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Originally Posted by tdw
I'm not a coffee fanatic.
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I am, but I'll compromise greatly in a pinch
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Originally Posted by tdw
Any form of filter / drip feed makes crappy coffee barely worthy of the name.
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I think you just haven't ever had well-prepared drip coffee. It
can be done well, but it takes the right (freshly, properly roasted and
just ground) beans, water, filter, brewer, etc.
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Originally Posted by tdw
Instant coffee is vomit inducing, you might as well drink filter.
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Gah! If you think instant and filter are basically equivalent, I
know you've never had proper drip coffee.
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Sadly finding a 12v espresso maker has proved impossible.
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I can believe it. Huge energy sink, those are.
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So I'll settle for one of these.
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That would be a moka pot (aka: "stove-top espresso maker"), would it? I have one of those. (Inexpensive aluminum job, tho.)
If you get the grind
just so, and if you get the heat and timing
just so, and if you use the right beans, properly roasted, these can produce a right fine cup of coffee. (For those of you who don't like it that strong, just heat a cup of water and dilute to taste with that, after brewing. That's called a "Cafe Americano," which is what a drip coffee maker kinda-more-or-less emulates.) But moka pots, mishandled in the slightest way, can produce the most God-awful brew. It is exceedingly easy to burn the coffee with one of those, for example. And if you get the flame too high, getting the water too hot, too fast...
Nonetheless, for a decent cup of coffee with limited brewing resources, I imagine a moka pot is the most reasonable, and most-likely successful, way to go. That or a French press. The coffee from a moka pot will tend to have more very fine sediment in it, whereas the press would tend to have more larger bits. So they both produce coffee that's "chewy," as compared to that to which the average American is accustomed.
Jim