Campfire Coffee

[Knoxville-Horn]

Ok. I know this is an extremely stupid question...

How does one make coffee on a campfire? I'm not talking instant. I'm talking, "old school." I just recently started drinking coffee and am going camping in two weeks.

 

[runner]

My recipe:

1. Start fire. Get it going good and hot.
2. Put one scoop of coffee to one scoop of water in coffee pot
3. Let boil 10-15 minutes
4. Put egg in water to soak up coffee grounds
5. Pour coffee in cups.

 

[LosIllini]

We used to always make cowboy coffee on the open fire when we were camping, but the last couple of times we used our coffee pot to boil water- and a bodum french press.

Felt wrong doing it the first time, but it's a fine cup.

 

[brntorng]

Boiling water + good fresh ground coffee (OK, maybe a stretch. Grind it just before you leave home and seal it.) + French press = a good cup of coffee

 

[Lat22]

I can just see Gus and Call pulling out their French press.

 

[Orangesweat]

I drank cowboy coffee once. It was so strong you could float a horseshoe in it.

 

[TimHorn]

After it was boiled long enough, we would pull it off the direct fire and throw a cup of cold water in it to settle the grounds. Didn't prove it actually helped, but we would always do that.

 

[blkshoes]

i dont think you meant scoop of water to scoop of coffee. surely you meant cup of water to scoop of coffee. anyway, i use the coleman stove. my pot as a strainer, but still lets lots of grounds through. something to chew on. like breakfast. i do the egg shell thing to, but dont think it works, just do it as a tribute to my parents since thats the way i saw them do it on hundreds of camping trips.

 

[bozo_casanova]

Good link on cowboy coffee.
Camping french press does not sit well with me

 

[Ok_Longhorn]

I bought a peculating coffee pot a long time ago at some sports store. Just put the grounds in the top, water in the bottom, set it in the fire until the water hitting the top looked the right color.

Tasted pretty good that way.

 

[LazyEngineer]

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[Sii]

A small and easy to pack french press >>>>>>>>>> drinking **** coffee because you thought it was too ghey to take a french press camping