Coleman Camping Coffee Maker

I recently purchased this coffee maker for car camping/mountain biking trips around Wisconsin. I always wished I could have coffee on the mornings that I woke up at the campsite. Percolators do not work well (in my experience) so I had basically given up until I saw one of these at a sporting goods store. I did some review checking online and all I read was good reviews on this particular model (apparently some of the earlier models had some minor issues). It really does work great! I have been using it on my old 2-burner coleman camp stove (coleman fuel) that my dad gave me (it's probably 30 years old). Contrary to what some people have said about it taking a long time to brew, some saying as much as 45 minutes, it took me about 10 minutes to brew a pot of coffee with cold water. I just cranked up the flame to high and it only took a couple mintutes for the water to heat up enough to start making it's way up to the basket and start dripping into the pot. Makes coffee as good as your standard countertop-style coffee maker (slightly larger, maybe, because of the larger base) and practically works the same way. If you want coffee at the campsite I cannot imagine anything better than this.

This coffee maker will make you feel you are home. I use it with a two burner propane stove and after finding the spot where the carafe should sit (the handle must align with two dots market in the surface) is like brewing with a regular coffee maker. Furthermore I did buy it on sale 50% off regular price, at $22.00, I couldn't get a percolator that good. This coffee maker will be perfect for a family camping, not so for backwood camping when you don't need bulky stuff, and won't have to worry of breaking the carafe.

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The first two times I tried to use it the coffee did not drip through the filter into the carafe. I finally realized that its "pause and serve lever" is not well designed. At least with my device, when the filter basket is opened and then closed, the "pause and serve" lever does not always line up with the the trap door under the filter basket. So even when the carafe was in place, the trap door was not opening to let the coffee through. Once I figured that out, it worked quite well.

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I am a boy scout leader and I camp from 20-30 nights per year. The troop purchased one of these and used it daily for several weekend campouts and week-long summer camp, for a total of about 10 days with an average of 3-4 coffee drinkers. We drink about 2 pots a day (not each).

Durability:

The pot broke right away. We purchased a steel pot.

Plastic around the filter area seems to be brittle...it cracked and a piece broke off.

Cleaning:

The filter basket needs to be easily removable for cleanup. You have to carry the whole unit to your water source to rinse it out. You can take it out, but it requires a multi-tool to do so.

Quality of brew:

Good cup of coffee; just like your drip pot at home.

Speed:

For three consecutive mornings, we conducted a side-by-side field test with an old-fashioned steel percolator pot. Both the Coleman product and the perculator pot had the same amounts of water. Both the Coleman and percolator were lit on the same stove at the same time with the same burner setting. The percolator pot was brought to a boil and perc'ed for 8 minutes. Bottom line, the Coleman product took twice as long to make a pot of coffee.

Overall:

A percolator pot is a better option for camp settings. The Coleman stove drip pot takes longer, is not that durable and takes up more space than an old-fashioned steel percolator pot. Also, the hot surface area (burn potential) is greater for the Coleman product, as the entire bottom section gets hot, as you might expect.

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We go camping quite a bit, but the biggest challenge every year is the big, fat annual camping trip that we go on with a large group of 24+ childhood friends. And every year, I run the camp kitchen. You try making coffee for 24 severely hungover adults with a percolator that barely boils two cups of coffee over a fire in twenty minutes and see how long YOU last! This year, I broke down from the "cook everything on the fire" rule and purchased this coffeemaker for the stove.

When first using it, one might think it will slide right off the propane stove grill, but it does stay up there pretty securely, and the best part? It brews hella fast. Takes less than ten minutes, no percolating, no boiling, it just brews like you plugged it into a wall. We made four pots of coffee within thirty minutes and everyone was happy, not too strong, not too hot, just good ol' coffee. Oh, and because there is NO information anywhere, it's a basket filter. Cleans up nice and cools off quick too. I'll be taking this ANYWHERE there is no electricity!

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