No more mornings without coffee, thanks to these tips

Many of us are probably quite alike here: in the morning after getting up, you first need a coffee before you're really ready for the day. At home, everyone has surely developed their own routine. On the road, a bit of preparation is needed if you don't want to drive to the nearest petrol station first only to drink bad coffee. So here are a few tips on how you can prepare your prepare coffee on your next camping trip.

Making coffee while camping:

1. Instant

2. Moka pot

3. French press

4. Pour-over

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Instant coffee, the emergency coffee

Let's start with the simplest and most no-frills way to make coffee. You don't care how the brew tastes, as long as it's coffee? Then instant coffee is probably absolutely fine for you. All you passionate coffee lovers, please skip to the next chapter.

Preparation: Instant coffee is the easiest to prepare. All you need is the coffee, which you'll find in any supermarket, and boiling water. If you have a camping stove or a built-in gas hob, just bring the water to the boil, pour it over the powder in the cup, let it steep, done.

Verdict: Instant coffee is definitely only meant for emergencies.

Moka pot, caffettiera or moka

A fairly common method for making coffee is the moka. The preparation is uncomplicated and the coffee is ready quickly.

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Preparation: With the Italian moka pot you can make coffee easily on the camping stove. First you grind the espresso beans, for example with a hand coffee grinder. Then you fill water into the large bottom chamber, put the metal coffee filter on top and fill it with the ground beans. Screw the "top" on, place it on the camping stove and you're set. After a few minutes, the steam from the boiling water builds up pressure, so the water rises up through the ground coffee.

Verdict: Making coffee with the moka is pretty quick. The gear, like the moka, the coffee grinder and a camping stove, is inexpensive to buy. That said, this method suits campers who enjoy strong coffee or espresso, because what ends up in your cup, depending on how carefully you prepare it, is closer to an espresso than to a coffee.

French press, coffee enjoyment at its best

French press coffee is maybe a kind of mix of the previous ones: easy to make and inexpensive when it comes to buying the equipment, yet high quality in taste.

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Preparation: Similar to the moka pot, you start by grinding your coffee; for good taste, a coarse grind is recommended. Meanwhile you can already bring your water to the boil. Depending on how strong you like your coffee, you put roughly 60 grams per litre of water into the French press and first pour in a little water until the powder swells up. Stir once, top up with the rest of the water, and after about 4 minutes you put the "plunger" on and press it down slowly. Your coffee is ready.

Verdict: If you don't want to go without coffee and aren't that into espresso, you can make really excellent coffee while camping with the French press!

Pour-over, a labour of love

Another fairly simple method, which basically just replaces the classic filter coffee machine in a manual way, is the pour-over. For this you only need the dripper, coffee filter, ground coffee and boiling water.

Preparation: Place the dripper on your coffee pot and put the filter inside. Dampen it slightly and then fill it with the ground coffee; here too, the average is 60 grams per litre of water. Pour a little boiling water into the dripper and let the coffee bloom briefly, then pour the rest of the water into the dripper in circular motions, wait a moment, and you're done.

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Verdict: Done right, you get really good coffee for breakfast with very little.

No coffee, count me out

One last little tip: the boiling water should never be 100 degrees Celsius when you pour it over the ground coffee. Let it cool down for a minute and then you can get going. And now the next camping trip can pretty much come, right?!

If you still need a few tips for your morning routine while camping, click through to our blog post on the topic.

P.S.: If you prefer cappuccino, it's best to bring a milk frother along too.