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Got One! And while I have considered taking it the coil has served me just fine so far. But you are correct the jetboil is ideal for picnic lunches and where food and hot drinks are not so available.peregrina2000 said:They had a jet boil, http
I have now also joined the electric coil club.I, too, carry an electric coil which when needed is VERY useful!
For example last November at 7 am in El Acebo it was lonely and VERY COLD while waiting for the safety of dawn to continue walking. No other pilgrims had shared the Meson albergue. The day before after a good and copious mountain meal in the bar/restaurant downstairs I had taken a welcome hot shower. The water pressure seemed okay but plunked in the middle of the loo floor a large full water bucket with dipper was a surprise. Was this a new decoration in the Japanese bath-house style? I should have known.
By 7 am there was no running, only dipped, water available in the dorm. Thus a very welcome HOT early morning tea was boiled with the invaluable electric coil (the only 'luxury' in my kit); that single cup tasted especially splendid waiting in the cold for the sunrise!
Margaret Meredith
I am also kind of surprised that the whole thing weighs 100 grams, because I think an average glass container with 12 oz capacity weighs about 150-200 g alone.
But with the presses don't you have to have a way to heat the water and isn't that the point of taking the immersion coil? So in reality you'd have to take both or stand in line for the stove and pot (if there is a pot) to heat the coffee water. I don't drink coffee but will bring an immersion coil for a cup of tea in the mornings or the odd cup of soup when I need a quick snack.
Picture picture please. Can you take one of your redesign and post it? Thx.Ok I have now tested my super duper coil, with the new on and off button and a better plug, too.
It works, and it's great!
Doesn't take more than a minute or less, and the water is hot.
I found a light plastic mug (which takes 4 dl) and it went well, it did not melt.
Toghether the coil and the mug is only 188 gram! The same as a large apple.
Will soon test it on the Salvador route.
Got the plastic bodum from Starbucks which is small and very lightweight. Will be ordering the coil as my husband is an unbelievable coffee addict and he's doing the Camino somewhat reluctantly as he won't let me go aloneDoes anyone use a travel type mug with a top on it so as not to spill while walking or do you drink your java in the aubuerge? Thanks for this great thread!
Thanks for posting this, Irene. Last year was my first year to walk with a coil and I will never go without one again. I didn´t buy a mug, just used an old tin one I found in the closet. But that caused an occasional little burn on my lips, so I was thinking I would look for an improved mug, and you just found it for me! Much more reasonably priced than those titanium cups and not much heavier, it seems.
But explain to me why you need the travel bodum and this cup. Don´t they serve the same purpose?
Oh, right, I forgot, you want to BREW real coffee. I think the bodum is easiest for that, because you can then use the plunger and not worry about the grounds. I'm willing to just drink instant, so I don't need a bodum. I think the bodum is just like a regular glass French press, no?
Irene, you will be the envy of all the coffee fanatics on the Camino! Laurie
Almost all Spanish coffee is made in espresso machines, so brewed coffee is somewhat rare. It will taste quite watery if you are accustomed to the real Spanish coffee. Instant coffee? Just boil up some cardboard...
Hola Susanna - first rule of the Camino- "there are no stupid questions" - how are you going to get information required if you don't ask?? Buen CaminoThank you!
I wonder (stupid question maybe),
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Ive never seen one of these before. I like it!! How much for the monkey at the end of the video?Ok I have an update - I must admit to having used the wrong verbage so here is my correction: The correct term is press rather than bodum - I was thinking the term for a coffee press WAS bodum but in fact Bodum is the brand of the press I purchased from Starbucks. Here is the link to the one I purchased: http://www.starbucksstore.com/acryl...=Sbuxcom-_-ShopMega-_-coffeepress-_-Evergreen
Here is a video on its use:
Nice Mug!! Interested to hear your report of using a coil with it. Thx!!!Ok got this coffee mug from REI:
http://www.rei.com/product/794090/sea-to-summit-delta-insulmug
Holds 16oz and weighs 4.4 oz. Have not ordered the coil yet but will try to remember to post here after I do my first trial run. I'd be thrilled if the coil fit inside the thing but I don't have my hopes up too far. I'm thinking coil will go inside the travel bodum and then go into a java stuff sackfor happy mornings!
As I wrote in an earlier post "I have used this mug for years and never had a problem; no need to hold the coil. However, the mug plastic is dishwasher-safe. Margaret Meredith
Dear club members,
I'm now also looking for a new mug. The one I got worked well, but unfortunately it did not survive the flight back home.
It's now broken. It was made of dishwasher safe plastic and very light, and quite old.
Ok, I have now found a new mug I intend to buy. Here it is:
http://www.edelrid.de/en/Edelrid/Sports/Multibowl-nocolor.html?listtype=search&searchparam=Bowl
It takes 6 dl, weighs only 50 gram, is dishwasher safe, unbreakable and cost only 40 sek (that's 3 euro something).
Will get back to you as soon as possible with a report about this very important subject.
Watch out this Decathlon cup has no handle and may be hot to hold.
MM
But it´s collapsable
Buen Camino!
