Pahkataide Visakuksa

Pahkataide Visakuksa - A kuksa made of birch. The outdoorsman’s one and only cup!

Each kuksa is unique, but the volume is roughly 150 ml.

• Made of birch 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

What does the name mean? Pahkataide means gnarl art, visa is another name for gnarl, and kuksa is the name of a wooden cup.

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.