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Mar 07, 2015Explorer
wbwood wrote:jake2250 wrote:
We use Starbucks Via's, very simple and good coffee for instant. Got the Melitta pour over for Christmas,found it to be very slow and coffee was weak. Just got a french press yesterday and had a couple of cups of very rich delicious coffee, going to get another for the trailer. We also camp with out hook ups so we don't use a coffee machine!
How can the melitta pour over be weak? You control the amount of coffe grounds you put in it, just as you would a regular drip coffee maker! Slow? It takes all of less than a minute to drip.
I, too, find the coffee too weak using the Melitta. I found this instead - you can "brew" your hot water for a long as you want. It only starts dripping once you set it on your mug:

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