What's your coffee set up?

[stinger]

with plenty of whiskey

 

[greensurfingbear]

I use normal filter coffee in a billy can, boil the water add a good 4 heap spoons of the coffee with some cardomen seeds (5-6) let it stew for a few minutes until the coffee powder/granules have sank to the bottom, then carefully pour it into your mug!
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tried it this weekend mate....wow. saves carrying milk in future

 

[comeonbabylightmyfire]

There are some serious connoisseurs among us.

 

[rik_uk3]

I've been experimenting with a little trick I read about recently. It seems to work reasonably well:

Just boil up your water in your billy can or whatever, add as much coffee as you like and let it steep for a bit, then flick a little cold water over the surface of the liquid (I just dip my fingers in some water and flick the drops); then tap the side of the billy fairly firmly a few times with your spoon or something.

The theory is that all the grounds should then sink to the bottom. Then you just carefully pour off the liquid into your cup.

As I say, it seems to work OK - you might get a very small number of grounds in your mouth, but so what?

There is a gadget on sale in Wilkinson's to help you get rid of the coffee grounds and its 19p ...............called a tea strainer...works with tea too

 

[Teepee]

Nescafe espresso, Instant coffee of the gods. I flavour this heavenly brew with 3 day old mug stains, whiskey, assorted foreign bodies (skeeters/pine needles/bark) and fire ash. Soemtimes, if I'm feeling reallyposh, I'll even leave some baked beans or curry on the spork before I stir it

 

[stovie]

A picture paints a thousand words...can't imagine using anything else

 

[phaserrifle]

I'm afraid I use standard instant sachets, and drink it black with sugar.
if I'm with the scouts I'll take a little pot of "rocket fuel" brand instant coffee, since the extra caffine works wonders after late nights keeping an eye on them.

I may have to give cowboy coffee a go, or maybe try the "camp coffee" stuff you get in a bottle......

 

[Gotte]

There is a gadget on sale in Wilkinson's to help you get rid of the coffee grounds and its 19p ...............called a tea strainer...works with tea too

You know, that sounds like a really easy solution. Thanks.

I really like the look of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartcafe-H...TNJ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1302969088&sr=8-3

Also seems painfully simple, though can't seem to find out exactly how much they hold. One reviewer seems to indicate not much at all, but then another says there's more than enough. Pretty cheap also. As it stands I have the Vietnamese Coffee maker:

http://importfood.com/vietnamese_coffee.html

It's light and makes good strong coffee (how I like it). You use condensed milk with it, which you squirt in the cup and sweetens it, but gives it the kind of body cream does. I really like it, but it can take a while, and because it's thin walled it can cause the coffee to cool a bit (though not much). I've been putting together a little dedicated coffee stove, which consists of an Illy coffee tin with the bottom cut off and some holes drilled in to act as a windshield, and the cup from a Swiss Volcano stove, which fits perfectly inside the Illy tin. I use a Trangia burner in there, which boils water in five or six minutes. It's compact and hardly weighs anything - oh and you can burn wood in it, as it's steel not alu, like my Swiss army volcano stove, which is now soft as anything from the heat.

 

[rik_uk3]

I watch these coffee threads when they come up and people talk about cowboy coffee and dealing with the ground coffee and I think to myself...'Use a tea strainer' Its not rocket science is it lol.

Now for a real John Wayne brew you need one of these, sized according to how tough you are
http://www.camping-online.co.uk/the...l-mugs/bubba-keg-72oz-2-07lt-thermal-mug.html

A Robert Mitchum
http://www.camping-online.co.uk/the...l-mugs/bubba-keg-50oz-1-54lt-thermal-mug.html

And a James Stewart
http://www.camping-online.co.uk/the...mal-mugs/bubba-keg-mini-20oz-thermal-mug.html

The
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartcafe-H...TNJ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1302969088&sr=8-3
Are OK but they are more a Maureen O'hara setup really.

 

[lab72]

Just give me a stone a pot of boiled water and ground coffee, sorted

 

[Puddock]

I have been using instant sachets, but after this thread I am going to be a bit more adventurous. I might even have to treat myself to a kelly kettle so that I can boil water faster for all the testing that I am going to have to do

 

[Puddock]

Stainless Kelly kettle now ordered. Looking forward to the brew already.