Join us for a coffee klatch where we look at ways to make coffee using three different methods: percolated, drip (or "pour-over") and by vacuum for espresso.
Oh be still my heart! What a great video! Love coffee and I think I may have met my match w the various pots! Would love to see you do Turkish and French press too!
The thing I love about your youtube and food blog is you give us the gift of nostalgic sustaining power! There is a phrase "Everything old is new again". No matter how hard or good times are, there is a way of making do, and doing it with fun and style! Thank you!
We had cups just like the one you poured the espresso into. My neighbors when I was growing up, had a pyrex glass stove top percolator, I don't think they ever went to a electric coffee maker that I can remember. Great video guys!
Wow, you guys outdid yourselves with this! I love coffee, and I love how there are so many different ways to make it. I bought a French press, and I like it, but don't use it often anymore. But I've always wanted to get a percolator, as I've never had percolated coffee. My grandmother made it every morning, but I was too young to have any. Even the aroma is different than the coffee made by automatic drip coffee makers. Mmm, that sweet nostalgia... what a soothing place! I'm going to be on the lookout for an old West Bend now. :)
I've been perking my coffee for almost 10 years and won't go back to an automatic drip. I use a 12 cup Presto that I bought new back when my old Bunn gave up the ghost. As far as pour over coffee makers I had always heard that a pour over is a machine that has a built in water tank that is heated at all times like a Bunn brand machine and when you pour the water in the top it siphons through and forces the already hot water from the tank out and through the coffee in a steady stream unlike a Mr Coffee type machine where you fill a tank and then the machine basically perks the water from the tank over the grounds and into the pot. The advantage of the Bunn style is since the water is already heated in the machine it only takes about 2 minutes to brew a whole pot. I also have a small 6 cup Drip-O-Lator that I sometimes use if the guts of my percolator are in the dishwasher but it hasn't been run yet. For coffee I always use the red bag 8 O'Clock whole bean that I grind to percolator grind. I used to love the 8 O'Clock Bokar blend but they have discontinued that variety.
Great percolators! I still use a Revere stainless steel stovetop percolator from the 1940s! Keep it like new by cleaning it with "DIP-IT" and it still looks like new on the inside. The outside is another story. It shows the wear and tear of over 50 years of use but it makes the best coffee - nice and steaming hot unlike the drip machines. I also use your method of putting the grounds in the WET basket and I never get grounds in my coffee. I've had people ask me what kind of coffee I use because they comment on how delicious it is. Maxwell House Colombian and Eight O'clock (whole bean) are my favorites...nothing fancy. You guys make the best videos. Almost time to go to the cottage!
Kevin!! As if you guys needed another reason, you're truly my heroes now!!! I was simply giddy when I saw all of those percolators! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has...many :) I was very curious to see how you made yours. I've never seen those disc filters! I just use a plain old "Mr Coffee" filter as you called it, snip a hole in the bottom and there you go.I'll have to be on the lookout! I have used the pouch ones, though. I've never used the water marks on the side of my pots. If I'm making 4 cups of coffee, I measure 4 cups of water in a measuring cup - then 1 Tbs. per cup + 1 for the pot. I'll have to try your method. Something else to note about percolators, is that many vintage ones have a knob where you can set how strong it is. Makes a big difference! AND I LOVE Cafe Bustello. In fact, that's all I ever use at all. Good stuff. Where did you find Hill Bros. Coffee?? It was my grandmother's favorite but we cannot find it anywhere around here! I've never made the stove top drip method. Dear friends got a Chemex for Christmas after years of perking. They like it a lot. Also, an espresso maker is on my list if I find a nice one at an estate sale or something. Have never made it, though. Now I know how! Cheers!!
