Coffee maker for camping

Hi

Have a look at this thread for some ideas..

Coffee On the Road thread

Cheers
Greg

Billman coffee maker

Had good results with one of these. Takes a bit to master but results are quite good. Like the compact nature of it!!

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Hi Amanda,

We do appreciate good coffee and have an espresso machine at home. Got tired of instant when camping so looked for alternatives.
I actually missed the Thread that Greg referred to but encountered most of the referrals in my search anyway.

Without debating the pros and cons, we settled on a small double-walled stainless plunger. Glass being too perilous over corrugations. We simply grind sufficient beans for the trip then carry the ground coffee in screw top jars.

Now generally, I drink black, long or short, but Roz prefers cappuccino so there was a need to stretch the milk. We found that the plunger did a fine job of stretching, even better than the steam at home, so it was a simple matter to plunge the coffee and put it into a cup then pour heated milk into the plunger and a few pumps produced beautiful stretched milk. Voila!
Incidentally, milk frothers or stretchers based on the coffee plunger concept can be purchased, so it was not an original idea of mine.

One small point........ typically, the plunger had a coiled spring to press the fine mesh against the wall of the plunger. This added a fair amount of friction whilst frothing but removing it solved the problem. It was only necessary to press down slowly so as not to force grounds past the mesh.

I don't own one but have had a very nice roadside coffee frm one a few years ago.

Atomic Coffee Machine

OBJ

If you purchase one these you will use it at home and on the road and visiting friends.
Had one for over twelve months and no moving parts.


The best espresso

Sometimes it's great to be a tea drinker :)

Regards

We have an Atomic, we bought from the importer some 5 years ago and it lives in our caravan. Always makes great coffee which means everyone in camp comes to you for coffee LOL.

I like the fact that you can use heat from any source to make it work. We mostly use a single gas burner because it is quicker than the electric hotplate.

We bought ours from here.DiBartoli Coffee machines and Accessories

parts are readily available although we have never needed any to date

Hi

We use a Mukka Express, made by Bialetti, bought at a camping shop but not commonly seen around. Go on line to see details and suppliers.
Had it for 8 years and just keep on going.
Basically bottom tank with water, coffee in the middle and milk in the larger top tank. Put on stove and pressure builds up forcing water through coffee and into top tank. Milk is also being warmed and pressure of coffee into top tank froth's the top as well.
No moving or parts to wear out, just simple and works. Just need to check the little pressure gizmo that the coffee comes through is not blocked.
Of course if you just want flat white any of the stovetop metal 2 tank models are quite good.
We think either of these are much better than the plunger type. Had a couple and quickly discarded.
Enjoy

PS my wife has just checked the Internet and appears no longer available!!!! May be some still around, try large camping stores or maybe other similar machines

Sorry for the lead up and then deflation!

Are you wanting information about stove top, 12 volt or 240 volt?

Can't go past a Nespresso coffee machine. Great coffee, yes you have to buy pods but you order them online and get them sent where ever. Also a very compact machine.

The KISS principle works for us - lighte, simple, reliable, cheap, are good. So we either just use a drip filter (and the grounds stay in the filter that gets cleanly turfed in the bin when done) or some decent coffee bags that are fairly recent on our market. They're Jeds, made in NZ. For folk who like their coffee on the weaker side, one bag will do two.

We use the Jetboil which uses a butane gas bottle and is designed for hikers so is light and compact. With the extra attachment the coffee plunger is just like any other plunger but is not glass and like Allan B says above, milk can be stretched in the plunger. We also take the beans whole and grind with a 240v grinder (plugged into invertor) as its such a quick power draw this works fine. This allows us to have coffee on the road without a power supply.

I too am unable to get the heart started without a industrial strength coffee or four every morning.I found a thing called a 'Aoro press",essentially, like a espresso machine that uses hand pressure to get the golden stuff into the cup,cheap as chips,easy to use and you can dose it up to the strength you need.
Iain

Gday
After all those replies, i would like to know how many hours or days all you adicts can go without a coffee ?

We could not leave home without our simple Italian style stove top coffee maker. We have found life is a lot easier if we just learn to like a good long black and do without milk - frothy or otherwise. (Visitors can be offered a flat white.) If the coffee is good enough milk becomes unnecessary. Of course being able to make decent coffee led us to the next level of coffee snobbery. We purchased an old style basic hand operated coffee grinder so we can have freshly ground coffee beans of our choice whenever and where ever we have coffee. Camping is not meant to be about hardship. Lynne

Aeropress for sure. Simple, fast, light and quite cheap but well made. Small and easily cleaned but the coffee is right up with the very best because it uses pressure. Just Google for them If you buy one, get the reusable flat plate type filter or the paper filters rather than the mesh filters.
If you want to make two large cups at a time, just make double strength and add hot water.We have had ours for several years and use it lots on the road and at home. And we are particular about our coffee. If you are a beyond hope coffee fanatic, get a hand grinder as well and grind the coffee fresh each time as you travel, it really makes a difference.
Mike

We also love having a good coffee on the road and have a fully automatic at home. However I do not like all the mucking around to get my coffee with portable machines or the cleanup after. Our answer is to add a capful of Baileys to your standard instant coffee and notice the difference. That is for a coffee when not driving. Our camping friends quickly purchased Baileys for their next trip. An alternative for Baileys would work just as well but we have not had the need to try.

My partner and I amuse ourselves in the pursuit of cappuccinos in cafes and roadhouses. We aim to write the definitive guide to The Worst Coffee in Australia.

So far Pimba has the gong. It's painful to dredge up the memory of a few years ago but it was an automated machine, weak as ... , and must've used powdered milk. There are few brews that have me saying I wish I hadn't drunk that but this was one.

As an aside, the camper trailer guru Collyn Rivers says that the two things that fail most often on CTs are the wheel bearings and the electrics. We can attest to the second of those. There seems to be a lot of 12v components that aren't made for off- or rough-roading.

Of course if you've got ground coffee and all the tech has failed there's always the 'cowboy brew' - the coffee tossed in the billy and treated so that the grounds have mostly sunk to the bottom before the pour. It helps to have a mustache for the remainder.

This is definitely the bees knees!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mukka-Express-Stove-Top-Cappuccino-Maker-by-Bialetti-/181805302586?hash=item2a5470c33a:g:rJcAAOSwMmBVp8lF
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