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I have one also mine is in avocado green.
I have one also mine is in avocado green.
Percolator or drip coffee maker
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2011hoovermatic
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I've been using a hoover percolator and I love the results. Mine is the same as a 60s presto super fast 9 cup.
That my input.
That my input.
Time vs Taste
My experience has been that electric percolator pots make the best tasting coffee. I have a chrome GE percolator that is about 15 years old that I use occasionally. But time is a factor. Takes a lot longer to prepare and brew a perco pot. If you don't have time to wait to get coffee brewed, automatic drip is the way to go. I have never found a percolator with a timer on it.
My experience has been that electric percolator pots make the best tasting coffee. I have a chrome GE percolator that is about 15 years old that I use occasionally. But time is a factor. Takes a lot longer to prepare and brew a perco pot. If you don't have time to wait to get coffee brewed, automatic drip is the way to go. I have never found a percolator with a timer on it.
lordkenmore
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The Farberware percolators were reasonably fast. Not sure how they compete with a drip, though. But I can recall marketing on some Farberware models in the 80s that talked about a "cup a minute" brewing time. When I was using percolators, I'd make probably only a few cups, and the Farberware probably took only 5 minutes or so.
My early 1960s Sunbeam AP-20 brews a full 10 cup pot in 6 minutes flat.
I think there are a couple of generations of the Proctor-Silex; and the one pictured is the later generation with the plastic top/lip. The earlier had the glass lip and the lights and so-on.
Here are the pictures of my Proctor Silex beauty. I'll need to post more pics of it actually making coffee. Maybe I'll do a video!
The percolator in action!
The percolator in action!
Nice pictures... Makes me want to drag mine out and make a pot...
I actually have two short videos of it perking but I couldn't get them to load on here.
The one my parents had was incredibly loud percolating--it reverberated through the house. They had it on a timer so at 6 am it went off.
norgeway
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You want a LOUD percolator!!!
Get a Jet O Matic......
Get a Jet O Matic......
thespiritof76
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I don't like those "drips"....lol....
Ok, I am exaggerating to that opening...lol...But seriously, my preference is a Electric percolator. I like my Corn Flower, Corning Ware 10 cup more admittedly then my Poly Perk. But I like my smaller poly perk for when it is just me wanting a fresh cup of coffee.
Ok, I am exaggerating to that opening...lol...But seriously, my preference is a Electric percolator. I like my Corn Flower, Corning Ware 10 cup more admittedly then my Poly Perk. But I like my smaller poly perk for when it is just me wanting a fresh cup of coffee.
perc-o-prince
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I don't drink it...
but these are the reviews I've gathered...
Drip- weak and never hot enough even with the hotplate for the carafe
Perk- once you have the proportions and timing down, excellent.
Vac pot- superior taste and hot, especially when it's an automatic unit that turns off the churning action after a certain point (a la Sunbeam C-30 IIRC).
If smell is anything to go by, vac pot is the best and perc is maybe 2nd. Never really smell drip(i.e. Mr. Coffee) even though it's more open for "fumes" to be released. I really do love the smell. It's the taste I don't care for.
Good luck,
Chuck
but these are the reviews I've gathered...
Drip- weak and never hot enough even with the hotplate for the carafe
Perk- once you have the proportions and timing down, excellent.
Vac pot- superior taste and hot, especially when it's an automatic unit that turns off the churning action after a certain point (a la Sunbeam C-30 IIRC).
If smell is anything to go by, vac pot is the best and perc is maybe 2nd. Never really smell drip(i.e. Mr. Coffee) even though it's more open for "fumes" to be released. I really do love the smell. It's the taste I don't care for.
Good luck,
Chuck
