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Date: 10 Jul 2006 14:50:06
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Subject: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
some recomandations on how to do this?
Some points:
* Convenience: it has to be easy
* No electricity: gaz is the only option...
* Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
better than it is now...

Thanks in advance!

Koen

Date: 10 Jul 2006 21:45:33
From: Juan Valdez
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

A couple of these bad boys might do it...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_improvement/smart_consumer/1274986.html

<koendc@gmail.com > wrote in message
news:1152568206.631843.79480@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
> we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
> some recomandations on how to do this?
> Some points:
> * Convenience: it has to be easy
> * No electricity: gaz is the only option...
> * Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
> better than it is now...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Koen
>

Date: 10 Jul 2006 21:57:58
From: notbob
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

On 2006-07-11, Juan Valdez <* > wrote:
> A couple of these bad boys might do it...

"We haven't tried it, but it sounds like simplicity itself"

Oh yeah! ...so much simpler than a Melitta cone. Buy two.

nb

Date: 11 Jul 2006 01:38:16
From: I->Ian
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

On 10 Jul 2006 14:50:06 -0700, koendc@gmail.com wrote:

>Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
>we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
>some recomandations on how to do this?
>Some points:
>* Convenience: it has to be easy
>* No electricity: gaz is the only option...
>* Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
>better than it is now...
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Koen

http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/cowboycoffee/

Date: 10 Jul 2006 19:47:08
From: DougW
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

koendc did pass the time by typing:
> Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
> we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
> some recomandations on how to do this?
> Some points:
> * Convenience: it has to be easy
> * No electricity: gaz is the only option...
> * Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
> better than it is now...
>
> Thanks in advance!

instant. :)

All depends on how much equipment you want to drag with you.
http://www.barmans.co.uk/products/product.asp?ID=2239

Back in Scouts I built my own hot water system.
Basically it was gravity fed and consisted of a
many coils of 1/4" copper tubing held inside a
medium tin with an open top and bottom. The tin
went over a burner on my Coleman stove or in the
fire pit, and a length of heat resistant tubing fed
water from any overhead source (usually a jug hanging
from a tree) I used a small hose clamp to adjust the
flow so that water just started to come out rather than
steam. It was more a novelty than anything useful.
Quite handy for burning yourself if I remember correctly. :/

--
DougW

Date: 11 Jul 2006 00:53:19
From: Steve Ackman
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

In <1152568206.631843.79480@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com >, on 10 Jul 2006
14:50:06 -0700, koendc@gmail.com wrote:
> Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
> we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
> some recomandations on how to do this?
> Some points:
> * Convenience: it has to be easy
> * No electricity: gaz is the only option...
> * Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
> better than it is now...

1) Heat 17L water to 98°C. in a 5 gal. (20L) stock pot.
2) Add 1 kg. coffee grounds.
3) Stir for about 3 or 4 minutes.
4) Filter into serving container... (maybe something like
http://www.deiequipment.com/s.nl/it.A/id.3146/.f )

Alternatively,

2) Secure 1 kg coffee grounds in a large filter paper
to create a large coffeebag. (Twist tie or string)
3) Allow coffeebag to steep for about 5 or 6 minutes.
4) Transfer coffee to serving container.

Date: 12 Jul 2006 10:41:57
From: J. Clarke
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

Date: 13 Jul 2006 05:49:38
From: Michael D. Sullivan
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

On 7/12/2006 10:41 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> koendc@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
>> we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
>> some recomandations on how to do this?
>> Some points:
>> * Convenience: it has to be easy
>> * No electricity: gaz is the only option...
>> * Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
>> better than it is now...
>
> If taste is not an issue then why not just use a huge kettle or three and a
> big jar of instant? Won't win any barista contests but it will put heated
> caffeine in cold drowsy bodies.

Why not just use a cheescloth bag or old pantyhose as an infuser in a
big kettle? Load a pound of ground coffee (probably best to use a
moderately coarse grind, such as percolator) in a bag made from
cheesecloth or pantyhose, tie off with string, drop into a kettle of 10
gallons of boiling water, turn off heat, and wait 5-10 minutes
(occasionally moving bag of coffee around with string to improve
extraction). This will make a bit more than 50 6-oz cups of coffee
(using roughly 9 grams of coffee per cup). Repeat as necessary. Making
coffee for campers isn't rocket science. Making espresso for campers,
on the other hand, ....

--
Michael D. Sullivan
Bethesda, MD (USA)
(To reply, change example.invalid to com in the address.)

Date: 12 Jul 2006 22:54:54
From: razmoo
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

> If taste is not an issue then why not just use a huge kettle or three and a
> big jar of instant? Won't win any barista contests but it will put heated
> caffeine in cold drowsy bodies.
>
> --
> --John
> to email, dial "usenet" and validate
> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

I think that idea is cool, just get like a big pot, and chuck a whole
tin of instant in there and then you can dish it out with a soup spoon.

