Your breakfast of choice?

[zemaj]

you pull up the plunger, pour in the (slightly less than) boiling water, add the grounds to the water (same amount as you would use for your drip-pot... maybe a touch more if it comes out weak), give it a swirl/shake or two, let it sit for a few seconds (~30), push the plunger down, enjoy your coffee.

the big secret is using slightly less than boiling water. If it is too hot, you burn off some of the oils etc. you gain by using the press, if it is too cool, you don't get good extraction of the same from the grounds. I usually just boil the water, then take it off the heat for a few before pouring it in... you can use a thermometer & get it 'perfect' but I am usually too groggy for that first thing in the morning.

[Stevinator]

I will try this and report back.

Why doesn't the plunger go all the way to the bottom? am i supposed to fill that whole space with grounds? that's a lot of coffee. to scale it down from a full pot will require some math, but on the eyeball test, it looks like maybe half of that space should be grounds...maybe less.

Also, the thing appears to be microwave safe...i wonder if I could just boil the water in the microwave...

[BobCox2]

I will try this and report back.

Why doesn't the plunger go all the way to the bottom? am i supposed to fill that whole space with grounds? that's a lot of coffee. to scale it down from a full pot will require some math, but on the eyeball test, it looks like maybe half of that space should be grounds...maybe less.

Also, the thing appears to be microwave safe...i wonder if I could just boil the water in the microwave...

They expand quite a Bit, Cold/Dry to Hot/Wet
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a proper camping breakfast. is the best tasting in the whole world.
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[zemaj]

fixed that Bob... must have missed that due to the ramblings about appellation of coffee & baklava.

I can see one problem with that camping breakfast... it needs a few fish that were pulled out of the nearby stream/lake earlier that morning... a few squirrels or a rabbit would also be acceptable. Typically, when I go camping I don't bring much in the way of food, mostly coffee, eggs, milk, bread & such. Otherwise my rod & tackle or my 10-.22 do pretty good for securing a meal.

[BobCox2]

Beans Boy! Beans are important for campfire cooking..
and you don't find them camping outside a bean field much.

Just saying zemaj

[krischan]

A banana and a mug of instant coffee. Time is short on workdays (I hate getting up), I can't get down much in the morning and a banana has the right consistency to transport a maximum of food into my stomach. I eat more an hour later (and drink another mug of real coffee), however.

[Stevinator]

Before life got in the way i used to do an annual camping trip where we lived out of a canoe for several days camping on sandbars along a lazy part of the wisconsin river. One year someone brought breakfast in a sack. you take those brown paper bags that you pack kids' lunches in, and you put bacon, hashbrowns (shredded), eggs and there might have been cheese, and you fold up the top and cut a hole in the folded part so you have this little bag filled with yummy, and you use the marshmellow holders to hold it over the fire (it gets heavy so we also used firewood to block it up). in like 20 minutes, everything was cooked, and magically the bag did not catch on fire (even though the bacon grease had soaked into the bottom). It was fantastic. I'm not sure why the bag didn't catch on fire, but i was impressed. coolest thing since the "Hobo dinner".

The hobo dinner is meat and veggies and stuff wrapped up in lots of foil and cooked in the coals of a campfire. it can stay good for quite some time in a good cooler if you start with frozen ground beef. be careful with seasonings though. cooking it that way amplifies salt, cumin, basically anything you might put in it.

[jmervyn]

Beans Boy! Beans are important for campfire cooking..
and you don't find them camping outside a bean field much.

Just saying zemaj

I made crepes during the cook-off competition, and used the remnants the next morning for the best omelet I ever made (or had). Everything always tastes better out-of-doors.

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EDIT -

coolest thing since the "Hobo dinner".

My wife found something I wanted to try with the Cubs, but many of the other parents are real wusses so it may have to wait. You buy 'lunch' bags of Doritos or corn chips and dump chili-style filling in them. 'Taco in a bag'.

[Stevinator]

Tried the french press. the top half of the cup was very good. but the bottom half had grinds in it (how i don't know how, the seal looks very tight), then when i drank down to where the plunger stops, it was like the flood gates opening, maybe the seal doesn't work unless there's liquid around it?

probably not going to be an everyday thing, but if I'm in a rush, it is definitely faster and nifty for being self contained.

[kimiko]

Not much of a breakfast person.

As a kid, I had mostly cereal, but now it's one of three things...ramen, cup noodle, or leftovers.