O'Brien when the power is out but he can't just go fix it himself:
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O'Brien when the power has been out for 1 day and he's forced to spend time with his family
Lol, but I have a hard time believing O'Brien didn't prepare a backup power supply for his pattern buffer.
Turns out the tertiary redundant backup power supply was drained because Molly and Yoshi used it to recharge their PADDs to watch cartoons
As if he wouldn't have a quaternary backup...
Keep some instant on hand. Way better than cowboy coffee imho.
I normally do have some, but used it all camping this last summer and seemed to have forgotten to restock. That's on me.
Cowboy coffee is delicious if you do it right.
- Fine grind
- Get the water boiling so it's rolling
- Add grind. The rolling helps keep the foam and spillage down as CO2 escapes, but feel free to agitate with a spoon to help.
- Bring off heat after a minute and let bloom finish. All CO2 out, grind sinks and settles.
- Leave it resting for another 3-5 mins after bloom is done.
Some people like to add cold water, I don't. Really depends what you like and there's a few ways to go about it, but basic concept stays the same. Boil, bloom, rest.
I make coffee in the middle of Bumfuck Nowhere a lot lol. A fire, tin, and water is the only coffee machine you need when done right 👍
What bloom means in this context? I know what it means with plants.
Also, CO2? Does the coffee release CO2 once in the water?
Bloom is the period that the coffee floats and foams out bubbles, because the heat is expelling the CO2 (and other gases) from the grind. Once it's out, bloom is over, the foam/bubbles settle, and the coffee sinks down to the bottom having no gases to float with anymore. During bloom, most of the flavour is being released from the grind. Think of it like the coffee is "opened up" or blooming.
Because there's no way to pull out the grind in cowboy coffee, bloom just goes until msx, making strong flavour. But, that's where pulling it off heat early or adding cold water can control bloom time to weaken the hit. Personally, I just max it out and dilute it in the cup if it's too strong, but I like strong flavour coffee.
TIL. Thank you!
Isn't that also known as Turkish Coffee?
Basically just boiling coffee grounds, then let it all settle and you drink the liquid at top and leave the muddy stuff at the bottom.
I've done lots of camping when I was younger. My family is Indigenous Canadian and we were affected by the English historically ... so our hot drink of choice is orange pekoe tea. Same thing, you boil it until it steeps. My parents came from a time when they used to buy it as loose ground tea that made a mess. In my time, it all came in tea bags so it was easy to heat, steep, pour and collect. We also liked to boil multiple tea bags for about 30 seconds ... this speeds up the steeping process and makes a strong bitter dark liquid that is almost like coffee.
Fun fact ... in the winter time, people used to use the spent hot tea bags from their tea to melt and wipe off the ice from the sled runners. It melted off the chunks of the ice and smoothed out any liquid to make a new shiny solid ice layer to make your runners slippery smooth again.
Yep. Cowboy coffee is Turkish brew. The only difference is a lack of any extra implements and it's usually done in a big camp kettle or pot. The grind isn't that fine either. But for all intents and purposes, the method is the same. Greek coffee is also very similar.
I'm also a big fan of boiling more tea than normal to get a strong flavour lol. But usually out camping, I'll have my coffee grind and just tea bags because they're much easier Always double bag it 😁 Big peppermint fan, but also like a lot of smooth and flowery blends. Like the opposite of the coffee, I guess—cover all bases.
but did you complain the entire time?
Honestly kinda fun to make food over a fire when the power is out