Coffee making ---- For those of us who are hard core drinkers

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Wegmans carries the Starbucks single serve packets. Sorry, westerners and southerners. 

Ratkity

I've been using VIA instant when camping. It comes in different strengths and you can get it in SOME bigger grocery stores. That said, it's expensive if you drink as much coffee as PXL. I only drink one cup in the morning, so making a big pot of coffee ends up costing me more than using one VIA. Right now, it's easy clean up and I only need boiling water.  The Coleman stove drip coffee maker and the 12V coffee maker are both slow as molasses in January. I've never liked the French press because of the clean up and I don't like chewy coffee (I always get grounds in my cup.. no one else does!). 

BTW, the best commercial coffee I've ever had was New Mexican Pinion Nut coffee. If you ever have a chance, give it a try. I had a friend who lived in HI and would get the premium Kona beans prior to bulk shipments to the mainland (way before Kona coffee was in vogue). THAT was good coffee. 

Keurig has a lot of flavor options (more than the SB Vermiso), but would be pricey for someone who drinks a lot a day - although the myjo looks cool.

It's a lot like the microwave oven option. Some people don't miss it and others need it. Seems like you'll get as many answers as to needs and desires as people on the forum!  Still cool to know all the options. That little collapsable teapot is cute as can be! Meanwhile, I have an unhealthy attachment to my stainless little percolator that I've had for almost 10 yrs. 

ChanW

That's pretty cool. I can't do the little plastic capsules though.

OutbackAZ said:

Very happy with this model.  Put a K-cup in the base, fill with boiling water, place over your coffee mug, and gently press down on the top.  Takes about 5 presses to get all the water through the K-cup and into your mug.  ZERO clean-up. Simply remove the K-cup and toss in the trash.  Use a stronger blend than what you're used to.  Only $14 at Amazon.com

USWildflowers

PXLated said:

To use the Kcups, I'd probably have to plan and have a box dropped at general delivery every so many miles along my route - And you know how much I like to plan so that ain't gonna happen :-)
Haven't seen Starbucks instant in stores - Have to get it at a Starbucks?

Agree on the Kcups.  I get Starbucks instant at Walmart and Costco. Comes in boxes of 10, I think (Walmart) or 26-pack (Costco). Even then it's about 75 or 85 cents a packet, which is one of the reasons it's my fallback rather than primary when camping in the T@b (primary when backpacking and canoe-camping.) At that price I'm spending $3 to $6 a day on coffee.

Nomad

When traveling - and if one is close to the campsite - I hit a gas station with my extra big thermos. The truck stops and gas station chains like Mavericks, Terribles, Pilot, etc have a std refill price that applies to "any" refill, even my thermos. Some are as low as $1.05. Ranges from that $1.05 to $1.59. I can't buy/make coffee for that.
Be carefull of the independants though - even if the gas is a brand name. Got hit one time in a Mobile station in Lone Pine for $4.59.

IrishCamper74

Stainless french press with anything but Starbucks.

There are so many infinitely better coffee options; grind up some beans, put them in an airtight container or ziplok bag & you're all set. 

Here's one for $23
http://www.amazon.com/VonShef-Double-Wall-Stainless-Cafetiere-Measuring/dp/B00IHZBFYK/ref=sr_1_7?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1464228534&sr=1-7&keywords=stainless+steel+french+press

db_cooper

+2 for Via with Ratkity.  I was sold from the beginning for backpacking and climbing.  No more French press mess, and quite good.  Not terribly expensive from Costco.   I now use it everyday and including in the T@B.  Comes out to about 14 bucks every 2 weeks,  as much a pound of good local stuff, but without the mess and wait.  Yeah, there's better coffee, but there's not easier good coffee.  I live in the PNW,  and spending $30 a month on coffee is below average when everyone else is tipping their barista that much per month.

Tabaz

Chan - the Presto My Jo comes with a screened filter the size of a K-cup, so you can put in your own grounds and reuse the filter ad infinitum.  I simply love not having to deal with coffee grounds, so I use the K-cups from Walmart.

Tonydjd

db_cooper said:

+2 for Via with Ratkity.  I was sold from the beginning for backpacking and climbing.  No more French press mess, and quite good.  Not terribly expensive from Costco.   I now use it everyday and including in the T@B.  Comes out to about 14 bucks every 2 weeks,  as much a pound of good local stuff, but without the mess and wait.  Yeah, there's better coffee, but there's not easier good coffee.  I live in the PNW,  and spending $30 a month on coffee is below average when everyone else is tipping their barista that much per month.

