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Power is Out: Percolator Time
Posted on 12/10/23 at 9:32 am
Posted on 12/10/23 at 9:32 am
Forgot how good coffee tastes made in one of these. My grandmother in Steele, AL used one all the time. Busted mine out this AM with the power out from the thunderstorm last night. Had fun showing the wife and kids how it works. Love the smell and seeing the coffee bubble up into the clear lid. Miss grandma’s house and the smell of coffee and biscuits.
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Posted on 12/10/23 at 9:43 am to Aubie Spr96
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Miss grandma’s house and the smell of coffee and biscuits.
Mine somehow bypassed the laws of physics and could have fresh from the oven biscuits and hot coffee in the blink of an eye. I’d give almost anything for one more morning in her house… the smell, the sounds….
This post was edited on 12/10/23 at 10:06 am
Posted on 12/10/23 at 11:12 am to Aubie Spr96
I'm always thrown by these kinds of threads. Obviously people like what they like, and I have no objection to that. With that said, among people who know coffee, percolators are considered the absolute worst way to brew coffee, below the cheapest of the cheap drip brewers. It's impossible to brew coffee in a percolator without over extracting it, burning it, or both.
They do look cool, though
They do look cool, though
Posted on 12/10/23 at 11:24 am to Joshjrn
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With that said, among people who know coffee, percolators are considered the absolute worst way to brew coffee, below the cheapest of the cheap drip brewers. It's impossible to brew coffee in a percolator without over extracting it, burning it, or both.
Like Blue Bell ice cream (which I prefer), it’s probably more about the nostalgia than the actual taste, especially if you’re using the same utensil that your parents/grandparents used.
My grandfather used a percolator, but it was before I drank coffee. Dad used to say he could stand a spoon in PaPaw’s coffee
Posted on 12/10/23 at 1:40 pm to LSUGUMBO
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My grandfather used a percolator, but it was before I drank coffee. Dad used to say he could stand a spoon in PaPaw’s coffee
I bet he also saucered his coffee. I know mine did.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 2:15 pm to Aubie Spr96
So what did you power the percolator with?
Posted on 12/10/23 at 2:23 pm to Stadium Rat
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So what did you power the percolator with?
Presumably a gas stove... this feels like a trick question
Posted on 12/10/23 at 4:19 pm to Aubie Spr96
Those old people had a pot of water simmering on the stove to keep the coffee hot when it was done perking.
We tent camped last month and we made coffee in a perk pot on top of my charcoal chimney. Wasn't bad.
We tent camped last month and we made coffee in a perk pot on top of my charcoal chimney. Wasn't bad.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 7:47 pm to Aubie Spr96
Coffee out of the percolator over the fire on a freezing camping morning is the best. After I burn the hell out of my mouth not waiting.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:19 pm to Aubie Spr96
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Power is Out: Percolator Time
Did not expect this to be a coffee thread
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:44 pm to Joshjrn
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With that said, among people who know coffee, percolators are considered the absolute worst way to brew coffee, below the cheapest of the cheap drip brewers. It's impossible to brew coffee in a percolator without over extracting it, burning it, or both.
It's nostalgia.
However, to make an argument for a drip brewer, the trick is finding the exactly perfect amount of coffee.
I drink black coffee 99% of the time.
On the truly cold mornings, I love a little cane syrup in chickory coffee.
It's so wrong it becomes right.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:33 pm to Aubie Spr96
When i was growing up we had an electric percolator. Both both my grandmothers use an old drip pot like this till the day they passed away. Some of the strongest coffee you will ever drink. An espresso shot doesn’t have shite on the coffee that came out of these pots.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 10:04 pm to calcotron
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Coffee out of the percolator over the fire on a freezing camping morning is the best. After I burn the hell out of my mouth not waiting.
I find it best to cool it down first with some Bailey's
Posted on 12/11/23 at 10:22 pm to lsujunky
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When i was growing up we had an electric percolator. Both both my grandmothers use an old drip pot like this till the day they passed away. Some of the strongest coffee you will ever drink. An espresso shot doesn’t have shite on the coffee that came out of these pots.
You can only pack so much coffee into an espresso machine. A percolator allows you to add as much coffee as you want (within reason) and extract it as long as you want. It’s the rough equivalent of a French press, simply with less fine control.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 8:30 am to Joshjrn
Percolator is a self cycling mokapot. Sounds nasty
Posted on 12/12/23 at 9:54 am to lsujunky
I still use a drip pot like that one.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 9:58 am to Joshjrn
quote:There needs to be a 5,000 downvote arrow.
I'm always thrown by these kinds of threads. Obviously people like what they like, and I have no objection to that. With that said, among people who know coffee, percolators are considered the absolute worst way to brew coffee, below the cheapest of the cheap drip brewers. It's impossible to brew coffee in a percolator without over extracting it, burning it, or both.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 10:00 am to lsujunky
quote:My parents did, and every cup of coffee I had until I moved out came from one. I ended up with it and use it every time the power goes out. The side burner of the gas grill comes in handy.
Both both my grandmothers use an old drip pot like this till the day they passed away
Posted on 12/12/23 at 11:00 am to Joshjrn
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I'm always thrown by these kinds of threads. Obviously people like what they like, and I have no objection to that. With that said, among people who know coffee, percolators are considered the absolute worst way to brew coffee, below the cheapest of the cheap drip brewers. It's impossible to brew coffee in a percolator without over extracting it, burning it, or both.
They do look cool, though
MawMaw and PawPaw were no coffee nerds. MawMaw probably would've crushed a cig on your neck for this.
Posted on 12/12/23 at 5:00 pm to Joshjrn
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I'm always thrown by these kinds of threads. Obviously people like what they like, and I have no objection to that. With that said, among people who know coffee, percolators are considered the absolute worst way to brew coffee, below the cheapest of the cheap drip brewers. It's impossible to brew coffee in a percolator without over extracting it, burning it, or both.
It's the way I make coffee every day. I buy old Revere Ware stove top percolators from Ebay (haven't been made in about fifty years) because they were the best.
While it is easy to overextract or burn with a percolator, a properly brewed cup of coffee from the percolator (also depends on proper grind and roast) beats every other method of making coffee, and most drip sucks by comparison.
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