{"id":447,"date":"2020-03-04T02:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/detouron.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2023-12-07T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T23:22:59","slug":"best-ways-to-boil-water-on-road-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detouron.com\/blog\/best-ways-to-boil-water-on-road-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Best ways to boil water on road trips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you ever found yourself in a hotel room or in your car thinking how nice it would be to have a hot cup of coffee or tea at that exact moment? Or even a hot chocolate, cider, TopRamen<\/a>, whatever you need boiling water for? Of course, if you are in a typical American hotel room, you could boil water using the small coffee maker that comes with your room, but these will only raise the water temperature to between 150-190F. The boiling point of water is 212F. This misses the mark by quite a bit! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quick side note: for good coffee, you want the water to be at least 200F, depending on the method you use<\/a> for making that coffee. In fact, percolators <\/a>and Mokapots <\/a>need boiling water to work. After reading this blog, if you’re still unconvinced about heating up water using your own apparatus, check out these suggestions<\/a> to at least improve by a little bit the hotel room coffee experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So… What options do you have to boil water? We’ve narrowed it down to four possibilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n