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If you came to this review looking to make coffee for all your friends or family on your next camping trip, then you're in luck! The Planetary Designs BaseCamp is a durable French press available in 32 or 48 ounces to ensure you can make a righteous amount of coffee whenever you need to caffeinate your whole crew. The redesign of this press is even better than previous iterations. It boasts a more compact and stylish design to lend to better packability, and even the most discerning coffee snobs in our review team were impressed by the clean-tasting and well-balanced coffee it produced. The innovative filter stops the coffee extraction process when you submerge the press, and the vessel features double-wall insulation. These features merge to ensure your coffee will stay hot and sludge-free for hours &#40;or minutes depending on how quickly you like to drink your coffee&#41;.
While the BaseCamp is our go-to for large groups, it is obviously one of our last picks for backpacking. It is rather hefty and large, proving too cumbersome for anything but car camping or living out of your van. Additionally, it can be somewhat challenging to screw and unscrew the lid. To make it less difficult to screw open, be sure to flip open the snap top lid to decrease pressure. Beyond these minimal drawbacks, we were impressed by this burly, innovative, and easy-to-use French press. It is sure to keep up with the caffeine needs of your whole crew on your next car camping adventure.

If you came to this review looking to make coffee for all your friends or family on your next camping trip, then you're in luck! The Planetary Designs BaseCamp is a durable French press available in 32 or 48 ounces to ensure you can make a righteous amount of coffee whenever you need to caffeinate your whole crew. The redesign of this press is even better than previous iterations. It boasts a more compact and stylish design to lend to better packability, and even the most discerning coffee snobs in our review team were impressed by the clean-tasting and well-balanced coffee it produced. The innovative filter stops the coffee extraction process when you submerge the press, and the vessel features double-wall insulation. These features merge to ensure your coffee will stay hot and sludge-free for hours &#40;or minutes depending on how quickly you like to drink your coffee&#41;.
While the BaseCamp is our go-to for large groups, it is obviously one of our last picks for backpacking. It is rather hefty and large, proving too cumbersome for anything but car camping or living out of your van. Additionally, it can be somewhat challenging to screw and unscrew the lid. To make it less difficult to screw open, be sure to flip open the snap top lid to decrease pressure. Beyond these minimal drawbacks, we were impressed by this burly, innovative, and easy-to-use French press. It is sure to keep up with the caffeine needs of your whole crew on your next car camping adventure.
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