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Percolator
Percolators violate most of the natural laws about brewing
coffee.
o Don't over extract the oils and flavor. Percolators work by
taking coffee and reheating it and throwing it over the grounds
over and over and over again.
o Never reheat/boil coffee. This destroys the flavor. For best
flavor, boil the water, pass it over the grounds and retain the
heat. Don't reheat it.
Violating these rules may not sound like much, but these are
about the only rules there are. The effect of a percolator is to
keep passing boiling water/coffee over the grounds until there
is no flavor left and the flavor in the coffee is so dead that
it's a worthless waste.
About half way through this video from "Coffee brewers institute" (1961) there is a good example of the boiling and re-brewing over and over again of coffee in a percolator.
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Percs rule!
No doubt, percolators make the tastiest coffee! Not the quickest, but certainly the tastiest. We've got three children and lots of committees to juggle. Meetings usually end up here because everyone enjoys the percolated coffee so much. I guess, in their quest for speed, they bailed on taste. We own three percolators and I am very sad to say I broke my 4 cup pot yesterday. I am going CRAZY looking for a new one. Anyone know where I can find a 4 cup glass percolator?
replacement 4 cup perc:
JCPenney.com
I am myself in the market for a new type altogether of a coffee maker. My regular dripper just gave out the other day after many years of diligent service, but never the tastiest coffee. For a good hit of true coffee taste and aroma I would have to buy commercially by the cup to tide me over, or make some cappuccino. I am between a French Press style and a percolator. I am in the process of learning about how these work, and am trying to at best guess which one will produce the tastiest home brewed coffee. I saw the 4 cup perc on Penney's www. Good luck! Let me know how it works, would you?
Works for me...
I recently bought a Presto stainless steel percolator. I've had no problem adjusting the grind for a perfectly balanced taste, neither over nor under extracted. The coffee is very rich and tastes more like coffee from a press than from a drip machine to me. The coffee is hotter and seems to last longer in the pot without burning... no filters... no paper or plastics to leech chemicals into your coffee... I highly recommend the Presto perc if you enjoy a great cup of coffee.
I've also found by using a finer grind suitable for drip coffee, you can make "super" coffee with a caffeine kick that will knock your socks off.. lol
i have a drip, percolator,
i have a drip, percolator, and french press. sorry but the percolator makes the best coffee in my opinion - the flavor is a lot better - now i usually drink darker coffee - french roast & colombian so i dont know if that matters - i think it depends on the drinker.
complete nonsense
After reading this description of a percolator, I literally burst into laughter. The amount of misinformation is astounding. Percolators boil water into new grounds of coffee; they do not reheat coffee thats what a microwave does. A person does not need a completely different appliance to reheat coffee, which is not what a percolator is used for.
I advise checking the facts before misinforming the population.
percolator nonsense
sorry drama-queen, you are the misinformed one. your taste also fails fact.
re: complete nonsense
I'm glad I could help you get a good laugh. Laughter is good.
Reheating may not be exactly the correct word but I think if you will read the text again you will see that what I am talking about is the fact that the brewed coffee in a percolator will continue to boil and be recirculated through the grounds over and over again. This is a reheating of the coffee. If the water simply got to a boil and was pushed into a separate chamber (cooling to slightly below boiling before it ever hit the grounds) where it would stay like a vacuum pot then the coffee would be safe but that is now how a percolator works. A perc repeatedly boils the already brewed coffee. That's just a way to scorch coffee.
Having said this if you like perc coffee by all means drink it and enjoy it. But if you are buying good beans and drinking straight black coffee in my opinion you would be better off with almost any other prep method. If you are buying cheap beans and then loading it down with milk and sugar it probably doesn't make much difference.
Perc is the best!!
Sorry to burst the anti-perc bubble, but I had a very expensive Krups machine that made awful coffee, and several other drip machines before that which fell into the "medium grade" price and quality range.
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I could never make good coffee until I got my Percolator at an antique dealer for $12. It offers the ultimate in strength control, and something about boiling it makes it absolutely smooth, with no sourness, and no bitterness.
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Let me ask you this... if boiling coffee is so bad, then why does Turkish coffee exist?
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Not to mention that my perky-pot is all enamel so there's absolutely NO chemical reaction with the coffee. Most other coffee tastes like burnt plastic or heavy metals to me.
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I think the people who come up with "rules" for making anything are bigoted and shortsighted. Maybe the "coffee rules" people have simply never learned to make coffee the right way in a percolator.
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Maybe the "coffee rules" are just marketing ploys by drip manufacturers to make us pay higher and higher prices for their awful machines when we don't need filters and their fancy machines after all.
Drip Coffee is Whacked Like Crack (It's Time For The Percolator)
First off, Percolators were the first original way of brewing. Modern science has turned you into bigot into believing percolator coffee is bad. Second, i have asked friends and family members to what they prefer and they all have agreed to the perk... it is the ultimate. And last but not least it keeps the coffee warm enough that if u added milk it wont get cold.
Percolator Rules!
I decided to quit using a drip coffeemaker after being treated for lymphoma. Hot water on plastic parts could cause cancer. I puchased a stove-top percolator. Wow! What great flavor! Far superior to drip.
After a couple of years of this, I grew weary of the time and attention it required and bought an electric percolator. Same great flavor, quick and automatic. All stainless steel is an important plus. Cons? A little more time to clean up, but worth it. With stove-top, you must turn on medium flame, then when perking begins, reduce to low flame. You must watch glass top and stop when color is just right. The bad reputation may come from letting it go too long. A good automatic electric will solve that problem. The modern units work well.
Anyone who claims that a percolator is inferior to drip either does not have that much experience with them or is not being truthful.