How I rediscovered great tasting coffee

Per co later, not per cu later.

Bialetti Moka Pot has been an Italian legend for many decades, it is the KING.💜

The automatic coffee maker of the day - Superior yes, but give me my cowboy coffee any day.

I've been searching for coffee that tasted great, kept trying different brands and concluded that it just wasn't there anymore. I never considered the pot, a percolator that was being used on the stove! I will buy one, excellent video, thank you. My Grandma would give us buttered toast and coffee ;)

They got rid of percolators because they BURNED coffee.

I went back to percolator a couple of years ago when I retired...more time to wait to enjoy a wonderful cup of coffee nowadays 😊

My folks had an electric one. I remember waking up to the sound of it. We have used a Keurig for years for the convenience, but lately, I have longed for some truly good tasting coffee.

Looks like the one off temu! I have one and it makes great coffee!

Get the corningware coffee pots. You can thank me later. I have been using this method for over two decades because I am tired of these constantly failing machines. It amazes me how young people don’t know what this thing is. You lean not to drink all the way to the bottom of your cup.

Hahaha I am 69 and everyone thinks I am weird because I have always done stove top percolator coffee.
House smells awesome and it tastes soooo yummy! Visitors love it and think I am magic but they think it is too much work!

Hahaha I am 69 and everyone thinks I am weird because I have always done stove top percolator coffee.
House smells awesome and it tastes soooo yummy! Visitors love it and think I am magic but they think it is too much work! Good old electri percolators are coming back too.

Not from a percolator you didn't.🤮

I use French press.theres always percolator in the charity shop and ill try one now.

With all due respect, I learned nothing here. I am pretty much a coffee snob although I make mine on the cheap. And in all modesty, mine is better than almost any I've ever gotten at a coffee cafe that specializes in coffee. I'm former US Navy and my process has developed over nearly 8o years. I have a decent Cuisinart drip machine. Not the most expensive out there by far but does a good job. You do need to keep it clean! Once a year I give it a thorough cleaning. Of course decent coffee beans are a must. I usually but San Francisco french at Costco although I do try something new once in a while. Usually the darkest beans I can find. A GOOD (brown) coffee filter and COLD water. My machine runs the water through twice for a single cup brew. A not overly expensive Cuisinart grinder. 15 seconds does it. The machine does NOT have a heating element under the stainless steel carafe... too much heat ruins coffee!

I'm 70 now and I can remember my Mom perking her favorite coffee, Yuban.

That does look good.

How do you know when it is done percolating?

I think RA ) ethylene acetate from sugarcane), decaf tastes - MOST LIKE COFFEE!

Doesn't the regular percolator allow the boiling water through the coffee - only one very short time?

EA .. no RA

Doesn’t the water/coffee burn????

still use one for camping, makes great coffee

the paper filters take some of the natural oils out of the coffee i find, i use an aero press i now and use stainless steel fine laser micro hole filters and i find it to be better than paper filters ...wonder if someone makes these stainless filters for percolators..... BTW the story i read was that there was a ship that carried a load of coffee and it sank and it was found that that the coffee was still tasty enough but had lost most of its caffeine .... story likely on the web somewhere.

It's not glass it's plastic, it will cause cancer

My great grandparents would go to the grocery store and use those big(to me as a little kid) machines to grind the beans straight into the bags. The percolator on the stove constantly. Back when they were alive the family was together. R.I.P. those days.

The filter removes the oils,best of the brew.

They'll whine about anything..on this app

I have my mother's percolator & have never used it, partly because I only drink one or two cups of coffee a day & hers makes 10 cups I think. But I remember her using it & it's what I grew up drinking. It's electric which is convenient & beautiful with a long curved spout & a keep warm feature. So I just use my 4- 5 cup drip maker & I know I'm missing out on really good coffee :(

Supermarket coffee that we bought years ago now taste and smell horrible! Not the same dramatic experience. They all smell like an ashtray😢

I always liked the coffee from a perculator if I made it myself. My Mom used to skimp on grounds to save money back in the day, so hers was always weak, or like fricken tea! I like mine strong so I can taste it. Cowboy coffee is about right!

I only make my coffee, with a stainless steel camping ,coffee pot ,you can smell when done,check the color, every good ,in taste and aroma I had a 1970s corning white in color ,but it broke ,or shattered.also make grest coffee.enjoy the stove top perked coffee, folks,

I guess those filters only keep the coffee from going through the holes in the bottom and not the sides ? HELLO !