Date: 14 Jul 2006 11:40:52
From:
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

koendc@gmail.com wrote:
> Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
> we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
> some recomandations on how to do this?
> Some points:
> * Convenience: it has to be easy
> * No electricity: gaz is the only option...
> * Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
> better than it is now...

Large percolator:
http://snipurl.com/t8p7

Large boilers:
http://snipurl.com/t8p6

Then get a filter bag from these people:
http://www.midwestfilter.com/bags.html

Not like in the photo. You want a 5 micron FDA grade polyester filter
bag.

You can also get that here:
http://www.fdpp.com/mall/Polyester-Filter-Bags-size3.asp

You could probably get by with 10 micron -- but don't go higher.

Someone in a previous reply pointed you to one of those large,
drudge-colored plastic insulated containers. Note the top. It wouldn't
take much to rig something to accommodate a bag like this. Fill it with
grind and pour the hot water (heated in one of the enamel units above)
into the filter bag. Use a grind that's course enough to allow
extraction for as long as you can keep flow going -- I'd shoot for
about 5 minutes worth of flow. Just fill the bag, don't try to let
water "drip through".

The brew will be strong. Top it off with hot water and serve.

I can't say enough about how effective the polyester felt is for coffee
preparation. It's not a surface filter, so you get all the flow you
need even with a fine grind. It works awesome in an Aeropress using the
inverted method to get all the coffee oils through (though I'd like to
figure out a way to emulsify them), and I've used it in a large Melitta
cone (the 103) to do huge batches of coffee -- something that wouldn't
be possible if the flow through this material weren't superb.

You can also get suitable material from McMaster-Carr, though it's not
formally FDA approved (I haven't sprung any weird appendages from using
it for some time, myself. ;-)

HTH

Date: 14 Jul 2006 18:03:53
From: Ed Needham
Subject: Re: Make coffee in bulk without electricity?

I've done the same thing with large groups and made coffee by heating a 20
quart stainless pot of water over a high BTU propane burner. Dipped hot
water from the large pot using a stainless percolator pot, and made pot
after pot with a couple of Melitta pourover #6 filter cone (cheap and
lightweight). Made coffee as fast as it would drain through and
continuously refilled two large thermos pots for the 15 or 20 minutes it
takes the coffee hounds to empty them. Kept up with demand just fine, and
the coffee was as good as it gets. This works just great, but it is not
'set and forget'. You actually have to stay with it to continue making
coffee for the hour or so people want it. A small price to pay for sharing
really good coffee.

1-propane 'turkey fryer' burner
1-20 quart or larger stainless pot
2-manual pourover drip coffeepots (Melitta or Chemex work fine)
2-thermos pots to hold coffee while you make more
3 pounds preground homeroast (preferred) or something you like.

Brew strong. They can always water it down if they prefer, but you can't do
anything if it's too weak.
--
*********************
Ed Needham®
"to absurdity and beyond!"
ed at homeroaster dot com
(include [FRIEND] in subject line to get through my SPAM filters)
*********************

<scott.marquardt@gmail.com > wrote in message
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> koendc@gmail.com wrote:
>> Every year we go camping with a group of 120 persons and every morning
>> we are struggling to get some 100 cups of coffee ready. Does anyone has
>> some recomandations on how to do this?
>> Some points:
>> * Convenience: it has to be easy
>> * No electricity: gaz is the only option...
>> * Taste: honestly, not the most important issue as anything will be
>> better than it is now...
>
> Large percolator:
> http://snipurl.com/t8p7
>
> Large boilers:
> http://snipurl.com/t8p6
>
> Then get a filter bag from these people:
> http://www.midwestfilter.com/bags.html
>
> Not like in the photo. You want a 5 micron FDA grade polyester filter
> bag.
>
> You can also get that here:
> http://www.fdpp.com/mall/Polyester-Filter-Bags-size3.asp
>
> You could probably get by with 10 micron -- but don't go higher.
>
> Someone in a previous reply pointed you to one of those large,
> drudge-colored plastic insulated containers. Note the top. It wouldn't
> take much to rig something to accommodate a bag like this. Fill it with
> grind and pour the hot water (heated in one of the enamel units above)
> into the filter bag. Use a grind that's course enough to allow
> extraction for as long as you can keep flow going -- I'd shoot for
> about 5 minutes worth of flow. Just fill the bag, don't try to let
> water "drip through".
>
> The brew will be strong. Top it off with hot water and serve.
>
> I can't say enough about how effective the polyester felt is for coffee
> preparation. It's not a surface filter, so you get all the flow you
> need even with a fine grind. It works awesome in an Aeropress using the
> inverted method to get all the coffee oils through (though I'd like to
> figure out a way to emulsify them), and I've used it in a large Melitta
> cone (the 103) to do huge batches of coffee -- something that wouldn't
> be possible if the flow through this material weren't superb.
>
> You can also get suitable material from McMaster-Carr, though it's not
> formally FDA approved (I haven't sprung any weird appendages from using
> it for some time, myself. ;-)
>
> HTH
>