Coffee; How do you make it in the wild.

Singles, or I put the grounds in a paper towel, stick that into my mug, and pour through it. Think of the paper towel as one BIG tea bag...
 
Get a 100% cotton sock put grounds in sock tie an overhand knot in the top and through it in the pot. A small womans sock will make a large pot of coffee.
Folgers singles are OK but I need to use about 6 of them to make a 1qt pot of coffee.
Even when I was in the Arabian gulf I made sock coffee with gourmet Kona grounds.
 
I would sooner do a Bear Grylls and drink some elephant dung dry through a Hobo's sock than drink Folgers Coffee !!!
 
I've drunk coffee that tasted like it had been made in a sock. I've also tried the old egg in the coffee too but prefer just the dash of water to settle the grounds. Oh, and it is just a bit of the albumin (white), not the whole egg. But a hint...if you boil the coffee after adding the grounds it will be more bitter. Alkaloyds? Dunno, but boil the water first and steep the coffee.

Codger
 
I have one of those lexan French presses.

I've thought about getting one of the ones that turns a wide mouth nalgene bottle into a press to save space, but I used to make iced coffee and drink it from a nalgene bottle and the bottle kind of seemed to absorb the smell and made it a bit funky to drink water out of afterwards. I don't think I would want to do that with one of my water bottles when hiking.
 
Blue Sky said:
Simplest way is Cowboy style, boil it right in the pot. You'll have to let it settle a bit before you pour and only real men go for the last cup in the pot.:cool:

(Really though, go with singles or instant, it's just so much easier.)
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I like the convenience of singles, but not the quality of the coffee - too damn weak.

On backpacking trips I take finely ground whole bean coffee, make it cowboy style, then pour it off through a coffee filter rubber banded to the top of a nalgene bottle. Depending on the environment the filter & grounds either get broadcast or buried in a cat hole. I've tried various coffee presses but found htey just aren't worth the space or the cleaning hassles.

A little Vietnamese style coffee press would be great if I could just get somebody to pack the canned milk to go with it. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I like strong coffee. Without it I'm rather useless in the morning.
 
Cowboy style is the way to go! Just strain it through your teeth while you drink and you'll have a cheek-full 'o chaw for the rest of the morning! :)

The egg-white thing is an old Scandinavian trick that I saw used up in MN quite a LOT! My buddy's grandpa used to eat the egg when the coffee was gone...

J-
 
When I went to USAF survival school, I was taught I could make tea from manzanita leaves or ants. While they were on the subject of eating bugs they had analogous flavors for grubs and grasshoppers, but they said that spiders had a taste all their own.
 
I've been looking at the Jetboil Java Pack. Basically a high teck french press. It's pretty cool and pretty expensive.

Stephen
 
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Never miss a chance to post that picture...makes me feel all warm and cozy.
When the big blue percolater stays behind it's cowboy coffee.
Just add a splash of cold water when it's done to settle the grounds, or drink around them.

And BTW, just say NO to instant!!!!
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Intant coffee and a piece of a chocolate bar, powderd creamer and some sugar in a cup of hot water,

I can rough it. :rolleyes:

Actually teabags are better I can drink it with no sugar or cream, less to carry.;)
 
But this last trip to the Kaiser Pass wilderness, we had cowboy coffee. A big handful of Kona blend thrown into a 2 qt. pot of just-boiled water. Fool around for a few minutes staring at the pot with sleepy eyes, asking dumb questions about how we'll know when its done, run out of patience, start drinking it!

When you smell like smoke, the coffee smells like smoke and your eyes are burning and red from smoke at 9,000 feet, coffee tastes d@mn good.

And the rainbows were monsters.
 
Well, by this time I guess some of you are getting to know me so this is probably not a big surprise: I make it the same way when I camp as I make it at home. But then I wear a cowboy hat every day and bust up concrete with a sledgehammer for a living. (actually that was just today, ordinarily I work on a piledriving crew.) In fact I only know one way to make coffee, which is the way my dad always made it.

1. The night before, I throw some grounds and cold water in a pot.

2. In the morning, I heat it up until just before it boils.

3. I wait a minute, then pour it slowly into a cup.

4. Drink up!


I never learned any other way to make it and I don't drink all that much coffee, so this is plenty good enough for me.

What is maybe more surprising is that my noticeably feminine girlfriend will also drink this coffee. It is strong! But there is a lot of flavour. In fact, according to a biochemist I once knew who worked for coffee companies, developing new brews, this is apparently second only to vaccuum somethings for getting the maximum, purest flavour out of the coffee. I don't remember what the vaccuum somethings were.

If you pour it carefully, or use a strainer if you have one, there are not a lot of grounds anyway. To be honest I usually have it with cream and a bit of honey, which is neccesary to dilute the obvious testosterone excess I usually seem to be indulging in.
 
A couple of handfulls of green coffee beans roasted in a skillet, when they are black and oily, I tie them in a hankerchief(a clean one works better) and pound them to a pulp with a piece of kindling, then throw them into a pot of water to boil untill black.
 
The MSR MugMate shown earlier is priceless. It doesn't weigh anything, and packs in your cup. Makes good coffee too.

Other than that, use cold water to settle the grounds.
 
Ummm, moved to Starbucksforum.com ?:D:D

Seriously though, a pack of instant (and maybe some hot choco thrown in) is luxury after picking the spruce bedding out of one's hair and clothes !!

Wow, and I thought 'survival lasers' was a stretch !!:D
 
I've made it several ways from just grounds to the freshly laundered sock:D God bless the dontations we've received; I've received Starbucks, Seattle's Best, Boca Java and my wife and parents have sent plenty of gourmet stuff as well. In my living quarters, I have a hot pot, so Folder's Singles have been what I use the most. I must say that they are better than instant and much more convenient when camping/backpacking. The kids don't drink coffee, so my wife and I will have a couple cups apiece and the clean up is minimal, so it's just easier. Now, with that said, I received a few packets of that Java Juice. Wow, that was some good coffee! I received it free, but it is expensive. For a backpacking trip, that's a good item to splurge on.

So, for future trips with just the family, it'll be Singles or Java Juice.

ROCK6
 
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