The best is, campfire coffee. Boiled in a pot and filtered through you mustache.

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The wife hate it when I make the coffee!

When I backpack I take Taste'd Choice instant.  At home it is auto/drip . I can drip perc at alarge camp, but the perc and the urns all boil the coffee, and it leaves a bitter taste to me.

I do about 7-12 cups a day......decaf.  Love my coffee!

I've tried it all and from experience posit this: outdoors- can't beat Taster's Choice instant....the best instant on the planet bar none. That means you too, Nescafe.

For home use it is the quality of the water combined with the freshness of the coffee. If you use tap water you are cheating yourself out of good coffee. Spend the 95 cents it costs (around here) for a gallon of distilled water and see the difference.

I never drank a cup of coffee in my life. The darn stuff stunts your growth.

That being said, my mother used to make boiled coffee when we hosted the extended family thanksgiving etc. She'd carefully strain it from one boiler to another to remove the grounds bring it back to a boil and break an egg or two into it. As the egg cooked the smaller coffee grounds missed by the strainer would attach themselves to the egg. She'd remove the egg and had ground free coffee. RD

Fella's;

My parents, both ex-WWII service people, lived on coffee.  I can remember them having a urn at home for personal daily use.  Huh!  And here I just cut back quite a bit.

I'll have to try using distilled water, might be worth it, thanks Rivet.  Right now I buy a pound at a time of Morning Light fresh ground Columbian Frog Roast.  It's decent, but I could easily be swayed away by finding something better suited to me taste buds.  I can put up with this kinda search, after all, I gots the beer thing covered!

900F

Now if you want real coffee, I got one of these a few years ago, it'll give you a real start for your day.  It makes the real Italian espresso, not the weak stuff.  It says six cup, it just makes one coffee cup full, but it's strong.  I got the 12 cup version, it makes one large cup of coffee.

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Justn;

France is the true country of yin and yang, not the PRC.  They do have plus's, not to say the plus's offset the HUGE minus's though.  As we're trying to be the kinder, gentler, BSB these days, I'll dwell on the plus's.

Sir, the French do know food.  Coffee is part of the male food chain (along with pizza, beer, and pie) and the French can make excellent coffee.  Simply because you might adopt the French press method does not mean that you have to adopt all the French mannerisms,  though some will be inevitable to be sure.  I mean, after all, you almost certainly don't shave your armpits and legs, and neither does anybody in France, except tourists.  And they don't count to the French.  Their money does, the tourists themselves, don't.

I could go on about all the time I spent in France, but I've quit dropping bricks on my foot too. 

900F

Rivet...right on another Tasters Choice fan.  but did you know who kakes TC....Nescafe!

I do know a number of seniors that just use TC (adapted) to save mess, work, and cost of brewed.  When I get tht old...shoot me.

BEAR wrote: Rivet...right on another Tasters Choice fan.  but did you know who kakes TC....Nescafe! I do know a number of seniors that just use TC (adapted) to save mess, work, and cost of brewed.  When I get tht old...shoot me.

Well I'll be darned, I did not know that. In any event, as big (corporate wise) and famous (internationally) as Nescafe is, you'd think they would assimilate whatever method TC uses for freezedrying their coffee. It is the only one that doesn't taste bitter no matter how strong you like it.

Nothing wrong with keeping a jar in the house for those times you just want 1 cup, Bear.

ELK your tag shows SW MONTANA,,,my old homeplace was 15 miles west of Butte,but not quite into Anaconda,,,just east of opportunity,,,but that was l...o...n...g before the interstate came along.

Your coffee recipe reminds me of lots of camps I've been in up in the hills,,,some of them old-times would roast beans in a fry pan,then""grind"" 'em with a hammer or even a rock!!!!!

My buddies birthday present!  just add the fire, a real enamel coffee boiler, even has a coiled handle to keep it less hot

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=enamelware+coffee+boiler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=VtWtTIvvEYGclgfZisncCQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQzAMwAA">

BEAR wrote: My buddies birthday present!  just add the fire, a real enamel coffee boiler, even has a coiled handle to keep it less hot   http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=enamelware+coffee+boiler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=VtWtTIvvEYGclgfZisncCQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQzAMwAA -

ELK,,,guess I'm not old enough( YEEEEHAAAAA) to know that sayin',,,but I've heard it.

Elk please stop talkin' about packin' in!!!!,,,I use to get home about 2-3 times a year,,,ain't been able to get back AT ALL for the last 8,,,an' the highest spot in Louisiana is LESS THAN 700 FT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

,,,Do you ever get up into the Pintlar WA?

i have to go now.........

I asked about PWA just cause it's close,,figgered yu'd spend more time in there,,,Ever get up into the Great bear WA or the scapegoat??,,,damn! I'm gettin' homesick Do any high country fishin',,,that's what I miss alot.........