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Morning y'all, thank you for stopping by. We're out here at the Lazy Arena, North Oklahoma City
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cooking for the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association Range Roundup. This makes about my 12th year
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and every year when I start, the first thing I do, build a fire in Ol Bertha, then I make cowboy
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coffee. Simplest thing in the world, got three ingredients, coffee, water, fire. Y'all stick
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around we're gonna show you how. We got water in this old pot comes to about the
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bottom of the spout. We're gonna let Bertha do her job and warm this water a
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little. Take this old eye out so we can get her on high. We'll let her warm that
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water when it gets warm then we'll add the coffee. Alright, old Bertha's got her
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warm that's why we want it. We want to let that water warm. For this old big pot
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we'll put it in about three handfuls or a cup and three quarters. And we'll have the recipe listed below for all y'all that need a smaller pot of coffee
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because if you drink all of this at one time, you'll have a buzz on, I promise you
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She'll let her get warming, then she'll boil this and bring it to a rolling boil. We'll finish her up
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Cowboy coffee's probably been around longer than we all want to mention
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We'll go to showing our age how long in a tooth are we maybe. But, you know, hunters, campers, everybody used to make this stuff
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they'd boil it just in an old coffee can or an old empty lard can that they'd cleaned out
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But when you boil coffee and you boil it right, you're taking all the acid out
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People that drink this coffee after we get them hooked on it say, I don't have no acid indigestion
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It don't burn my belly. My stomach's not tore up. That's because we're reaching that temperature when this is boiling to take the acid out of the bean
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It not one of them drip dropping spitting spewing coffee makers that sitting under your counter That stuff don get water hot enough to do no good If you going to make coffee and you want it to be the best coffee you ever drank boil that coffee Say we going to let this come to a good rolling boil until I mean maybe two three
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minutes until I mean not just bubbling, but I'm talking rolling. You can see it
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That way we know we got them on grounds boiled up good. We're going to pull it off fire and let it set a little bit
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All right, we've let this set about a minute or two and we're going to pour about a cup of cold water. Make sure you get some of it down that spout too just in case some of them grounds
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got hung up in there. Cold water when it hits that settles all the grounds and makes it go to the
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bottom. The people said for years you know how you drop egg in there? No I like to eat my eggs
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without my coffee in there. So you don't have to put nothing in there but cold water. All the grounds
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will go to the bottom. You let it set a minute. You'll have the best cup of coffee you ever poured
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in your life. And there's not any grounds in this coffee when you cook it right
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Now you can see when we pour this out, if there's some grounds in there, it's clean
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as a whistle. All them grounds settle to the bottom. Remember, boil that coffee, you'll have a better taste
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You'll get the bitter acid out of the bean. Come to a good rolling boil, about three minutes
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Pull it off fire, let it sit. Cup of cold water down the spout, let it sit again
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Pour you a cup of coffee, you're ready to go. Holler when you get it ready. There's been a lot of things that have went down the trail with old cookies since the 1870s
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but one thing has always remained, and that is coffee. Hitter, fellas, the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup
