Coffee Matters

You may recall that our coffee pot turned up missing on the last trip.  Most likely it's serving as an artificial reef somewhere at the bottom of the Buffalo River.

Fortunately, Cowboy Coffee can be made in any old kettle and that's how we got by last Spring.  Cowboy Coffee is just boiling the water and the coffee together in one pot.  The secret is how to make the grounds drop out before you pour it.   Here are some well known methods:

-  Splash cold water on the surface
-  Add eggshells
-  Shake salt over it
-  Put the grounds in a sock

The reasons it's a "secret" is that none of those things really do anything.  You just need to show all the people who are standing around with empty coffee cups that you're doing something.  They're going to end up straining the grounds out with their teeth anyway.

I think everybody seemed perfectly happy about the Cowboy Coffee method and we're going to go with that for awhile.  For one thing, it's a lot easier and faster than waiting for the percolator - which has to be positioned just right over the fire to work.

But we do want a proper coffee pot and another benefit of the Cowboy Coffee method is there are a lot more options for good looking coffee pots without the perc than with them.

So here's the new club coffee pot which will debut next month on the Fall trip:



We made sure we got one with both an upper and lower handle on the back.  Because while searching for giant coffee pots we discovered this:





All-those-in favor-all-those-opposed-APPROVED!"

Here is a preview of our new coffee tipping machine in action...

Next project:   figuring out how to hook it up to Proud Mary.