It just feels wrong

Time to get a couple more new batteries and solar panels, the hair dryer is coming next!

when i used to tent camp (while motorcycling) i used a JET BOIL / coffee press
french pressed coffee in less than 3 minutes !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWx-J5urWOM

Dutch_12078 wrote:
We use our basic Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker both with power and without. If power is not available and we can't or won't run the generator, we just heat a pan of water on the stove and pour it in the top through the coffee basket. When the coffee is done, it goes in an Airpot carafe that keeps it hot all day or all night. No waiting in the morning!

Never thought of that, good idea.

Tassimo makes great coffee.

TUCQUALA wrote:
I hope I don't have to listen to your coffee maker if I camp close to you!!!

Nope, you won't even hear my little Honda 2000, and if generators aren't allowed you won't even see it!

Only way to go. I do my own blend..1/2 and 1/2 Dark French and Espresso. Grind it in the store machine on Turkish blend. The finest grind. You have to be patient and let it settle, but oh my..now that is good coffee and for those that prefer a bit milder, add some hot water into the mug.







Gary Haupt

I hope I don't have to listen to your coffee maker if I camp close to you!!!

Ha, this is only the beginning--counter top ovens, bread maker, frying pan, etc. This is what happens when you become your own utility, the grid gets stressed with excessive use.

We have always been old-fashioned Melitta Manual Drip when boondocking, simple and makes good coffee:



Then we saw this Contour coffee maker a few years ago and decided to give it a try. Mounts under the cabinet by the stove, so it's out of the way when not in use. The thermal carafe keeps coffee hot well into the afternoon and it stores in the set when underway, no nothing to pack away:



We started only using this when we had shore power, then we visited the Black & Decker factory outlet on one adventure and scored a toaster for $9:



Since DW likes toast with her eggs in the morning, I find myself starting the generator for breakfast anyway, so....the new Contour electric pot gets more usage than the ol' Melitta. Exceptions are when it's raining and I don't want to venture outside to start the generator....

Oh well, that's progress I guess....

I used to be a real "roughing it" camper, using only a tent, a sleeping bag, a backpack of dried foods, bottled water, a few matches, a snake bite kit, and not much else but after getting the OFF-ROAD POPUP with all the modern appliances available to us I have slowly got away from candles and flashlights.

It was surprising how long we could camp way back in the woods with a bag full of D-CELLS for the flashlights and portable fans etc and some white gas for the portable Coleman stove. The high lite of the evening was firing up the one very bright camp gas lights hanging on the provided U hook for a few hours...

The nite lights would be a couple of the old style lanterns turned down very low hanging on opposite ends of the tent site so they would cast a shadow on the tent wall from the inside of any thing wandering thru the camp site.

Entertainment was listening to the radio for a couple of hours running on D-CELLS. The best entertainment was listening the night sounds.

We used to sleep in sleeping bags on the tent floor but did finally start using the fold-out camp beds that had pouches for air mattresses in the 70s...

Now we are lit up like Saturday night in Gatlinburg TN on the strip there until lights out around 10PM each night. Even run our lighted lamp post way back in the woods.

Then at 8AM the next morning all you hear is generators running up and down the camp ground roads re-charging their battery banks. Takes me the usual three hours of generator run time to get my 50% depleted 255AHs batteries back up to their 90% charge state so we can do all of this all over again for the next day/night run off the batteries.

I guess you end following the old rule if you don't use it you will lose it hehe...

Roy Ken