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  • #16
    Re: Snobs Go Camping...

    Originally posted by 687874746F7A447C7A771B0 link=1274794745/6#6 date=1274857060
    Pavboy, can you please tellme more about the gas powered lever machine? Are these things a reality or just unrealistic because of price? Do you know anything about them or can you point me to where I can find out about them? (in the meantime, Ill have a search myself.)
    Was looking at them a while back and dont remember much now - studying is pushing old stuff out of my brain!!!

    As stated above, Izzo does some gas powered ones. There are quite a few different brands around if you look hard enough - I was just window shopping on the net when I was looking - another couple of years before I will be serious about this stuff.

    Have fun looking

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    • #17
      Re: Snobs Go Camping...

      Originally posted by 4273647D7C7B707D6B120 link=1274794745/15#15 date=1275386047
      scoota gal wrote on 26. May 2010 at 16:57:
      Pavboy, can you please tellme more about the gas powered lever machine? Are these things a reality or just unrealistic because of price? Do you know anything about them or can you point me to where I can find out about them? (in the meantime, Ill have a search myself.)


      Was looking at them a while back and dont remember much now - studying is pushing old stuff out of my brain!!!
      Chat to Andy.. The lever he picked up from another snob in Canberra; did have an option for Gas... He may have access to more info.

      There must be something out there but I think the items will be more focused on other parts of the world.. I did see a retro gas kit in some searching a year ago... But do you think I can find it now...

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      • #18
        Re: Snobs Go Camping...

        These are from a trip around Tassie, before the weather went to sh1t.

        Motorcycle travel puts some constraints on size and heat source.

        Mypressi twist and jetboil combo.

        Have just received a porta-spresso machine, used it a couple of times at home, all good so far, but a proper camp test is required.

        One problem with a mypressi twist is its requirement for nitrous oxide cartridges, as you cant fly with them, and I have just finished a trip to Brisbane by bike, but flew to Melbourne to pick up the bike, and it wasnt until Griffith that I found some cartridges.

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        • #19
          Re: Snobs Go Camping...

          Fitting a gas kit is possible on a lot of the larger 1 grp machines and above providing all the electrics are out of the way of the flame. As to price and being sensible not really worth the money for camping alone. Most of the smaller domestics wont have the room inside the cases.

          Operation on the ones I have looked at is a simple thermocouple in the boiler just like your gas powered hot water service. The attached thermostat is then simply set to the temp that maintains the internal boiler pressure at X, flame varies accordingly to make that happen. Getting the burner unit that matches the boiler size and type and will not blow up your camper is the important bit  

          The Butane powered FrankenPavoni Aaron sketched up  http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1240294510 or the Bacchi Espresso would make more sense on a camping trip for size or any of the Presso, My Pressi etc for shots only.

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          • #20
            Re: Snobs Go Camping...

            I bought one of these today, got it for just a few dollars over a hundred, on special. I liked the idea of the temp gauge built into the kettle, which I thought would help with my coffee brewing. Ill use this camping and at home when a kettle is needed. As Ive got a gas stove at home, Im thinking of ditching the old electric jug so as to help save more power! (seeing as the power bills are expected to rise soon!)



            Im still undecided on the exact thing Ill end up with for making coffee but I think that the gas powered machine is probably a little bit out of my league. If I was going to go to all that trouble, I reckon I might as well get a huge inverter and a generator and run my Silvia off that set up!

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            • #21
              Re: Snobs Go Camping...

              Well, I see that from the thread Id started over on another forum about coffee and camping has attracted a few people to CS and with that thought in mind, Ive bumped this thread to see if theyll add their camper and coffee set ups here for other CSrs to see!

              Also, I wanted to have a brag about being published in a national camper trailer magazine that was on the newsagents shelves this week. It was a story I wrote and photographed on our run down the Darling River to Menindee back in September last year. So, now Im more famous than before but certainly not much richer!  ;D Its a two part story as well, so it will be in the following issue as well. Wait, theres more as a second magazine is also publishing another story I wrote for them in a few issues time. Good thing I like writing!

