Coffee on camping stove

[Toba]

What do you use to make coffee while camping?

[motley man]

Old style percolator with filter on the Coleman 2 burner. Doubles for hot water to wash dishes & me.

[reinhard1]

same for me. the percolators work great and there is no hotter coffee anywhere. good luck.

[Jim Almquist]

I use a Colemen drip coffee maker. It sits over one burner and brews 10 cups of coffee. It is slow but brews a decent cup of coffee. In reality I guess it is no slower than most because they all seem to boil before they brew.

[upnorth]

We use a percolator and the wife has some filters that fit in the basket to keep the grounds in the basket and not in the coffee. They actually work pretty well.

[LightningBG]

Percolator here.

[DooWap]

Percolator when I can afford the weight and cowboy style when I'm in the BWCA.

[LightningBG]

A few years back, we bought really big coffee filters (like for commercial drip machines), filled them with an appropriate amount of grounds, then sewed them shut with a sewing machine. Then to use, we would just toss the bag in a pot of hot water and let it sit for a while.

It worked good, but when all was said and done, it was just easier to percolate, even when we were portaging all the stuff in the bwca.

[titelines]

We use the coffee "pads" that you can find in the stores now. Folger's is alright, but they've got some better ones now. Fire up a coffee pot of lake water, get 'er boiling and toss in 5-6 pads. Let it brew for 5-10 minutes and enjoy!

[Redlantern]

Percolator when I'm by myself or with my dad. Coffee bags if the kid is with me. She doesn't drink coffee so I don't see the point in committing a pot to coffee when she drinks hot chocolate.

[LightningBG]

a french press mug is another option for a solo coffee drinker

[ParkRangerRube]

We always used to use a perc, but decided to try a french press for the last trip. Pretty simple, just a matter of boiling up some water, pouring it over the grounds and letting them soak for a bit, and then running the press. The coffee seemed to taste a little better than it does with the perc. Might be worth trying for those of you who want to try something new.

[Toba]

I'm looking into the percolators and have noticed some are made from aluminum and some are stainless. Steel is more of course but is it worth the extra money.

[Powerstroke]

GSI french press. If you're gonna pack something why bother with the perc. I boil water, pour and press. Works great and allows people who want cocoa to use the same hot water.

[OnAFly]

Totally agree with Powerstroke. The french press is about as easy as it gets. Cleaning is a cinch and the coffee you get is 1000X better than percolator coffee. It's also smaller and lighter than a percolator.

I actually use mine at home to make coffee as well, it just makes better coffee

[LightningBG]

Totally agree with Powerstroke. The french press is about as easy as it gets. Cleaning is a cinch and the coffee you get is 1000X better than percolator coffee. It's also smaller and lighter than a percolator.

I actually use mine at home to make coffee as well, it just makes better coffee

For sure. Any coffee connoisseur (of which I am not) will tell you that a french press is the BEST way to make coffee. A percolator is about the worst, mainly because you are boiling already brewed coffee. But, I still perc when its a big group, because there is no way I'm gonna press for 8 guys. And the perc gives a little bit different flavor that reminds you you're out in the woods.

[TruthWalleyes]

I prefer the strong flavor from the percolator style. That is what i use camping, or on long all nighters in the boat i'll bring the percolator and a sunflower heater!

[solbes]

Perc all the way, no filter. Gotta have some stray grounds in there. Adds to the camping experience, even if it's unlike the cup I have at home.

[Dr Thunder]

I used the percolator for years too. Then I came across the Coleman Drip Coffee maker and I love it. It takes 20 minutes for 10 cups. Grind fresh beans before we leave (dark roast). It is bulky to carry but if you have the room it is worth the effort.

[Bobcat45]

I use a percolator here. Maybe you guys already do this but my BIL showed me when using a percolator that once the water starts to boil to turn the heat down so its percolating kind of slow kinda like simmering. I thought it worked real good. Hardly any grounds and not so blasted hot your scared to put your lips next to it.

[nate larson]

French press all the way! Very easy and it makes great coffee.

[lucky]

press all the way. best tasting by far

[picksbigwagon]

Da bride got me a stainless steel 12 cup coffee press......best coffee I have ever made.......easy to clean up, put a big enough pot of water on the camp stove and you can a fresh pot of coffee every 5 minutes, which comes in handy on those rain campout days

[Down Deep]

For me it depends what type of camping I'm doing. If I'm using the camper and have access to electricity then its the drip coffee maker. When up on the rock roads of Canada using the camper or boat camping I use a coleman drip coffee maker and, when I doing the B-dub thing or ice fishing its a french press. The main reason I reason I don't like boiled coffee is that it comes off the stove too hot to drink and has a bitter taste. I also can't stand coffee with grounds in it.

I've had the original Coleman drip coffee maker for the last several years. It had to be set on a propane stove, had a glass pot and was made mostly of plastic. The basic design caused several problems. It took up a lot of room on a two burner stove, the glass pot was subject to breakage and plastic didn't fit together all that well causing some basic use problems. It worked well enough for me to continue using it considering the alternative of boiled coffee.

Coleman now has a new version of this coffee maker and they have beefed up metal construction, included a burner so it can be used as a stand alone, uses a one pound tank or can be a connected to a 20 pounder, has a metal pot and has a padded case, included. The wife bought me one for a recent birthday present and it works like a dream turning out 10 cups of coffee in about 10 minutes. So for those of you who like their drip coffee while camping this is a unit for wish list.

[Comit 2]

French press for me. You always need hot water in camp for cooking and cleaning. With a percolator you tend to burn the coffee, bitter.

My Q, is what do you do with the grounds?

I use a Snow Peak cup with a Jetboil press.

The coffee pad sound good too. Just use it like a tea bag in your pot and easy clean up.