Even easier take a pot of water and just throw the grounds in the pot and boil the snot out of it for 20 or 30 minutes and then pour it through a coffee filter, a la "cowboy coffee"

Yeah, I love perked coffee, but I do french press now. Easy and good tasty coffee.

Christ: Talk about teach people how to boil water.

What's the sense of de-caf?! It's like drinkin' near beer...

Solvent methods use water and charcoal filters along with a decaffeinating agent. The most common agents are methylene chloride, which is a synthetic chemical, and ethyl acetate, a chemical found naturally in some fruits and vegetables.

Is it possible to make just a single 12 oz. cup in this pot? I wouldn’t always have the need to make coffee for 2 people.

Hi Pete after watching your whole video I said to myself this man is a real coffee enthusiast, and then you showed your coffee with creamer and sugar and you just burst my bubble.
Black is where it's at.

I bought a Farberware Electric Percolator and have it hooked up to a light timer plugged into the wall and now it goes off at the set time and is waiting for me when I wake up...

Thanks. I've been using the auto-drip method for over 40 years -- ever since Starbucks. I look forward to getting a coffee pot and applying what I've learned here, and enjoying the aroma and taste.

Just remember, to perk slowly and add a little more coffee, so that you don’t perk so long (to get the desired strength) and end up over extracting, which will make the brew more bitter… 😊 Also, they always put a good pinch of salt in to cut the acidity.
My parents had a Revere Ware stovetop percolator and also a Sunbeam double-bulbed vacuum coffee maker which is even better!
Still use them to this day! 😮
Almost any of the good legacy coffee makers, do a good job if you watch carefully what you’re doing…

I've used a stovetop percolator for years and a French press coffee maker. Now I basically only have one cup of coffee each morning and so going through all that trouble isn't worth it for just a single cup. So now I just use instant coffee. And I drink it black. Just a tip for anyone who finds themselves having to use instant coffee. Buy yourself an electric kettle to boil your water in. You'd be amazed if you have never used one just how much quicker it boils water. I usually stand in my kitchen every morning waiting for my electric kettle to boil my water for my coffee. And always dissolve your instant coffee in a couple of tablespoons of cold water in your coffee mug before adding the hot water. I'm not sure how or why, but it definitely makes a difference in the flavor of instant coffee.

You are correct percolator coffee is better than all auto drip coffee, but one.

The thing with auto drip makers is, they run the water over the grounds when its cold.
So the coffee grounds never get brewed. They just run cold water over the grounds.

But there is one auto drip coffee maker made by BUNN.
Which most people don't know this brand.
But they have been around for 80 years that I know of. And I've been using there auto drip coffee maker for 40 years.
When you go to a restaurant look at the coffee maker they are using. It will be a BUNN coffee maker every time. And it's been that way for the 66 years I've been alive.

Now with the BUNN auto drip coffee maker that I've been using for the last 40 years.
What they do is they have a separate water tank that stays hot.
So what you do is you fill the basket with your grounds, then put your coffee pot underneath that on the buner.
Now is the tricky part.

They don't have a button to start the drip.
What you do is lift the lid to fill the water reservoir.
And then as soon as you close that lid, and I mean as soon as you close that lid. It starts spraying HOT water over the grounds and actually brewing the coffee. Then they have a switch in the front to turn the burner on to keep the coffee hot.

And the smell of fresh brewed coffee flows through the whole house. It will even wake you up out of a sleep.

There is another little trick to making a great cup of coffee, that this guy didn't touch on.

Always use bottled water or filtered water.
Never tap water. It makes a huge difference.

And another great thing about the BUNN auto drip coffee maker I use is it only takes 4 minutes to BREW a pot of coffee.

I'm telling you all this coffee maker is the best there is.
Hands Down.

I know what you’re saying.. back in the 60’s/70’s I recall smelling that comforting fresh brew aroma.. that meant that my cousins and I had another hour to play! Thanks for the memories!

Much better with spring water without chlorine or other chemicals in city water. Better to find coffee ground coarse if you can unless you grind your own like you did.

I like percolator coffee. Currently, being a decaf drinker, I am using a French Press. Finally, a stronger cup of coffee.

Best coffee….when you use a percolator coffee pot! Using my Corning Ware percolator that I received when I married in 1969!

Thanks for reminding me of real coffee! I was drinking coffee by 11 or 12yrs old! I’m 70 now and planning on buying a real coffee pot!

I’ve been using an electric purculator all my life(I’m 58)

Ive never used the filters, I eat the grounds left at the bottom of the cup!