The salt, and eggshells too, were supposed to remove the bitterness in
the coffee. UD

Steve wrote:
No matter if you use salt or eggshells there is no way to make bad coffee
(navy mess coffee) taste better..

Yep. Salt (yuck!!) does nothing to help bad coffee. Eggshells might remove
some of the bitterness but if you are talking about one of those 10 gallon
urns of mess decks coffee, it's going to take a LOT of eggshells to make any
noticable difference.


It is bitter because of the type of
brewing method.. The water is too hot and then the coffee is left to stand
in the urns for hours, sometime the mess cook doesn't remove the old
grounds.. We could take the same coffee back to a shop pot and make great
coffee..

Yep again. Another common problem, and not just on Navy mess decks, is that
coffee percolators (or whatever you fancy) should be clean. Usually they are
left with tarry nasty gunk all over the insides until you could put cold tap
water in and it would come out brown and bitter. And sometimes, people do
indeed clean them but use a variety of inappropriate materials & methods.

I was fortunate, the ships I was on had pretty good chow and good coffee too.
But I've had many a cup of battery acid disguised as "coffee."

Regards
Doug King