Granite Ware Coffee Boiler

I use this so much both inside and outside. Its perfect for boiling water and making whole bean coffee. Just throw the beans in and boil over the campfire grill. It takes a bit to get that right though. And yes the lid clip is flimsy, but it works. Its been all winter and mine hasn't broken. UPDATE: I bought this in 2013. There is no rust, no chipping, and the flimsy lid is STILL on. Lol. I love this kettle. It has paid for itself with it's long life. I use it camping and on my gas stove. Yes, you do need a pot holder since the handle gets hot.

It's just a simple ceramic coated, cheaply fashioned lightweight, non stainless, kettle, but at under twenty bucks this was one of the better values we've found for making cowboy coffee over a fire. That it has traditional western styling was an aesthetic perk for backyard fire-pit cookouts more than actual camping. For treks, more modern compact designs are the way to go. But when your house is just a few yards away, this is awesome for cowboy coffee or just boiling some water for tea or hot cocoa. Though we'd recommend getting a separate kettle for coffee and for the other if you plan to do both, as they say you want to treat cowboy coffee kettles like cast iron skillets: don't wash out the flavor. Amazon currently lists this as 100oz. I guess they're rounding up. The manufacturers sticker shows 3qt (96oz) as well as 2.8L (just under 95oz). Regardless, we find there's really only room for about 70oz IF you're doing cowboy coffee. If you're just heating water then it'll hold more by filling it to the rim. But for cowboy coffee it's best to stop filling below the spout, bearing in mind you've got about a cup of grinds to pour in on top of that. I won't bother going into detail how to make it. It's easy enough to find videos online from Kent Rollins explaining what to do. Being used to drip machines and French press, we found we had to experiment a little to get the strength just right, but it was well worth it. Surprisingly. As bringing coffee to a full rolling boil goes against what I've learned in the past about brewing. But it wasn't bitter at all. As you can see in the pictures this kettle can withstand being in some pretty hot flames. And you'll need a good fire to get it boiling good, if you've got an open pit, where there's no way to direct all the heat just toward the bottom of the kettle itself. We've already made coffee a good number of times this way with no signs of deterioration of the materials. We usually put on the coffee while we're getting a good bed of heat for grilling, which we usually use pine for, before adding harder or more flavorful and less sooty woods to the coals for the actual grilling after the pine has turned to hot coals. This does leave a fair bit of black soot on the outside of the kettle to clean. So if you don't have pine you need to get rid of (beetles have been killing a lot of ours in recent years, so we have lots), harder woods or soft woods without all the sap, should make it a lot easier to clean the kettle later. So the cleaning rating really depends on what type of wood you use, as well as your dependency on dishwashers, which for coffee would be a bad idea, even if the kettle was compatible to clean that way. It comes with your typical lid, flexibly attached to the handle for easy checking of what you're heating so that it doesn't fall off in the fire if you forget your glove, rag or something or leave it boiling too long. But it can also be separated from the kettle easily during cleaning. There is no inner percolator like most models, which is probably one of the reasons for the lower price.

Just as I remember from Camping trips or Grandmothers woodstove. Coffee comes nice and smooth. In fact I am brewing a pot as I type this review,

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Loved it!