- What's up friends,
I am Miranda and I have an extra special episode
of Miranda in the Wild for you.
September 29th is National Coffee Day,
which is absolutely a real holiday.
So, in honor of National Coffee Day
for all of you coffee connoisseurs,
I wanted to find out if it was possible
to make a fancy cup of coffee,
like a latte or a mocha while on the trail.
This video was actually filmed as part of my every way
to make a cup of coffee on the trail video.
If you haven't seen that, I'll go ahead and link it
in the description below.
And this was filmed many months before the global pandemic,
but you'll definitely be able to tell
when you watch the video.
So, without further ado,
can you make a fancy coffee beverage while hiking?
I consulted an expert.
Let's find out.
(upbeat music)
This is my show gosh, darn.
So I've tried all these different types of coffee
and I have my opinions on what I think worked best.
But, I am now going to get the help of a professional,
Eric.
- Hey.
- This is Eric from Carabiner Coffee Company.
I'm happy you're here, I need help.
- We all do don't worry.
(chuckles)
- So, I thought it'd be kind of fun
if you can help me make a like fancy coffee.
- Aah.
- I've done black coffee, figured out how to make
I think a mediocre cup of black coffee.
- Am sure its pretty good.
- But I think be nice if we, yeah,
tried something a little bit fancier-
- Spice it up. - Spice it up
- Indeed. - Yeah.
- If we're trying to do like a little bit more
of an elevated version, get some milk involved, maybe?
- Yeah, we're gonna make like a latte.
- Yeah, probably the AeroPress is gonna be the best thing
to give you some espresso style coffee,
and then add milk to that and you're gonna be a little bit
more in the realm of a latte.
- What if we wanted to get, like,
fully in the realm of the latte?
- So there's been a few ways that I think
I've accomplished that here and there.
One is definitely been using a French press
to froth some milk.
Yeah- - Great.
- We're gonna see how it goes.
- Sweet, let's start with trying to make the backpacking-
- Latte?
- Latte.
- Yes. (chuckles)
- Yeah latte.
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- Awesome, so when using the AeroPress,
I like to do if you're gonna make
kind of a latte style drink on the trail,
doing a very fine grind close to an espresso grind,
get some boiling water, and then press it through.
And then you're gonna have something close to espresso.
- Sweet, we're using powdered coconut milk,
you could use whatever type of powdered milk you want.
We have reached boiling water.
(applauding)
(screams)
- What we can do is take one sporkful powdered milk,
and best thing to do is to put the water directly in there.
- Just tell me when.
- Perfect,
so you can kinda see there's little specks in there,
which is always gonna happen, especially with coconut milk,
we'd ground a bunch of coffee in here to a fine grind,
and toss it in here.
- Why pour the milk in first and make milk instead of just-
- Mixing them both together?
- Yeah.
- Ideally, especially when you're dealing
with powdered milk, especially something like coconut milk,
the hotter you can get the water,
the better you're gonna dissolve and emulsify the milk.
So it's just gonna be a better, richer milk.
So, doing that first
and then they're gonna be combined anyway.
So then we can put the water in the AeroPress
put over here and plunge right through and then-
- Got it. - You're pretty much set,
maybe bring water up to about to the three there.
That'll give us a pretty strong situation.
There's a couple methods
to use the AeroPress everybody out there has their own.
This is how I usually do it.
Shake the AeroPress around a little bit
that's gonna agitate it,
when it's been about 15-20 seconds now
and then just give it a good amount of pressure.
(hissing)
And let's see what we got, oh.
- Oh, yum.
- Frothy, coconut milk.
Campuccino. - Can you see it?
- Oh. - A campuccino.
All right, I'm gonna give it a taste test.
We gonna see if it's any good.
(drum rolls) (slurping)
Well, it's really good.
- It's really good.
- It's also really hot
(laughing)
the Campuccino.
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We have this sort of bizarre little,
like camp espresso thing, so-
- Yeah, so, this is kind of like an espresso percolator,
I guess is what you could call it.
Wanna screw this and then we've just got this little guy
where to put some also kinda finely ground coffee.
Oh (laughing)
- Oh, yeah all right.
- Let's just
(laughing)
And perfect.
- I thought you were the professional.
- Alright, let's figure out.
- What happened?
(beep)
- So, we've got all of our grounds in here.
- Yeah.
- Looking good,
and then what we're gonna do is toss a little water in here
pretty much I would say yeah,
about three quarters of the way,
leave a little bit of room just because
this is gonna go down in there.
