Coffee in the woods

**WolfVanZandt** · 01-21-2013, 05:40 PM

Everything tastes better when you're camping. I suspect it's more than just being hungry or alive. I think the outdoor air has something to do with it. The extra activity gives you an appetite. There are probably a lot of things that go into it.

I noticed once that Colorado's "junk food" tastes a lot better than the stuff we have in Alabama and that mystified me. It was suggested to me that the higher altitude causes things to spoil less quickly (food starts spoiling as soon as it's created) and that food is just fresher at the higher altitudes.

**hunter63** · 01-21-2013, 05:43 PM

LOL, coffee drinkers here please.......
As a trailer for a Mike and Molly TV show goes....as Mike tastes some herb tea......."Tastes like licking the bottom of a lawn mower"

Just kidding, ....was a joke....tea drinkers are Ok

**Wildthang** · 01-21-2013, 06:17 PM

The only tea I drink is sweet tea!

**Walking Bear** · 01-29-2013, 06:32 PM

For car camping I have a red filter holder that sits on my 32 oz mug; still trying to figure the amount of ground coffee to use. Never thought about it but a tea ball would also work. A spoon of coffee and into the cup.

**ubercrow** · 01-29-2013, 06:55 PM

That's a cool little stove I made some out of tuna cans and just alcohol they didn't really work that great, they worked but the flame was small and weak.

Seems like maybe that heat proof fiberglass wrap lets some air into the mix?

**Batch** · 01-31-2013, 12:07 AM

I started drinking coffee in camp out of a porcelain peculator When I was about 13. I only drank coffee in camp until I was in my late teens or early 20 and we got a Mr Coffee Christmas. After a couple of years of drip coffee I didn't care much for camp coffee.

I drink singles in camp and you can suck on the coffee grounds from your peculator. LOL

**ClayPick** · 01-31-2013, 07:33 AM

I’m a percolating coffee ground sucker, anything else is pale in comparison. Right now i’m stuck on a medium roasted from isthmus region of Mexico. I wish the stuff would grow here. LOL.

**Mouser** · 01-31-2013, 10:12 AM

I use a french press on my jetboil.

Ya I'm effeminate.

**Wildthang** · 01-31-2013, 12:29 PM

Now if we could only invent a camp expresso machine we would all be rich! I love good strong coffee as well as expresso. Oh, how about " The survival expresso maker from Ronko ".

**crashdive123** · 01-31-2013, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by Wildthang

Now if we could only invent a camp expresso machine we would all be rich! I love good strong coffee as well as expresso. Oh, how about " The survival expresso maker from Ronko ".

Here ya go. http://www.rei.com/category/5760756

**Wildthang** · 01-31-2013, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

Here ya go. http://www.rei.com/category/5760756

Oh my god, that is a gotta have it right there!

**crashdive123** · 01-31-2013, 03:18 PM

I used to drink quite a bit of espresso - not so much anymore.....If I did - I would have ordered one.

**Seniorman** · 01-31-2013, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Batch

" ... After a couple of years of drip coffee I didn't care much for camp coffee.

I drink singles in camp and you can suck on the coffee grounds from your peculator. LOL

No problems with a few grounds in your camp coffee. Just strain them through your teeth as you do drinking moonshine whiskey from a Mason fruit jar, to strain out rats' tails, pigs' snouts, and roaches and ants and things like that.

S.M.

**Batch** · 01-31-2013, 10:50 PM

In my jars its CLEAR that there ain't no unwanted contaminates. LOL Just good old "go easy on it" low bush lightning. No fruit, no cinnamon sticks.

The coffee grounds are just a side affect. The guy who makes that particular pot in camp has an innate ability to make a coffee that is more like sofkee. Its a meal with all the grounds that are in it. I do have the java press from Jetboil. I used it and even bought a coffee grinder for it and it was good. But, the folgers singles are so simple and easy.

By the way I was cooking up some Spanish Needles on the Jetboil and the plastic caught on fire. It still works. But, kinda disappointed that they used plastic like that. The wind shifted and the plastic was gone.