Posted: 3/2/2009 3:34:08 PM EDT
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I am looking for a good coffee pot to use on a gas stove top or campfire. I figure one less thing to need to run on the genny.
I looked at wally world and the $10 one looked like junk. I was thinking of http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/horizontal-pod.jsp?id=0006331&navCount=1&parentId=cat20114&masterpathid=&navAction=push&cmCat=SEARCH_all-cat20114&parentType=index&indexId=cat20114&rid= from cabellas. The wife is ok with preping for coffee since she really needs here am cup. Any thoughts by the hive? |
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For the last 15 years my dad has run his blue speckled coleman percolator. He loves that thing. I don't know if that is the same one you saw at wal-mart or not. I am the only coffe drinker in the house so I just have a thermos my dad gifted to me last time I was in alaska.
Its a standard looking coffee cup, but inside it has a screen and plunger so you can put the coffee in the bottom and work the plunger up and down once you add boiling water. Its outstanding. Can't seem to find it online though. |
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Go to EMS.com or REI.com and find a lexan french press. I am a coffee guy, and have aspirations of opening a GOOD coffe shop someday. The french press is ridiculously easy to use and produces great coffee... It's pretty simple. Add grounds. Add sub-boiling water. (Bring it to a boil, then wait a minute) Wait a few minutes. Press plunger to filter grounds from water. Enjoy. If you are used to drinking Mini-Mart coffee, you might not like this, but it's worth a shot. I think you can get a press for @ $20-30 and the lexan is near indestructable. It would suit your needs of not running a coffee pot off the genny. Mmmmm...Coffee. ETA: EMS.com has a 33 oz stainless insulated press for about $40, and Jetboil also had a coffeemaking kit that uses the same principle as the french press. Go to either EMS or REI and search "french press". There are a bunch of options... |
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No, the press is not a stove top pot, as you point out, but it's simplicity is unequalled. If you are going to run a stove, you can boil water. Then you can use the stove (already heated and running) to do other cooking. Also, if using Mtn House type meals, the boiling water is already needed... |
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I like to perc my coffee in a an old Corning Ware percolator...makes the best coffee around...or so I thought. My wife one day (after 25 years of marriage) asked me why I went to all that trouble to make coffee.(She doesn't drink the stuff) You know, taking out the basket, putting a measure coffee into it, then waiting for it to perc. I looked at her kinda like what the hell are you talking about. She said, watch this.....she took a regular old sauce pan, put water in it, took down the coffee, reached in for a handful, threw it in the water, brought it to a boil, and then let it settle down (used just a bit of cold water). My god, that was the best coffee I ever had.
So, who says you need a coffee pot for something besides looks? Happy Trails! Oh yeah, she's a TEXAS girl, I should have known better to begin with. And she should have told me that 25 years a go. Its not all bad though, she ordered and bought me a RRA AR Varmint gun for Christmas. |
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I have a SS percolator I got someplace years ago. It works Ok for camping or on the stove, although most of the time I use Mr Coffee.
I use drip grind coffee and filter it into the cup. Mr. Coffee does better, but when no electricity is available, the percolator works pretty good. |
| Never been a fan of perc'ed coffee but not sure why the French press or even a Melitta filter wouldn't fit the OP's request. Still boil the water on the Coleman or campfire then make your coffee. A good old reliable Melitta filter works great - pour just-boiled water through the grounds of your choice and they actually filter a pot in the prescribed 5-7 minutes vs the 8-10 or more that most electric filter machines take. |
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I bought a coleman stainless steel percolator coffee pot at wally world a few years ago.
I don't use it much anymore, I bought an electric coffee maker about 6 months ago or so. The coleman does the job just fine. There are many ways to make coffee when camping so you can run a search and do what works for you. There have been times I forgot the inside parts to my percolator pot and I just put the coffee in the water and as mentioned you can use a bit of cold water to settle the grounds once done. Some people crack an egg and use it to pick up all the grounds floating in the water. I am not picky about coffee. I am not consistant when I make coffee. But I do like my coffee. |
| For some reason I can't access the link you posted, but if you are looking at Cabela's High Temp Stainless Coffee Pot you can't go wrong. I bought one this year for use while hunting and it is great. I used it every morning on my Coleman stove and it worked well. It is built extremely well and should last for generations. |
| When the big October storm blew through and knocked out the power a couple of years ago, the third order of business was coffee. I dusted off the Coleman camping percolater and fired up the gas stove. Standing in front of my house surveying the damage, my neighbor came up, amazed that I had a piping hot cup of coffee. We were the only house on the street that could make coffee! I could have sold it for 20.00 a cup if they weren't neighbors! |
FTW!