMom, and the rest were great, too. How long does it take to perculate with the stove-top versions? I'm already smelling fresh-brewed coffee..... I might even splurge on my preps next week and get a bag of Irish Cream or French Vanilla coffee or something - we need to have little things that we can treat ourselves with! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 12:53am
Absolutely! Life without coffee - shoot me now!! Hey, I don't drink, smoke or do drugs, but try and take my coffee away and there will be big trouble!
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gettingready wrote:Posted By: Gladys
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 6:04am
| Can also put the coffee in a clean , thin white sock. Saw my Grandfather do that. He called it "sugin" coffee.(sugin- w/ a short U) Have no idea what sugin means but the coffee wasn't bad. |
Posted By: Thordawggy
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 3:23pm
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We always use a blue speckled Coleman pot every day. Sometimes, if the heat is on too high, the grounds will push out of the basket. We just use a small strainer with a plastic handle, sit it on top of the cup and pour. Works good. However, a good thing to have if fuel is an issue and you don't want to turn on the stove again to reheat, is an insulated Carafe. Sams has them cheap. They are like the kind they put on your table at a pancake restaurant.
Oh, try to get replacement innards for your pot at the same time you get the pot. They are soft aluminum and the stems bend and break easily. I got 3 extra at Coleman on line. Very good customer service there.
They may not show your basket and stem assembly on line but just email or give them a call and tell them which coffee pot you have and they will have the parts.
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Posted By: KatDoe67
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 3:45pm
| They sell coffee bags at the store that are just like tea bags. I don't drink coffee so don't know anything about taste...but don't they taste the same? I always keep some for company, but they just look at me like I'm daft when I offer them one :-0 |
Posted By: 2ifbyC
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 4:05pm
Expensive for the convenience! ------------- Survival does have an 'I'! Dodging 'canes on Florida's central Gulf Coast |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 4:53pm
| I have vaccumed packed coffee from 14 years ago. A tad strong, but still good. |
Posted By: Thordawggy
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 5:20pm
| Mountainwinds - that is good to know. |
Posted By: montanamoose
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 9:54am
| For loose coffee grounds, crack a raw egg into boiling coffee. It will absorb most of the grounds. True Wyoming Cowboy Coffee. On the range, cowboys ate the egg. One pot breakfast! |
Posted By: Never2late
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 11:47am
| I knew a lady who used the egg method, no strainer, just boiled coffee in a small coffee pot, added coffee, and then at the end the egg...don't know the exact "recipe" but here coffee was the best. I need to track that down. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 2:12pm
| It's also easy to use a coffee press. Put the grounds in the bottom, add boiling water, let sit til you like the color and pour through the strainer in the press. |
Posted By: oknut
Date Posted: May 11 2006 at 3:29pm
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My grandmother used to buy a stovetop perculator and throw out the insides. She made coffee on a wood fired cookstove and it was great - best I ever drank.
I think she poured a little cold water in to settle the grounds but I remember something about egg shells too. Like many of the terrific things she made, many of her secrets were lost. |