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paulz
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 02:19pm
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I’m rethinking my cabin coffee setup .Currently have a large 2 gallon I think AC drip maker. Good results but man does it suck my battery bank down. Around 10k watts I believe. It was ok when we were here weekends but last couple months we have been living here, and though I drink a cup in morning which gets me outside working, my wife, who has is permanently wheelchair bound, sucks it down at all waking hours. Better than booze I guess..
Thought maybe I could just poor hot water from the wood stove or LP over the drip thing but I read that doesn’t work for some reason. What are you guys doing?
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darz5150
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 02:51pm - Edited by: darz5150
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We have a no name single serve k cup one probably from Wally world and a black and Decker single cup one that uses regular coffee grounds.
These only use power for a couple minutes while brewing the Java.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 04:17pm
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We use Melitta #2 cone filter for pour over coffee, all the time. Pour overs make the best coffee IMHO. This comes from a guy who used to own a coffee shop and I still roast all of our coffee from green coffee beans.
Save your batteries and drink great coffee!
HERE are the pour overs we use we stick with u bleached filters as well.
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Fanman
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 07:54pm
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Yup, a cone filter is the way to go. Heat the water any way you prefer and pour it over the coffee. I use the #6 Melitta filter and brew it directly into a thermal carafe. I use the #2 filter in a collapsible holder if I'm only making one cup.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 08:44pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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Bodum Chambord 'French Press', 8cup, classy ($40 Amazon) changed my coffee makin world.
Can use it for hot or cold brew, I mostly make cold brew (btw, cold brew is not 'iced coffee') for the past 2+ years with total satisfaction.
Odd times I still make a Melitta pour thru or the Italian Bialetti stove top expresso pot.
Dont miss the drip pot At All and the 1000w 30cup perc is repurposed into an occasional utility hot water heater when Im running the gen.
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ICC
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 10:49pm - Edited by: ICC
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Most of my coffee is made with the cold brew process. I use the OXO cold brewer.
I exclusively use a Sumatra Arabica bean I buy green and have (dark) roasted by a small shop in a nearby town. Gives a reason to go socialize once in a while. I grind the beans myself with a Baratza Virtuoso. That I have had for a decade or more.
Way back when I spent some time visiting a friend who became my wife, I discovered I liked, or loved, Sumatra-grown arabica beans best of all. It is lower in acid than most coffees and that liked me as much as I liked the flavor.
I went cold brew after trying some of my Sumatra beans in a friends OXO setup about 6 years ago. The cold brew mellows the acidity a little more and that helps me out as my body has aged and rebelled at too much acid. It makes a difference as I don't use the ant-acid meds anymore and still greatly enjoy the coffee. The process makes a concentrate which filtered and then is refrigerated. No trace of coffee grounds in the cup. I drink some cold after diluting, 1 part concentrate to 3 parts water. Most is warmed. Either microwaved or slowly warmed in an old glue pot heater with a PID thermal controller.
Before I went cold brew I used a Kalita Wave pour-over dripper. I still use it once in a while but not so much. They have 2 sizes, 155 and 185 and some in glass or stainless steel. The only thing wrong with them is they use a special size and shape paper filter. But the coffee they produce is superb.
BTW, when brewing hot coffee many people make an error. That is that is they use water that is actually boiling... 212 F, if close to sea level. The best temperature for coffee, as I have been told, is water between 195 and 205 F. So at home in my kitchen water boils at 199 F (6750 feet)... a good number. At my cabin it's 195 F (8950 ft)... within the range without any need for a thermometer.
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ICC
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# Posted: 24 Sep 2023 11:26pm
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Quoting: darz5150 B & D one.
Those actually make pretty good coffee and use a stainless steel mesh filter cone IIRC. Auto shut off, no keep warm heater power hog.
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FishHog
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 06:39am
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I use a pour over into an insulated carafe. Stays hot all morning until I drink it all. Just boil the water on the propane stove
I like coffee press as well but it’s a bit more messy and uses more water to clean
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Tim_Ohio
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 08:38am
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Get the largest French press you can find. Make it in the morning and fill it up. After you take the first cup, pull the plunger screen up and out of it and fill it back up with hot water. The second cup out of it, is hardly noticeably weaker. After the second cup, pour more hot water in, just like before, and so on. You can squeeze a lot of coffee out of the first round of grounds and hot water. If you have a wood stove, it will keep the kettle of water from getting colder or, just reheat the kettle on a heat source. Or, just reheat each next cup in the microwave. This is how I squeeze the most out of Starbucks Pike Place whole bean coffee from Walmart. I grind it just before use. I have a rather large French press and three tablespoons makes a suitably strong coffee for me.
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 11:13am
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We do it ol school n perk it. I make the first pot on the propane stove n set the coffee pot on the woodstove to stay warm. It can get kinda tough so thin it down or make new. I'm switching over to chaga tea. Good medicinally and tasty too. Mix it with Tang orange n get some extra energy
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paulz
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 02:11pm
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Wow, lots to take in here, literally, for a coffee dumbbell. Pour over, drip, percolate, I really don’t know the details of each.
So last night I tried something I’ve been wondering about. Instead of running our electric maker on volts, I heated a pot of water to boiling on LP and gradually poured it on top. Didn’t work; the aluminum dish just plugged all the tiny holes and the water sat there on top. Why does it work when the machine sends the hot water up and onto the coffee?
Anyway I need to investigate all the options you guys provided and go from there. Can I buy something at a big box store? Again the main issue here is to avoid battery use, while providing my wife with the gallon she puts down every day.
