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REI.com sells on that fits inside the cup. Just pour boiling water in and let steep. Not bad for 1 or 2 people and you do not have a hot glass pot sitting around. Delivers a hot cup of coffie every time.

over here they are called cafiteries not "French press" thats a news peper to us

I have a solid metal one,i dont like glass or polycarbonate,holds about 1/2 a liter

as for instant............id rather drink tea

aya16 wrote:No one drinks instant coffee??? Ill get blasted for this I feel it coming...

Guilty as charged...I used to be big on coffee,then I got decaffed,so now I drink decaf instant or tea.

The coffee doesn't matter that much-but the cooler better be stocked with the good stuff-Ipswich Ale!

you have to fill a brit in on that one"ipswich ale"?

Ipswich is on Cape Ann in MASS...I think you Brits have a city you named after it though....

hehehe

a few years back,i was in New England on Holiday,my familly and i found the names of the towns a bit amusing,It was like driving along the A11 in East Anglia,names like,Norwich,Thetford and others that i cant remember.I live in an area that would appear to have generated a lot of people that left the old country for the new.
My nearest sea launch point is at Boston

Ipswich over here has some nice sailing country,its on the east coast of suffolk.

DLT wrote:I have not yet done the Inverter or generator thing, both of which are possibilities.

Generator a possibility, inverter not so much. Sure it's possible but most coffeemakers run 1200-1500 watts. Not only would you need a mongo inverter, but if you run the coffeemaker for (say) 10 minutes to brew a pot, skip the keep warm cycle, round numbers 250 watt hours. Depending on the size of your alternator, you'll have to run the motor 1.5-3 hours to make it up.

I boil water in quart pot on a coleman propane burner. I put coffee in a drip coffee basket with a filter in it. I set the basket on a 20 oz. foam cup and pour the boiling water thru. The whole thing takes about 5 minutes. Tastes good to me. jim nolan.

I love how all of us love our Mac's, but sail without coffee.....

.... not on your life

G

We use an Italian coffee percolator on a burner or close on a fire while camping, the only problem is if you leave it too close to the fire for too long, the seal between the top and bottom melts.
We find that this gives the best coffee while camping or sailing. Prior to the Italian Percolator we took a drip coffee top that sits on top of the mug and used filters to hold the coffee grounds.

Glenn

My little 110ac 4 cupa black, decker percolator $15. at wallmart makes 2 mugs runs off my 800 inverta with eng. idling takes less than 5mins nice & small for easy storage

John

Everyone has their favorite way to make coffee on the boat.

in my original post, I was just trying to introduce a somewhat obscure product you might not have seen.

We have done the french press route, as well as the inverter/real coffee maker route. I won't use a perculator (drip or press is best).

The admiral and I have used the Coleman stove top drip coffee maker for about four years now with great satisfaction and no problems.

We stopped using a French press method when several clinical studies showed that coffee brewed with the press method was seriously detrimental to one's health, especially if arterial or heart disease was in one's background. It's not the caffeine, it's the other compounds I don't recall a the moment. We do however, do drink decaf as well.

We make a full pot on arising in the a.m., then put the balance we don't drink in a good thermos bottle for later. We make another pot of coffee or substitute tea for our evening meal stop, and again thermos the balance for later.

Breakage of the caraf is not a consideration for us, as it is stored in the coffee maker, and the whole unit is put in a soft vinyl draw string bag I sewed up in a few minutes time.

Night Sailor wrote:The admiral and I have used the Coleman stove top drip coffee maker for about four years now with great satisfaction and no problems.

We stopped using a French press method when several clinical studies showed that coffee brewed with the press method was seriously detrimental to one's health, especially if arterial or heart disease was in one's background. It's not the caffeine, it's the other compounds I don't recall a the moment. We do however, do drink decaf as well.

We make a full pot on arising in the a.m., then put the balance we don't drink in a good thermos bottle for later. We make another pot of coffee or substitute tea for our evening meal stop, and again thermos the balance for later.

Breakage of the caraf is not a consideration for us, as it is stored in the coffee maker, and the whole unit is put in a soft vinyl draw string bag I sewed up in a few minutes time.

we used the french press and stopped for other reasons (messy, doesn't make enough coffee, etc) but tastes great!

I only worry about breakage on the stove, hot coffee, glass carafe, on a boat + wake = coffee everywhere, and potentially broken glass to boot. But we have been careful and no issues yet. Would prefer SS, but we will use the glass one til we can find a replacement. we also store it well padded as well.

Night Sailor wrote:We stopped using a French press method when several clinical studies showed that coffee brewed with the press method was seriously detrimental to one's health, especially if arterial or heart disease was in one's background. It's not the caffeine, it's the other compounds I don't recall a the moment.

Very strange - I've never heard of any such thing! Do you have any reference to those health issues, or does anyone else?