A buddy of mine keeps one of those butane, single burner stoves in the
oven of his alcohol stove. When he wants to make coffee, he puts the
thing on top of the useless alcohol stove top.

Those things are safe, cheap and work great. (butane is lighter than
air, and has a visible hot flame.) If I had an electric stove, I'd keep
one of those things in it.

Rod McInnis wrote:
"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...

Electricity for a coffee maker is about the worst, since you can make far

better

coffee "by hand," either with a manual drip into a Thermos, or with a

French

Press.



If your boat has a propane stove, then making coffee by boiling water on the
stove is a great way to go.

If your boat has an electric stove (which many boats do) then boiling water
on the stove uses a LOT more electricity simply because the heat transfer
from the stove is no where near as good as a coffeemaker. Besides, you
can't run the stove off a typical inverter so you have to fire up the
generator (if you have one).

Rod