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Can You Really Boil Coffee in a Tin Can?
Oct 20, 2025
Tin can coffee also known as hobo coffee is some of the best you'll have and you can buy our cowboy coffee at kentrollins.com
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Cowboy coffee. You've all heard of it.
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Probably some of you even drank it from
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watching our videos. But today, I'm
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showing you how to make it when you
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forget your coffee pot. It's in a 10
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can. Hobo coffee.
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Now, when I was in a branding pin, I
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seen a lot of old-timers with one of
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them big old folders can sitting in a
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hot plate of coals. water in it, coffee
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in it, let it boil, put a stick over it
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so it wouldn't boil over, give it a
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little stir, and they drank it like it
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was the best coffee in the world. It was
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cowboy coffee.
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We're going to let this boil about 3
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minutes in this can. Now, if I hadn't
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put this green oak stick in there, it
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probably boiled over. Oldtime taught me
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that long ago. Mama always said, just
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lay your stick on top. It won't boil
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over. Now, don't use something that's
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got a lot of sap in it, like a pine or
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something like that. You're going to
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flavor your coffee with an ungood
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flavor. We're going to let that come to
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a rolling boil for a little bit. Pour a
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little cold water down the spout and
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we're going to call it 10 can cowboy
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coffee.
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After it's boiled and you got it over
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here, take you about I'd say little over
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a half a cup of cold water and pour in
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there. What does that do? It settles all
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the grounds to the bottom. There is no
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filter here. You will not need it. We're
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not going to pour this through a sock.
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No, we're going to pour it in a cup and
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ain't going to be no grounds. And we
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going to drink it.
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Smooth as a whisper.