I have a bug out kit in the car, 24hr overnight type, but no high quality coffee!
Space is a premium, I have a titanium mug, what’s packable? Easy to use!
Space is a premium, I have a titanium mug, what’s packable? Easy to use!
Bug out coffee
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DIY coffee bags.....you can buy permeable bags to make your own Tbags, they work fine with ground coffee too....and if sealed inside a mini zip bag, they last well too. If you buy good ones you can just burn the whole thing when you're done.
Having written all that I just use a fine metal mesh coffee filter and pack ground coffee in a wee tin with a good seal.
....and having written that I went to look for an example, and look what I found
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I find cowboy coffee really rather impressively tasty every time I make it even using long ago (but airtight sealed) preground coffee. If you're only able to make it in the cup and not decant from another vessel then it will have a bit of a groundsy finish, but it's otherwise a very pleasant and super simple way of immersion brewing coffee.
French press is the most conveniant way to make coffee, be it in the bush or in the Savoy of London.
Get yourself a Zylis mug and you’ve got a cafetière (French press) and a cup in one. All you need is coffee and hot water.
I have a screw top airtight jar for pre-ground coffee. I’m looking for a smaller one that fits into the mug.
NB. It’s very well insulated so while it looks like a mug, it’s a decent cup size inside.
It comes with a “drink through” lid that fits with the filter down.
Very handy.
I have a screw top airtight jar for pre-ground coffee. I’m looking for a smaller one that fits into the mug.
NB. It’s very well insulated so while it looks like a mug, it’s a decent cup size inside.
It comes with a “drink through” lid that fits with the filter down.
Very handy.
Cowboy coffee looks to me very much like Greek (or Turkish, or Russian) coffee. It's made in a small pot, traditionally made of tinned copper but these days more commonly of aluminium or stainless steel, you can see one on Wikipedia.
Cezve - Wikipedia
The best way to make it is to put a spoonful of coarsely ground coffee beans in the pot, pour on hot water, then heat the pot on a hotplate to bring it very briefly to the boil. Lift the pot so that they froth settles and repeat this another two times.
You allow the grounds to settle before pouring the coffee into a small cup or glass.
When I was a student in Moscow we would often get a coffee between classes. To cool the coffee and precipitate the grounds more quickly we'd ask for a scoop of plain ice cream too be put in it.
Splash of cold water in the pot before pouring will drag any remaining floating grounds to the bottom.
If it's to keep in your car as a spare for emergencies a few of these ready-made coffee and milk sachets would probably be be the easiest option. Personally I don't drink them very often because they have some unhealthy additives which I'd rather avoid. But if you're only intending to consume them occasionally in an emergency situation that wouldn't be an issue as it wouldn't be cumulative . They taste pretty good.
Not far off Keith, though rather different to my experiences in Turkey where heated through sand like material. I also can't speak for Greek or Russian, but Turkish coffee is the opposite of coarsely ground - it is even more finely ground than espresso, which is already very fine.Cowboy coffee looks to me very much like Greek (or Turkish, or Russian) coffee. It's made in a small pot, traditionally made of tinned copper but these days more commonly of aluminium or stainless steel, you can see one on Wikipedia.
I have a small, single serving sized one in aluminium and a larger one in stainless steel.Cezve - Wikipedia
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The best way to make it is to put a spoonful of coarsely ground coffee beans in the pot, pour on hot water, then heat the pot on a hotplate to bring it very briefly to the boil. Lift the pot so that they froth settles and repeat this another two times.
You allow the grounds to settle before pouring the coffee into a small cup or glass.
When I was a student in Moscow we would often get a coffee between classes. To cool the coffee and precipitate the grounds more quickly we'd ask for a scoop of plain ice cream too be put in it.
As Chris notes you can do various things to get the grounds to the bottom of you're in no mood to wait (though I'm with you, I don't mind the wait enjoying the scenery!), either pre-decanting or just to make direct from cooking vessel sipping a bit more pleasant. I tend to do the whack the side with a knife spine which gets the grounds to the bottom. Others use a rather dramatic but seemingly no more effective gravity/drop pot method.
