Three Ways I Make Coffee in the Woods

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I spent a couple of hours in the woods today making coffee three different ways - French press, cowboy style and steeped in a mug.

Tags: trail food,survival,coffee,camp food,camping,self reliance

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hey guys sean james here thanks for watching again it's always nice to start day off with a nice cup of coffee so i'm just going to do a quick little fire here and show you how I make coffee three different ways so I ground some fresh coffee this morning you know I'm going to go ahead make coffee three different ways here got my very first backpack here that I got as a young teenager from an army surplus store in the town that I grew up in no I think that section there are actually put it down on a campfire when I was deer hunting up north of the deer camp back when I was 15 leather straps that felt up pretty good I use them as a strop for the knife as well but great back brings back a lot of memories not really functional by today's standards but I did a good job back then holding 10 liter bucket which is what two and a half gallons nice River down here that's got steelhead in it maybe right now no green inside there at all you know dry that is brown well-seasoned nice tall tree lots of dry wood in there so I'll cut that down with myself alright so for the French press French press what I do is put about a tablespoon and a half of grounds and coffee grounds in the bottom of the pot what you want to do is leave that for two or three minutes you'll see the grinds will start to float so you're gonna have to break that surface tension by pushing French press down once pump it down and then lift it right back out again and then it let it steep fitting-out strong you want it you can let it steep anywhere from four to eight minutes I like eight minutes a little bit stronger but it's more bitter the shorter brew is still good coffee and just a little less bitter it doesn't doesn't take as many of the tannins out of the beans so let's let that sit and get another pot going after a few minutes I want to push that all the way down to the bottom breaks the surface tension here at the top of the water the the the grounds want to rise up and just sit on top and then they don't get fully saturated with water so you want to push that down and pull it back up again that's going to force most of the grinds down underneath the water and then when that's done you've let it to percolate for three or four minutes you're just going to push that slowly all the way down to the bottom and because I made more than a cup because I made more than a cup that's a little bit weaker than I'd normally drink out in the bush especially since I drink it black but that's it so that's a French press coffee one of the best ways to brew coffee at home we're in the in the field that's good coffee that's my favorite way to brew it in the French press but I rarely if ever take that French press out into the back country with me yeah that's really good another way I make coffees is to make it directly into the mug that I'm going to drink it out of if I'm on my own which I usually am on my solo trips of course I do bring coffee or I'll make tea or we're boys T at a mint or Labrador tea seed or spruce tips or something like that I'll just make my tea directly in the in the mug which is a lot quicker obviously so I have these uh cloth filters instead of using the paper filters so just keep reusing this fits over this mug pretty good like that and then I'll just put the grinds right in the cup here you can see pretty simple pretty simple system so like I said it's a little bit bigger than a paper filter so it fits over that mug nicely and all I'll do is put a maybe want to have two tablespoons of grounds in there make our nice strong coffee for the morning it just sits in there and I will just fill that up with water

what I like about this method is it makes a really strong cup of coffee with the grounds boiling rate in the water for five or ten five or six minutes finally the my third and favorite way to make coffee in the bush for groups of two or more so not when I'm alone unless I'm going to listen Basecamp I'm going to be there all day and I want a few cups of coffee is to go cowboy style so oil the full kettle of water over much you want in there so if you want three cups of coffee use your mug whoever what you want to fill it up fill your mug with water first and then pour that into the kettle so you know how much water to put in for the amount of coffee that you want so what you want is one heaping tablespoon per person and then I throw a little extra one or two extra in there just for added strength that I cooked off and make all this coffee what you need to do is just break the surface tension so let it boil for a couple of minutes and then stir it around causes most of the grinds to start sinking to the bottom I'm going to show you how to get them all to sink to the bottom before you pour your cup of coffee that's a nice rolling boil in there now that's what you're looking for I'd like to boil that for six or six seven or eight minutes for the night for a nice strong cup of coffee any more than that it starts to get too bitter so you really shouldn't leave it any longer but I tend to just keep refilling that pot those grinds will stay in that pot all day you know keep drinking from it from around camp literally going to pick it up by the handle and you're going to swing it in a circle centrifugal force is going to force all of those grounds to the bottom of the pot to make sure it handles on there good and you're confident keep going stop at the right place try not to go over your head so you're not wearing it if it does they settled perfectly now they're settled pour yourself a nice cup of coffee that's hot that's it that's my three ways I make coffee in the bush Sean James here thanks again for watching it's a few grounds left in there they're not going to kill you you