I also will second the VIA. I use my portable jet boil to heat water when boondocking it's a quick and easy way to heat up water for quick cup of cofee best part is you can use the same cup to drink cofee from. For the hard core press drinkers they make an accessory for this also

Mr_Mrs_Gnome

Ratkity said:

BTW, the best commercial coffee I've ever had was New Mexican Pinion Nut coffee. If you ever have a chance, give it a try.

If you're jonesing some @Ratkity, our Costco carries it.

Roadie_O

French press does make great coffee, and I've not yet dealt with cleaning it while camping, but it doesn't seem too horrible. We had a 12v coffee maker we took tent camping, and it made the most awful, slow, luke warm coffee on the planet, so I refuse to go that route again. (It was a green one...maybe a Coleman?) My plan is to use the French press, and a Keurig mini. Cameron's coffee, along with other brands, have created compostable cups, like...90-something %, so that makes me feel better about the waste.

judymac

My San Francisco Bay Coffee KCups have been 97% compostable for quite sometime, including the top and plastic ring.  The company has been working on developing a 100% compostable filter made of vegetable byproducts.  I suspect my new order has that.
Check them out.  DH thinks anything milder than their Fog Chaser is too weak.

ChanW

Aha! I just found out that reusable k-cups are available: http://pragmaticenvironmentalism.com/2012/07/17/which-reusable-k-cup-filter-is-best/
Google is great.

Ratkity

Well, there's always the old standby for us weekend warriors.... wander around the campground with an empty coffee cup and look painfully tired and pitiful. Your cup will soon be filled post-haste by friends or worried-looking early risers. You might even get fed by some folks who don't know how to cook for less than 10 people at a time.

To play this game, you must have already done a walk around and visited/waved to folks around the park loop right after hooking up (or hosted some zombie tours the day before). 

The badge for this is a sub-badge of the foodie/chef badge grouping. I thought about a cute puppy begging for food or Simon's Cat pointing to his mouth (have to deal with copywrites though!). Yes, I was given a bright red t-shirt with this on the front of it LOL (Xmas present). 

Cyclonic

@Ratkity , I think I already won that badge at Tearstock last year

Nomad

Ratkity - You forgot one other requirement - be female :-)

IrishCamper74

Ratkity said:

The badge for this is a sub-badge of the foodie/chef badge grouping. I thought about a cute puppy begging for food or Simon's Cat pointing to his mouth (have to deal with copywrites though!). Yes, I was given a bright red t-shirt with this on the front of it LOL (Xmas present). 

I NEED this t-shirt!

Ratkity

I have no idea if my "secret santa" ordered this from the UK or not, but this is the shirt and the link! http://simonscat.theofficialwebshop.com/index.php/home/simon-s-cat-feed-me-t-shirt-standard-cut.html

Notice the bowl on the back of the shirt. (Simon's Cat video youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat)

@PXLated - there's no gender requirement for the Feed Me game! You just have to change your morning pre-coffee face from the creepy "I'm NOT an escaped asylum inmate, just un-caffeinated" to more of a "I'm a starving artist just out for an innocent stroll".

Nomad

Well, I'll have to try that since I don't own a skirt.

ericnliz

Maybe you should try it out for size!

lara9209

We do it all with a 12-cup French press. 

Verna

I didn't know how much work I was getting out of by NOT drinking coffee!

planobenz

Very simple.  Install an inverter and use a portable Keurig.  Very easy and no cleanup. Kinda drains the battery.  The price we pay for morning coffee!

JodellR

I really enjoy seeing what posts end up getting the most conversation. It's no surprise how many of us love our coffee when we camp. For me, it's one of the top three things that I love most-that first hot cup when you are standing outside the T@b while the sun is coming up.   

Look, even my fortune cookie at lunch chose to chime in:

"You have tasted the bitterness as well as the sweetness of coffee"

ericnliz

Verna,
 I can't relate, but my wife does't drink coffee, but she does want to know when the water is hot for cocoa, or tea, so I might as well drink coffee. Make mine the fashioned way with the old "true blue" percolator, grounds, a little splash of cold water on top before ya' pour it, and good to go!  Af ter all it is camping, right?

ericnliz

OH NO! I almost forgot the Irish cream!

Nomad

Plano - First thing in morning I'm looking for is solar to add juice. An inverter is out till mid-morning.

TerryV6

Verna said:

I didn't know how much work I was getting out of by NOT drinking coffee!

Grin...

TerryV6

We've tried the via.  Not bad... I didn't see it at Costco and everywhere else is around a dollar a cup...

Dereco

I love my espresso in the morning, and on the road/at the office, have turned to this: the Waco Minipresso. They have both ground and capsule version. Clean-up is easy. Great for hikes too. Yes, espresso back-country!