Thanksgiving coffee

Re: Thanksgiving coffee

Greg B�tit Crown Point NY

>Moses, just a casual observation from a concerned listener: Don't you think you deserve a ladder that goes right up to where you need it? I tried to follow how you were making do, and couldn't exactly picture it- but it left me with a feeling of concern. PLease be safe.

I tried to tell the lads at hunting camp that you don't boil the coffee, but they still don't listen to the old man. Bitter, ptui. I'd rather go without.

greg

Ahh, camp coffee

Joanne in Pt. Pleasant, PA

>Greg,

The best camp coffee I remember is coffee we used to make while camping on the islands on Lake George: we'd boil the water, turn OFF the flame and dump the coffee in. After letting it sit for a few minutes, we'd pour the coffee off into our mugs. Sometimes through a strainer, so we didn't have a mouth full of grounds. I agree--boiling it makes it bitter.

Nothing like strong coffee when camping

Stephen Kirk in Quakertown, PA

>I like the little push and strain coffee makers. Boil the water, let it cool slightly, then put in and the grounds in the little cup. Let it steep for a bit, then push the strainer down the top. You can really vary those things to be week or strong.

And on a cold, shivery camp morning, who really wants weak coffee!

Of course, I'm currently drinking Dunkin Donuts made from my 'lectric pot.

Coffee ?

Todd Hughes

>Have to admit to never having a single cup of coffee in my life. Never took a sip even.....Don't know if I would like it or not but after going this long don't think I should give it a try. Don't care for the smell to much.

To actually make it at home always struck me as a lot of trouble for somthing you are just going to drink, but thats just me and i know lots of people are really into such things. Me I just twist the top off of some cheap ice tea or soda that I get at the dollor store.....Todd

Camp coffee - Cowboy coffee

Joe in a Cleveland suburb

>What we do when backpacking is boil the water on the little stove (or fire), drop in the grounds, keep it hot but not so much to boil over for a few minutes. Take off the heat. Let sit for a couple minutes. Then sprinkle cold water into the pot - just a little. The cold water makes the grounds (most of them anyway) drop to the bottom. It really works.

Cowboy coffee we call it.

Joe

Electric coffee...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Never. I just put the tea kettle on the stove and wait for it to start talking. Then the melita filter unit in my favorite mug. Makes great coffee but only 1 cup at a time, that's a good thing for me cause other wise I could fly up to the roof to put the lights up.

Becarefull on that ladder...

Re: Coffee

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>Coffee is one of my very few vices. I started out simple with coffee, and could not understand what people were talking about when they mentioned a good cup of coffee. I learned to taste the difference gradually. I still drink the stuff they make at work, but it is not really coffee. I have found the Maxwell House Rich Lite makes a good cup of coffee, and it is my current mainstay. I occasionally splurge for better or flavored coffees, but Maxwell makes a pretty good coffee. I still have a coffee grinder kit in the shop that I might get to this weekend, so I am not grinding my own. I would say if you are not a coffee drinker then you are not missing much. But it is an exceptionally good drink in some situations. After a brisk late fall day on the river taking care of my dad (supposed to be fishing) makes one of the best cups of coffee I ever had. Another one of the best cups ever was overlooking Lake Superior in a Forest Service campground, watching the sun rise with a flock of wild turkeys just over the hill waking up. I have many good memories of coffee.

For those who are interested, the light thing went just fine, other than the fact that the lights were not exactly what I thought they were and I will have to do a few modifications tomorrow.

Re: Thanksgiving coffee

vlparisian

>Never touched coffee until my first day in the US Army. Ft Polk Louisiana July 17 1969, haven't missed many days without it since. Best camp coffee ever was at the base of Guadalupe Peak in far West Texas at a roadside shelter. The winds were whipping through at about 50 mph and bitter cold. Next best was on Whitefish Bay in Northern MI. Someone forgot to tell the weatherman it was late June. There is nothing like trying to watch the coffee perk without boiling from the sleeping bag as the sun is trying to break through the overcast. Wife not even wanting to come out of the tent until the truck is warmed up. But great coffee.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Victor - in balmy Houston

Re: Jamaican Coffee ........

George Allchin

>My wife and I and 3 friends spent our honeymoon in Ocho Rios, Jamaica back in '79. We went to the in hotel restaurant for breakfast. Their way of making coffee was a big sauce pan, about 1/2 cup of coffee and boil it right then and there! I tell you what one cup of that and you were looking for things to do that day!!!!!

George in cold but sunny Michigan,

wishing he were in Ocho Rios

Re: Thanksgiving coffee

Ernie Miller

>Not much of a hot coffee drinker I do drink hot at work Kenya AA but at home I use cold watter from the fridge and a coffee press. I think the cold watter brings out the flavor better.