Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want a cup
you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out the coffee and
pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or 10 cup maker you fill
it when your watch starts and just run below and pour a cup when you need
it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/boat_odors/

Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want
a cup you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out
the coffee and pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or
10 cup maker you fill it when your watch starts and just run below and
pour a cup when you need it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

Some one did mention Melita and I was about to myself. That's what we used.

Glenn, you are now talking about being 'on watch' which implies using
this device underway. I don't think that practical from a movement view
and from a power usage view.

Have you done much sailing? I can't see some device with 12 cups (what,
100 oz?) of boiling fluid as something I want to contend with while
underway. I doubt you can pour it into a cup anyway.

-paul

Well, first off the carafe is locked in place in the CCM1000 so it won't
fall out of the maker and it has a lid that has to be pressed to pour. That
reduces the chance of a spill.

With the pour through cones you have to handle a pot of boiling water and
hold every thing steady while you pour it through the coffee every time you
want a cup. Be it 10 oz or 100oz boiling water hurts the same. Been there
done that about 200 miles ESE of Bermuda at 3AM. Good thing I was wearing
my foulies. :-) That's WHY I have been looking for an alternative.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
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"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
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Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want a
cup you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out the
coffee and pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or 10 cup
maker you fill it when your watch starts and just run below and pour a
cup when you need it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

Some one did mention Melita and I was about to myself. That's what we
used.

Glenn, you are now talking about being 'on watch' which implies using this
device underway. I don't think that practical from a movement view and
from a power usage view.

Have you done much sailing? I can't see some device with 12 cups (what,
100 oz?) of boiling fluid as something I want to contend with while
underway. I doubt you can pour it into a cup anyway.

-paul

Glenn Ashmore wrote:

With the pour through cones you have to handle a pot of boiling water and
hold every thing steady while you pour it through the coffee every time you
want a cup.

That's only true of the single cup system. Melita has a larger cone to
fill a carafe...WHICH, based on your previous comments, I assumed you'd
make while at anchor.

--
Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/boat_odors/

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
Well, first off the carafe is locked in place in the CCM1000 so it won't
fall out of the maker and it has a lid that has to be pressed to pour. That
reduces the chance of a spill.

With the pour through cones you have to handle a pot of boiling water and
hold every thing steady while you pour it through the coffee every time you
want a cup. Be it 10 oz or 100oz boiling water hurts the same. Been there
done that about 200 miles ESE of Bermuda at 3AM. Good thing I was wearing
my foulies. :-) That's WHY I have been looking for an alternative.


I've lived aboard and sailed for 7 years. I doubt there was more than a
few days underway when I could see being able to brew coffee. It just
doesn't seem to be an issue really - I mean the quality of coffee beans,
etc. If you get something hot or at least not cold to eat or drink,
that's enough. I'm really skeptical that you'll feel justified if you
find a system. It seems to me like gilding a lily. I think you're
thinking too much like being ashore and not how you'll really feel at sea.

-paul

On Jan 21, 8:24 pm, Paul Cassel
wrote:
Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want
a cup you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out
the coffee and pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or
10 cup maker you fill it when your watch starts and just run below and
pour a cup when you need it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

Some one did mention Melita and I was about to myself. That's what we used.

Glenn, you are now talking about being 'on watch' which implies using
this device underway. I don't think that practical from a movement view
and from a power usage view.

Have you done much sailing? I can't see some device with 12 cups (what,
100 oz?) of boiling fluid as something I want to contend with while
underway. I doubt you can pour it into a cup anyway.

-paul

As an avid but non-snobbish coffeedrinker, I find perked coffee is
pretty much as good as drip. Put the (bottled) water in the coffeepot,
add fresh-ground coffee in the top, put it on the gimballed stove with
potholders, and VOILA: coffee about as quick as instant, made
underway. No spillage, no electricity, no wasted paper. Remove the top
part with the dregs, turn the stove down to low and drink at your
leisure...

'Course, if you're a fisherman or tug-worker, leave the dregs in, let
it continue to boil until by 2pm you can use it to repair holes in the
hull. No matter - drown the taste with rum...

druid
http://www.bcboatnet.org

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:45:06 -0800 (PST), druid
wrote:

'Course, if you're a fisherman or tug-worker, leave the dregs in, let
it continue to boil until by 2pm you can use it to repair holes in the
hull. No matter - drown the taste with rum...

Repair holes? Don't you mean creat them? Assuming a steel hull, which
the guys mentioned mostly use. Actual battery acid is 33% h2s04 for
what its worth.

Casady

Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want
a cup you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out
the coffee and pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or
10 cup maker you fill it when your watch starts and just run below and
pour a cup when you need it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.


I use a funnel (because I accidentally threw my Melita cone out), heat
the water the old way and put the coffee in a thermal carafe. If it's a
good one, your coffee will be drinkable tomorrow.

I think the funnel works better than the cone because it fits the carafe
better and won't slip off like the cone used to.

My coffee maker works fine off of my 1000 watt inverter but I would
never do it that way.

I kind of like using the stove. It's far more efficient.