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I have an old percolator in my camper and look forward to making coffee when we're camping. The people camping around us frequently wander over to our campsite due to the coffee smells. So, I drag out extra cups for the visitors. They love the taste of the perked coffee from the old percolator and the smells while it's making, are even better!
At home though I use my little 4 cup drip coffee maker. I really need to find another old percolator for home!
Hubby uses a stove-top percolator. He was using a vintage aluminum one we got at a flea market, then we read about the possible link between aluminum and Alzheimer's (don't want that, runs in the family anyway!), so my mom bought him a stainless steel one for Christmas. The brand is Copco and it cost her $50 about 7 or 8 years ago. (not sure where she got it, probably Dillard's or McRae's.) The little clear thingy at the top cracked after a couple of years and I found them on the internet and contacted them and they sent me 2 new ones. The second one is still going (we stopped putting it in the dishwasher).
Hubby always just kept the burner up on high and boiled it for about 5 minutes until I started reading up on coffee making on the internet. Now we turn the burner down as soon as it starts perking, as low as it will go and still keep pushing the water up into the "bubble" at the top, and perk it a couple of minutes longer. It tastes better to me that way, and he said he believed it did to him also, though neither one of us is a professional coffee taster or connoisseur or anything remotely like that.
I occasionally perk it with a filter in the basket, as my daughter doesn't like grounds in her coffee (not even one!!), and I actually like that pretty well also....seems a bit smoother.
I have to add that I really don't even like the taste of coffee....I love the aroma, though, and am trying to teach myself to like the taste because I love drinking hot stuff and sometimes that's all there is.
Neither drip nor percolators. I need at least a moka pot to get the flavor I like from coffee. The pressure is the thing. I spent years trying to replicate the flavor of coffee I bought at good places only to belatedly realize that the pressure makes all the difference in getting a good flavor (for me at least). An alternative would be a good espresso machine - they produce even higher pressure but are expensive. The moka pot is as cheap as hell, makes a great flavor and I even take it on vacations and camping. ("La greca" as they call it in the Caribbean).
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I gave up on automatic drip coffee makers, because I usually only got maybe a year or two out of them before they crap out. It's probably due to hard water, but nevertheless I switched to a stove-top percolator and a French press. Much better coffee!
As far as taste is considered, percolators for me too. The problem is with the new ones. They last for about 6 months before they stop working. I went through three of them before realizing they are just not made with the same quality as the new ones. So I went on ebay and bought one that was made in 1957. (It was born the same year as I was.) This coffeemaker was heavier than the new ones I bought. You could tell the quality was better and those were made in the USA. I had it for about a year and it stopped percolating, although it still makes the water very hot. I will never go back to automatic drip and I just ordered another one - from ebay. Another Coffeematic by Universal.
Percolator... or a French press. I have some control over the results.
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