wrote in :

To run a "coffee maker" you need electricity. Eisboch is
conntemplating carrying a fairly hefty and cumbersome gasoline powered
generator just to make coffee with an automatic coffee maker. To use a
Bodum, you heat the water on the stove, which on most boats is not
electric. A non-electric (or any) percolator makes about the worst
coffee possible. I'd forego the coffee entirely if that was my
alternative.



http://www.blackanddeckerappliances.com/product-45.html

My favorite coffeemaker, ashore or afloat. Uses 600 watts off the inverter
for about 2 minutes per cup. Uses NO FILTER PAPER, but has a gold plated
ultrafine metal filter that's permanent and washes very easy using little
water. Just dump it over the side for the crabs and shrimp...only spent
grounds. Everyone gets a fresh cup of coffee, no matter when their watch
starts with NO WASTE. Very small footprint, too, on limited counter space.

about $12 on several websites Google finds....even the nice thermal cup
comes with it, but any cup will fit under it.

Zero Propane, very little house battery AH load, no genset necessary. If
you want to make 5 cups, use 2 tablespoons drip coffee for the first cup
and simply add one teaspoon for each additional cup until the little filter
is half full of grounds, then dump it and start over. It uses NO POWER to
store heated coffee as it's unnecessary making every cup fresh.....

AND NO GLASS TO BREAK FROM GODDAMNED FRENCH PRESSES!

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:14:39 +0000, Larry wrote:


My favorite coffeemaker, ashore or afloat. Uses 600 watts off the inverter
for about 2 minutes per cup. Uses NO FILTER PAPER, but has a gold plated
ultrafine metal filter that's permanent and washes very easy using little
water. Just dump it over the side for the crabs and shrimp...only spent
grounds. Everyone gets a fresh cup of coffee, no matter when their watch
starts with NO WASTE. Very small footprint, too, on limited counter space.

about $12 on several websites Google finds....even the nice thermal cup
comes with it, but any cup will fit under it.

Zero Propane, very little house battery AH load, no genset necessary. If
you want to make 5 cups, use 2 tablespoons drip coffee for the first cup
and simply add one teaspoon for each additional cup until the little filter
is half full of grounds, then dump it and start over. It uses NO POWER to
store heated coffee as it's unnecessary making every cup fresh.....

AND NO GLASS TO BREAK FROM GODDAMNED FRENCH PRESSES!

Hi Larry,
My Bodum brand "french press" is made of unbreakable polycarbonate or
somesuch. I also use it to brew herbal teas such as a mixture of thyme
and marjoram for relaxing.

Funny, nobody has mentioned the other common types of coffee maker
which I have aboard the boat.

1. stove top espresso. The ground coffee sits in a metal insert which
fits in the top of the bottom half which is filled with water. Screwed
tightly on top of these is the "jug" for the brewed coffee. The
superheated water is forced - all at once - up through the funnel
shaped meatl insert - through the coffee grounds and up into the jug
at the top of the contraption. Excellent though not as good as 15 bar
plus espresso machines.

2. stove top Greek/Turkish coffee. Finely ground (powder fine) coffee
is spooned into water in a small metal jug shaped pot with a long
handle. Sugar may be added at this stage. The coffee is heated and
then removed from the heat so that the froth rises to the top of the
pot three times. It is left briefly so that most of the suspended
grounds fall to the bottom and then poured into small cups.

Different to italian espressp coffee but is the original coffee making
method that is still used in the Middle East. I prefer it straight
with no sugar as I do other coffee but it often is drunk straight at
funerals and with honey or sugar at such as weddings.

I have read references to espresso machines in this thread but they
are only worth having if the pressure is a minimum of 15 bar. The
cheaper and lesser wattage 9 bar ones do not produce the crema - froth
- and hence the taste is not as good. I have a 15 bar one at home with
the steamer attachment for capuccino which gets a hammering by the
owner.

In all this, good old instant coffee is a lot more handy and easier to
make when you need to rush below to grab a quick cup of coffee. The
body doesn't care. It just wants the caffiene.

cheers
Peter

Herodotus wrote in
:

In all this, good old instant coffee is a lot more handy and easier to
make when you need to rush below to grab a quick cup of coffee. The
body doesn't care. It just wants the caffiene.



Here in the South, we'll do ANYTHING to keep from lighting a terrible cabin
heater using propane, especially for heating water for coffee. The amount
of waste heat making the already hot cabin even more unbearable from a
running propane stove. Percolators, here, are used to make pots of BLOODY
MARY, not coffee...(c;

The little single cup coffeemakers produce virtually no waste heat to add
to the unbearable cabin heating because they heat so fast and have such a
very low thermal mass to cool once the cup has been made. The whole stove
top is hot heating a quart of water....for a long time after the pot is
gone!

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:14:42 GMT, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:50:31 +0000, Larry wrote:

Herodotus wrote in
m:

In all this, good old instant coffee is a lot more handy and easier to
make when you need to rush below to grab a quick cup of coffee. The
body doesn't care. It just wants the caffiene.



Here in the South, we'll do ANYTHING to keep from lighting a terrible cabin
heater using propane, especially for heating water for coffee. The amount
of waste heat making the already hot cabin even more unbearable from a
running propane stove. Percolators, here, are used to make pots of BLOODY
MARY, not coffee...(c;

The little single cup coffeemakers produce virtually no waste heat to add
to the unbearable cabin heating because they heat so fast and have such a
very low thermal mass to cool once the cup has been made. The whole stove
top is hot heating a quart of water....for a long time after the pot is
gone!

Which is why people who use something besides their medula oblongata to make
decisions have a little Coleman propane campstove to use out in the cockpit,
Larry.

I have always thought that most men make decisions using the corpora
cavenosa and the corpus spongiosim (sp? It's many years since I learnt
this stuff)

Peter

On 2008-04-27 13:38:11 -0400, Herodotus said:

In all this, good old instant coffee is a lot more handy and easier to
make when you need to rush below to grab a quick cup of coffee. The
body doesn't care. It just wants the caffiene.

Oh gawd, I was having a good time until this.... that's not even decent
brown water.

--
Jere Lull
Xan-à-Deux -- Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
Xan's pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/
Our BVI trips & tips: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:17:48 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

On 2008-04-27 13:38:11 -0400, Herodotus said:

In all this, good old instant coffee is a lot more handy and easier to
make when you need to rush below to grab a quick cup of coffee. The
body doesn't care. It just wants the caffiene.

Oh gawd, I was having a good time until this.... that's not even decent
brown water.

OK. Agreed that instant is second rate behind brewed beans but above
the standard stewed coffee served from thermos devices in hotels in
the USA but have you ever had to hand steer for a while whilst sailing
solo with little time to grab a cup of coffee.

Today I bought a new single cup Bodum brand polycarbonate plunger
device from a store in Sydney. It is a single cup with a screw on lid.
Your put the ground coffee in, screw down the lid upon it's rubber
seal and after a decent interval, push down the plunger until it
clicks in place. You can either pour it into a cup or sip it out of
the dedicated hole in the lid which has its own little flap. Fantastic
invention. Can now keep a small container of ground coffee in a deck
locker and use the water from the thermos without needing to go below.

Bodum also make a larger model that looks as if it would make about 4
cups.

cheers
Peter

Somebody wrote:

In all this, good old instant coffee is a lot more handy and easier
to
make when you need to rush below to grab a quick cup of coffee. The
body doesn't care. It just wants the caffiene.

When it comes to coffee, "good" and "instant" are mutually exclusive
terms.

Now "hot" and "black" that's something else.


Lew