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