How do you make your coffee?

[Bozemanite]

Mr. Coffee drip with timer. Ready to go when we wake up.

[SecretCoveDave]

I have a small plastic cone thing that holds a small filter. Hot water poured over the coffee in the filter in the cone, fresh coffee.

About 4, 5 cups. I'm ready for breakfast.

2 more and I can start lunch.

[clutch]

Crabman, I have graduated to the hot stuff. As winter progressed in Az I bought some Swiss Miss chocolate with marshmellows. I mix it in a large insulated mug and top off with coffee in the reckroom. It's hard to believe there are so many posts about morning coffee.

[norty1]

We had a BD Spacemaker mounted in the kitchen. My wife broke the carafe 3 days into our current trip. We bought a Mr Coffee for less than the cost of a carafe and have been using it for 3 weeks.

Load it up at night, first up flips the switch, Let the day begin!

[Quahog]

We picked up a Rival coffee pot (high dollar Walmart item) for a whopping $8.97. It makes great coffee if you use decent coffee to start with.

[edatlanta]

Happy Days are here again. I ran out of my favorite coffee last week when my only local source quit handling it. I was in the Atlanta area this weekend and picked up 4 pounds of Community Coffee Dark Roast. I use it with the refillable K-Cups with my Keurig single cup coffee maker.

Life is good.

[Phar0e]

Originally Posted by edatlanta

Happy Days are here again. I ran out of my favorite coffee last week when my only local source quit handling it. I was in the Atlanta area this weekend and picked up 4 pounds of Community Coffee Dark Roast. I use it with the refillable K-Cups with my Keurig single cup coffee maker.

Life is good.

Don't you hate when your favorite brands get dropped. Used to have a keurig and favorite flavor of coffee was Jamaicamecrazy. It had a coconut aroma and was sooooo good. The nest best was chocolate raspberry ( which I still see occasionally).

[PhxKim]

Originally Posted by clutch

It's hard to believe there are so many posts about morning coffee.

No kidding, huh!! I think it's MORE American than apple pie! Although Italian coffee might be the best.... :hihi:

Originally Posted by clutch

As winter progressed in Az I bought some Swiss Miss chocolate with marshmellows.

It's really easy to make your own. Alton Brown from the Food Network has an amazing recipe with dry milk, cocoa, sugar, and a wee bit o' cornstarch (non-GMO, please) to hold it together. Blend it in the blender to make it even and there you go.

My husband came home with Swiss Miss the other day and it had SPLENDA in it! Wasn't even labeled. Like I'm going to feed that to my kids! Then we spent 1/2 hr with him on the phone and me on my computer researching all the chemicals in all the various hot cocoas (almost all petroleum-based) before he just came home and I made my own. I was trying to save time because I'm waiting for a bulk order of organic cocoa, dry milk and raw sugar and because I make almost all my own food from scratch. This is one of those things that I just can't buy anymore. My mom bought us a box of Starbucks hot cocoa and it's wasn't awful for ingredients but you have to add milk and I'd prefer not to as we use raw milk and I don't like to heat it! Who knew hot cocoa could be so difficult to get right?? Although I'm sure it's just me.

Warmly, Kim

[PhxKim]

SO, after six months of camping, I have come to understand our style and what I need for coffee. Except for twice (bringing our baby home from Iowa) we always dry camp. So any type of electric coffee maker is out until I can afford one of those quiet Honda generators or my husband builds our solar panels. (He's going to build one from scratch as a home education lesson for our three boys, crazy man!)

So I use my blue speckled camping coffee pot to boil water and then use a Chemex drip filter system. It's worked really, really well for me. It's labor-intensive a bit but the coffee is delicious with no added flavors from plastic parts and you can re-heat the glass carafe over a low flame when the coffee cools. I take my super-Starbucks insulated stainless travel mug and it stays hot in my hand for a long time. An issue I could see is the glass breaking with bumping from the trailer so I should wrap it in a towel from now on. And I should take spare with me because seriously could you IMAGINE breaking it on a camping trip and NOT having coffee! I'd have to resort to that cowboy coffee with maybe an egg thrown in as punishment!

Thanks for all your awesome replies!! Because of what we look for as campers and because we have three young boys, we are BOONDOCKERS! Yay! So my coffee and all my gear is as primitive as our camping. No electrics.

We love this Jayco family forum and are so grateful for all your responses!

Warmly, Kim in Phoenix

[hammer]

Coleman stove top drip coffee maker

[Quahog]

I also have a very nice percolator pot that works fantastic for times when we have no electrical.

[Chakara]

Originally Posted by phemens

Instead of the french press, do a Google search on "Aeropress", same concept a french press but no grounds and better flavor. I keep one in the trailer and one at home. Makes wonderful coffee.

X2! - plus cleanup is much easier and doesn't waste water like a french press.

[Gunnar]

I get a cup of water and put it in the microwave. Once optimum temp has been reached I add a teaspoon of instant and I'm good to go. I know not two exciting but I'm not too fussy as long as it's black and hot.

[Westerncanuck]

Coleman drip coffee maker....with Timmy's coffee. I have 2 , one can sit on a stove and the other one works off a 1 lb propane cyl. At extended camping trips.....my coffee is popular...lol

[nylyon]

Here's an excellent way to make that fresh brewed coffee without the use of electricity, or a gas burner

Seriously though I would go with a coleman option myself, but rarely camp off grid.

[CruizinKim]

I percolate and minimize "sludge" by using coffee filters. Even though it takes 30 mins to brew (we love strong coffee), it reminds me of my grandma, along with using cast iron skillets. I'm all into the memories, new and old! Plus, I really think they make decent coffee. I recently upgraded to a 14 cup stainless steel model sold by Cabela's.

[AndrewClay]

I was using a french press, and I loved it. Wife hated having grounds left and said it was hard to wash. We now have a 4 cup mr coffee for when we have power (which is most of the time) and the FP for back up.

[bayleightucker]

it is quite a process, boil water, open jar, add 1 teaspoon instant coffee, add french vanilla creamer, add 2 sugars, perfect. come on now, i know there are more of you using instant coffee. stand up for the lazy people.

[Crabman]

Originally Posted by Crabman

Instant coffee too? Perish the thought. Heresy. Sacrilege.

[SecretCoveDave]

Strong and black and as soon as possible after one eye opens.
Dave