Thanks guys for the input.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 04:25pm
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I use an Oster 120V coffee maker with a thermal carafe so there is no warming element. Link Below
It takes 6 minutes runtime to perk a full pot and it pulls 47 Amps from my 24V battery bank while doing so. The coffee stays hot for hours... only complaint, cleaning it would be better if the neck was bigger.
https://www.oster.ca/en_CA/coffee-and-kettles/coffee/oster-10-cup-optimal-brew-therma l-programmable-coffeemaker-stainless-steel/BVSTPSTX95-033.html
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travellerw
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 04:38pm - Edited by: travellerw
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Aeropress with store bought beans. If I'm feeling super fancy I will bring some beans I roasted at home.
We heat the water on propane in the summer and on the wood stove in the winter.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 05:26pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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The 'French Press' method is so easy a caveman can do it. Dont ask how I know 
With the Bodum (no filters, all integral):
Plunger up
Coffee in
Water in
let sit (24hrs if doing cold brew/7-10min if doing hot)
Plunger down
Pour and drink
You really dont 'need' to buy a new one to try the method out, you can do it all in a jug you have, even a Mason Jar.
Then you would give it a swirl and pour through a filter/strainer of some sort to capture the grounds.
Too Easy!
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ICC
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 06:36pm
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The Oxo GoodGrips is real easy for cold brew. No paper filters no cloth sock filters, etc. For me, messing around with mason jars, socks and whatnot is a hassle. But that is me.
It's just coarse ground coffee into the upper chamber, add water, and soak for 20-24 hours. Lift the release tab and the coffee drains from the upper soaking chamber into the glass carafe below. Toss the grounds into the compost or trash. Rinse the upper container and the filter screen. Refrigerate the concentrate. Mix up (dilute) a days worth into a carafe if desired. Enjoy the coffee and repeat.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 07:17pm
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This is for the all day coffee drinker.
Couple gallons I think.
Just add water and an old sock full of coffee grounds, heat it, and enjoy. ðŸ˜
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 07:47pm
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Im not sure about that 'old sock' thing......
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old greybeard
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# Posted: 25 Sep 2023 07:51pm
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French Press.. But be aware it may raise your cholesterol..google it
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FishHog
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 07:30am
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Quoting: old greybeard French Press.. But be aware it may raise your cholesterol..google it
I never heard of increasing cholesterol, but it can definitely cause some heart related issues. Main reason I gave mine up for pour over years ago when I had an irregular heart beat. Although I treat myself to one from time to time as I think they make great coffee
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FishHog
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 07:36am
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Paul, this is a pour over thermal carafe
https://www.amazon.com/Melitta-64104-Pour-Over-Stainless-Thermal/dp/B0080J2N8A/ref=sr _1_1?crid=35CJ2DMA2N7LL&keywords=melitta+carafe&qid=1695728134&sprefix=melitta+cara%2 Caps%2C877&sr=8-1
Same idea as what you tried, I suspect you just poured over too quickly, coffee makers slowly trickle in the water.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 10:38am - Edited by: gcrank1
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Imo, blaming the french press method for heart issues is bogus. After reading up some on 'this connection' I found generalities, assumptions and bias.
Beyond the caffeine issue common to all coffee prep the claim that the 'filter made coffee' catches the 'bad oils' and the f-press not is very suspect to me. I expect there may be a variation in filter quality out there too.
Fwiw, My chol is tracked regularly (early onset heart issues found at age 39, now 70; quad by-pass in Dec 2019). As said, I started making f-press coffee a bit over 2yrs ago; my chol numbers, typically low, did not change.
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paulz
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 11:40am
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Quoting: FishHog Paul, this is a pour over thermal carafe
That looks like the ticket FH, and similar to my other new experiment this morning, lol..
We’re back at the city house for two days, where we have a regular Mr. Coffee machine and two big cans of Kirkland drip coffee. So I tried that (it uses paper filters) without power, just poured hot water on the coffee in the filter. That worked, no complaints from the wife.
Headed back to the cabin tomorrow, going to bring that for a cabin test, use up some of this Kirkland coffee and also try it on cabin power just to see what it draws.
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Ptomaine
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 04:25pm
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I just use a old peculator I have been using for the last 25 years on the propane stove. After I pour the first mug, the remainder will fit in my thermos bottle and keep hot until afternoon.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 07:16pm
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I like the taste of traditional perk coffee but it must pull the acids out of the beans; I generally get a case of acid reflux after 
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mj1angier
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 07:47pm
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Lol I just ordered that one yesterday.
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ICC
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# Posted: 26 Sep 2023 08:41pm
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Quoting: gcrank1 pull the acids out of the beans; I generally get a case of acid reflux after
I believe that is correct. That is one big reason I love the cold brew method. But there are folks who don't think it's real coffee if it doesn't bite you.
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paulz
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2023 11:05am
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The saga continues.. after my successful pour through test at the house, I drug the whole Mr. Coffee machine to the cabin, partly to see how much current that draws. Over 10k watts, just like the big unit here. Next test was to pour hot water through the paper filter into the cabin unit.. again that worked, wife happy and again using up the Kirkland drip coffee.
Costco is 1 mile from my city house. Haven’t been yet to see what they have for coffee making, I avoid that place like the plague, but will get there.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 29 Sep 2023 07:55pm
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Wear a mask
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2023 07:46pm - Edited by: paulz
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Made it over to Costco today, along with 10 million other shoppers. Brutal. Anyway the two coffee machines they had look like the dripper type I already have. Apparently they are not the suave sophisticated types we are, or at least you guys. Looks like mail order, unless Home Depot has something, lol.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2023 08:37pm
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Fwiw, I'll never buy another drip for me; my wife might insist buy I wont use it.
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