I received this percolator from my bf today. Can anyone tell me what year it would have been made? Is the basket supposed to have a top? How much coffee should I use per cup of coffee?
Thanks
Gary
Thanks
Gary
Sunbeam Coffeemaster
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I used to own one like this. Mine didn’t have a top for the basket either, I don’t believe its supposed to have one. I used one rounded tbs. of ground coffee per cup, plus “one for the pot”. I think they were made during the early to mid 70’s, but I could be wrong on that, they may have been produced into the early 80’s as well.
They make a pretty good cup of Joe. Congratulations on receiving such a nice gift.
Eddie
They make a pretty good cup of Joe. Congratulations on receiving such a nice gift.
Eddie
Thank you for the info! I'm going to try it tomorrow morning.
thespiritof76
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very nice gift!
I use a teaspoon per cup. Flat wrap type filters should be able to be found at the grocery store. That's where I get them. There was a really great video on you-tube with the basics of coffee making, and it is from the 60s so its all about using a percolator. I also have read on here, that an excellent way to clean it is by putting a couple teaspoons of dishwasher powder in the grounds basket, fill it with water, and let it run through its cycle. Then empty it and rinse really well.
Hope some of this helps.
Happy Coffee drinking!
I use a teaspoon per cup. Flat wrap type filters should be able to be found at the grocery store. That's where I get them. There was a really great video on you-tube with the basics of coffee making, and it is from the 60s so its all about using a percolator. I also have read on here, that an excellent way to clean it is by putting a couple teaspoons of dishwasher powder in the grounds basket, fill it with water, and let it run through its cycle. Then empty it and rinse really well.
Hope some of this helps.
Happy Coffee drinking!
Wrap filters
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I also use the wrap filters in my percolators. They work really well and I see them all the time in the grocery store. I use a Tablespoon or two of Oxi Clean in mine and run them through a cycle. </span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Looks like a nice coffeemaker.</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I also use the wrap filters in my percolators. They work really well and I see them all the time in the grocery store. I use a Tablespoon or two of Oxi Clean in mine and run them through a cycle. </span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Looks like a nice coffeemaker.</span>
thespiritof76
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Ive never considerd using.....
Oxy Clean. Interesting. I learned to use dishwasher detergent from a thread that was started on here some time ago.
Oxy Clean. Interesting. I learned to use dishwasher detergent from a thread that was started on here some time ago.
It works really well.
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I originally started using it on the thermal carafe I put my coffee in everyday and was shocked at how well and how quickly it worked. The water has to be really hot and if you use too much it could foam over so I do it in the sink. The foam will be a brown color as it lifts the coffee stains right off.</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I originally started using it on the thermal carafe I put my coffee in everyday and was shocked at how well and how quickly it worked. The water has to be really hot and if you use too much it could foam over so I do it in the sink. The foam will be a brown color as it lifts the coffee stains right off.</span>
Hi Gary...
I have the Sears version of the Coffeemaster. Basket is a little different, plastic with a fine mesh filter, but no top.
In my other percs with a metal basket I use the Melitta coffee filters that I can still find here.
I think mine dates from about 1977.
Bill
I have the Sears version of the Coffeemaster. Basket is a little different, plastic with a fine mesh filter, but no top.
In my other percs with a metal basket I use the Melitta coffee filters that I can still find here.
I think mine dates from about 1977.
Bill
polkanut
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The dishwasher detergent cleaning method works great! What I've done in the past though is to let the mixture cool down a bit after perking and wash the inside with a dishcloth. You'd be amazed at how much the crud is loosened up. Also do the same with the basket, stem, and cover. Follow it up with a good rinse, and you should be good to go.
2packs4sure
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We had that unit at our deer camp for 20 years !!
I love the coffee that thing makes, we'd fill it to just over 12 cups in the sight glass and fill the basket with coffee as full as possible then plug her on in.
It would click, clack, hiss, thump, and burble for like 20 minutes then the red light came on.
Goooood coffee !!
Man, brings back great memories.......