A man after my own heart, and you just know I'd have to comment. We collect coffee makers too. We have mostly Sunbeam appliances, so that means Sunbeam Coffeemasters. One is a 60's perc, the others are vacuum brew, both automatic, and glass stove top. They make the most perfect coffee in my opinion. However the seals are now dried up, and we can't use them. We have a Maxwell Braeton Sunbeam coffeemaker that uses a plunger basket, and matching hot plate. That model also had a vacuum brewbasket as an option. It was used, and named after a famous golf resort. We have a West Bend large drip, a Chemex that my husband's mom had. However we didn't know at the time that the copper water bath bowl went with it, and didn't take it. Our best piece is 100 years old, and an electric percolator urn. It is part of our silver set, and found online. It works, cloth cord and all. It makes about 15 cups. It was also sold as a Samovar, and also brewed using an alcohol burner. The rest of our collection is Pyrex perc, in all sizes, but the cutest perc we have is our Poly Perk. It is part of a travel set, and is actually in a little suitcase with jars for coffee grounds, sugar, cups, tea. It matches the one we have that is a portable travel bar set.
Hi Guys! Glad to see you guys are well! Great topic! I love good coffee just like you, and many times that $5 cup of coffee can't match what you can make at home. I have my Grandmother's aluminum 2 piece drip coffee maker that she had used since she started housekeeping in 1939. She would grind her coffee by hand with the crank grinder, and I can remember her boiling the water in an old copper bottom saucepan on the stove and then pouring it into the coffee drip pot, and it was the best coffee ever. No filters, just great coffee. She lived to be 91 years old and used that thing every day. And she never used sugar, just a touch of real cream in her coffee. Even as a child, she would let me have my "coffee" with her - which was a little coffee and the rest milk. That drip pot is nearly 80 years old and still makes the best coffee you could ever drink. And since spring is here, and it will soon be cottage time, do you have any hints on what we can look forward to on "Cottage Stove Swap"? I love the Kelvinator, but I can't wait to see what is next!! Any clues? Best wishes, Don.
Love your colkection. Brings back so many memories. I gave up on the automatic drip coffee makers and bought a Presto electric percolator. It makes the best coffee. I also have a graniteware drip.
percolator coffee is the best!!
Beautiful collection! We still have my mother's and grandmother's perculator.
I love all the Vintage percolators you have
Ahhh..I so want to live in vintage world there with you. Nice, comfortable, neat, tidy, overflowing, vintage world. 💙💚💛
I remember these old perculatore both electric and stove top . They make the best coffee
Oh be still my heart! What a great video! Love coffee and I think I may have met my match w the various pots! Would love to see you do Turkish and French press too!
I have several vintage percolators! Lov this!
The thing I love about your youtube and food blog is you give us the gift of nostalgic sustaining power! There is a phrase "Everything old is new again". No matter how hard or good times are, there is a way of making do, and doing it with fun and style! Thank you!
We had cups just like the one you poured the espresso into. My neighbors when I was growing up, had a pyrex glass stove top percolator, I don't think they ever went to a electric coffee maker that I can remember. Great video guys!
Wow, you guys outdid yourselves with this! I love coffee, and I love how there are so many different ways to make it. I bought a French press, and I like it, but don't use it often anymore. But I've always wanted to get a percolator, as I've never had percolated coffee. My grandmother made it every morning, but I was too young to have any. Even the aroma is different than the coffee made by automatic drip coffee makers. Mmm, that sweet nostalgia... what a soothing place! I'm going to be on the lookout for an old West Bend now. :)
love the Corning Ware stove top model...i got one a thrift store for 6 dollars
I've been perking my coffee for almost 10 years and won't go back to an automatic drip. I use a 12 cup Presto that I bought new back when my old Bunn gave up the ghost. As far as pour over coffee makers I had always heard that a pour over is a machine that has a built in water tank that is heated at all times like a Bunn brand machine and when you pour the water in the top it siphons through and forces the already hot water from the tank out and through the coffee in a steady stream unlike a Mr Coffee type machine where you fill a tank and then the machine basically perks the water from the tank over the grounds and into the pot. The advantage of the Bunn style is since the water is already heated in the machine it only takes about 2 minutes to brew a whole pot. I also have a small 6 cup Drip-O-Lator that I sometimes use if the guts of my percolator are in the dishwasher but it hasn't been run yet. For coffee I always use the red bag 8 O'Clock whole bean that I grind to percolator grind. I used to love the 8 O'Clock Bokar blend but they have discontinued that variety.
