Coffee time
In a previous post I started out with a very scary thought. That being, not having coffee. Having a hot cup of coffee in the morning is daily a ritual for most adult North Americans. Acquiring this while on a boat is just one more thing that requires some thought for us. To begin, the normal 120 volt percolator that most of use(d) in our house, while acceptable while we are connected to shore power, isn’t going to fly while running off our batteries. Knowing this we invested in one of those old-school coffee percolators that sit on your stove (our stove runs on propane, not electricity). It works, and is acceptable, but it does leave us with a bunch of coffee grounds in the cups. I hate crunchy coffee! We just purchased a new, inexpensive french press. We don’t have much experience with this but it definitely seems like an improvement. Easier to use, less propane required and no more crunchies. Happy day!
I LOVE my single cup Melitta drip. It’s a plastic gizmo that sits on top of your cup or mug and holds a filter. Put coffee in filter, pour boiling water over, and voila! one cup of drip coffee. No crunch in the cup. In fact, I have two of them, since I used one at work.
We use a percolator when camping, poor slowly and just discard the bottom of the pot. Percolators use MUCH less coffee as well since the hot water washes over the cofee repeated times. Makes darker brew with less grounds. I remember my mom using a fine tea strainer when pouring from her percolator so she would get a clean, non-crunchy cup. I had forgotten all about that till just a moment ago…good ole Mom.
Thanks for the comment Rum Capitan. (I like that name 🙂 )
We just (2 days ago) bought a new stainless french press made by North 49. Our problem with the percolator wasn’t the coffee. It was the amount of propane we would use as it needed to cook 10 minutes longer than just boiling some water.