Any percolator fans out there?

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Bought myself a little Christmas present yesterday: A vintage Farberware Superfast electric perk! Not only does the Superfast live up to its name, the coffee (Wegmans French roast) is rich and full-bodied. Its 4-cup capacity is perfect for a bachelor (spinster) like myself.

Previously I used a stovetop Corning Ware perk for many years, until the metal collar came unwelded. It made good coffee but I had to watch it, and at six in the morning I didn't want to. Then came a Melitta Java Perk, which made decent coffee but just didn't hold up under daily use.

So are there any other percolator devotees out there in Appliance Land?
 
I have my mother's Corning Ware 10 cup electric perk and I love it, too. If I feel like more than one cup of coffee on the weekend, I'll fill it to the 4 cup mark and use it instead of the Keurig. The electrics are nice because you don't have to watch them.
 
Another Superfast User Here!

I use a 12-cup Farberware Superfast, which is plugged into the timed convenience outlet of my vintage GE range each night, so that coffee's ready when I get up.

My favored daily-driver coffee is Chase & Sanborn, which my grandparents used to drink back in the '50s. I would drink Eight O'Clock BOKAR on occasion if it was still available, which it isn't.

I have been through every type of coffee maker, all the way up to expensive mill and drip machines, plus every kind of coffee bean (up to and including Jamaica Blue Mountain), and I've come back to a perc as the most satisfying brew for me.

I have several Superfasts as spares, in case anything happens to the one I'm using.
 
My Mother is a devoted percolator user.  Recently she began to complain that the one she had didn't keep the coffee warm (I believe the condition was user error, but...) so I found a Corning Ware 10-cup electric percolator (Cornflower pattern) on CL and bought it for her.  She claims it works fine.

 

lawrence
 
My mother also has the corningware percolator with the blue flowers. It used to be my grandmothers. She doesn't use it all that often but I really do love the smell when she does. I can't stand the taste of coffee but I love to smell it.
 
I don't think you can beat perked coffee - especially freshly-ground 8 O'Clock Bokar!  I have a *few* coffee perks in the collection including the 4 and 8 cup Faberware SuperFast models, but my daily driver is a GE P410A 'pot belly' perk.
 
I have a couple of second generation Corningware Electromatic percolators (early '60s -- after they integrated the spout with the metal collar) with the jewel shaped indicator lamp.  I like their slight difference in shape to the later ones, being wider at the bottom and a little shorter (though not evident in the attached picture), and the larger glass insert in the lid.  They also don't require the proprietary power cord like the later ones do.  A standard percolator cord will work.

 

I never use them.  I just like them, and feel the Electromatic belongs in the hall of fame for innovative MCM design.  If I were somehow forced to use a percolator, I'd want the carafe to be pyroceram instead of metal (I know, I know, the brewing components are metal), and the immersibility for cleaning is a major plus.

 

The only application I imagine for one of these is to keep water hot for guests who prefer tea.  I don't know anyone who drinks tea exclusively, so in storage they remain.

 

 

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Rp2813

I have a 10cup corning ware, jsut like yours, but with one small diffrance. I dont know if mine is older or more new than yours. The only other I have is a red Poly Perk. I would also love a nice old GE from the 60's like the one in this ad, to match my deluxe Toast-R-Oven (yes the exact one also in the add)

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Bokar!!!!!! Wonderful!

As a kid I worked thru high school at the A&P,we had grinders at the foot of all checkout counters!I luved to grind that coffee for customers.I think a perc is the only good coffee maker there is,but you have to keep it clean.I use a 1956 Sunbeam or a 55 cory stainless model with the gold base and fake rattan handle,its a great coffee maker and use carnation milk in my coffee and natural sugar,it is like a treat every cup.Ohhh I have a few of those Mirro I luv Lucy pots also they make real good coffee and they are fully automatic!!!!!
 
I, too, really like percolated coffee. For me it has a richer taste than drip. I use a Farberware from the mid-60's (I think). It is an 8 cup model with a long spout and a "Ready" light. It keeps coffee really hot. My daily coffee is Chock Full O'Nuts. I think it makes a great cup of good basic coffee, perfect for the morning (IMHO). OK, true, it's also what I grew up with in New York. :)

So happy to see there are other fans of percolator coffee!
 
Numerous perc collectors on here me being one of them. They must all be busy. I've probably got a couple of dozen but haven't used any in awhile. Oddly the one I've run across the most in thrift stores is the little Westinghouse spoutless shown in picture 6 below.. found another one last week. Seconded by those glass Proctor Silex's but not often the lighted ones.

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Hans,

I use a percolator to make iced tea also!

 

Ralph,

Another nice vintage perc that is immersible are Presto's.  When I use mine it goes in the dw without any problems at all.
 
Sandy, what Paul didn't say is that he has to travel to another province to get 8 O'Clock Bokar coffee! It's not available around here either!

 

 

I currently, have a small Faberware Superfast, a newer model without the glass top, a tall GE with the rotary knob that's not submersible,  a GE pot belly, Proctor Silex lighted and non-lighted versions and a few more...

 

<span style="font-size: 16.3636360168457px;">Pete, you have some nice percolators! I see you have quite a few Westinghouse. I'd like to find the model in the pictures below but I haven't found one yet...</span>

 

 

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PhilR

When you say a "newer" Superfast, do you mean an American-made one, or one made in China?

If it's Chinese, keep an eye out for one of the American-made units. The Chinese copy sold under the Farberware name in recent years is not known for the same longevity that older American-made units were famed for.

Interesting that BOKAR is not available in Quebec, either! I'd like to win the lottery and buy the brand, the rights and the blend formula. There's a nice business there for someone with the moxie to actually advertise the stuff.
 
Sandy, it's not that new! It's probably the same age as I am but I don't like to think things from the mid-1970s are old!

 
 

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