This has got to be one of the Camino's most exclusive clubs, and I am proud to be one of the founding members. I too am looking for a cup to replace the tin one I took this year. I think these are the relevant features that distinguish what's available:
weight
collapsible or not
handle or not
what's the material -- if plastic, can it stand the coil? (margaret says yes if it's dishwasher safe); titanium seems ridiculously expensive though light
So far, I think I like the sea to summit mug that irene posted: http://www.rei.com/product/794090/sea-to-summit-delta-insulmug
Do the pros see any downside to that one? (some of the reviews say it drips when the top is on, but I would toss the top anyway and save a few more grams). It holds 473 ml (16 oz) so would be big enough to make soup in or boil an egg. I also like that it doesn't have a handle, which makes it easier to pack. It weighs 4.4 oz, 124 grams, so it's twice as heavy as the one Susanna posts.
Who knows how long we can keep this thread going?! Laurie
p.s. Susanna have you made the transition back to the real world without too much psychological stress?
My espresso machine changed my life. I'll be happy to share with anyone in the albergue who helps me carry it.
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Am sure the Australian mug (sea to summit) is great, and the size is right, but to me it looks like a baby mug.....
I'm back in a very autumnal Sweden, and got a flu. I'm trying to cheer myself up by shopping mugs.
so sorry to hear you have the flu, Susanna. I will have to ask you to explain yourself, though -- what is baby-ish about this sea to summit mug? Am I going to be the laughing stock of the albergue if I pull it out of my pack? And is gruel the same as oatmeal?
Laurie, I think gruel in this case is what we'd call pablum.
Melamine, a chemical found in bowls, plates and other tableware may leach into our food and make its way into our bodies, potentially raising risks for health problems.
That's what a new study of soup-eaters suggests. Taiwanese researchers enlisted a group of 12 healthy men and women who ate noodle soup in either a bowl made of ceramic or one made of melamine. They found measurable levels of the chemical additive in the urine of those eating out of the melamine bowl.
"The amount of melamine released into food and beverages from melamine tableware varies by brand, so the results of this study of one brand may not be generalized to other brands," wrote the study's authors, led by Dr. Chia-Fang Wu, a researcher at Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. "Although the clinical significance of what levels of urinary melamine concentration has not yet been established, the consequences of long-term melamine exposure still should be of concern," they concluded.
The study was published Jan. 21 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Melamine is a flame-retardant chemical used to make adhesives, industrial coatings and certain types of plates, cooking utensils and other plastic products. The chemical made headlines in 2008 when some China manufacturers of infant formula added melamine to watered-down milk to trick tests measuring protein. Some 300,000 babies became sick after consuming the tainted formula and milk, and six died.
The chemical has also been linked to kidney and bladder stones (urolithiasis), kidney failure and even cancer in animal studies, according to the World Health Organization, but research on human exposure is lacking.
Study participants were randomly assigned to eat soup out of either a melamine bowl or ceramic bowl, then after a three-week period, were asked to switch. Their urine samples were collected about 12 hours after eating. The researchers found on overage, people who ate out of melamine bowls had 8.35 micrograms of the chemical in their urine, compared to 1.31 micrograms of the chemical found after eating from a ceramic bowl.
Dr. Kenneth Spaeth, director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Center at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., tells CBSNews.com that melamine may leach out of tableware if the food is especially acidic, tableware is damaged and if the products are used when serving or reheating hot foods.
Ah, but the cream. I buy "condensed milk in a tube." It is readily available everywhere in Spain and it doesn't need refrigeration, but the problem is that it is sweet. I don't like sugar in my coffee, but it's the lesser of two evils - I either have to drink it black or sweetened with milk.
I'm boiling, too.
First I tested the big mug which I bought this week:
https://www.addnature.com/product.aspx?pf_id=EDELRID_MULTIBOWL06L
That went well. It's a bit too big, almost (6dl). But good for a large cup of tea or perfect for soup, and eggs, I imagine.
(Will try that later)
After that I tested a mug I already got at home:
https://www.addnature.com/product.aspx?pf_id=ADDNATUREKASA
That went well, too. It weighs 53 grams and takes 4 dl when full to the brim. And cost almost nothing, as you can see.
Hi Irene, I have never seen anything other than " leche condensada". Maybe others have though. And btw, I think the lack of a handle is a benefit because it's easier to pack.Instead of condensed milk is there evaporated milk available? There you get the creamy without the sweetiethat would be perfect.
That's the nice thing about the GSI one I linked - the handle is webbing, so collapses.
I was just looking at this one on Amazon earlier today. I even asked if it were dishwasher safe since I think it would need to be at least that to hold up to the coil. I need mine for tea and the occasional soup or hot chocolate, since I don't drink coffee. But I have taken a vow to try cafe con leche at least once while on Camino.I use a GSI mug that is similar to the Sea to Summit Delta Insulating Mug. It's fantastic - been using it for a couple of years.
Mine is an older version of this one http://www.campmor.com/outdoor/gear/Product___82582 --- it has an insulating sleeve, web handle, sipping lid, is BPA free, holds 17 fl oz, only weighs 3.5 oz ...... and at http://www.campmor.com/ , it is only $9.99
The best instant coffee I've found so far is Starbucks Via (We like the Columbian medium roast).
It's also very easy to pack, in little individual sleeves, in a baggie inside the lidded mug.
Even my Columbian partner (total coffee snob, of course) grudgingly admits it is "drinkable" when we take it camping.
I think he is going to be very happy with an electric coil - looking forward to trying it out. Was unsure he would be able to wait to get the first bar in the mornings!
I carry an enamel mug & store my gas burner inside it ,all snug & virtually unbreakable,the weight difference between plastic & enamel is negligable , seems to taste better too.......................Vicrev
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