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[Smokecreek1]

All this talk of "Cowboy Coffee" brings back the memories of a friend of mine (a fellow army vet) from those dark years  of the late 60's when we were both trying to go to school on the $130.00 a month we got on the GI Bill. He'd make a pot of Cowboy Coffee on a Sunday and keep using the same grounds and just add some more water to the pot each day until it really was undrinkable; as a clincher, he usually made a pot of cowboy beans/chile to go with it. By Thursday or so, you had a mighty fine meal !  By the way, he eventually  gave up coffee and started drinking green tea, but he got his MA. Today, I'll just take my Melitta single cup of good ground coffee in the morning and be happy

 

Smoke.

[RedTurtle03]

http://www.campsaver.com/java-drip
This is what we use. Boil water and pour through filter on top. Container is insulated so it keeps coffee warm for a bit. Comes with a reusable cloth type filter but we find it easier to use paper ones and pitch em. The filer holder/funnel is a rubber type material that bends down and stores inside the container when not in use. Small light weight and works great.
Same company makes a press http://www.campsaver.com/java-press that I've used but doesn't work as well as our glass press that we have at home.
Also saw this a walmart the other day http://www.coleman.c...80#.VRmKZtq9KSM seems too bulky for me but looks like it would work well on a FWC stove or a Coleman.

http://www.amazon.co...ster_B00URQJD2I
Best mugs ever. Keep coffee hot for hours and we bought the largest I believe 20oz. ones for keeping cold drinks cool. Once filled one with cold Gatorade and ice for a trip to the beach. And found the Gatorade had froze on account of the mug holding in the cold so well from the ice it had made a mini freezer.

[Dughlas Stiubhart]

Camping, I use good ground coffee in the Java Press drip with Miletta paper filters.   At home I use a Miletta drip with fresh ground coffee. 

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[Bigfoot]

I chuckled after reading this comment on a bicycle touring blog by someone named Cranky: 

 

"Too much technology for too little return. Boil water, turn off stove, pour in coffee, throw in egg shells if you have’m from breakfast, sit for 4 minutes, sprinkle with cold water, pour into cup thru old (preferable at least 2 decades) threadbare bandana, and vwahlah, a fine cup of cowboy coffee. Oh, and if you have a horseshoe, throw it. If it floats, the coffee is ready. All it will need after this is a shot."

[RedTurtle03]

Camping, I use good ground coffee in the Java Press drip with Miletta paper filters.   At home I use a Miletta drip with fresh ground coffee.

Camping, I use good ground coffee in the Java Press drip with Miletta paper filters.   At home I use a Miletta drip with fresh ground coffee.

Yeah! That's what I have. And that stool looks awful familiar too, folds up and fits inside the table when you pack it away? You have good taste my friend.

[Edgewood]

Wait... what....stool!?

[Tuff Guy 62]

Starbucks instant is what I do. Takes up no space or requires any specialized equipment. Just boil the water and your good to go.

 

For instant, it uncommonly tastes like coffee.

 

Good cup-o-joe.

[buckland]

my dad said if you can't float a crowbar on it ...it ain't coffee.... 

He put a cup on the roof while loading the truck ... after we drove 45 miles we pulled over and that

cup was stuck on the roof solid.

 

I am more gentile ... a percolator works great

also love the coffee press ( tho being glass and I'm a klutz ....)

Edited by buckland, 10 November 2015 - 12:59 AM.

[BobM]

Nuff said:>)

[takesiteasy]

1b.jpg2.jpg3.jpg Nuff said:>)

 

What, no drawing of a flower in the foam?