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We just spent two weeks traveling around Eyre peninsula visiting relatives and (more importantly!) fishing. As a snob, of course, coffee was essential.
We took my AeroPress and a Hario slim ceramic hand grinder, along with our own rainwater. The heat for brewing supplied by one of those fold-up butane gas stoves.
Quite a nice travelling setup - thoroughly recommended. I ended up buying a small plastic jug to use the AP into - rather than into a cup, since I had to make 2 coffees and pouring from the cup resulted in dribbles of coffee everywhere.
Mrs-KJM likes milky coffees (exclusively, but this is being worked on
) so we needed to heat milk too. This resulted in us using a small saucepan too. So the total volume of kit is a tiny bit bigger than is minimally needed.
The combo makes coffees much better than my brother-in-laws little breville "espresso" machine does!
Of course, I roasted coffee for the trip. My colleague hazbean takes greens with him on his remote trips and roasts on the road, but I reckon thats a bridge too far
.
The AP coffees attract quite a bit of interest at campsites. Fortunately I took enough beans with me! One of the people at Elliston had coffee beans with them and was using a percolator in their caravan. She was impressed at the taste difference between percolated and AeroPressed coffee :
She was totally blown away by the freshly roasted coffee beans and the store-bought beans she had. Fun times!
For the record - the little Hario grinder does a superb job, but takes a serious amount of cranking. At work I have a 1959 PeDe hand grinder which takes 75 turns (spot the engineer) of the handle to grind a double. The Hario takes a bit over **200**. Which is not really a big deal, but it means you start grinding well before you start heating the water!
I guess no-one would find any of the above surprising, but since we actually did it, I thought posting confirmation would be useful.
If only the AP didnt look like a breast pump device!!
/Kevin
We took my AeroPress and a Hario slim ceramic hand grinder, along with our own rainwater. The heat for brewing supplied by one of those fold-up butane gas stoves.
Quite a nice travelling setup - thoroughly recommended. I ended up buying a small plastic jug to use the AP into - rather than into a cup, since I had to make 2 coffees and pouring from the cup resulted in dribbles of coffee everywhere.
Mrs-KJM likes milky coffees (exclusively, but this is being worked on
) so we needed to heat milk too. This resulted in us using a small saucepan too. So the total volume of kit is a tiny bit bigger than is minimally needed.The combo makes coffees much better than my brother-in-laws little breville "espresso" machine does!
Of course, I roasted coffee for the trip. My colleague hazbean takes greens with him on his remote trips and roasts on the road, but I reckon thats a bridge too far
.The AP coffees attract quite a bit of interest at campsites. Fortunately I took enough beans with me! One of the people at Elliston had coffee beans with them and was using a percolator in their caravan. She was impressed at the taste difference between percolated and AeroPressed coffee :
She was totally blown away by the freshly roasted coffee beans and the store-bought beans she had. Fun times!For the record - the little Hario grinder does a superb job, but takes a serious amount of cranking. At work I have a 1959 PeDe hand grinder which takes 75 turns (spot the engineer) of the handle to grind a double. The Hario takes a bit over **200**. Which is not really a big deal, but it means you start grinding well before you start heating the water!
I guess no-one would find any of the above surprising, but since we actually did it, I thought posting confirmation would be useful.
If only the AP didnt look like a breast pump device!!
/Kevin
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