how do you make authentic cowboy coffee? The one’s they’d make while wanderin the wild wild west back then

Put coffee grounds into boiling water for a bit, pour into cup, add a bit of could water to make most of the grounds sink to the bottom, strain the rest through your teeth

Cowboys don't wander. They work on ranches.

That said, boil coffee grounds and filter the brew through a sock, isn't it?

Or don't filter it at all. That's probably more common. 

Though, I think it's better if you put it in cold and bring to a boil.

>>19180792 (OP)

No filter, you brew the coffee strong, then when the grinds start to sink, you stir in some cold water, snow, or ice, this will cause the grinds to cavitate and settle faster

The coffee at the bottom will form a pretty solid puck

>t.I actually researched this in Colorado and Wyoming

>>19180792 (OP)

boiling water

coffee grounds, any kind and lots of them because men don't sit there "savoring" coffee we got work to do.

>causes the grinds to cavitate

Skip all steps and drink normal coffee.

>cowboys don't wander

No but some drove cattle, which would require the use of campfire coffee

When I was a Boy Scout, our Vietnam vet scoutmaster always made coffee with a beat up old percolater like this. STRONG coffee, like you had to eat it with a spoon. Looks like a percolator in OP, too.

Pretty sure cavitation is not occurring with boiling coffee, or your coffee pot would be exploding from the cavitation. The cold water just arrests the boil motion so the heavier grounds can settle to the bottom with the water currents. 



Cavitation is where the water moves out of the way so fast it creates a vacuum and the subsequent collapse of which makes a shock wave. Mantis Shrimp use this to hunt, and it is why they are so fucking hard to keep in a tank: they literally break the glass of the tank.

>They work on ranches.

Cowboys pre-date ranches.

Ranches is what killed the cowboys.

>It's over

And to be fair, open pasturing and cattle drives were kinda retarded from efficiency perspective. 

It's just the fact that nearly everything got sanitized, most the land used for old cattle drives around me is still as vacant as it was back then, but it's littered by barbed fence and no trespass signs since everyone is afraid you will stub your toe on a hike and tort them to oblivion.

Enjoying the nature now means going to a park or a trail with 9000 other people and Karen authority making sure you don't stay there past 10pm, because teenagers could have a beer and get giggly.

You don't stray away from the trail because at least 3 people get lost every year.

How did cowboys have access to cold water to make the grounds settle?

It just has to be colder than the coffee, but also, cattle country can get pretty cold in large parts of America

Most of the water you find in nature is cold until you heat it.
