Cowboy Coffee (or How to Make Coffee Without a Coffee Maker)

Cooking Channel's original Web series Good to Know shows us how to make coffee like we're roughing it, ranch-style, without even a plebeian drip machine in sight.
By: Deanna Michalopoulos

If you've harbored a decades-long mission to knock hipsters down a pretentious notch (what, only us?), we've got just the thing to ground them — in the coffee arena, at least. (Retroactive pun-appreciation break.) As the logic we just made up goes, the opposite of hipster is cowboy. While hipsters wax superior with shatter-prone Chemex coffeemakers and an accompanying pile of filters harvested from Japanese mulberry trees, cowboys (and pioneer women) are out doing hard stuff with their hands, like herding wild cattle. And they'd sure as hell know how to get caffeinated if their roommate "accidentally" bumped their Chemex off the kitchen counter and smiled a little when it broke.

Take it from Laurie March, co-host of Cooking Channel's original Web series Good to Know, who shows us how to make coffee like we're roughing it, ranch-style, without even a plebeian drip machine in sight. 'Cause living up to that flannel is probably the new ironic. Watch how she does it after the jump.

For more cowboy cuisine, check out the new episode of Rebel Without a Kitchen on Tuesday at 10pm ET. Matt Basile's headed to Texas to check out the Cowboy Classic rodeo, where he'll learn the craft of barbecuing from the pros — and aim to teach them a couple of tricks of his own.

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