Portable Good Coffee?

johnniet

johnniet

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I just got this yesterday at REI. It's like one of those little tea-balls, but for coffee. You could carry it anywhere easily.

http://www.coffeegizmo.com/

I've made two pretty good cups so far. Later I want to try it with some really good coffee.

Has anyone else tried this?
 
I've got one of those, a different brand. It works but it only holds enough coffee to make a cup and I'd usually rather make a big mugful. A one-mug cone filter works better for that, though it's less portable.
 
Cougar Allen said:
A one-mug cone filter works better for that, though it's less portable.
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The one-mug filters are great, but they are bulkier. Maybe one of our creative geniuses can come up with a collapsing one.
 
Another coffee related thread, awesome! I haven't tried this particular device but I think i'll pick one up and give it a shot. My usual method of preparing coffee in camp is something I saw the locals in indonesia do. basically they took some superfine ground coffee, throw it in a cup and poor some boiling water over it. coffee sludge on the bottom, and delicious sulawesi toraja coffee on top. a little primitive but not a bad way to brew a cup if you can handle some coffee grounds and the sludge on the bottom. Kamkazmoto should like this method! seriously, I'll have to give one of these things a try although my recent move to suburban hell on the wrong side of a really big city has hampered my need to make coffee outside the home.

Dan
 
Dan B. Where do you think I learned it. I have some Tora Bika Dua (coffee and sugar) with me now :) . Started drinking this stuff when I lived in Jakarta.
 
Kamkazmoto, I always drink my coffee black, and I had a hell of time figuring out how to ask for coffee without sugar while I was in sulawesi. been a few years and I never picked up the language but I think tidak dua was my broken attempt to get sugar free coffee.
 
Dan B if you ever get back you can try kopi hitam tampa gula, Black coffee without sugar.
johnninet - sorry about the mini hijack
 
Not great coffee but better than nothing when you are one the trail. When I am car-camping I use one of those Bodum French Presses. The secret to those presses it get the coffee ground corse.....yum.
 
Real men make "cowboy coffee": Boil water in a camp pot with wire handle. Add grounds to boiling water. Wait 5 minutes. Then take hold of wire handle and start swinging the pot in 360 degree loops over your head, relying on inertia to keep the boiling water from spilling all over you. The centrifugal force will make the grounds settle to the bottom of the pot.
 
You can use a clean white cotton sock, put coffee inside, tie a knot to keep it in, drop in hot water.
 
kamkazmoto said:
Dan B if you ever get back you can try kopi hitam tampa gula, Black coffee without sugar.
johnninet - sorry about the mini hijack
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No problem man, I'm always happy to learn a few travel phrases. :cool:
 
On a 3 month camp trip in Oz I just used to spoon a measure into a cup add water, stir and wait a few. After a while the grounds sink, and if you dont up end the cup they will stay there. A quick flick of the wrist and they are gone.

Those things are OK but really, whats a few grinds? Anyway they are nice to chew on :D
 
brewthunda said:
Real men make "cowboy coffee": Boil water in a camp pot with wire handle. Add grounds to boiling water. Wait 5 minutes. Then take hold of wire handle and start swinging the pot in 360 degree loops over your head, relying on inertia to keep the boiling water from spilling all over you. The centrifugal force will make the grounds settle to the bottom of the pot.
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This is also the traditional way of making billy tea fast here in Oz too. Boil the water, take it off the fire, chuck a handful of tea in the billy and swing it around your head. This can even create much entertainment. One time while sitting around the fire one guy tried this and he was going well until the handle came off. Billy, tea and near boiling water then headed for some of the camfire sitters. Much amusement all round.

(The abuse afterwards was fairly creative too.)
 
Dan B. said:
. My usual method of preparing coffee in camp is something I saw the locals in indonesia do. basically they took some superfine ground coffee, throw it in a cup and poor some boiling water over it. coffee sludge on the bottom, and delicious sulawesi toraja coffee on top. a little primitive but not a bad way to brew a cup if you can handle some coffee grounds and the sludge on the bottom.

Dan
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If you sprinkle some cold water on top of of your coffee after "brewing" the gounds will settle to the bottom. I think the scientific dudes call it a temperature inversion. Whatever, it works.

When I go camping, I just take an empty one pound coffee can, poke a couple of holes in the top to make a wire handle out of baling wire and my coffe maker is done. Then I just boil water in it, stir in the grounds, boil or "brew" a while. Then after five or so minutes take it off the fire, drizzle in a bit of cold water, the grounds settle and you can pour it off the top. Basically a french press without the press!
 
knzn said:
If you sprinkle some cold water on top of of your coffee after "brewing" the gounds will settle to the bottom. I think the scientific dudes call it a temperature inversion. Whatever, it works.
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I'll try that next time, thanks!! :)
 
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The blue enamel percolator rocks!
Before the percolator was given to me I used a regular old pot for cowboy coffee. My twist was using a flannel (I think) filter, shaped like a cone, suspended on a wire with a wooden handle.
I wish I knew what they are called :confused: They are in just about every little latino bodega in town.
 
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