So you’ve got your water, cash, canned food, and a wind-up radio, but something is missing from your prepping supplies. If the power goes out and your water supply is cut, how will you make your morning coffee? Put down that jar of instant granules — basic services might have failed, but your tastebuds haven’t. Drip coffee is an easy way to perk yourself up and boost your morale in a crisis (just pick up a ChemEx brewer or a simple dripper with some filter papers), but if you’re aiming to conserve water then a shot of espresso is a better way to get your caffeine fix, so here I’ve focused on brewers for preparing shorter drinks. Consider how you’re going to store your emergency coffee supply, too. Whole beans will hold their flavor better than ground, and I recommend keeping them in an opaque, airtight container in a cool place (light, heat, air, and moisture are the enemies of aroma compounds). You’ll need a grinder, too — look for one with burrs rather than blades so your coffee isn’t chopped up in rough pieces. If all that sounds like too much hassle in a crisis, opt for foil-sealed coffee pods instead. Both the Nanopresso and Dreame Ecceluxe Go below have adapters for brewing with single-serve capsules. The Ecceluxe Go heats its own water, but if you pick a more basic brewer then you’ll need a different way to get it up to temperature. As the former editor of an outdoor gear website, I recommend a simple gas camping stove like the MSR Pocket Rocket 2 , which will get your water up to around 203F / 95C in approximately 3. 5 minutes. Now, onto the brewers… Wacaco NanoPresso
Future Future Wacaco Nanopresso Future Wacaco Nanopresso No power? No problem. The Wacaco Nanopresso generates up to 18 bars of pressure using nothing but elbow grease. It’s small enough to tuck inside a pocket, and is hand-powered, so all you need is a source of hot water to create properly extracted espresso with thick crema (even if you have to use a flashlight to see what you’re doing). The standard Nanopresso uses ground coffee, which you can tamp down using the scoop (the brewer has a valve to release pressure if you accidentally tamp it too hard), but if you’d rather use pods then the NS adaptor allows you to use Nespresso Original style capsules instead…