coffee

[heltershelton]

in september i went camping and someone made coffee with a percolator.
i went and got a basic, non electric one and have been percolating my coffee since.
in my opinion, the coffee tastes way better this way than brewed with a modern drip coffee maker.
anyone else percolate your coffee?
any tips i should know?

 

[JohnnyGoo]

I love this

 

[Kerry Brown]

You may want to get a good coffee grinder and grind your own. The grind for a percolator is different than for drip. It is courser.

 

[heltershelton]

You may want to get a good coffee grinder and grind your own. The grind for a percolator is different than for drip. It is courser.

good idea.
ive been cutting a small hole in the center of a coffee filter and using that to keep the grinds from going down into the coffee.
ive read where they say the coffee will be fresher and better tasting if you grind your own. may just have to do that.

 

[marshalltsl]

in september i went camping and someone made coffee with a percolator.
i went and got a basic, non electric one and have been percolating my coffee since.
in my opinion, the coffee tastes way better this way than brewed with a modern drip coffee maker.
anyone else percolate your coffee?
any tips i should know?

I love coffee but I don't tryed this method. I will do It.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Used to do a camp stove percolater, and my pops used to say , throw some egg shells in the grounds to keep them from getting into the coffee.
Cheers

 

[heltershelton]

Used to do a camp stove percolater, and my pops used to say , throw some egg shells in the grounds to keep them from getting into the coffee.
Cheers

i think the real reason people put egg shells in their coffee grinds is because egg shells are alkaline whereas coffee is acidic. the shells in the grounds can make the coffee taste less bitter. im racking my brain trying to figure out how they could possibly keep the grounds from getting into the coffee, and it just wont compute.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

All I can say is that was the story told to me, don’t have a clue either but that’s what I did, and I would bag the grounds and shells for a compost pile where I grew tomatoes.
Cheers

 

[Don O]

We have a Cuisinart maker that you put in a filter, whole beans and water. It grinds the beans and then makes the coffee.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

All I can say is that was the story told to me, don’t have a clue either but that’s what I did, and I would bag the grounds and shells for a compost pile where I grew tomatoes.
Cheers

We call that Cowboy coffee. Mitch

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

We call that Cowboy coffee. Mitch

I drank an awful lot of it Mark, after I was about 10 years old I made the coffee on hunting trips for everyone, till we quit going somewhere in the very late 80’s.
Cheers

 

[Ramo]

I use ready mix coffee just add water, I'm too impatient for messing around

 

[heltershelton]

I use ready mix coffee just add water, I'm too impatient for messing around

when im out in the woods, sometimes i eat MREs. the instant coffee in them is actually pretty good.

 

[Ramo]

when im out in the woods, sometimes i eat MREs. the instant coffee in them is actually pretty good.

whats MREs ? I usually drink coffee for taste not for caffein

 

[heltershelton]

whats MREs ? I usually drink coffee for taste not for caffein

stands for meal ready to eat.
its what our soldiers eat out in the field.

 

[Ramo]

stands for meal ready to eat.
its what our soldiers eat out in the field.

oh, I see..... never tried one

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Don’t recall those much in the 60’s an70’s at least like they are now, C-rats were not something we brought out hunting, now a good chunk of a ribeye, and plenty of thick sliced bacon , were always a part of the trip..
Oh and some spuds sliced up and cooked in the bacon grease.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

Wasn’t until my 20’s that I started to whip up the breakfast grub , but it was time well spent.
Cheers

 

[heltershelton]

Don’t recall those much in the 60’s an70’s at least like they are now, C-rats were not something we brought out hunting, now a good chunk of a ribeye, and plenty of thick sliced bacon , were always a part of the trip..
Oh and some spuds sliced up and cooked in the bacon grease.

i dont know what year it was when they switched from the c rats to these.....i think in the 80s or so.

 

[heltershelton]

oh, I see..... never tried one

some of them taste really good, others, not so much.