Air Travel with a coffee maker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave OP alone. It's not y'all's business, geez. Either make a kind suggestion or go away.

OP, you can try a camping coffee maker at REI for future trips. They have different models.

WRONG. When you post on DCUM, you are making your problem everyone's problem.

[Anonymous]

I've actually stopped at a highway rest stop and boiled my own bottled water on a camping stove, ground my own beans in a coffee grinder plugged into the lighter, and used it to make coffee in a french press. It was well worth it. This was years ago, though. These days, however, I think Starbucks coffee, which is every.freakin.where, is pretty good, so not sure I would bother with that again.

[Anonymous]

Coffee maker in hand luggage is no problem. I just past the security at hongkong airport with my neapresso coffee maker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may be the most high-maintenance behavior I've ever heard. Truly.

+1

Good grief OP, just buy some good coffee when you get to your destination. It can't be that hard to find a good coffee shop. And if it's not AS GOOD as your home brew, so what. Just make do til you get home.

Such a prima donna. How does your husband deal.

[Anonymous]

Oh, someone bumped this thread. It was hilarious! There are some gems we forget about as time passes. Where is OP and what did she do?

[Anonymous]

Coffee grounds can definitely trigger enhanced scanning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coffee grounds can definitely trigger enhanced scanning.

Dammit. I didn’t see this was a zombie thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may be the most high-maintenance behavior I've ever heard. Truly.

I don’t know. I have some extended famiy who trave with a portable, but huge ice maker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This may be the most high-maintenance behavior I've ever heard. Truly.

I don’t know. I have some extended famiy who trave with a portable, but huge ice maker.

In their car? Yeah, I would judge that.

I guess I'm low maintenance because I never put ice in my drinks, usually only get to my coffee when it is luke-warm, and said coffee is usually $hitty. I indulge in other ways I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad that I enjoy coffee but don't *need* it. I nnnnneeeeeeddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd my coffee people/coffee alchemists are so damn annoying.

Better bring your own TP, too, OP, in case they only have 2-ply instead of 4-ply for your precious ass.

Have you posted before? I don't think anyone else is full of such hatred for caffeine addicts.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP of this thread from two years ago. I re-read my original posts, and some of the responses, but not the entire thing.

First I'd like to take responsibility for not explaining the situation accurately in my initial post. In the interest of trying to keep things more "general," I described myself as being "picky about my coffee" and made it sound like I would only drink coffee I made for myself.
The true situation (which I believe I did explain in a later post) was that I was going to be in Disney World for a running race.


I would not have my own car, because I planned to take the "Magical Express" from the airport to the hotel.
On the morning of the race, I would need to be ready for the bus transportation to the start line no later than 3:30 am, so before the food courts at my hotel were open--so no, going to the food court for coffee in the morning was not an option.
Since I did not have a car, going to the local 7-11 or similar for morning coffee was not an option.
The ONLY way for me to have a cup of coffee in the morning before the race would be to fix it in the room myself. I COULD have used the type provided by Disney, but I just don't like that kind.

I was waking up at 2:30 in the morning to run 13.1 miles in late April Florida heat, and all I wanted was to be able to have a cup of coffee first. If that makes me "the most high maintenance" person you've ever heard of, then I don't know what to say. I'm sure you regularly wake up before 2 am to run long distance in 70+ degree weather and are simply AMAZING.

For what it's worth, I ended up buying a 5 cup coffee maker with a stainless steel carafe and brought that along, and it worked just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow -- I applaud your non-support for Starbucks, but you seriously lug a full-size Mr. Coffee on the plane with you? Even when most hotels have coffee makers in the room? Why not just bring coffee and filters?

I agree -- put it in the original box. Buy a new one if you need the box, they're only about $30.

Thanks, I still have the box, and use that when I travel by car-- but it's huge and takes up twice the room. I can't use the in room coffee maker-- I am going to Disney world and they have Those horrible one cup things-- I can't remember the brand, but it is not compatible with keurig. The type of discs they use are not available for purchase in stores. I will be up in the wee hours of the morning (running the Star Wars race that starts at 5 am) so just going to the food court and buying a cup of coffee is not an option ?

I've run several Disney races ( they are fantastic - enjoy yourself) and they open the food courts early on race mornings.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the update, OP!

[Anonymous]

Why not carry it on and tell TSA it's your emotional support animal?

[Anonymous]

OP and all, I travel with a pour over filter cone, filters, and ground coffee. Then you just need to boil water. You can also bring your own kettle (easier than the entire coffee maker).

They come in ceramic or plastic. I use a ceramic one at home and a plastic one when I travel.

You want to make sure it has a relatively wide base so it can fit a variety of cups, and, ideally the little window that lets you see inside the cup (although that's not crucial). You can use #2 or #4 filters (depending on the size of the cone you buy:

Here's a good one:

https://www.target.com/p/chantal-ceramic-pour-over-fade-gray/-/A-52689873