I was a dedicated and enthusiastic coffee drinker for more than 50 years. I was particularly enthralled by the hearty beverage during my 36 years in the Army. In my late 60s I began a gradual shift to tea and am now, in my mid-70s, a 100% tea drinker. I loved the taste of coffee and the jolt it gave me to get/keep going. However, tea gives me a much milder helping hand, but it soothes me in a way coffee never did. I'm sure it's just a personal reaction on my part, but it actually seems to me that tea is good for my body. It just tastes and feels right going down and gives me a warm and comforting feeling at my core.
Into The Abyss
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Around 20:15 to :30 I'll hear the wife's "Ya gonna make coffee?". 6 cups atop leftover morning joe for flavoring from whatever drip maker currently in use. Have had good luck with a Black&Decker for about 4-5 years.
Don't go shootin' yer mouth off.
I have an old "Egg shell" special along with a old Aluminum Percolator
with the basket on top that can be stove or camp fire heated, in case of emergency's.
Also have a Colman white gas stove and fuel stored, just in case the powder goes off for too long, for any reason.
Coffee is #1, but eggs with some bacon or sausage is #2 for me to get rolling
in most of my mornings.
Of course my wife twist my arm now and then, to down some cereal with milk, now and then, for a "Balanced" diet.
with the basket on top that can be stove or camp fire heated, in case of emergency's.
Also have a Colman white gas stove and fuel stored, just in case the powder goes off for too long, for any reason.
Coffee is #1, but eggs with some bacon or sausage is #2 for me to get rolling
in most of my mornings.
Of course my wife twist my arm now and then, to down some cereal with milk, now and then, for a "Balanced" diet.
AJ
US Veteran
I spent the better part of two years working the Flight Deck on USS Saratoga. I ate in the Chief's Mess while there. The blacker and stronger the coffee the better to them. If a spoon did not stand up in the cup, the Chief's thought it was tea. We called their version of coffee "No.2 Black Oil".
I drink 6-8 cups a day and the wife about 2 so around ten, 8oz cups from the Keurig machine every day. The machines seem to last about 2-3 years so thats not too bad considering my water is hard. I have a 1 cup "Keurig" portable I take to the track. Amazing the looks I get drinking hot coffee on an 85 degree day. Doesn't bother me in the least. (I happen to hate iced coffee..)
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Alpo
Member
Ivan, would you mind posting a picture of that "real fire drip coffee maker"?
Because I can't visualize what you're talking about.
I visualize one of these. It’s what I use when I camp.
prairieviper
Member
I drink a lot of coffee, mainly from one of our Keurigs, but also from a percolator. I prefer dark roast coffee served as black as midnight on a moonless night.
SweetMK
Member
I Googled the DE252,, two years older than the DD873 I served on,,
BUT, the DE252 was decommissioned 3 years before I ever stepped foot on the Hawkins!!
I first had coffee in Shipfitter "A" School.
A can of "SODA" such as COKE was $0.15,,, coffee was $0.03,,
Our pay then was $66 every two weeks,, it was coffee or water becasue of the low income!!
Today, I only enjoy "COWBOY COFFEE" if made at home.
I have tried a half dozen other methods,, drip, perc, Keurig,, etc,,
Cowboy is the only method I have found that makes an acceptable low volume coffee,,
(NOTE:, THAT is for MY tastes,, not others,,)
BUT, the DE252 was decommissioned 3 years before I ever stepped foot on the Hawkins!!
I first had coffee in Shipfitter "A" School.
A can of "SODA" such as COKE was $0.15,,, coffee was $0.03,,
Our pay then was $66 every two weeks,, it was coffee or water becasue of the low income!!
Today, I only enjoy "COWBOY COFFEE" if made at home.
I have tried a half dozen other methods,, drip, perc, Keurig,, etc,,
Cowboy is the only method I have found that makes an acceptable low volume coffee,,
(NOTE:, THAT is for MY tastes,, not others,,)
deadin
US Veteran
CCV-10, CV43 & CV67.. The coffee in all 3 always had a slight sheen fuel oil and AVGAS floating on the surface. (Except when a boot messenger watch stander accidently made a pot for the Admiral with brine instead of fresh water.)
Am I a coffee drinker?
I've always said that if caffeine really was a diuretic I'd be a prune since I hardly drink anything BUT coffee. My 20 oz. stainless steel Yeti cup is seldom empty and hardly ever out of reach.
I drink it from when I get up until I go to bed - usually about three 20 oz. cups a day. Hot., cold, iced, or lukewarm, makes no difference to me, and the stronger the better.
I started drinking it at the breakfast table on my grandparent's farm when I was around 5 years old - with LOTS of cream or milk and a couple of spoons of sugar.
Just out of high school I went to work on the oil rigs and learned to drink it black, because Styrofoam cups full of powdered creamer and sugar sitting beside the pot had specks of crud and dirt mixed in - nasty!
I'll occasionally have a mocha - what I refer to as a foo-foo coffee - but otherwise I take it black and strong.
I've always said that if caffeine really was a diuretic I'd be a prune since I hardly drink anything BUT coffee. My 20 oz. stainless steel Yeti cup is seldom empty and hardly ever out of reach.
I drink it from when I get up until I go to bed - usually about three 20 oz. cups a day. Hot., cold, iced, or lukewarm, makes no difference to me, and the stronger the better.
I started drinking it at the breakfast table on my grandparent's farm when I was around 5 years old - with LOTS of cream or milk and a couple of spoons of sugar.
Just out of high school I went to work on the oil rigs and learned to drink it black, because Styrofoam cups full of powdered creamer and sugar sitting beside the pot had specks of crud and dirt mixed in - nasty!
I'll occasionally have a mocha - what I refer to as a foo-foo coffee - but otherwise I take it black and strong.
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AJ
US Veteran
At the end of shift you were tired no matter how much coffee you drank. Plus you were usually up for a couple of hours after you finished your shift. When your head hit the pillow you were asleep.
It might be the percolator I initially used at my last fishing camp in western Quebec. It had the grounds sitting in the perforated can on top of the post and the brewed coffee would bubble up into the glass knob in the lid. It would work on a stove top and probably on campfire too.
I got a kick out of this OP! I learned how to drink coffee in the navy. (The equivalent of learning how to box by fighting Mike Tyson) As I aged my taste in coffee matured slowly until it reached just the right point for me.
I also saved my cowboy coffee maker from my camping days. On the ever increasing frequency of our power outages even the kurig is of no use. I just whup out the camp stove (propane) and the cowboy coffee pot.
I also saved my cowboy coffee maker from my camping days. On the ever increasing frequency of our power outages even the kurig is of no use. I just whup out the camp stove (propane) and the cowboy coffee pot.
deadin
US Veteran
When I went to re-enlist and found myself in Army boot camp with a bunch of just out of high school kids (and I was a non athletic mid 20's), coffee became my best friend. Many years later and many coffee makers later I fill the basket of the drip maker to the top and let her rip. Every morning without fail! I've even got the wife drinking my "mud"!
