I’ll have to sell my great-great-grandpa’s place…. The one where the water that goes in our percolator comes from the spring he used in the 1890’s… the one that free-flows out from under a huge boulder, into the creek and over the waterfall then through the front yard, past the porch where I drink my morning coffee, before passing the BBQ Pit area…. The pit that uses a fire on the ground and isn’t plugged in or controlled by Wi-Fi….
I guess I’ll move into the city where they have streetlights, pellet-poopers and coffee shops…
I have an old electric percolator that my kids gave me years ago. It makes a better cup than the keurig. But I end up wasting a lot so I just ordered another keurig to replace the one that crapped out about a year ago. I used to have an old percolator with the acrylic bubble on the top where you could see the coffee bubbling up but I have no idea what happened to it.
That's the reason I use my Keurig instead of the drip maker most of the time...I can make 1 at a time, get pretty exact on how much I use in the day, and its a fresh cup each time. But I do like the percolator (which isn't too big) and the drip for when Mom or some other coffee drinker visits.
My son has one that we use during the fall and winter months for family gatherings to heat mulled apple cider to mix with a shot of bourbon, a nice change up from coffee.
A percolator can make fine coffee, but a person needs to grind the beans to the correct size -- coarser than for drip. Also it's important to reduce the heat while the water is spraying the grounds and only percolate water over the grounds for the right amount of time.
My non-electric coffee maker isn't a percolator -- it's a stainless steel vacuum pot from the 50s or 60s. I dread the day that the rubber seal between the two halves of this pot becomes too hard to seal properly. I don't think these seals are made anymore, so I'll have to macgyver a new one.
A vacuum pot makes coffee that tastes more like it was made in a French press. A person has to match the grind size and the brew time to get a good cup, but once that's dialed in, it's no big deal. As an engineer, I'm fascinated by this coffee maker ... so cool!
I've had the glass ones, and yes I break 'em. When I saw this stainless one, almost unused in the original box with a gasket in perfect condition, I jumped on it.
We started decades ago with a Chemex when they were new and continue to use it and, more often, a Melitta. Our adult daughters wake up the dog when they activate their $1,500 espresso machines to produce their single-cup, 5.285 oz. brew. Meanwhile we've gone from old fashioned to landed-gentry as our manual method, unchanged, has graduated from "drip" to "pour-over." But discharge the result into a 10-oz. mug with a nifty saying on the side and we're in hog heaven!
I do laugh at the "new" pour over method since I learned to make coffee that way for my parents when I was a kid. Then we upgraded to an automatic drip that had a burner that kept the coffee warm...
Dan Deter , the 'new' pour-over method....haha, I've had at least two of these since the '90's when I worked for a local coffee roaster (#4 and #2). It is our backup if we lose power. Kids these days and their fancy coffee devices.
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
When you make a full percolator at 5 in the morning, pour it in a thermos…. It’ll stay hot and just as good as the pre-dawn cups…
That way when you’re at the farm and need to sharpen your axe that dulled while splitting hickory for the chicken cook coming up, you can enjoy a good cup without a barista…
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I have two hammertone green Stanley thermoses, one is recent and another is older. The older one weighs around 50% more than the newer one. I've heard it's because they're packed with charcoal and the amount has changed over the years. Seem to be similar performance though.
found more info:
One of Stanley’s key innovations was Char-Vacâ„¢, where charcoal dust was packed between two stainless steel walls while the vacuum insulation was created. This method made the bottles tougher and more resilient, albeit heavier and bulkier.
Stanley discontinued use of Char-Vacâ„¢ in 2009, opting instead to thicken the outer steel wall. This resulted in a bottle that was significantly lighter weight and built to the same industry- leading specs.
No mention of Turkish coffee here, but thinking through the process of cowboy coffee and Turkish coffee, it is really the same process except the grind. In the Turkish preparation, coffee is ground to powder, mixed with water and brought to boil. You let the coffee settle as much as possible, but it is almost mud. Good stuff.
We use a percolator in our camper and like it. The gas flame helps give a little heat in the camper too. Getting that water good and hot is essential when you are at altitude, everything cools off so fast. Early camping days just threw coffee grounds in boiling water, let it simmer a while then add some cold water. In theory the grounds settle to the bottom. You always had some grounds in your cup, but who cares when you are cold, young and camping.
> Weber Genesis EP-330
> Grilla Grills Original Grilla (OG) pellet smoker with Alpha/Connect
> Grilla Grills Pellet Pizza Oven
> Pit Barrel Cooker (gone to a new home)
> WeberQ 2000 (on "loan" to a relative (I'll never see it again))
> Old Smokey Electric (for chickens mostly - when it's too nasty out
to fiddle with a more capable cooker)
> Luhr Jensen Little Chief Electric - Top Loader circa 1990 (smoked fish & jerky)
> Thermoworks Smoke
> 3 Thermoworks Chef Alarms
> Thermoworks Thermapen One
> Thermoworks Thermapen Classic
> Thermoworks Thermopop
> Thermoworks Square DOT
> Thermoworks IR-GUN-S
> Joule Turbo Sous Vide Circulator
> Searzall torch
> BBQ Guru Rib Ring
> WÜSTHOF, Dalstrong, and Buck knives
> Paprika App on Mac and iOS
Well, I hadn't in ages, but since you mention it...
Made pretty dang good coffee and took the same amount of time as the drip coffee maker. There's a stovetop one hanging around somewhere, too. And a Moka pot.
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