Do you PERC?

[flyfisherman]

Fly, you being an old time camper like me, here's another method that I'm sure you know about....If you don't have a coffee pot, you can  heat water to a boil in a regular pan and then turn the heat down or move the pan to the edge of the fire. Pour in the measured coffee grounds and boil for five minutes. When done, very carefully pour a little bit of cold water on top of the brew to make the grounds settle rapidly. If you like stronger coffee that will float a silver dollar, just boil a little longer. It works every time......

Hey Bill ... that is the perfect recipe for cowboy coffee!

I'm always amzed when you take a little ice cube from the cooler and drop it into the pot and watch all them grounds sink to the bottom faster than a fish line lead weight!

Heard that if you did'nt have the luxury of ice cubes you could take a twig out of the campfire and immerse the hot coal end into the pot and that was supposed to settle the grounds as well, but I never could get that to work. I'd try it a few times but the coffee gounds would still be afloat. Would end up straining the coffee between my teeth. Then when I'd sneak off to buy some worms from a back woods source (fly fisherman never bait a hook!), the purveyor of live bait would say something like ... "hey, mister ... whaa's them thar black spots 'tween ya teeths ... ya been-a-eatin' them doobarries ...?"


Fly

(p.s. think maybe I should have stayed away a little longer ... too much time on my hands!)

[CajunCamper]

Fly, you being an old time camper like me, here's another method that I'm sure you know about....If you don't have a coffee pot, you can  heat water to a boil in a regular pan and then turn the heat down or move the pan to the edge of the fire. Pour in the measured coffee grounds and boil for five minutes. When done, very carefully pour a little bit of cold water on top of the brew to make the grounds settle rapidly. If you like stronger coffee that will float a silver dollar, just boil a little longer. It works every time......

So when do you pour it through a dirty sock?

CajunCamper

[AustinBoston]

Well it's about time you stated that publicly    :sombraro: :Z

This isn't the first time.  I admitted it once in 1984.  The problem is, nobody else believes me, which just proves my point, "I'm right and everybody else is wrong."  

Austin

[Old Goat]

So when do you pour it through a dirty sock?

CajunCamper

Only to correct the taste when I have accidently overheated the coffee [212 degrees] and bruised? it's delicate flavors. HEAVEN FORBID- what a terrible way to screw up a perfectly great camping trip......If the experts only knew, HEE HEE.....

[JAL&JKL]

DH loves the old electric percolator. Says it makes the BEST coffee. I only drink 1 cup a day.

[JohnandLeann]

We just use an old aluminum perc pot that holds about 30 cups.  Use to belong to my dad, been in the family for long time.  Only fill it up to about 8 or 9 cups or so.  Just enough to fill 2 big 7-11 cups.  Put it on the Coleman stove converted to run on propane, when it begins to perc, turn it down to low for about 10 minutes or so.  Using the one minute per cup timing method.  
Everything does taste better in the outdoors.

[PJay]

We just boil our water....put it in a cup....take a teaspoon and get a spoonful of Folgers Instant and stir.

Now that's roughin' it.  :morning:

I am NEVER that desperate ... I cannot stand the taste of the fake stuff.

In reply to an earlier post, Yes I have brought my Bodium French camping, including this past weekend.  I am still nervous packing glass.  I have also found that the campground's water supply can ruin an otherwise good cup of coffee.  

My experience this past week end was with heavily chlorinated water.  The drip maker still showed evidence of such, the French press was much better since the water had been boiled first.  

But the best coffee of the weekend was from another camper who made a big pot of Egg Coffee!  Which includes boiling the coffee.

[Kelly]

But the best coffee of the weekend was from another camper who made a big pot of Egg Coffee!  Which includes boiling the coffee.

I have to agree, PJay.  That was the best coffee I've ever had while camping.

[fallsrider]

OK, I'll bite. What is egg coffee?   :confused:

[Kelly]

OK, I'll bite. What is egg coffee?   :confused:

It's a Scanda-hoovian thing .... here is one version.  I didn't watch them make this pot, so I'm not sure exactly what process they followed.  I just enjoyed the final product!

[fallsrider]

Now, THAT'S different! Makes me want to try it!

[flyfisherman]

If yer agunna have some eggs fer breakfast, ya take some of the egg shucks (not too much) and boil it along with the water to begin with. Then plunk in the coffee, bring back to another boil, continue lightly fer five minutes more ... plunk in an ice cube ... and walla ... cowboy coffee.

[chip]

If yer agunna have some eggs fer breakfast, ya take some of the egg shucks (not too much) and boil it along with the water to begin with. Then plunk in the coffee, bring back to another boil, continue lightly fer five minutes more ... plunk in an ice cube ... and walla ... cowboy coffee.

Egg SHUCKS?

I've heard of corn shucks, and even AW shucks.

Is that how folks from the Queen City refer to egg SHELLS?  'Cause I'd sure hate to throw the wrong part in...

[PJay]

I will have to get the recipe that we shared in.  Kelly's site had it pretty good, but Fly fisherman's post was closer to how she made it.  She tossed in the egg, did not make the "potting soil."  

BUT, it was not bitter at all!!!

[mjsmith1223]

In re: the campground well water making the coffee taste funny...

Yes, this is a sad fact of camping.  Since coffee is almost entirely water, the taste of the water has a huge impact on the flavor of the coffee.  At certain campgrounds I am familiar with I will bring bottled water just for that reason.  Call me a coffee geek if you will, but at least I leave the thermometer for measuring the water temp at home.  Just off the boil seems close enough for camping coffee extraction.

Sidebar - Dasani makes crappy tasting coffee.  Ice Mountain, Absopure, Poland Springs and the Meijer or Wal-Mart store brands seem to work good.  There may be others, but these are the ones I've tried.

Mike