[ESSENTIAL] A nautical shrine for the coffee god

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by Sequitur

It is an LG microwave/coffee maker combo, model #LCRM1240ST whose dimensions are 23" x 121/2" x 171/8". Lists price is $179.

It works wonderfully through the inverter and a brew barely dents my 1225 Ah house bank.

Thanks! Maybe the solution is that unit for shore power or "big charge days", and a Bodum for the night watches or for extended windless, cloudy days on the hook!

[GySgt]

Originally Posted by uspirate

This is the stuff you all need. Vietnamese instant coffee cream and sweetener all in small packets also comes without the 3 in 1 mix. Just add water

link to site
stuff taste like gourmet instead of folg**s or whatever

Very cool US, thx I'll try it.

[canoeman256]

I wouldn't trade anything for my french press. With a little practice and attention to brew times you can have the perfect cuppa.

[tdw]

Originally Posted by Valiente

I have a 40 footer, not the freaking Queen Mary.

Then the answer is quite simple - buy the Queen Mary. Some people just cannot see the woods for the trees.


PS - Pirate, you are not a well boy. Vietnamese instant coffee indeed !! It's plank walkin' time for you.

PPS - Bodum, French Press whatever for the night watches would be the way to go and a stove top expresso maker at anchor. (To be honest I prefer tea on a night watch but I think I'm repeating myself or suffering from deja vu again. )

[donradclife]

TDW,
Your coffee maker is like the one my Italian friends gave me--makes a great cup of coffee for them and for me (when diluted down). Wish I could fine one with a wider base, but we used it everyday coming across the Atlantic this year and only had one 'accident'.

[SEMIJim]

Originally Posted by tdw

I'm not a coffee fanatic.

I am, but I'll compromise greatly in a pinch .

Originally Posted by tdw

Any form of filter / drip feed makes crappy coffee barely worthy of the name.

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.

Originally Posted by tdw

Instant coffee is vomit inducing, you might as well drink filter.

Gah! If you think instant and filter are basically equivalent, I know you've never had proper drip coffee.

Originally Posted by tdw

Sadly finding a 12v espresso maker has proved impossible.

I can believe it. Huge energy sink, those are.

Originally Posted by tdw

So I'll settle for one of these.

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

[Valiente]

I didn't drink coffee until I was 25 (British tea-drinking parents), and when I did, it was freshly roasted and freshly ground Kona coffee through a gold filter using nicely mineralized water. My girlfriend at the time ran a gourmet coffee outlet, and was amazed to learn I was a java virgin.

"Hey, that's pretty good!" I recall saying. "I could get used to this!"

The next day, I had "office coffee" from one of those foil-packet robusta machines at my work.

"Hey, that tastes like old sock sweat from a cancer-ridden hobo's laundry bag," I recall saying at the time. Then I spat it into a wastepaper basket. Vile stuff...wouldn't drown an enemy in it.

I can't think of a beverage it is easier to do wrong than coffee. Since then, I've been particular, to say the least.

[Waymar83]

Val,

Which is why (although a bodum is passable) you really could go for one of these:



Stainless steel rules!

Anybody try these, it works on a different principle...

http://www.damicofoods.com/browsepro...sso-Maker.html

http://www.widerview.com/v28201.html

[bottleinamessage]

Last year at the Annapolis show, I bought a double wall stainless steel french press. It does an outstanding job with minimal effort.

[Melrna]

You all don't know what bad coffee is until you live on airline coffee and have to stay awake on this obnoxious brew on a all nighter to Brazil or London. It is on par with navy coffee. Bad water, bad coffee, bad everything.. Yuck Yuck Yuck. Everything after that taste great! But I still love old fashion peculator coffee on the boat. Starts with the smell and ends with a great cup.
Since Europe is my second home (15 days a month) I get to try all the different ways. French press is an acquired taste but easily obtain. If done right, makes a good cup. Espresso machines depend on the bean and how it is grounded. I don't think American coffees make good espresso. Has to Italian, Turkish, or Brazilian. I am intrigued by this Tobby machine.
Melissa