Camping Without Compromise
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Topic: Camping Without Compromise
Posted By: elko.mike
Subject: Camping Without Compromise
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 6:20pm
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I like my latte so well that I roast my own beans. I thus worried r-podding might involve a compromise, but fortunately it is not required. This gadget (http://mypressi.com/) allows me to brew espresso with air pressure, rather than steam, which makes a flavorful, but not bitter, brew. It comes with a hand grinder. Thus I can take a bag of my fresh roasted beans on a camping trip with which to pull a quality shot. I picked up a microwavable pitcher and use that to heat the milk. Frothing is easy with an aerolatte battery operated frother (http://www.aerolatte.com/). For those espresso addicts who like podding, there needn't be a compromise. ------------- Mike, Linda & Doxies 2013 Hood River Edition r-pod 171 Tow Vehicles: 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 (Linda's) and a 2003 Dodge Dakota (Mike's fishing truck) |
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Posted By: Camper Bob
Date Posted: 31 May 2012 at 9:44pm
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I prefer my french press coffee. First trip used the burr grinder at home and took extra ground coffee with us. Not good. Went to Costco and found a burr grinder for $26. Gonna use it on our next trip. Fresh ground each morning. Yumm. Safe Travels. ------------- Camper Bob and Camper Sue Gracie the Wonder Dog (12 LB. Mini Dachshund) 2013 Rpod 171HRE(ORPod) 2016 Lance 1685 2015 Nissan Pathfinder |
Posted By: tpierce220
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 10:53am
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I roast my own beans as well and while I violate every rule of coffee roasting by putting the beans into a plastic container, I still do it. It's must fresher than anything that I can buy in the store and so much cheaper. ------------- Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys. |
Posted By: elko.mike
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2012 at 5:42pm
Oh the humanity. I put mine into a hand-painted and hand-fired clay container. But for camping they are going into a Baggie. I'm paying about $5 per pound for my raw beans and have no idea what they cost in the store. When I guy 20 lbs, as I did with this last order, it comes with the coffee sack. The wife really likes that. In any case, we like the brew from fresh roasted beans much better than the stuff in pods, cans, or shipped already roasted. ------------- Mike, Linda & Doxies 2013 Hood River Edition r-pod 171 Tow Vehicles: 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 (Linda's) and a 2003 Dodge Dakota (Mike's fishing truck) |
Posted By: g4royce
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2012 at 4:29pm
As we've mainly gone on short trips and try to find local coffeehouses, we haven't had to make our own that much. For "emergencies" we have Starbucks Via  (I know, I know....) mostly for the caffeine. We usually grind our own beans, put them in an airtight container and French Press or bring along my old college Krups Espresso maker. I also have a stovetop Bialetti and a Chemex and some filters somewhere in the basement but it really depends on what we remember to bring along when we head out  For convenience, I did once consider the Nespesso, but then we still need the steamed milk. -T ------------- ChaiPod 2009 RP152 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe 3.5L V6 |
Posted By: elko.mike
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 1:42am
At our last campsite it was a bit more than 90 miles to the local coffee shop. Hence the need for an alternative to the local coffee shop. ------------- Mike, Linda & Doxies 2013 Hood River Edition r-pod 171 Tow Vehicles: 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 (Linda's) and a 2003 Dodge Dakota (Mike's fishing truck) |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 8:24am
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Thankfully I have no coffee addiction. In fact never had a cup. But I will admit the very first item placed in our pod after it parked in our driveway was a toaster. ------------- |
Posted By: g4royce
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 9:13am
We're trying to get my Foodie cousin to join us podding. He's all into roasting and grinding his own immediately before brewing and frequently has his air-roaster, burr grinder and green beans with him. ------------- ChaiPod 2009 RP152 2011 Hyundai Santa Fe 3.5L V6 |
Posted By: Keith-N-Dar
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 3:44pm
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I was thinking about this thread while making coffee this morning in my old fashioned stove heated percolator in the Pod. Coffee always tastes best to me when camping.
------------- Keith-N-Dar Boris & Betty (Boston Terriers) 2011 R-Pod 177 2010 Ford F-150 |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 5:21pm
Everything tastes better when camping. Especially when you've carried it on your back to the top of a mountain. 
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: dsmiths
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2012 at 10:18pm
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Furpod, what is your poison, I do 1, maybe 2 cups of coffee when Poddin, Donna likes Black Tea, I have been getting these little tear open packs of instant coffee, but they don't taste very good, I need to find a small compact fresh coffee maker. I grind fresh at home, I may buy one of those old time coffee pots that you put fresh ground in and put all the guts in it, throw it on the stove a a low boil and let her cook, anyone have any suggestions. ------------- Dane and Donna Smith 2011 RP-172 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer 4X4 lift kit prodigy wireless brake controller |
Posted By: furpod
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 8:55am
Cocoa. Or just plain old H2O.. I very rarely drink anything caffeinated. Wild Cherry Pepsi is my nemesis..  A couple times a month, while out running errands, I will stop at the last C-Store on the way to the house, get a 20oz, drink about 1/4 of it, and give the rest to Sue when I get home.I was raised in a non caffeine household.. Just never developed a taste for coffee, and some tea smells good but tastes like warm water.. so.. I just drink water. It was a non-alcohol household also.. I got over that.  Likes me a sip or two of bourbon I do.. But I never use it for a kick-start in the mornings. Anymore.  ------------- |
Posted By: Podsible Dream
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 9:14am
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Dane,
I use a 4-cup (read 2 mug)coffee maker - the filterbasket type. 20 bucks or less at the big box store. Works great. It sits in the corner behind the stove and doesn't say much. I grind my own beans too, so I make sure to bring a canister of fresh ground along. I made a small shelf to go over the fender (have to photo and post it one day) and set it up outside in the AM so I don't wake my sleeping beauties! They use a T-fal hot pot for their tea water (although they say the tap water gets hot enongh to brew a tea bag!!  )
Walt ------------- Chris and Walt '10 RP-171 'Free Spirit' '13 Dodge Durango Crew 5.7 L Hemi V8 |