Mors Kochanski has a lovely old video on cowboy coffee on YouTube. I can't get to it now but a search I'm sure will bring it up. But he's doing it at a set camp and has lovely wooden structures to adjust pot height etc., so not very useful to OP. Perfectly doable on a meths or twig stove in a cup though.
Your Russian coffee affogato sounds delightful.
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You find it hard to beat, Taylor’s coffe bags, convenient easy to use. When fishing ideal for waterside brews, the smell!!
Got one of them this past week, found it in a charity shop for the princely sum of £4 and yes it's good for mine to now be designated my traveling brewer. Attention has to be paid the grind size though to learn medium-course is best as fine goes straight through the sieve.
To find they're only £13 new, where there is another brand that makes exactly the same, the brand name ; ' SmartCafe'
Smart Cafe were the original makers and Zylis took over. You often see the names used interchangeably.
I have an original Smart Cafe and several Zylis.
They changed the materials. The SC scraper ring was much more rigid than the Z.
This required an internal profile change so the plungers are not interchangeable.
Yes it’s a tool that you need to learn to use just like any other
Simple & effective.
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It’s fine with a medium grind. I don’t think about it and use my usual coffee - dunno what you’d call if - ten second buzz - bean to coffee.
I have an original Smart Cafe and several Zylis.
They changed the materials. The SC scraper ring was much more rigid than the Z.
This required an internal profile change so the plungers are not interchangeable.
Yes it’s a tool that you need to learn to use just like any other
Simple & effective.
Edited to add:
It’s fine with a medium grind. I don’t think about it and use my usual coffee - dunno what you’d call if - ten second buzz - bean to coffee.
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Sooo, is your experience with these small presses good? I have been thinking of getting one as these instant versions of "coffee" taste absolutely terrible, worse year by year.
I’m enjoying mine right now as I type but in the early days (thirty years ago) it took a few goes to get the “press” right. There is a vent hole in the vertical handle so that suction doesn’t jam it. If you push suddenly that could let grounds through but it doesn’t happen.
I’m surprised that the Aeropress fan club hasn’t posted. I’m told it’s a good tool but to me it’s a faf. A one person cafetière would suit me better.
A little moka pot is good depending what you would be heating your water on otherwise.
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I agree, some people enjoy instant ‘coffee’ but I haven’t found one that suits me.
I’m surprised that the Aeropress fan club hasn’t posted. I’m told it’s a good tool but to me it’s a faf. A one person cafetière would suit me better.
A little moka pot is good depending what you would be heating your water on otherwise.
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I agree, some people enjoy instant ‘coffee’ but I haven’t found one that suits me.
Quite possibly the best coffee ever comes from this.
My palate is incredibly refined and high level honed over many years of enduring night shifts - ( regardless of what Broch may suggest.. )
If you've got room in the car - squeeze it in.
Select Top left - podge button = Instant Ichor in a cup.
My palate is incredibly refined and high level honed over many years of enduring night shifts - ( regardless of what Broch may suggest.. )
If you've got room in the car - squeeze it in.
Select Top left - podge button = Instant Ichor in a cup.
Yes -It pretty much directs the rats droppings straight into the bean reservoir.
You never see a tired Rat do you - so kinda makes sense.
I've just had a flashback to the vending machines in the office I used to work at. The plain hot water often tasted more mushroomy than the mushroom soup....
I was also going to say get a small tea strainer to get bugs out of your bush coffee.
(On a constructive note I'd 2nd the coffee bags if you can get hold of ones you like).
I was also going to say get a small tea strainer to get bugs out of your bush coffee.
(On a constructive note I'd 2nd the coffee bags if you can get hold of ones you like).
A friend has a GSI Outdoors Ultralight Java Drip, which I am going to replace my Vietnamese Coffee Filter and mug with built in filter. It really impressed me with how simple it was. The big problem with all of the filter systems is the clean up.
Coffee bags are great and the brew bags as well however, for simple and easy just buy good instant coffee.
Coffee bags are great and the brew bags as well however, for simple and easy just buy good instant coffee.
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