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11-30-2018, 12:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2018, 12:05 PM by Motrukdriver.)
I think if I needed to make coffee and didn't have a propane source I'd go with maybe a Sterno type setup. The tiny folding camp stove with a can of gel fuel and a kettle of water. Then a pour over cone and filter. Prolly do the whole thing for maybe $50. Sterno fuel cans are pretty cheap and if all you are doing is heating water for coffee a carton of them would last a very long time.
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I have plenty of electric power...I can boil water on an induction surface....so I bought a Melitta coffee filter holder. Seems sort of primitive, but it gets the job done fairly quickly.
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At the risk of getting flammed by coffee purists, I will wade into this debate.
Instant coffee
Wait no really, wait!
I was a coffee purist too. I even had a grinder, the same one you see at Starbucks in my kitchen. I brewed X grind under Y pressure at Z temperature. Think Sternwake electrical considerations applied to coffee.
Then I went to eastern Europe. Turkish coffee, Samivour coffee, or instant coffee. Outside of importing a Jura machine from Italy and drinking good coffee these were my options. While travelling this was a pain so I started testing and trying Instant coffees.
Egoist instant coffee is to my taste the best. Swiss method of dehydration and it is very good coffee. In our environment coffee is required and everyone can boil water. My sister's rig has a Jura and at two grand it is a silly luxury. I made her coffee one morning using two scoops of Egoist and she knew it was different but it was good and got the body going in the same way regular coffee does. In a nomad existence and in the cramped space and limited power boiling water and adding a product is very simple and may fit the bill.
Yes I know smell the coffee and proper coffee will always be the best. But this alternative method may be an option for some. Instant coffee that his high quality may be harder to find than in Russia but it is out there you don't have to drink Sanka or Foldgers. Bushido is another brand from Japan that I like but Egoist is the best. Warning it is not cheap. But if you add gear and power costs it balances out.
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I have a piece of cheese cloth sewn in a pouch the depth of a cup, on a piece of clothes hanger wire, bent in a circle slightly larger then the mouth of a cup with a little handle bent into it. Coffee goes in pouch, pouch goes into cup, water poured over it, leave sit a few minutes, lift out by handle, turn inside out to remove old grinds. Takes up very little storage space.
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I guess I'm a weirdo- I use one of these to steep my coffee...
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Modern-Inf...B01692TMVA
easy to clean, works. Need the hot water, but nothing else but a little saucer to set the strainer on.
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Poster asks about a 12V coffee maker and the thread devolves into peoples' favorite brewing methods.
Same thing happened back over there. The Leader stepped in to the fray to put a halt to it.
No cold brew fans?
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First and last sentence of OP's thread: "What else do people use?"
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