Anyone use an electric or stovetop percolator?

[denisenh]

for in home coffee on a regular basis? Like the good old "I love Lucy" days? I have been thinking of getting one. I am so tired of carafe breakage, rusty hot plates, moldy inerds and general breakdown of coffee makers. We have a keurig already and I should get a new reservoir. I dropped it and cracked the very top and then it melted when it was left close to a hot burner. Its still usable and we still use it.
But I am thinking of all the coffee makers that must be in landfills. Face it, they aren't meant to last. These days nothing is. There is little money to be made by providing long lasting anything.
Yes, I could buy another coffee maker easy enough but I think that a percolator should last me the rest of my life...another 30 or 40 years I am guessing.
Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Well I have two antique Revereware coffee pots. One is a drip style and one is a percolating style. Do I use them. . .uhm. No. I do know how to use either, but just don't.

I'd say try to pick up an antique percolator; my Revereware will be around when I'm buried. The newer ones, even the pricey ones, I dunno. They just don't feel as sturdy.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Where I work part time has a percolator that is used on the stove top. I don't drink coffee but they make it daily.

 

[2BigKIdz]

I use a glass stovetop percolator, it is made by Pyrex I believe. My original was handed down and was older than me but I accidentally turned on the wrong burner one day and the pot was empty and it exploded, what a mess! I decided to use a coffee maker after that because it is so much quicker, but the coffee just did not taste as good or was as hot so I bought an exact replica of my old pot on ebay.

It is hard to find the percolator filters but I was able to order them from amazon, I got 400 fiters for $17 which will last me a very long time because I am the only one in my house that drinks coffee.

I have never tried one of the electric percolators but have considered buying one. I will always use a percolator because of the taste.

This is the pot I have - http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Pyrex...28UU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1325731527&sr=8-3. My family used it as long as I have been alive and I am 38 (well until I exploded the original).

 

[topolino]

I use the Moka, the classic Italian stovetop coffee maker that is a staple in virtually every household in Italy.

I have other methods of making coffee at home, and don't use the Moka everyday, but it's still my favorite way to make coffee, short of a professional grade machine.

 

[Willa]

Have you thought about a French press? I realize the glass ones are fragile, but we use a stainless steel one that is practically indestructible, and I believe it will still be making great coffee after I am gone. All you need is a method to boil water and the press - we use an electric kettle, but a good old fashioned stovetop kettle works just fine, too.

Here's a link to a press like ours -
http://www.amazon.com/Frieling-Poli...ADDS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325732508&sr=8-1

 

[Gigi22]

I have an old GE coffee percolator and I inherited my mother's top of the stove 'drip' coffee pot. Both work perfectly. I've been using the GE recently -- much to my surprise you can still get coffee filters for the basket style percolator.

 

[denisenh]

thank you for the replies. DH and i read them and he is in agreement that we will look into the different types and choose one.
he is wondering how long it takes to brew but i think that must depend on how strong the coffee is wanted? i'll just follow the directions. hopefully, we can get one soon! i am all for getting things that last longer than 2 or 3 years and then wind up in the dump. ( i can almost hear that perk , perking from my childhood!)
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