Well folks, I FINALLY discovered the secret to good mess decks coffee !!! I usually make my coffee pretty strong, but it's been lacking that certain "zing" I'm used to. Today, I stumbled on the secret!!! I had some coffee left over from yesterday, so I poured it in my stainless steel percolator, sans the stem and coffee basket. Then, today, as I was out pushing snow around, I left my regular coffee pot ( a drip coffee maker) on all day. Finally, I had been too busy to restart it, so I poured the remainder of that into the existing pot sitting on the stove.(No fire had yet been applied to warm the old stuff.) I added a little water to compensate for the evaporation and turned on the gas. After it came to a boil, voila !! I poured a cup and thought to myself, "Hmmm, this tastes familiar". All of a sudden, it dawned on me, it was reminiscient of the mess decks coffee !! HOT & strong !!

It seems, probably due to the McDonalds lawsuit from that clumsy woman who burned herself, the manufacturers have turned down the heat on the coffeemakers. I had been wondering if this were the case, as my cup would get cool within 10 mins. Now, with the stovetop version, I CAN control the HEAT !! Just under boiling, it comes out just fine !!

Thor...

How can you have real Mess Decks Coffee without some Crank spittin' in it?

C'Mon HAL !! Now ya had to go and make it all grotesque and stuff !!

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Originally posted by Thor:
C'Mon HAL !! Now ya had to go and make it all grotesque and stuff !!

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I'm into details man. Authenticity. Sorry.

if by 'mess decks' you mean strong..i have already made it like that.

um...minus the spit..

If it won't bore a hole through a styrofoam cup, then it ain't strong enough.

If your stir-stick don't stay perpendicular, it ain't strong enough.

haven't ever made or drank coffee to the requirements of the first but have to the second.

Nah, good coffee has to AGE! I remember that we had a 30 cup maker in the engine room on a destroyer I was on, it never went dry and was never cleaned for an entire deployment! I "shit you NOT"! That was the best coffee I have EVER had!

Aye....bilgewater....Aye...Rust yer boilers matey!!!!

...never made it with bilgewater, but I'm sure I would have tried if nothing else was available, lol!

Bilge water strained thru a sock...an nasty Blackshoe sock....

God, Thor is really gonna kill me now for wrecking his perfectly good coffee thread.

I think he must have spit that batch he made out when I mentioned the Mess Cranker spit....

You think it's strong out on the messdecks - you should try it in the Goat Locker! OMG! We could use it to shine brass or polish our boots!

LOL...Multipurpose Coffee, 1 Ea. US GOV issue...LOL.

My uncle used to talk about something called shaft-alley coffee, he was a navy man from the 30's.