"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
Recommended coffee solution:

After over 20 years of experimenting with any number of ways to make
coffee on
a boat, here's my choice.

1. Boil drinking water on the stove. (obviously, all bets are off if
you're in
violent weather- but you won't want to be spilling coffee all over the
place
any more than you would boiling water).

2. Put insulated carafe into empty galley sink. (in case something spills
during process)

3. Put plastic cone into the mouth of the carafe

4. Insert paper filter into plastic cone.

5. Spoon Starbucks into coffee filter- more or less according to taste.

6. Pour boiling water onto the coffee. It takes two or three "doses" of
water
to fill the carafe without overruning the upper limit of the paper filter.
Make
sure that the
mud and slurry in the filter begin to turn light brown during the second,
and
particularly the third application of hot water. Coffee beans release acid
first, (the dark brown stuff), and sugars last, (the light brown). If you
don't
get some light brown, you have used too many grounds and your coffee will
be
bitter.

7. Dump the filter and spent coffee grounds into the trash, stow the pan,
screw
the lid on the carafe, and you have a cup of coffee for now and about
three
more cups for later in the day. Minimal muss and fuss, drip coffee taste,
and
almost no cleanup required. (I've found that the insulated carafe will
keep
coffee acceptably hot for
about five hours).

Instant coffee? How can anybody drink instant coffee? It's like stirring
some
Swiss Miss into a cup of water and pretending it's hot chocolate. Not the
same
thing at all. :-)



I find the best way for camping and traveling in the boat coffee is I save
those 4 cup packs from the Hotels / motels. Boil a pan of water and toss in
the pack. Boil like a tea bag. No mess, little fuss.
Bill

Sometimes when using the microwave on the boat to boil water, the water
turns 'nukular.'

That is, when I take the coffee cup out of the microwave, and spoon some
instant coffee into it, the water "boils up" and overflows the cup.

This occurs maybe one time out of 20, but when it does, it makes a mess.
I typically fill the cup to the same level with jug water (no one should
drink water stored in a boat's water tanks!), use the two minute setting
on the microwave to boil it, and put in the same super teaspoon amount
of coffee.

What's going on here?

A quick search turned this up:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc...9/gen99795.htm

Also Sprach Harry Krause :

You know, I have varied the heat time...but I'll try dropping in a
couple of grains of coffee before I heat up the water. Instant really is
my only choice. My wife doesn't drink coffee, and I only want a cupful.
Cleaning up a one or two cup percolator isn't something I want to do.

Two words my man... "French Press." It's better than drip or perc coffee
any day, and you'll forget about instant forever. I could swear I've seen
a little 2-cup lexan one at West Marine, but you could probably get one
for half the price at a decent camping store. A quick google search found
this:

http://www.wholelattelove.com/Bodum/travelpress.cfm

which would be especially nice for the boat.

And how to use it:

http://www.ineedcoffee.com/99/05/frenchpress/


Dan



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If you use a vacuum bottle, and preheat with hot water (so your
hot coffee isn't warming the bottle), it should last a good
deal more than five hours. I don't drink coffee, but like
hot chocolate after the first dive (California cold water).
I make the hot chocolate about 6 a.m. and at 11 it's still
HOT.

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"Gould 0738" wrote in message ...
Recommended coffee solution:

After over 20 years of experimenting with any number of ways to make coffee on
a boat, here's my choice.

1. Boil drinking water on the stove. (obviously, all bets are off if you're in
violent weather- but you won't want to be spilling coffee all over the place
any more than you would boiling water).

2. Put insulated carafe into empty galley sink. (in case something spills
during process)

3. Put plastic cone into the mouth of the carafe

4. Insert paper filter into plastic cone.

5. Spoon Starbucks into coffee filter- more or less according to taste.

6. Pour boiling water onto the coffee. It takes two or three "doses" of water
to fill the carafe without overruning the upper limit of the paper filter. Make
sure that the
mud and slurry in the filter begin to turn light brown during the second, and
particularly the third application of hot water. Coffee beans release acid
first, (the dark brown stuff), and sugars last, (the light brown). If you don't
get some light brown, you have used too many grounds and your coffee will be
bitter.

7. Dump the filter and spent coffee grounds into the trash, stow the pan, screw
the lid on the carafe, and you have a cup of coffee for now and about three
more cups for later in the day. Minimal muss and fuss, drip coffee taste, and
almost no cleanup required. (I've found that the insulated carafe will keep
coffee acceptably hot for
about five hours).

