Tiny coffee maker and toaster

[wincrasher65]

Found an easy compact item to make coffee, and I think I found the perfect compact toaster.

http://wincrasher.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-small-coffee-side-of-toast.html

[Cobra21]

I bought a 1 cup Bella electric this winter for the RV, $20.00. It lasted for 6 cups. Now I have the 4 cup Mr. Coffee, hope this lasts. I got to have my morning coffee!
Brian

[Escargot]

wincrasher65 wrote:
Found an easy compact item to make coffee,....

A note regarding the Melitta type cone, collapsible or not:

After placing the filter in the cone and adding the dry coffee, pour just enough water to cover the grounds. This saturates and "opens" up the grounds. That water will also wick up the filter a bit and keeps the sides of the paper filter from collapsing into the wet grounds.

After the initial water drips out, continue adding the amount of water that will fill your cup.

I use the brown filters vs. the white ones because ... no bleach.

Edited to explain: I added this comment because several have complained about the paper filters in their Melitta cones collapsing.

[drsolo]

I have used the same style coffee maker for the last 30 years, a 12 cup Proctor Silex coffee maker (now considered vintage, LOL). I stocked up buying the old version since it never overheats the water and over extract the coffee. My toaster is one that toasts bagels and muffins and since I never eat just one side or one piece of toast I need a 2 slot toaster. Both of these are tucked behind the cargo netting when not in use.

[mkguitar]

Got a $8 toaster at walmart works pretty good.

For coffee I went with a perculator as the genny is noisy...we always have gas.

Amazon about $30

mike

[gerrym51]

how about this.

i bought at a store for 3 dollars



melita

[wincrasher65]

Dakota98 wrote:
Here's an interesting article concerning the TOASTERS

They are a low wattage draw & great for the RV environment.

What a great link, thank you! I guess the one I have is the 1-A-6.

[RoyB]

We use the CUISINART GRIND and BREW 10-cup Fresh Bean Coffee maker with Thermo Carafe DGB-6000BCFR while we are re-charging our battery banks each morning around 8AM.

This brews up in around 5-minutes 2KW Honda Generator run time and then shuts off... We have HOT BREWED COFFEE in the Thermos Carafe for the day.

We use the hot grille for our toast after we fry up our Eggs and Bacon...

Works for us just fine every morning...

No batteries or Power Inverter used in this operation...

Roy and Carolyn

[Dakota98]

Here's an interesting article concerning the TOASTERS

They are a low wattage draw & great for the RV environment.

[Pclind1950]

We use a French press for our coffee. It doesn't take up much room and makes a great pot of coffee. We get about nice sized cups of coffee out of it. For toast, we use a small 2 slice electric toaster which we have room for.

[Merrykalia]

I thought it was actually an electric pot with a toaster. I saw one of those at Big Lots a week or so ago.