I still have it AND a N.O.S. one in the box I bought from ebay in the late 90's just in case,,,, but it was never needed.
I love the coffee that thing makes, we'd fill it to just over 12 cups in the sight glass and fill the basket with coffee as full as possible then plug her on in.
It would click, clack, hiss, thump, and burble for like 20 minutes then the red light came on.
Goooood coffee !!
Man, brings back great memories.......
I still have it AND a N.O.S. one in the box I bought from ebay in the late 90's just in case,,,, but it was never needed.
2packs4sure
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We had that unit at our deer camp for 20 years !!
Congratulations, but this is not what is known as a Sunbeam Coffeemaster. That was the name of the vacuum brewer for many years and then briefly for their ill-fated Automatic Drip Coffeemaker.
My Sunbeam Perc
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Says Coffeemaster on the bottom. I think mine is a mid 60s model. It's the same one Hazel had on her show
. BTW, these are the filters I use in mine. Wegmans has a brand called Forny or something like that. I like those a little better and when I can I pick up a few of those.</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Says Coffeemaster on the bottom. I think mine is a mid 60s model. It's the same one Hazel had on her show
. BTW, these are the filters I use in mine. Wegmans has a brand called Forny or something like that. I like those a little better and when I can I pick up a few of those.</span>
THanks everyone for the responses. I would never have thought to use dishwasher detergent or Oxy-clean....I will give it a try. I did make a pot of coffee this morning...turned out not too bad. I used 8 cups water and 4 tbsps. coffee. It took about 15 min. to perc. I didn't know that paper filters were required...so obviously I didn't use one LOL There were no grounds in the coffee.
Printed on the bottom of the pot is Coffeemaster Percolator.
Gary
Printed on the bottom of the pot is Coffeemaster Percolator.
Gary
Gary
you don’t have to use paper filters if you don’t have them or don’t want to. Just wet the bottom of the basket before you put the coffee into it. I’ve owned and used scores of percolators and have found that unless the holes in the basket are large a filter isn’t necessary. I personally hate the wrap around paper filters that enclose the coffee grounds. While they do make clean up neater and easier, I felt that all of that excess paper filtered the flavor away, resulting in weaker coffee, and I drink my coffee black and like it very strong.
I’ve posted several times over the years about using dishwasher detergent to clean perks. Just be sure that your pot isn’t aluminum, which yours isn’t. If the pot is aluminum the DW detergent will turn it black. For an aluminum perk use Cream of Tartar instead, following the same directions as follows.
Fill the pot to max level with cold tap water and put 2 tbs of DW detergent or one pod of DW detergent into the basket. Let it perk thru a complete cycle, then unplug the pot and let the solution sit in the pot for about 30 mins. Then pour it out and now run a full pot of clean water thru a complete cycle, pour it out and rinse and your pot should be perfectly and spotlessly clean.
Since your Sunbeam has a beautiful, but narrow spout, get yourself a narrow bottle brush to clean the spout and the perk tube out with. The cleaner you keep that percolator the better your finished coffee is going to taste.
Using DW detergent most closely duplicates how old fashioned powdered Dip It worked. This product is hard to find now and fairly expensive if you do find it, and completely unnecessary. And don’t be fooled into buying the new liquid Dip It, it will not work anywhere near as well as the less expensive DW detergent,
One last suggestion, I’ve found thru trial and error that Maxwell House Colombian coffee makes really excellent perked coffee. It’s the only preground coffee that to me tastes like coffee used to taste back in the day, rich and full flavored. But it must be the Colombian blend, NOT the Original or French Roast, which to my taste are both no bueno.
HTH,
Eddie[this post was last edited: 2/21/2020-19:12]
you don’t have to use paper filters if you don’t have them or don’t want to. Just wet the bottom of the basket before you put the coffee into it. I’ve owned and used scores of percolators and have found that unless the holes in the basket are large a filter isn’t necessary. I personally hate the wrap around paper filters that enclose the coffee grounds. While they do make clean up neater and easier, I felt that all of that excess paper filtered the flavor away, resulting in weaker coffee, and I drink my coffee black and like it very strong.
