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I'm from a family of coffee addicts. This is no longer love, just like usually one does not love air to breathe.
Actually I'm a bit weird since I can't sleep when I had a coffee after six in the afternoon - others manage to virtually drink one after the other around the clock. Call my brother anytime (don't you dare :P ) and you will hear the Sound of Civilization in the background - that is a coffee mill going off or a high pressure pump doing its job.
As mentioned before, my favourite coffee involves coffee *rolleyes*, frothed milk, and maybe a cube of sugar or two. A latte macchiato will do the job. As vezes I also have a café (as in café expresso), then without milk but definitely with some sugar. If left to my own devices, that means a massive artillery barrage is between me and a normal coffee maker, I fall back to the basics.
Long story short, here's my recipe for Coffee Jungle Style:
things needed
- a source of fire - a lighter, a match, a blowtorch, a small dragon
- three to four handfuls of dry wood or another solid fuel - twigs, branches, oiled cookies, your sister's laptop
- 200-300ml of water in a fireproof container with lid - try a mug or a metal can, a military issue canteen will do, too. The water should be somewhat clean and drinkable after boiling.
- a handful of coffee beans, roasted!
- a rock
- a hard place
- a clean !important sock or something to stir - a spoon, a length of bone or so
time needed
- twenty minutes, full attention!
procedure
- grind the coffee beans by putting them between the rock and the hard place and applying the proper amount of force.
- put the coffee powder into the sock.
- stack the wood to create a fireplace. Twigs to the bottom, thicker pieces to the top. Keep some of the thicker pieces to feed the fire later on.
- light the fire.
- put the container with the water on top of the fireplace. You may want to make sure it does not fall over when the wood is burning down.
- carefully ventilate the fire to keep it going, eventually refuel it .
- once the water is simmering (should take around 10 minutes), hang the sock with coffee into the water, and put the lid back on. If you don't have a sock but just something to stir, pour the coffee into the water and stir once.
- let the coffee boil for some one or two more minutes.
- remove the sock, or stir once more.
- put out the fire if it's still on.
- enjoy your coffee.
important
- Be aware that the container is very hot on the outside, you might want to protect your hands and mouth from serious burns.
- The container gets charred quite a lot. Try to use one that is not a family heirloom or your SO's favourite.
- Don't use a sealed container. Putting water to the boil without a pressure release can effectively turn the container into a bomb and you into worm food.
- Without a sock you might want to bring along a toothbrush, those coffee grains are quite nastily finding the gaps between your teeth.
General Caution is advised!
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