Don't want it to overflow
and then we're gonna screw this back.
Oh, then this is gonna hop on the stove.
- You were saying you have some ideas about like how
to make a mocha or just like a-
- The sweeter side?
- Sweeter side-
- Of the coffee life.
- Yeah.
- Pretty much mixing in if you have any sort
of chocolate bar or whatever kind of sweet thing
that you would want.
Getting the coconut milk prepared and then adding in
and stirring in a chocolate bar is gonna pretty much get you
real close to a mocha.
- As it so happens,
I have a generic chocolate nuggety bar right here.
- This guy is gonna.
- Oh no-
- Come at us pretty quick here.
- Oh my gosh.
- Bu yah, we're getting this.
(pop)
We are.
- Yeah.
- Coolio, now on to phase two.
- Yes.
- So, pot.
(clanking)
- Approximately exactly.
- Excellent.
- One spork.
- Water till Eric says one.
- Mm hmm.
That looks good.
- So I got a piece of my chocolate nugget bar.
And I'm gonna put it in the milk.
- This has never before been tried on camera-
- Tropic caramel in nugget-
- This is definitely starting to melt
- Yeah, come on lil buddy.
- So, really pretty much we've got some glorious mocha milk
and some dark coffee.
We're gonna toss one in.
- And you can also just use like cocoa butter, right?
- You could.
- I'm gonna do one of these.
- Hmm
- And then a quick pour.
- That's it, all right.
- Let's see.
(slurping)
- How do we do?
- This one's better.
- Is it?
- I think so, try it.
- Lemme try this.
I'm a fan.
- Are you really?
- I'm a fan.
- Cheers.
- Happy to help indeed, cheers.
- To opinions.
- Yes (laughing)
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We're now gonna try a latte two ways.
We're gonna do one traditional with the espresso machine
and then one with my instant coffee.
We're basically just testing to see
how the French press works for frothing instant milk.
- Hmm.
- Got it cool.
- How long have you've been doing?
- Why are we doing this?
For the caffeine!
- So while that water's heating up,
we've got a French press and really you can make as much
as little coconut powder milk whatever look you have.
But I would say using a little bit more
is probably gonna be more effective
just so you can really air rate a bit more milk
and then share it with friends.
We're gonna say this is five sporks.
(humming)
- Is probably copyrighted.
- That's a nice kettle.
- I know, isn't it nice?
- Am a fan.
- Me also, am a fan.
- That's about good.
- Sweet, okay-
- We'll pour that like two cups.
- Two cups, sure.
- I have no idea and the thing is you can make the milk
as thick or thin as you want.
The goal here is just froth it, baby.
Froth it.
- Wow, this one looks good.
Should I pour this in here?
- Yeah, that will be yeah quick pour.
Okay, first look
- Oh, looks good.
- I feel like-
- Do you wanna keep frothing?
- I feel like we could
- Wait, can I try?
- You wanna get it so that the-
- Oh, yeah.
- Yap.
(laughing)
- I'm getting pumped.
Oh you like much better technique than I do
- Five four, three, two, one. (laughing)
Alright, popping it off.
(clanging)
(chuckles)
Alright, so we do we got a little bit there and-
- Oh my gosh, it's totally frothy-
- I think a little bit there.
That's pretty good.
- Oh my gosh.
- All right cheers.
- Cheers.
- Let's see how this goes.
- Oh my gosh, that's so good.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- We've reached our peak here folks.
(faintly speaking)
- I know (chuckles)
whenever you're gonna be putting milk
or like making up milk based drink
rather than just black coffee,
getting a strong of a cup of base coffee
like small and strong as possible.
And then you can kind of dilute it with as much milk
or less milk as you want and you're gonna get
a good cup of coffee.
- The verdict is,
yes, it works with powdered milk,
froth it in the French press-
- Yeah.
- Is effective.
I think that my favorite actually was the Campuccino.
- Was it, yeah?
- I think so.
- Campulatte.
- No.
- I like to camp-a-latte.
(giggling)
- No.
- Tm.
- Thank you, Eric. - My pleasure.
- It was super fun to have you here-
- Likewise. - Doing this.
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And if you have any other ideas for content
you want me to make, leave that in the comments.
Now get out of here and I will see you guys outside.
(upbeat music) - Bye.
Cheers.
- To delicious coffee
- That was it.
- And new friendships.
- Sunset fades (laughing)