Hey Jim,

My wife bought me a nice shiny percolator set for my birthday one year...one
of my favorite gifts...I can make coffee over a fire, stove, whatever...

I'm with you on that one...

Part of camping that I love is cooking outside too...and the fact that
usually whatever you cook, you are so dad blamed hungry that you love it...

Dave

On 9/12/06, Jim Felder <felder@knology.net> wrote:
>
> I am a coffee lover, not a coffee expert. I know something about good
> beans and preparation. But--this is a personal area, just bringing it
> up, no flames please--am I the only person left on earth who thinks
> that good old percolator coffee has that "special camping taste?"
>
> Sure, french press or drip (which we use at home when not making
> cappuccino) preserves all the aromatic oils in a fine bean, but the
> great outdoors sometimes calls for beans where you might NOT want all
> of those oils preserved : )
>
> Maybe because I'm so old that percolators bring back both the
> kitchens and outdoors of my childhood, maybe it's because that
> forceful, back-of-the-tongue taste gives me that little bit of extra
> persuasion to get out of a comfortable outdoor bed in the morning.
> Nothing disseminates aroma like a percolator.
>
> For whatever reason, here's a coffee-making method that requires no
> paper filters, is easy to clean up, and makes virtually any old
> robusta taste pretty good.
>
> My two beans worth.
>
> Jim
>

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