Coffee on board

GHA said:
By how many seconds? Takes less than 30sec to grind then time is same as instant. You must really be in a rush...... ;)
Easier? Must be the worlds laziest sailor if making a cup of freshly ground is too much for you.. ;)

Azera Americano looks far too expensive on amazon compared to real coffee.
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Does that mean you have a grinder on board? If so, will be visiting next month, we were given a bag of beans and have struggled to find a grinder!
 
Beneteau381 said:
Does that mean you have a grinder on board? If so, will be visiting next month, we were given a bag of beans and have struggled to find a grinder!
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Grinder was off ebay, one of those handful of things which would *really* be missed if it wasn't there :cool: (like the pressure cooker!)
Hand grinder though, might take a moment to do a bag :)
 
Many years ago, when I lived in France, we had one of these
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It worked well, but was slow and hard work, especially when you really need coffee at Oh God double-oh. It was soon replaced by one of they new-fangled electric ones.

I now take ground coffee down each time I go to the boat and keep it in a Kilner jar. My palate isn't sensitive enough to notice the difference between fresh-ground and a packet that's been open a few days.
 
Hand grind 13gms. of coffee for a single cafetiere. If they're unground, then they remain fresh. If they're preground they become stale and sour.
Boil the water and remove it from the heat. This will allow the boiling water to cool slightly, down to around 93-91C. At this temperature the coffee isn't being burnt.
Put the coffee into the cafetiere.
Fill with the boiled water and put the top on.
Wait for between 5 & !5 minutes before drinking.
If a crew member asks for milk or (God forbid 'powdered cream'), take advantage of an obscure and little known rule from the 1707 Act of Union, and kill them.

They're aliens.
 
Sea-Fever said:
Vyv Cox swears this is not the cause of any smell but I have to disagree...it clearly comes from the water that has been sitting between seacock and pump. I always give it a few pumps when first arriving on board.
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The boat that I used to sail on had a policy of a minimum of 30 pumps after each use (including urinating). You need to completely clear the 'dead volume' in the pipes, which is actually quite a large volume. Smell will eventually permeate through the pipes, especially if you are using the green pipe, and not the white pipe.
 
steve1963 said:
The boat that I used to sail on had a policy of a minimum of 30 pumps after each use (including urinating). You need to completely clear the 'dead volume' in the pipes, which is actually quite a large volume. Smell will eventually permeate through the pipes, especially if you are using the green pipe, and not the white pipe.
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how big was the holding tank???
 
Carib said:
I must say I've never found cafetieres particularly easy to clean - quite the opposite! Maybe I'm doing it wrong..
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Spirit (of Glenans) said:
It's like the old-time prospectors panning for gold:
Put a kitchen towel over the sink plughole then put just enough water into the grounds to create a slurry which will rotate freely when you swirl the cafetiere, then dump smartly into the kitchen towel amd allow to drain.
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N'ah. Tie a bowline though the handle, cleat off the other end and throw it overboard; let the wake take care of it. Be sure to rinse off with fresh water. ?
 
steve1963 said:
The boat that I used to sail on had a policy of a minimum of 30 pumps after each use (including urinating). You need to completely clear the 'dead volume' in the pipes, which is actually quite a large volume. Smell will eventually permeate through the pipes, especially if you are using the green pipe, and not the white pipe.
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Nice but impractical if you are almost always using a holding tank and want it to last a while before you have to up anchor and get out to see.
 
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RupertW said:
Nice but impractical if you are almost always using a holding tank and want it to last a while before you have to up anchor and get out to see.
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Hence diverter valve so wee only goes straight over. Or use the other heads for those operations.
 
RJJ said:
Hence diverter valve so wee only goes straight over. Or use the other heads for those operations.
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I don’t even want wee in the water - but that still loses the vital pipe space and requires more flushing. Much more practical to flush the absolute minimum and keep the pipes clean. Then no smell at all.
 
The 30 pump rule is in place on our boat. What you do is to empty the bowl then pump 30 times: that pushes air through the pipes not water. It gets rid of the pipe contents without adding to the volume in the tank. You can work out how many pumps are required: Jabsco states that a metre of pipe requires 7 strokes of the pump: length of pipe time 7 plus a bit for luck. We’ve got a 4 metre run to the tank, so 30 pumps works. No smell and no back flushing. The bowl remains empty until the next customer visits.
There‘s also a diverted valve in the system. Pee gets pumped straight out, solids goes via the holding tank. Same 30 pump rule applies to both solids and liquids, can’t see what so difficult about pumping air through the system to clear the pipes.
 
duncan99210 said:
The 30 pump rule is in place on our boat. What you do is to empty the bowl then pump 30 times: that pushes air through the pipes not water. It gets rid of the pipe contents without adding to the volume in the tank. You can work out how many pumps are required: Jabsco states that a metre of pipe requires 7 strokes of the pump: length of pipe time 7 plus a bit for luck. We’ve got a 4 metre run to the tank, so 30 pumps works. No smell and no back flushing. The bowl remains empty until the next customer visits.
There‘s also a diverted valve in the system. Pee gets pumped straight out, solids goes via the holding tank. Same 30 pump rule applies to both solids and liquids, can’t see what so difficult about pumping air through the system to clear the pipes.
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Bit of a faff compared to 3-4 pumps which is what we do - as soon as the bowl is clear then stop immediately is our rule. And no smells at all (at the price of changing the pipes every couple of years which is about an hour’s work).
 
RupertW said:
Bit of a faff compared to 3-4 pumps which is what we do - as soon as the bowl is clear then stop immediately is our rule. And no smells at all (at the price of changing the pipes every couple of years which is about an hour’s work).
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Whatever works for you. I too used to change the pipework with monotonous regularity. Haven’t needed to do so for 5 years now since we got a bit firm on the 30 pump rule....
 
We have an Aeropress, a Mokka stovetop and a Rok (hand-forced espresso). One of the cabin boys grinds me fresh beans every morning. I always use the Rok. The coffee on board is, to my taste far better than any barista has ever made me, with one notable exception.
 
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