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I frankly haven't noticed much difference in taste between a drip coffee maker and a percolator. The reason I use the percolator is because coffee comes out boiling hot and stays hot longer. The problem is I have to put twice as much coffee in and still comes out weak. Is this unique to my percolator?
My drip coffee maker gets hotter the longer the carafe sits....if you pour the 1st cup just as it finishes, it's not quite hot enough....so I make it earlier than I really want it...and it gets steaming hot....
You can always pop a cup in the m-wave for a few secs!
Buy a darker roast coffee and see if that helps. I use one scoop for every cup of water. I have a Keurig now but when I had a drip maker that's how I measured it.
I use two flat scoops (the kind you find in Folgers cans) per cup and it makes great coffee in the drip coffee maker. You put the same in the percolator and you get coffee half as strong. I suspect water runs through coffee too fast. Anyway, coffee ain't cheap these days to waste.
You may want to check the grind size of your coffee. A percolator normally takes a corse grind but if it's weak you might want to adjust it a little finer.
Last edited by biggunsmallbrains; 04-15-2016 at 10:00 PM..
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