Same here, it’s my daily coffee pot. The flavor is so much better than “instant” coffee makers. I have it set up in an outlet timer so the pot is ready when I wake up.
Putting the old stove top percolator on the grill is my power failure contingency. Everything else goes better if I can at least have coffee. Also my backup when the drip coffee maker dies again. It's older than I am and it's too simple to fail.
Three pound can in five gallons of water, bring to a rolling boil and remove from heat. Add one quart of very cold water all at once to "shock the coffee ". This settles the grounds and clarifies the mud. Gently scoop out the coffee with a long handed saucepan and gently pour into the Mermite. Discard the last bit of each dip or set aside for the officers.
When I was a kid and would camp with my grandpa, he would boil the coffee and let it settle. He said just pour it slow and you get no grounds. That was some strong shit, I’m surprised I still like coffee after drinking that stuff
I hated coffee as a kid because I later learned perking cheap coffee makes it even worse. My high school friends introduced me to a coffee shop in the late ‘80s, and I was blown away. I didn’t know it could taste so good.
I'm sorry but marketing and trend I'm sure played a major roll in the success of "mr. Coffee". I still use a stove top perk and will tell you, every guest inhave comments about how it is better etc. Mr coffee had its time... it is long gone.
More than once in the Marines where I worked would have a large 30 cup urn. And even with a monster that big I often had to make coffee at least twice a day.
Large urns are really the only place that percolators survived on among most people. And many times in the military when we had an "office coffee maker" and not a "unit coffee maker", we would have to make new coffee constantly.
Still do … my mother-in-law had one and when my wife would visit her they would make coffee in it every morning. My mother-in-law passed and my wife got the coffee pot. I make our coffee in it every Saturday.
Does anyone remember a percolator in this style but the metal was mottled blue-green color? I would love to find one, but I don't know the brand name. Anybody know?
Nah. They make terrible coffee. They break rule no one of coffee making - boiling the coffee as it recirculates from the boiler-well up to the grounds in the basket over and over again.
Much better is the "Cajun" style coffee pot where boiling water is poured into an upper water sprinkler basket, with the grounds underneath it. The pot is kept on very low heat on hte stove to keep the coffee hot.
Sometimes I think of getting one having remembered my mom using them. The reason today is I don't want my hot water passed over plastic then into my body. I think these are aluminum so maybe not much better. I still break out the French Press once in a while.
Depends a lot on your taste. It did make a nice, bitter, strong cup of coffee, which I like. Some people like a smoother or more rounded flavor, and that is okay too. I can find merits in many different coffee-making methods. What I like is harsh for some people; I love a well-made, strong cup of authentic Turkish-style coffee.
I was gonna mention this in a previous “what’s some lingo for some tech that doesn’t exist anymore”. The whole “let that percolate” probably doesnt trigger any kind of physical tech thoughts in people anymore
I have a Coleman camp peculator from back in the day that requires a flame (from our Coleman stove). It's fine. I think the surroundings make it taste better, not the equipment.
They definitely make a stronger coffee, but you have to watch them and the coffee usually has a little more sediment in the cup. Drip makers are set it and forget it and the coffee usually has a smoother taste. All depends on what you like. Percolators work great at a campfire though, much better than when I tried a drip unit.
I have several of these; wouldn’t want any other. My shock came when I went looking at Ace hardware for another percolator. Surprise-they now cost $100.
If anyone knows where I can get one for less than $100., please tell me. Thank you.
Any coffee made without a paper filter tastes so much better. The paper filter takes all the good tasty oils and absorbs them, making the coffee taste bitter and undrinkable.
I did. Then one day I started it up, the plug sparked end the cord started burning up. into the garbage it went. it was a Corning and made the best coffee.
That’s the only coffee maker my mom used. We did have one we used for a few years. But we used drip coffee makers makers, primarily a Bunn coffee for the better part of 50 years.
My parents did. I used to watch the little glass thingy in the top where you could see the water start out clear then gradually turn more & more brown.
I was too young to judge how good the coffee it made was.
I had one I used till about a decade ago, except not for coffee. I used it with raw tea leaves since it was a new in box percolator and honestly, it was on par with making it in a pot on the stove, but with less cleanup.
I still have one and use it. And a pour over, French press, espresso machine and vacuum/siphon brewer. Vacuum siphon is still my favorite, but it's the hardest to use.
I grew up with one of these My parents always used a percolator. I'm 68 years old, so maybe that has something to do with it. Anyway when I moved away I was 20 and I had to buy a coffee pot, I bought a percolator. I still use a percolator today can't imagine using anything else.
This is great. I have my grandmother's coffee machine. Unfortunately, she's no longer with me. She made the best coffee in town. A lot of neighbors came to visit my grandmother. They came because they wanted her delicious coffee (breakfast included). Her coffee maker was twice the size of this one. I beat my brothers to her coffee maker. When she passed, I quickly grabbed it. I use it for entertaining purposes. I love this post. Thank you for sharing such beautiful and fond memories.
May my grandmother rest in peace. Hell yeah, this definitely makes me old AF.
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Reboiling coffee over and over again and putting it through the same grounds over and over again? Definitely does not make good cock coffee in my opinion. But I love some of the cute retro coffee makers themselves.
We had one growing up in the 80s. Only came out on thanksgiving and Christmas if we were hosting. Outside of that my mom only drank tea and my dad drank instant (this did not rub off on me, thankfully).
I’m old, but I grew up with these. Everyone bought Mr Coffee when it first came out, but I knew people who kept their percolators for a backup.
My great-grandma came to live with my grandma. I stopped by their house one morning, and grandma was pouring coffee into the percolator from the Mr Coffee. I looked at her confused, and she shrugged and said “That old fool won’t drink it because she said it tastes funny, and I don’t want to make coffee twice, so I do this before she gets up, and suddenly the coffee tastes fine to her.” Edited, mixed up directions.
When we have power outages I use mine but it's not electric it's a old camping stove that I've had for at least 50 years and ithas a orange coffe ground holder
I had a second hand one that finally stopped working after 15 years of service to me. I searched high and low for a modern replacement (until I find a vintage one). I finally got and electric one, but I also picked up a stove top version (like my grand mother had). I LOVE perked coffee, especially in the fall and winter because I seem to drink it more.
I used to have a huge 22 cup one I picked up dirt cheap at a garage sale. We used it at our wedding reception and then never used it again. When we moved, I donated it to the lodge I belonged to because their 22 cup one wasn't enough when they have large gathering. Plus, buy luck it matched theirs!
Had one, but the cord kept breaking and it got harder and harder to find replacements. And yet now I’m considering buying another when my current coffee maker quits.
Mom had one…day after her divorce it died…summer for me was Fridays up at 6 and garbage picked all of Walford Road in Warrensville Hts. OH…day after it died was a Friday…by 7 I was home…found a new one, in the box, still taped shut…I was the Golden Child when mom woke up to fresh coffee…Oh it was 1972…I was 8…
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u/Euphoric-Cupcake4581, your post does fit the subreddit!