Camp Coffee ?

[Super_Dave]

Sad but true confession. I've lived in the electric world for so long I've forgotten the old school formulas for camp coffee.

How much water to coffee? Does it alwayts have to be a full pot to brew?

[Roy_Lynne]

I was going to mention the egg shell also, and a pinch of salt. Seems like Dad put in a pinch of salt.
We use the electric but when we're off the grid I use the percolator. I bought the one that WalMart sells and believe me I wish I had shopped around. It feels and looks and acts flimsy. We have a small Mom and Pop hardware store in town and they have one that has some weigh to it. It wasn't cheap but I wish I had spent the money.

[garmp]

My Dear Father loved to make breakfast over the open fire, that included coffee. His coffee was a couple of handfuls of coffee grounds in the old coffee pot full of water and let'er cook. Throw in an egg shell to help settle the grounds. The next day add a couple more hands full of grounds and some more water and repeat the procedure. After a few days the old pot got quite heavy. My Mother would wait till Dad went fishing or just out walking and then try to empty out some of the grounds with out his knowledge.
That's my fond memory of camp coffee.

[Super_Dave]

No one has mentioned the other difference between perc & drip, HEAT! First sip I took of my per coffee about took the top of my tongue off!!!! Leave your drip cup of coffee alone for a couple minutes and you've got ice coffee. That perc on the otherhand stayed hot forever. LOL!

[RoadXYZ]

Still remember covering the large percolator with heavy foil so that we didn't have to clean all that soot off the percolator when we packed it away ... you are so right there was just something about that percolator perking over the camp fire first thing in the a.m.

[SkiingSixPack]

PA12DRVR wrote:

SkiingSixPack wrote:
Long live the percolator!!!!!!

Fill it up with water just below the basket, add a percolator filter (buy at any supermarket), and fill up the basket with coffee.

To make less, measure out the water with the coffee mug you are using and add as many as you want to drink. Then 2 heaping teaspoons for each mug.

Start on high and turn to simmer once the perc'n starts. Perc for 10 minutes and turn off the heat.

Best tasting coffee and easy cleanup... (but not easier than a Keurig) 🙂 🙂 🙂

I cherish my early morning perc coffee over our 40 year old Colemen stove 🙂 My morning routine would not be the same without it...

x2

I have a 40 year old percolator with a glass bubble that has somehow survived being the coffee pot for 2 generations of airplane drivers. It now occupies a place of honor at the cabin (no electricity) and is used by the 3rd generation to prepare coffee and hopefully will be used by the 4th generation.

When at the cabin, the coffee pot is going all day long. In the summer, it rests on the stove inside; in the spring and fall (when one wants a fire anyway), the pot sits on a grate over the fire.

Beautiful .... can picture this scene in my mind!

[PA12DRVR]

SkiingSixPack wrote:
Long live the percolator!!!!!!

Fill it up with water just below the basket, add a percolator filter (buy at any supermarket), and fill up the basket with coffee.

To make less, measure out the water with the coffee mug you are using and add as many as you want to drink. Then 2 heaping teaspoons for each mug.

Start on high and turn to simmer once the perc'n starts. Perc for 10 minutes and turn off the heat.

Best tasting coffee and easy cleanup... (but not easier than a Keurig) 🙂 🙂 🙂

I cherish my early morning perc coffee over our 40 year old Colemen stove 🙂 My morning routine would not be the same without it...

x2

I have a 40 year old percolator with a glass bubble that has somehow survived being the coffee pot for 2 generations of airplane drivers. It now occupies a place of honor at the cabin (no electricity) and is used by the 3rd generation to prepare coffee and hopefully will be used by the 4th generation.

When at the cabin, the coffee pot is going all day long. In the summer, it rests on the stove inside; in the spring and fall (when one wants a fire anyway), the pot sits on a grate over the fire.

[coolbreeze01]

I thought the brandy was to settle the grounds.........

[JiminDenver]

Y'all need to drink real coffee. lol



Actually most of the time we use a filter basket from a Bunn coffee maker and pour the hot water over the grounds. It fits on the coffee pot just right and is faster than the Melitta cone filter we used for 25 years.

[Passin_Thru]

First liar doesn't stand a chance, I on the other hand never heard of Keurig, obviously a foreign thing, and I make my coffee with approx 2 T/ Cup and boil it in the pot for 10 min, dump in an icecube or some cold water to settle the grounds and a very small pinch of salt actually about 1/4 pinch to kill the bitterness and I as a matter of fact learned from a British Paratrooper while living on horseback in Central Colorado. remember this when something happens to the grid and you are cooking like this old fart.

Our Maid fell on a hot stove so we had "Well done our good and faithful servant " put on her gravestone. Mark Twain

[Super_Dave]

JLTN_James wrote:

I noticed the other day that the percolators are making a come back. I've seen them in several stores lately; just a few short years ago they were impossible to find.

They must be trendy because I know they aren't cheap. One can buy a Mr. Coffee that does all the work in half the time for half the price of percolators I see in the store.

[JLTN_James]

My coffee perc is older than I am! I "creativly inherited" (i.e. swiped) it from my dad, who probably did the same thing from my grandfather.

I noticed the other day that the percolators are making a come back. I've seen them in several stores lately; just a few short years ago they were impossible to find.

[Quality_Johnson]

My coffee trick is to perk just before bed, then fill the thermos. In the morning, hot coffee immediately with zero fuss, and all stove burners are available for breakfast cooking. Also, my early rising camping partner can has coffee while I get a couple more winks.

[PUCampin]

Since I am the only one that drinks coffee in the morning, I use a Melita pour over. I use the #2 cone basket, sets on top of my mug. I use 2 measured level Tablespoons of grounds per 6-8oz hot water, so for my 14oz travel mug I use 4. Pour hot (not boiling) water over grounds. Excelent coffee.

[wbwood]

doxiemom11 wrote:
I watch the color of the coffee in the little glass bubble to determine how long I want to let it perk. I also had to learn that "boiling" is not good. If it's boiling and not perking, turn your flame down a bit and it will then perk.

We had one of those silver campfire percs with the glass bubble at the top but I think I left it in a mold camper years ago when we sold it.. My wife bought me one last year like the OP pictured and doesn't have that glass bubble. And it's bigger than the little silver one.

My wife put a French press in the motorhome for times when we won't have electric for the keurig.