Nice new old coffee perc

[petek]

Found this little beauty today...haven't polished it up yet but she works.
It's made by Universal ... not sure of any date but for it's smallish size it's pretty heavy

 

[gadgetgary]

Coffee Makers

I am a collector of Coffee makers, mainly percolators(well over 150 working..in my collection). Those Universal Coffee Makers were made in New Britain, CT and by a company called Landers, Frary and Clark. Most of the older percoloators had copper in the bottom and made them very heavy. They perked a great HOT cup of coffee, unlike the LUKEWARM brew of today's drip coffeemakers. Can't some company come up with a modern drip coffeemaker that makes Super HOT coffee????

Gary

 

[kenmore1978]

hot coffee

According to coffee experts, coffee should be brewed with a water temp of about 180 degrees,otherwise it gets over extracted and too bitter. This is as opposed to tea, where the water should be boiling. I think the problem is that the hot plates don't keep it hot enough

 

[petek]

Gary

Do you have an idea what year this one would be? I'm guessing maybe late 50's to 60's

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Century Futurama

Grabbed this on eBay last year when my Farberware bit the dust. It says "Century Futuramic - Westinghouse Thermostat". Keeps the coffee hot for hours without adding a burnt flavor. We use it every day. I assume it's from the 50s.

Ken D.
Sorry for the picture quality, it's the eBay photo.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Try again

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[kenwashesmonday]

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[alr2903]

Pete / ken

Those are some nice coffee makers guys, alr2903

 

[david]

I second that Arthur!

Makes me want to go make a small pot of coffee right now.

 

[petek]

Coffee was a weekend thing at our house growing up, my dad would get out the GE perc, the rest of the week it was tea (they being English). Dad though preferred coffee and was an early convert to drip with the manual Melitta coffee makers and grinding his own beans long before Mr. Coffee hit the market, after that there was no more perced coffee in our house.