Pahkataide Kompassi-kuksa

Pahkataide Visaluukuksa Compass - A kuksa made of birch. The outdoorsman’s one and only cup! Pahkataide (Finnish for “Gnarl art”) uses poppy oil to protect the wood. This size of the Compass kuksa works for men, women and children.

• The handle boasts a bone insert with a compass
• Made of birch gnarl in Finland
• Instructions:
• Pour hot (not boiling) water in the kuksa
• Wait for two minutes and pour the water out
• Wait at least two hours
• Make coffee and rub the wet coffee grounds to the inside of the kuksa for 3-5 minutes
• Use the kuksa for drinking coffee daily for at least a month - this makes it ready for normal use
• Never use any sort of detergents, soaps or dish washing products on the kuksa - the wood will absorb anything you present it with
• Rinsing is enough of a wash

Wood cups/mugs, such as the kuksa, are somewhat antibacterial: after a test period during which a kuksa was used daily for drinking coffee and washed only by rinsing with pure water, the kuksa showed a similar amount of bacteria as a porcelain cup taken straight out of a washing machine after the wash cycle.