Great percolators! I still use a Revere stainless steel stovetop percolator from the 1940s! Keep it like new by cleaning it with "DIP-IT" and it still looks like new on the inside. The outside is another story. It shows the wear and tear of over 50 years of use but it makes the best coffee - nice and steaming hot unlike the drip machines. I also use your method of putting the grounds in the WET basket and I never get grounds in my coffee. I've had people ask me what kind of coffee I use because they comment on how delicious it is. Maxwell House Colombian and Eight O'clock (whole bean) are my favorites...nothing fancy. You guys make the best videos. Almost time to go to the cottage!
Kevin!! As if you guys needed another reason, you're truly my heroes now!!! I was simply giddy when I saw all of those percolators! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has...many :) I was very curious to see how you made yours. I've never seen those disc filters! I just use a plain old "Mr Coffee" filter as you called it, snip a hole in the bottom and there you go.I'll have to be on the lookout! I have used the pouch ones, though. I've never used the water marks on the side of my pots. If I'm making 4 cups of coffee, I measure 4 cups of water in a measuring cup - then 1 Tbs. per cup + 1 for the pot. I'll have to try your method. Something else to note about percolators, is that many vintage ones have a knob where you can set how strong it is. Makes a big difference! AND I LOVE Cafe Bustello. In fact, that's all I ever use at all. Good stuff. Where did you find Hill Bros. Coffee?? It was my grandmother's favorite but we cannot find it anywhere around here! I've never made the stove top drip method. Dear friends got a Chemex for Christmas after years of perking. They like it a lot. Also, an espresso maker is on my list if I find a nice one at an estate sale or something. Have never made it, though. Now I know how! Cheers!!
A man after my own heart, and you just know I'd have to comment. We collect coffee makers too. We have mostly Sunbeam appliances, so that means Sunbeam Coffeemasters. One is a 60's perc, the others are vacuum brew, both automatic, and glass stove top. They make the most perfect coffee in my opinion. However the seals are now dried up, and we can't use them. We have a Maxwell Braeton Sunbeam coffeemaker that uses a plunger basket, and matching hot plate. That model also had a vacuum brewbasket as an option. It was used, and named after a famous golf resort. We have a West Bend large drip, a Chemex that my husband's mom had. However we didn't know at the time that the copper water bath bowl went with it, and didn't take it. Our best piece is 100 years old, and an electric percolator urn. It is part of our silver set, and found online. It works, cloth cord and all. It makes about 15 cups. It was also sold as a Samovar, and also brewed using an alcohol burner. The rest of our collection is Pyrex perc, in all sizes, but the cutest perc we have is our Poly Perk. It is part of a travel set, and is actually in a little suitcase with jars for coffee grounds, sugar, cups, tea. It matches the one we have that is a portable travel bar set.
Hi Guys! Glad to see you guys are well! Great topic! I love good coffee just like you, and many times that $5 cup of coffee can't match what you can make at home. I have my Grandmother's aluminum 2 piece drip coffee maker that she had used since she started housekeeping in 1939. She would grind her coffee by hand with the crank grinder, and I can remember her boiling the water in an old copper bottom saucepan on the stove and then pouring it into the coffee drip pot, and it was the best coffee ever. No filters, just great coffee. She lived to be 91 years old and used that thing every day. And she never used sugar, just a touch of real cream in her coffee. Even as a child, she would let me have my "coffee" with her - which was a little coffee and the rest milk. That drip pot is nearly 80 years old and still makes the best coffee you could ever drink. And since spring is here, and it will soon be cottage time, do you have any hints on what we can look forward to on "Cottage Stove Swap"? I love the Kelvinator, but I can't wait to see what is next!! Any clues? Best wishes, Don.
percolators are the best. thank you for your videos.
My grandmother always put some eggshells in the basket. Don't know why, but her coffe was wonderful!
Love your colkection. Brings back so many memories. I gave up on the automatic drip coffee makers and bought a Presto electric percolator. It makes the best coffee. I also have a graniteware drip.
I have my grandparents’ old stovetop percolator, has an art deco handle. Love it! We use it on a gas cooker to make coffee when the power goes out.