great coffee - how?

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Just wondering how clever campers rustle up a great cup of coffee? Instant doesnt do it for me.
Obviously after a compact solution?

www.wayfair.co.uk/La-Cafetiere-Bialetti-Moka-Express-9-Cup-Stovetop-Espresso-Maker-ES090200-LAC1010.html?refid=GPAUK321-LAC1010&gclid=CKyShe3j47ACFUUhtAodESoPzQ you can get little ones of these just for one or 2 cups :)

That one, but if you have a good cook shop they are usually cheaper there. And they come in all sizes.

Yes I wasn't suggesting that exact one, you can get them way cheaper that was jsut the first picture that came up on google.

one of these and some brute force

Ah, forgot about the bialetti, great idea as you arent heatung water and then transfering it? Had wondered about cafetire mugs etc.
thanks!

Amazing gadget ninja! Bit overbudget for me :( . do you use one?

Sainsbury's do coffee pods. Filter things that sit on top of your cup and you pour water in.
Realise that is a shit explanation but the coffee is nice!

Husband is a coffee snob - only drinks Monmouth coffee - it is lovely.

We found some Bodum individual combined cafetier/insulated cups. They are our absolute must not forget piece of camping kit.

The great thing is you can make the coffee first and it stays hot while you then cook breakfast, which is really good if you are relying on a one or two ring stove and don't have the use of an electric kettle.

Because DH is so particular about coffee we pour it into cups when we are ready to drink it but you can drink straight from the cafetier through a spout if you want to.

Just looked it up on the Bodum website and it's called a travel press coffee maker. Think it was about £20.

I struggled with this for ages because I neeeeed coffee in the morning (addict) but also cannot be bothered washing up a cafetiere! So now one of those coffee filter cone things and a pack of filters is one of my key bits of camping kit. Got mine in France but this is similar...
www.amazon.co.uk/CKS-Coffee-Filter-Cone/dp/B005SQRIV0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1340444890&sr=8-6
Best bit is you just pick up the filter and chuck it in the bin, no mess!

We a take a single ring gas stove which is purely for the first teas and coffees of the morning before the campfire is lit so we just use our Bialetti.

I love the way that coffee maker is called 'zero electricity' and boasts of how green it is - erm... how do you get the water hot enough to pour it over in the first place, then? :o

We use a knockoff version of the Bialetti that we got in TK Maxx for hardly any pence, and boil the kettle at the same time - the kettle fills a flask and we can then get several decent-sized mugs of coffee instead of 4 teeny espressos. If I've been organised enough to boil the kettle in advance, I'll use the other burner to heat the milk too.

Handpresso

I've seen some very good reviews of this nifty gadget (it uses ESE pods and there is also a version that uses ground coffee)

[http://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.search&source.x=0&source.y=0&searchvalue=cafetiere This cafetiere] is nice and pretty much unbreakable.

this link

We live 5 minutes away from a fantastic provincial park (with campground) that is coincidentally 5 minutes away from Starbucks.

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I just take our unbreakable insulated cafitiere.
But If i wanted to be really compact I would take a small fine strainer - like a tea strainer, make the coffee in a jug, pan or other container, just boiling water (well, 4' below boiling for the v fussy) poured onto grounds, leave to brew and then strain into cup.

"We live 5 minutes away from a fantastic provincial park (with campground) that is coincidentally 5 minutes away from Starbucks. "

Interesting-but not sure how it has any relevance to getting great coffee.......

We use Lyons coffee bags, which are not great coffee but def passable (and way better than Starbucks!). I remember donkeys years ago camping in Ullapool on a campsite that was within 2 minutes walk of a deli with what was - at the time - the UK's most northerly Gaggia machine. (I was quite disappointed when I went to Shetland in 2002 and realised it had long since lost that accolade!)

We do the same as dancingintherain but mine is plastic and cost £2 from CLas Ohlsen. I grind a shedload of coffee the night before departutre, bung it in a Lock'n'Lock container and way we go. It gets balanced on a Thermos and drips away whilst the bacon fries. I couldn't get up in the morning without a decent coffee.

Hmm, filtering into a flask is a good idea.
But I don't like filter coffee - I think it absorbs the essential coffee oil from the coffee and makes it thin and thin tasting, somehow.

I have a plastic Bodum cafetiere.
We need Sal - she can point us in the direction of a vair nice filter thingy.

We take a stove top expresso pot like the one posted above. They are fabulous.

Voila! - how pleasing it is, that it uses the tent pegs
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Voila!

I stock up on small portions of ground coffee in the Whittards sales or in their factory shops - I get the gift selections which tend to be small amounts of pre-ground coffee in proper sealed bags and then just take one bag per trip.