I've got my first stove, now I need something to make coffee! Obviously, this set jumped out - does anyone have any experience with it? Alternatively, what is your favorite coffee making device to use with, say, a 502? Thanks all!
It's a cool Coleman set, so yes, some people desire these. If it has the innards, you can perk coffee with it, so since they're old and/or used, you'll want to make certain the percolator parts are inside. I use a 502 to perk coffee when camping. 502's are my favorite single burner stove and they simmer flawlessly, but they're only 4500 BTU. As a result, I initially heat the water with an M-1950 military stove and then switch to the 502 for the perking.
No quarrel ever with the 502, but the 533 fits the exact same role and size with more power. Not quite as classic I suppose….
Coffee and foods cool far too quickly for my taste in Any plain metal cup. I brew cowboy coffee every day in a similar but larger pot.
I've read this a lot. To be clear, the 502 CAN boil the water, it just takes longer, correct? I'm not overly in a hurry when I'm out in the wilderness, but I gotta make sure that endpoint is eventually reached.
I've read that the 533 doesn't have as good of a simmer, and that the grate design is less bulletproof/more prone to bending than the 502. I'm willing to bet that those are minor issues in practice and that I'm only reading the worst cases that get posted to the internet, but still. Gotta say, the 502 has more mojo. For some reason, that is very important with these old gas pressure appliances to me! As you say, not quite as classic :-)
Good point on the metal cups. I'd probably rather pour it into my insulated Wawa tumbler... glamorous it is not, but it saved my life keeping me awake doing successive single-day marathon trips between SC and NJ. Then again, those Coleman cups are adorable.
We do enamel cups (blue) in the tent, in the morning, when camping. Pour-over brew. The enamel cups work great. But, we don't delay drinking the elixer, so no need to keep it hot.
I used to use enamel cups when camping in my teens. If you dont mind the chipped scruffy look the inevitably will develop. Go for it! I've recently come to discover they're also useful at home. (If the coffee cools off during those long Teams-meetings, I just put the cup on a small canister stove off camera.) They can also be heated on the induction stovetop. I'm inclined to procure a percolator such as the one pictured, exactly for that reason. The ability to make coffee daily on the induction stove, and then seamlessly switch to gas in case of power cuts. The cups pictured have a ring of stainless around the brim, suppsedly improving the burning lips issue as well as lowering risk of chipping.
I have one of the Coleman white cups. As an enamelled cup, it's better than the run of the mill, with thicker porcelain coating. I make coffee every morning with a one pint enamel cup, a Melitta cone filter holder and a #2 filter -- two scoops of ground coffee. Boil a bottle of water, [16.9 oz]. Pour over the filter, let it seep thru. True, the enamelled cups have poor thermal retention. I have a couple wrap-around insulators that cover 3/4ths of the circumference, but better than nothing. Spring steel inside neoprene. Pretty rare. I only save two examples at some expo we were loading out. They will wrap around anything from an 11 oz Pelligrino soda can to partial coverage of a 17 oz cup. At breaktime at work, I have only 15 minutes. I use an army surplus aluminum cup so it cools faster.
