New coffee travel kit

[sosha]

Just got an email about a new coffee travel kit from Blue Bottle/Timbuk2, both Bay Area companies.   Absolutely brilliant, albeit expensive. 



Prety cool, eh?

[headchange4u]

I saw that this morning. Pretty niffty

[Hooblah2u2]

Very nifty, but pricey as well.

[milowebailey]

Anybody have any experience with the porlex grinder?

[milowebailey]

I hit the buy now button, LOL... Guess I will have to wait til I get home.


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[Tourman]

Learned a new word. Zarf. Guess I have to use it three times before I own it. "Honey, have you seen my silk zarf anywhere?"

[headchange4u]

I think I'm digging the cups more than anything else. Anybody own Falconware cups like that?

[peter]

I would've said it was worth the price if they included some way of heating the water.  A coffee kit isn't a coffee kit if you have to drag along another piece of equipment to make coffee.

[MMW]

Yikes.

$180?

It's two cups, a pourover cone, a hand grinder, and a purse.  Sheesh.  I mean it's pretty but really?

I lug a softsided lunchbox sized cooler around that holds a kettle, a blended fuel stove, a bottle of fuel, a plastic hario cone, and a hario slim grinder.  That gets the job done pretty well-- at least for camping trips and excursions to the field for work.

Stove-$12 from Army Navy store
Kettle-$10 SS percpot from who knows where with the guts removed.
Cone-$7
grinder-$25
Cooler- $0 -picked it out of a box of neglected coolers and whatnot from the garage.

I brew right into the Tervis tumblers I use for coffee most days.  (They're unbreakable and they fit in cupholders)

I'm at a shade over $50...but I don't have a fancy coffee purse or "custom felt coozies" I suppose

[peter]

It's not a purse!  It's European!

[MMW]

You'd be a dandy!  A real fancy boy!

[jano]

I would've said it was worth the price if they included some way of heating the water.  A coffee kit isn't a coffee kit if you have to drag along another piece of equipment to make coffee.

Water heaters are not needed.  My last trip I forgot to take my wee kettle with me.  So I simply ground coarsely and steeped overnight, had some cold brewed coffee in the morning 

If I need to pack light and don't have room for the heater, then typically I'll use the hotel's coffee maker to spit out hot water.  It's cooler, of course, than the usual brew we use, but it's far better than whatever packaged coffee they have, and it probably helps I do enjoy cooler brewed coffees on occasion (in the 170F mark).  Simply grind a little finer and dose a bit higher.  Or was it finer and lower?  Hmmm. 

Oh, FYI: for anyone travelling to Vegas, majority of the big hotels along the strip do not have coffee makers in the rooms, you have to pre-order and they tack on a small daily charge.

[jano]

$180?

It's two cups, a pourover cone, a hand grinder, and a purse.  Sheesh.  I mean it's pretty but really?

Plausible, and I'd go so ar as to say for a nice kit, it's within the real of reason.. I couldn't find these specific mugs, however, the nicer, brand name ceramic travel mugs are about $15-20 each, the bonmac cone is also $15-20, the Porlex Mini is $40-45, so right there you're looking at $85-125.  Them fancy bags can get pricey, I recall I used to drool over certain messenger bags that were stoopid $300+... so, $55-95 isn't bad for a nice bag like that.

[staylor]

I'm going to try and use 'Zarf' in several conversations today.

[sosha]

Timbuk2 bags aren't cheap, but well made. I've yet to kill one.

Has anyone seen a kit like this before?