I did something I've never done and brought some premium ground coffee on my fall trip.

Since I knew I would be base camping, that meant I could take my time in morning and have a decent cup of coffee instead of single serving coffee packs I favor when I'm traveling everyday.

I hate grounds in my coffee and after some experimenting at home, I found that once of those 2 piece tea diffuser's would hold enough coffee to give me a couple of decent size mugs.

I also found that if I ground beans at the coarse's setting, I eliminated the grounds/sediment issue.

Well somewhere along the line, I forgot to pack that diffuser ball and had to channel my inner McGyver.

I've mentioned how I use those knee high granny nylons to pre-filter my water.
I took one of them and filled with ground coffee.
Tied a knot in it which gave me a round coffee filter pack.
Put in pot with appropriate amount of water and brought to slow boil. When water started bubbling I dunked the granny filter like you would a tea bag.
Once the color was right, I used spoon against the side of pot to squeeze all the liquid out of
bag.

I set used filter near fire pit to dry/drain.
No sediment at all. When bag was semi/dry, I undid knot, turned inside out over fire pit and all the coffee grounds came out clean as a whistle. Burned right up in that nights fire.

Dried the nylon over tree branch and put back in cooking kit.
A great way to re-cycle and simple as can be.
You can turn any pot into a gourmet coffee brewer.

Jim J Solo wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 3:38pm:


Now I know why that region produces of the most violent narco-terrorists in the world.

I cringe to think what effect using one of my old gym socks for a coffee filter would have on someone with repeated use, roasting the beans or not.

Might start putting TP in fire pits and other crazy things like that.

You proponents of that call us dissenters "squeamish", I say it's knowing the difference between disposing of a "bio hazard" and not potentially adding it to the "fire grilled" flavor many of us enjoy.

DentonDoc wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 4:29pm:


I have some of them and they work well too.
I just like the idea of being "green" if I can, works out well becasue I'm a cheap skate as well.

For filtered coffee I take one of these (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) MSR sells the exact same unit for twice the price. I usually use it by mixing the grounds in the boiling water and then straining into the mug. If I can bear the weight I'll take a Moka pot by Bialetti for espresso strength coffee. (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

I'm not a starbucks fan but when away from home, have used their VIA readybrew instants and am fine with it..... gotta say, i love pumpkins, and pumpkin pie esp. but cannot understand how anyone can drink those pumpkin spice coffees. bleh