              I think Im going to suggest a coffee and camping article for one of the publications too. It could be an interesting mesh of two hobbies that seem to promote the upgraditis disease... ;D

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              • #22
                Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                Well congratulations scoota gal. Nicely done.

                Im in the process of building a slip-on canopy to go on the back of the Ute. When we go, we usually go near the beach and tow a tinny 8-). So our setup is a lot more compact - we use a roof top tent for the accommodation wing and everything else will pull out from the ute tray. When I get it finished (maybe after Easter) Ill have to post some pictures.

                Our coffee making is rather modest - an Aeropress - with hand ground beans. It does attract a fair bit of interest from fellow campers though! The smell of fresh coffee causes people to swing past and ask you questions.

                Probably not as much as carrying a large Deere sign though : :

                Cheers
                /Kevin

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                • #23
                  Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                  Were on the very start of the camping journey, and I can see already its going to be an expensive way to get away on the cheap :-p

                  Heading to tassie for easter next week & considering how were going to do coffee on the road. Was pondering an inverter to run my smartgrinder for pourover (as well as recharge personal electronics), but a hand-grinder might be a better idea to start with, unless anyone has experience running a grinder on a modified sine wave inverter? (for the cost of a pure sine wave inverter Ill just get the hand-grinder).

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                  • #24
                    Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                    Originally posted by 6E796D6C620A0 link=1274794745/22#22 date=1303001814
                    Was pondering an inverter to run my smartgrinder for pourover
                    Youd need to know what kind of motor it has in it...

                    The price of the electronics is falling like a stone. A colleague of mine runs an electronics manufacturing business. He has some plant in China, and while he was there last month he asked one of his chinese negotiators to go find a 1kW pure sine inverter board. The board he got is very impressive. Despite attempts to do it the worst possible things possible, it appears to be very well design and built. The one off price over there was around $AU60. So a 1kW board in a box should be do-able for around the $200 mark (assuming a really nice box).

                    I cant see how you could purchase the components for less than close to double the price of the completed device!

                    Anyway - to run the motor off a modified (square wave) inverter - youll need to know the motor type.

                    But the little handgrinders do a great job. It is what we use, and it is in keeping with the "great outdoors" ethos too :

                    Cheers
                    /Kevin

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                    • #25
                      Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                      Thanks Kevin. I have seen a couple of pure sine wave inverters from Aussie sellers on that famous auction site for not much more than a hand-grinder is going to cost me. The hand-grinder is certainly a lighter-weight option though.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                        Originally posted by 504753525C340 link=1274794745/24#24 date=1303026728
                        Thanks Kevin.  I have seen a couple of pure sine wave inverters from Aussie sellers on that famous auction site  for not much more than a hand-grinder is going to cost me.  The hand-grinder is certainly a lighter-weight option though.
                        Yeah, but be very wary of the claims made on the nameplate.... :

                        Mal.

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                        • #27
                          Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                          Picked up a grindripper for this trip once I realised everything else requiring power (lights, chargers) would run off 12 volts already.

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                          • #28
                            Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                            I just did 4 days interstate with a couple of Bodum plunger cups and (shock horror) home ground coffee!

                            Ground 700g odd of fresh roasted Espresso Wow for the trip and then all I needed anywhere was hot water. Worked a treat and while the coffee was not as great after the first day it was stiill far better than most everything else around me and was still darn nice.

                            So my recommendation is keep it simple if space is a concern, start with great coffee, keep it in sealed foil bags (multiple small ones if you can) and using a plunger with good technique can result in great travel coffee.

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                            • #29
                              Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                              Were no longer getting around in the lancer Andy, so space is certainly not the concern it used to be. The Kia Sorento has quite a sizable boot :, so it was more a question of power than space. A small butane stove from the local asian shop used for shabu-shabu will do the water boiling duties.
                              Not sure how Miroslawa will go 5 days without a latte though.

                              Of course now Ive bought the grinder, Miroslawa has gone & gotten herself a vacuum sealer which would have packages little portion controlled doses quite nicely.

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                              • #30
                                Re: Snobs Go Camping...

                                what a great outfit, Scoota, ,love the kitchen!
                                looks like the bike may have to get jealous on weekends

                                L

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