How long can you realistically dry camp?
Never having dry camped before, we plan to do so on our trip out west this summer. We'll be gone for 3 months, and we'll be looking for ways to camp a little cheaper for some nights. We have a gener...
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More little ideas to extend your boondocking capacity: although a percolator makes good coffee, it has to be rinsed out, and the grounds are tough to dispose of (and you don't want to put them in your gray water tank). So we started making "pour-over" coffee, long before it became a fad at Starbuck's. It's just a plastic Mr. Coffee basket with a filter, sitting on top of a thermos. Pour in the hot water from a teakettle.
When it is done, dump the paper filter and the grounds into the trash -- easy cleanup, with no wasted water.
The funniest part of this pour-over thing is that I now make coffee at home this way -- I prefer it to the coffee made by the Mr. Coffee type machines.
You can buy Melitta cone filters and baskets -- they work quite well, I am told. If you are frugal (as we are), you can just use a basket from an old Mr. Coffee machine, since the machines do not last forever. They take the ordinary pleated "cupcake" style flat bottom filters, which are cheaper and easier to find than the Melitta filters. But there are folks who say that the Melitta cones make better coffee than a flat bottom basket. I have never tried the cones, so I don't know.
When it is done, dump the paper filter and the grounds into the trash -- easy cleanup, with no wasted water.
The funniest part of this pour-over thing is that I now make coffee at home this way -- I prefer it to the coffee made by the Mr. Coffee type machines.
You can buy Melitta cone filters and baskets -- they work quite well, I am told. If you are frugal (as we are), you can just use a basket from an old Mr. Coffee machine, since the machines do not last forever. They take the ordinary pleated "cupcake" style flat bottom filters, which are cheaper and easier to find than the Melitta filters. But there are folks who say that the Melitta cones make better coffee than a flat bottom basket. I have never tried the cones, so I don't know.
