Making Ranger Coffee

Step 5: Re-brew

Now the twist: take that coffee you just brew, pour it back into the resevoir, dump out the old coffee grounds, put fresh(ish) in, and brew it again. 

You read that correctly, make coffee, with coffee. what you get should be dark, murky, and taste horrible. The smell should burn your nose and eyes. Just dont spill it on any painted surface unless you plan on repainting. But if it doesnt wake you up, you are most certainly a zombie.

Add cream and sugar to taste and enjoy.

Comments

[dizzle976]

Us in the field artillery world call this TOC coffee. Officer coffee in other words. Us NCOs just heat water on the engine block and add old grounds to the water. Great instructable and funny cause its true.

[BlackSheep1]

official 1970s USAF coffee:

1 x industrial-size percolator (scrubbed clean, please)
1x fill water for above percolator
1x pound Folger's or Maxwell House (whichever is cheaper at the BX)
1x white paper towel
1x lockback knife model 110 Folding Hunter
1x Airman, female, 18 years old, with attitude

Step one: dump out the coffee that's been in there for the last week.
Scrub the basket, stem, inside of the lid and inside of the percolator thoroughly.

Line the percolator basket with a white paper towel folded into thirds, so that 1/3 sticks up all around the center stem and 1/3 sticks up all around the outer rim

Pour the pound of coffee into the paper towel, and tuck the edges in so that the grounds are covered and sealed into the paper (if you have paper filters you can substitute 2 each, 1 under and 1 over the coffee grounds).

Plug the coffeemaker in and push the "on" button.

Equip the airman with fingernails needing cleaning and the model 110 knife.
Lean said airman against the table where the coffee brews until the coffee is done. Once the "ready to serve" light turns red, have the airman announce "Coffee's ready" and clean the fingernails, ostentatiously, with the knife blade, while drinkers serve themselves.

Do not add salt to the coffee grounds.

The purpose of the airman having the knife is to prevent old NCOs from harassing the person who made the coffee about "ruining the coffeepot when you washed it!"

This will make approximately six servings of coffee.

[dmatthews6]

OK - one coffee cup/ one styrofaom bowl/ and a filter paper/cloth or paper towel or napkin if ya got it / dark roast coffee,please / and a pot full of boiling campfire water.

make slits in the bottom of the styrofoam bowl in a circle not bigger than the cup lip
put in a filter of some sort see above sit on top of the cup add coffee pour water into the bowl of coffee - let drip .

for group coffee make a filter over a larger / taller container .

if you only have a glass container put a big metal knife, spoon or something in it to help absorb heat so it won't crack.

PS: only use undies if they are all cotton. Tee shirts work great.

[romanreb]

Gosh, Ranger--we used to just boil a quart of water with a cup of cheap ground coffee for a couple of hours...You fellows are a lot more refined than I would have expected...I mean sometimes we would throw in an eggshell for some reason I never understood, but that underwear filter thing is a bit precious, don't you think? ;)
Really enjoyed your instructable,
Ol' Miz Womack

[burnerjack01]

Justin, I'm beginning to understand what makes you guys so ferocious....

[justin.jackson]

the combination of high levels of testosterone and sexual deprivation are what makes us ferocious. the caffeine is merely an enabler.

[Hisart]

Wow, looks like the coffee we had every night {via percolator} at the shop when I was in the Air Force. One of the guys spilled the pot on the floor and stripped it to the bare tile instantly! We spent the rest of the night stripping the rest of the floor and waxing it before inspection the next morning.

For those of you that don't know what a percolator coffee pot is - it takes the coffee in the pot and pumps it back up into the grounds basket. It will keep doing this until you open it and take the basket and the pipe out. By morning the coffee will peel the paint off of a radar dome! Man, I miss that old percolator. It could make the hottest, blackest coffee imaginable.

Fond memories!

Thanks for the reminder!

[the_eradicator]

I stilll have a stove top one..lol

[harthoppy]

Fave'd love ranger coffee . I drank a cup back in 96 and I am still running in circles.