Friday, August 2, 2024

I can't believe I'm old enough to appreciate these

 


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  1. Just made my morning coffee in a perculator very similar, on my camp stove.

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  2. Percolater pots make the best coffee -- UT

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  3. Everyone seeing this photo has used one.

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    1. Yep. That’s why I really like this CW-follower crowd.

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  4. Likely not many do from the aluminum assisted dementia. Look it up.

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    1. Farberware made a stove top percolator out of stainless steel if you are concerned with the "wives' tale".

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    2. I still have my Farberware percolator. It's 55+/- years old. Still makes great coffee.

      Nemo

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  5. I still have one that I used for camping since the early seventies. It was a hand me down, so I really don't know how old it is.....

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  6. Keep one always never know when power goes out and a camp fire or portable stove will do. Used to make coffee in the fire place when power went out, cooked breakfast as well.

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  7. I was born in the late 50s and that is what my parents and grandparents used. I used one when I got shown the door after graduating HS and finding a job for life and paying for college.

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  8. There's one in the cabinet for when the power goes out in the wintertime. It works pretty quick on the woodstove.

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  9. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee on Christmas Day after the meal. The smell of childhood.

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    1. Speaking of Jamaican Blue Mtn coffee: Cargo ships loaded with South American coffee beans would dock in Jamacia and sit for a while. When they'd continue on their trip (to the US) their manifest was changed to "Jamaican Blue Mtn."

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  10. Have one I use every time I go camping

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    1. I have one in Stainless Steel that I use every time the power goes out.

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  11. We use ours all weekend! Cooked on our 1929 magic chef stove ;)

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  12. Looks exactly like the one I had at the light house in 1976 when I had to stand the 24 hr watch.

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  13. Used one all of the years we lived on a sailboat with an alcohol stove. Took forever to boil water

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  14. Was there a major brand for these back in the day?

    [Yes, many seen do seem "similar"]
    But the one in the picture looks identical, and very common place.

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  15. Use a smaller, 4 cup Farberware® daily. Have an older, 12 cup Hamilton Beach for breakfast/brunch if we have company. Never used one that old.

    BTW, we add chopped pecans to our brew.

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  16. First time I ran into it I wondered where the filters were.

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    1. If you've been around long enough you can spot someone who has drank coffee from these pots by looking at their finished cup.
      If you drank coffee from these pot there is always a little bit of coffee left in the cup...along with some grounds.
      Filters took this little joy out of the mix.

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  17. The reason Aluminum levels in blood are so high in some. Get a stainless steel model.

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    1. Consuming massive amounts of aluminum may cause some mental decline but simply using cookware made of aluminum (as it has for maybe centuries) is a wives' tale.

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    2. No, not a wive’s tale. Medical fact regarding AL levels in the bloodstream, again, look it up on peer-reviewed papers. PFAS are another recently found almost universal substance in the bloodstream. But I digress.
      t Biomedical Research

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  18. Percolator...
    Mine is stainless steel...made for camping...makes the best coffee...
    The constant wash over the grounds is the secret to that great flavor

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  19. They can't be that uncommon. I've never drunk a cup of coffee in my life and even I've made coffee in one, albeit over half a century ago.

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  20. still do on occasion.

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  21. With the camping gear in the VW (90 Vanagon) I have a metal french press that makes good coffee. Cleaning is not that different from an old percolator and all I have to do is boil water.
    Being metal it hasn't broken hanging out in back but it only makes a couple of cups at a time.

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  22. Got a Summer Job back in my high school days as a deck hand on a West Coast tug boat. The skipper decided it would be a good idea to also make me a learn on the job cook ( came in really handy later in life ). I decided to impress him right off the bat so the first thing I did was take SOS to the encrusted old percolator and by the time I was done it literally gleamed. I was so proud when I presented it to the crew the next morning during breakfast. They almost threw me overboard for destroying the " flavour enhancement " that had taken years to build up. Lesson learned - rinse with water but NEVER wash out......

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  23. I have that same model. It's been a staple of our camping gear since...forever. Still makes great camp coffee, too.

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  24. If you like your coffee burnt, then a percolator is for you.

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  25. Still have 2 of em in the basement. They are called "backup units" for when we lose power and gas service. Wood fire, hand mill and water will get it done. Now if we can't get coffee beans - WAR!

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  26. Nowadays, I'm spoiled by the convenience of pods. But decades ago, I've had several of these. When I was a kid my folks had an all clear glass percolator. Even the grounds holder and stem were clear and I could sit and watch it perk. Like a DIY lava lamp.

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    1. I had one of those. 1st wife dropped it. 'Course it smashed. We bought the SS Farberware mentioned above. I got it in the divorce.

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