Pahkataide Visaluukuksa Hirvi - A kuksa made of birch. The outdoorsman's one and only cup! - The handle boasts a bone insert with a European elk - 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 *What does the name mean?* Pahkataide means gnarl art, visa is another name for gnarl, luu means bone and kuksa is the name of a wooden cup. Hirvi means moose. 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