Campfire Compact Espresso Maker

**Samblers** · 24th January 2014, 06:24 PM

Great read!

I have a rule that I don’t make my own coffee. I’m a self-confessed metro café lurker (addict?) who drinks too much and sometimes makes vast inexplicable detours, much to the annoyance of the wife and lodgers, to achieve my daily fix from a suitably hipster joint. Yes, sad I know… but everyone gotta have a vice.

The wife got me an AeroPress plus Porlex hand grinder for Christmas, mainly for use as a camping set-up. Wow! No longer do I need to rely on the corrugated cardboard cups of milky grey misery that is the ‘take it or leave’ it choice of regional WA!

I also bought myself a stainless steel frothing jug plus $10 battery milk frother.

It’s a cheap set-up ($150) that produces seriously credible coffee.

**Judo** · 25th January 2014, 06:09 PM

I'm interested to know more about the "$10 battery milk frother"?

**Samblers** · 25th January 2014, 10:31 PM

miniature egg whisk basically... looks like stainless steel pen

**davidsonsm** · 26th January 2014, 05:51 AM

I've just got the porlex. Was thinking of using a drill to drive it rather than the handle. Is that the height of laziness?

**Samblers** · 26th January 2014, 11:07 AM

No, i've considered same... but dont carry a drill and kind of think that the bean-grinding is sort of a zen moment in the coffee-making process, with only the determined rewarded

I'm glad its not just me faffing around like this by the way!

**davidsonsm** · 26th January 2014, 12:20 PM

Tossing up whether to get the modern version of the atomic or the bellman. Both do milk frothing.

I currently use an allessi stove top. Works pretty well (not expresso - more turkish). Keen to try it with fresh ground beans.

**Hoges** · 26th January 2014, 11:12 PM

Serious question: How do you manage on days of total fire ban... not a joke. I carry a variety of "heating things" in a compact wooden box... Firstly there's a small tin folding "stove" for use with hex tablets which I souvenired

from the school cadet corps (1961); a 'dragonfly' pressure pump hiking stove; a Borde "bomb" stove (1968 purchase) which is a stainless steel tube you fill with petrol or shellite attached to a coil and needle valve; a Kelly kettle and a Woolworths special $15 dual burner stove which uses disposable propane cans which come in $4 packs for 4 and seem to last a long time.... and a 100w immersion heater (1974) with a std 'cigar' type plug which goes into the auxiliary power socket... purchased 40 yrs ago for warming baby's bottle on a long trip ....choices, choices...

I was dying for a brew on a recent trip to Sydney and was prepared to pull over into one of those well developed rest stops ...but I'd passed a sign which advised high fire danger and so I thought better of it. Later on it seemed that the risk with a stove was minimal... but you never know whom you might upset so I desisted...

Can anyone advise what's acceptable and what's not?

**Will Wallace** · 27th January 2014, 12:01 AM

Has anyone bothered looking at the Handspresso?

Look it up. Great idea.

Will.

**davidsonsm** · 27th January 2014, 06:43 AM

Originally Posted by Will Wallace

Has anyone bothered looking at the Handspresso?

Look it up. Great idea.

Will.

There's a 12v version of the handpresso too.

**davidsonsm** · 27th January 2014, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by Hoges

Serious question: How do you manage on days of total fire ban... not a joke. I carry a variety of "heating things" in a compact wooden box... Firstly there's a small tin folding "stove" for use with hex tablets which I souvenired

from the school cadet corps (1961); a 'dragonfly' pressure pump hiking stove; a Borde "bomb" stove (1968 purchase) which is a stainless steel tube you fill with petrol or shellite attached to a coil and needle valve; a Kelly kettle and a Woolworths special $15 dual burner stove which uses disposable propane cans which come in $4 packs for 4 and seem to last a long time.... and a 100w immersion heater (1974) with a std 'cigar' type plug which goes into the auxiliary power socket... purchased 40 yrs ago for warming baby's bottle on a long trip ....choices, choices...

I was dying for a brew on a recent trip to Sydney and was prepared to pull over into one of those well developed rest stops ...but I'd passed a sign which advised high fire danger and so I thought better of it. Later on it seemed that the risk with a stove was minimal... but you never know whom you might upset so I desisted...

Can anyone advise what's acceptable and what's not?

Yeah. Total fire ban days you'd have to have an electric heater. Othrrwise you're pretty stuffed aren't you.

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