Instant coffee? How can anybody drink instant coffee? It's like stirring some
Swiss Miss into a cup of water and pretending it's hot chocolate. Not the same
thing at all. :-)

Chuck Tribolet wrote:
If you use a vacuum bottle, and preheat with hot water (so your
hot coffee isn't warming the bottle), it should last a good
deal more than five hours. I don't drink coffee, but like
hot chocolate after the first dive (California cold water).
I make the hot chocolate about 6 a.m. and at 11 it's still
HOT.


There's an idea that appeals to lazybones me...


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Marshall Banana wrote:
Also Sprach Harry Krause :

You know, I have varied the heat time...but I'll try dropping in a
couple of grains of coffee before I heat up the water. Instant really is
my only choice. My wife doesn't drink coffee, and I only want a cupful.
Cleaning up a one or two cup percolator isn't something I want to do.

Two words my man... "French Press." It's better than drip or perc coffee
any day, and you'll forget about instant forever. I could swear I've seen
a little 2-cup lexan one at West Marine, but you could probably get one
for half the price at a decent camping store. A quick google search found
this:

http://www.wholelattelove.com/Bodum/travelpress.cfm

which would be especially nice for the boat.

And how to use it:

http://www.ineedcoffee.com/99/05/frenchpress/


Dan




Interesting but my coffee tastebuds are plebeian, and the press is too
much fuss for me, especially on a boat. Thanks!



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Also Sprach Harry Krause :

Interesting but my coffee tastebuds are plebeian, and the press is too
much fuss for me, especially on a boat. Thanks!

As were mine, before I moved to Seattle and discovered that good coffee
doesn't need milk and sugar added to mask the coffee's taste.

Dan

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should be against Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination
to the Supreme Court

Also get a good stainless vacuum bottle. Stanley's are junk anymore. They
were the first to bring out a stainless vacuum bottle, but they will not
keep liquid hot for 4 hours anymore. They must have changed something.
After trying 2, I went to a Thermos by Nissan and it will keep stuff hot
till the next morning.


"Chuck Tribolet" wrote in message
...
If you use a vacuum bottle, and preheat with hot water (so your
hot coffee isn't warming the bottle), it should last a good
deal more than five hours. I don't drink coffee, but like
hot chocolate after the first dive (California cold water).
I make the hot chocolate about 6 a.m. and at 11 it's still
HOT.

--
Chuck Tribolet

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/triblet

Silicon Valley: STILL the best day job in the world.

Harry Krause wrote in message ...
Sometimes when using the microwave on the boat to boil water, the water
turns 'nukular.'

That is, when I take the coffee cup out of the microwave, and spoon some
instant coffee into it, the water "boils up" and overflows the cup.

This occurs maybe one time out of 20, but when it does, it makes a mess.
I typically fill the cup to the same level with jug water (no one should
drink water stored in a boat's water tanks!), use the two minute setting
on the microwave to boil it, and put in the same super teaspoon amount
of coffee.

What's going on here?

You need to be very careful with that method. Water in a cup, placed
in a microwave, can super heat, because of the slick sides of the cup,
the water doesn't boil until something breaks surface tension. There
are many instances of someone taking a cup of water out of a
microwave, and as soon as a spoon or something hits it, it violently
explodes, right in people's faces and bodies, causing severe burns.

basskisser wrote:
Harry Krause wrote in message ...
Sometimes when using the microwave on the boat to boil water, the water
turns 'nukular.'

That is, when I take the coffee cup out of the microwave, and spoon some
instant coffee into it, the water "boils up" and overflows the cup.

This occurs maybe one time out of 20, but when it does, it makes a mess.
I typically fill the cup to the same level with jug water (no one should
drink water stored in a boat's water tanks!), use the two minute setting
on the microwave to boil it, and put in the same super teaspoon amount
of coffee.

What's going on here?

You need to be very careful with that method. Water in a cup, placed
in a microwave, can super heat, because of the slick sides of the cup,
the water doesn't boil until something breaks surface tension. There
are many instances of someone taking a cup of water out of a
microwave, and as soon as a spoon or something hits it, it violently
explodes, right in people's faces and bodies, causing severe burns.

Aha! Yeah, I've done *that* too, but not on a boat. Thanks.
Obviously, I need a $2000 BoatSafe Water Boiling Device.

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