Come on over for campfire coffee
A good cup of coffee around the campfire or early in the morning is one of the things I enjoy most about RVing. Everyone has their favorite coffee, and their special method of making it while camping...
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lol, love all the Folgers... at our grocery store (Stop & Shop) Folgers is the least expensive coffee that still tastes halfway decent. We also use New England Coffee, French Vanilla flavor. Usually we do 50-50 Folgers and flavored. Many times with the flavored coffees the "flavor" is just too strong, so cutting it with regular coffee works very well.
At home we have the standard drip coffee make (Black and Decker, cheapest one I could find that had an auto shut off).
Camping we use two coffee makers: For a lot of cups, we use a 14+ stainless percolator that I got over 10 years ago. I have to watch it, as it will boil over easily. 20 minutes to heat up water to a boil, turn down heat, 10 minutes of percolating, then coffee.
For just a few cups we have a French Press, which we also use at home in the evening again if just a few cups of coffee. The French Press is great because it seems to make great tasting coffee even from cheap coffee. Press also seems quickest, boil the water, add to press, wait 4 minutes, done.
Awhile ago I read that the best way to "extract" the flavor from coffee is to start with cold water, bring it to a boil, then make the coffee. The boiling hot water gets the most flavor, at least from what I read. That seems to coincide with the percolators and French Press tasting better than drip. Also, drip coffee makers many times will actually make coffee with much stronger caffeine amount, because of the time that the water takes to soak through the coffee in the filter.
I don't usually have cream and sugar with coffee, but recently as time marches on adding cream seems to reduce the need for antacid later. I also used to drink 2+ pots of coffee a day, but have cut back greatly - the caffeine finally seems to affect me more. Used to be that the caffeine really didn't seem to do much to me - having a cup of coffee right before bed didn't seem to affect me. Now I feel it more.
At home we have the standard drip coffee make (Black and Decker, cheapest one I could find that had an auto shut off).
Camping we use two coffee makers: For a lot of cups, we use a 14+ stainless percolator that I got over 10 years ago. I have to watch it, as it will boil over easily. 20 minutes to heat up water to a boil, turn down heat, 10 minutes of percolating, then coffee.
For just a few cups we have a French Press, which we also use at home in the evening again if just a few cups of coffee. The French Press is great because it seems to make great tasting coffee even from cheap coffee. Press also seems quickest, boil the water, add to press, wait 4 minutes, done.
Awhile ago I read that the best way to "extract" the flavor from coffee is to start with cold water, bring it to a boil, then make the coffee. The boiling hot water gets the most flavor, at least from what I read. That seems to coincide with the percolators and French Press tasting better than drip. Also, drip coffee makers many times will actually make coffee with much stronger caffeine amount, because of the time that the water takes to soak through the coffee in the filter.
I don't usually have cream and sugar with coffee, but recently as time marches on adding cream seems to reduce the need for antacid later. I also used to drink 2+ pots of coffee a day, but have cut back greatly - the caffeine finally seems to affect me more. Used to be that the caffeine really didn't seem to do much to me - having a cup of coffee right before bed didn't seem to affect me. Now I feel it more.
