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fvfanmc · 02-06-2014, 11:22 AM

What do you guys use if your power goes out and you to make coffee? If my power goes out, I have no way to make coffee.

Shadow · 02-06-2014, 11:52 AM

My wife and I use a French press to make coffee since we have cut back on our coffee drinking. As long as you have a source of hot water you're set.

bigmike787 · 02-06-2014, 12:04 PM

What Shadow said. If you have a gas stove, you are good to go. If not, you'll need some type of alcohol burner. If you have a gas stove, you could always use a moka pot too.

fvfanmc · 02-06-2014, 02:53 PM

Good ideas, guys.

gumby · 02-06-2014, 02:59 PM

Set the barcalounger on fire in the middle of the room

Herf · 02-06-2014, 05:05 PM

I have one I use for camping but the coffee sucks that comes out of it. But it is coffee while camping.

I'd make cowboy coffee at home before I would use that percolator at home.

Briandg · 02-07-2014, 04:53 AM

French press. Moka pot.

I have never been without either water or gas, but we haven't had a single year in this house that didn't include power outages that lasted for at least a full day or two, and we've gone for as long as a week without power, always during extreme weather.

The true irony is that when the tornado blew almost a quarter of the town five miles east of where it belonged, we never lost power, phone, or internet, and honestly, I almost wish we had. We didn't sleep at all for a couple days, and we were glued to the internet, radio, television, all that time.

But by god, we had coffee.

sevenmag · 02-08-2014, 10:27 AM

Press, moka, and I also have a couple of old pour overs. I even have a single serving pour over.

My problem is going to be water during a long term power outage. Getting the well ready for the generator is a priority project for me this spring.

BigJohn · 02-08-2014, 10:29 AM

I will open the lid on my cuisinart drip pot, and pour hot water (tea kettle!) over the grounds...

02-06-2014, 11:22 AM	#1
fvfanmc Self Exiled Herf God Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Kearny, NJ Posts: 40,584	Old time perculators What do you guys use if your power goes out and you to make coffee? If my power goes out, I have no way to make coffee.

02-06-2014, 11:52 AM	#2
Shadow Charter Member Herf Meister Join Date: Feb 1998 Location: Shelby, NC Posts: 5,400	My wife and I use a French press to make coffee since we have cut back on our coffee drinking. As long as you have a source of hot water you're set. __________________ Age, experience and deviousness will always overcome youth, exuberance and perceived mental superiority.

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02-06-2014, 12:04 PM	#3
bigmike787 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Austin, Tx USA Posts: 1,324	What Shadow said. If you have a gas stove, you are good to go. If not, you'll need some type of alcohol burner. If you have a gas stove, you could always use a moka pot too.

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fvfanmc Self Exiled Herf God Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Kearny, NJ Posts: 40,584	Good ideas, guys.

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Herf Club Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: MA Posts: 1,644	I have one I use for camping but the coffee sucks that comes out of it. But it is coffee while camping. I'd make cowboy coffee at home before I would use that percolator at home.

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Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,686	French press. Moka pot. I have never been without either water or gas, but we haven't had a single year in this house that didn't include power outages that lasted for at least a full day or two, and we've gone for as long as a week without power, always during extreme weather. The true irony is that when the tornado blew almost a quarter of the town five miles east of where it belonged, we never lost power, phone, or internet, and honestly, I almost wish we had. We didn't sleep at all for a couple days, and we were glued to the internet, radio, television, all that time. But by god, we had coffee.

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sevenmag Contributing Editor Herf Meister Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Charleston, SC. USA Posts: 9,864	Press, moka, and I also have a couple of old pour overs. I even have a single serving pour over. My problem is going to be water during a long term power outage. Getting the well ready for the generator is a priority project for me this spring.