I’ve posted several times over the years about using dishwasher detergent to clean perks. Just be sure that your pot isn’t aluminum, which yours isn’t. If the pot is aluminum the DW detergent will turn it black. For an aluminum perk use Cream of Tartar instead, following the same directions as follows.
Fill the pot to max level with cold tap water and put 2 tbs of DW detergent or one pod of DW detergent into the basket. Let it perk thru a complete cycle, then unplug the pot and let the solution sit in the pot for about 30 mins. Then pour it out and now run a full pot of clean water thru a complete cycle, pour it out and rinse and your pot should be perfectly and spotlessly clean.
Since your Sunbeam has a beautiful, but narrow spout, get yourself a narrow bottle brush to clean the spout and the perk tube out with. The cleaner you keep that percolator the better your finished coffee is going to taste.
Using DW detergent most closely duplicates how old fashioned powdered Dip It worked. This product is hard to find now and fairly expensive if you do find it, and completely unnecessary. And don’t be fooled into buying the new liquid Dip It, it will not work anywhere near as well as the less expensive DW detergent,
One last suggestion, I’ve found thru trial and error that Maxwell House Colombian coffee makes really excellent perked coffee. It’s the only preground coffee that to me tastes like coffee used to taste back in the day, rich and full flavored. But it must be the Colombian blend, NOT the Original or French Roast, which to my taste are both no bueno.
HTH,
Eddie[this post was last edited: 2/21/2020-19:12]
thespiritof76
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Ralph...
Those are the same exact filters I buy at Kroger. Never had a problem.
To Eddie: Very interesting information on the coffee. I actually like Folgers for my Perk. I also have been using the Kroger house brand of coffee, not only my self, but I have had others comment on how good it actually is. Maybe it is just private labeled Maxwell House...I don't know, but it sure tastes good!
Those are the same exact filters I buy at Kroger. Never had a problem.
To Eddie: Very interesting information on the coffee. I actually like Folgers for my Perk. I also have been using the Kroger house brand of coffee, not only my self, but I have had others comment on how good it actually is. Maybe it is just private labeled Maxwell House...I don't know, but it sure tastes good!
I used dishwasher detergent and ran the pot through a brew cycle. Wow, it worked great! The water was disgustingly dirty afterwards...and I thought the pot was clean! Will see tomorrow if I notice a difference in the coffee taste.
Gary
Gary
In a percolator, the oils build up in the tube and spout, especially since the narrow cleaning brushes are not readily available in stores like they were when percolators were very popular so running the detergent through the pots does provide great and needed cleaning, especially if the tubes are not washed in dishwashers. As to Coffeemaster being on the bottom of your perk, that is amazing because Sunbeam made such a fuss over the use of the term when they introduced the ADC machine. The factory reps touted the first use of the term since the vacuum brewers were discontinued when they were showing it to Housewares employees in an annual training session we had. Several older employees and I voiced disappointment at the end of the vacuum brewer, but this was the Viet Nam War era and the copper needed to make the bowls soared in price so the largely plastic construction of the ADC machine was the path they took. One commonality that the Sunbeam Coffeemaster ADC had with the Coffeemaster vacuum brewer was a long brewing cycle, much longer than the other ADC machines which heated the water spurt by spurt. Sunbeam's approach was to heat the entire tank of water to an initial lower temperature (and giving birth to the Hot Shot) before any of it was sprayed on the grounds to allow the flavor to bloom while the balance of the tank was heated to the higher brewing temperature. There was validity to this. John discovered that manually doing this made richer flavored coffee so this had validity, but it was largely wasted on most people brewing coffee in these popular machines when the Farberware cup-a-minute perks were very popular among more expensive electric perks.
Filters or no filters...
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">It's really a personal choice and probably best to just experiment with different methods to determine which you like best. I like the filters because they help to filter out some of the oils and sediment that can make coffee bitter but that's me. I think I got that from my Mom. I can remember when I was a kid she made coffee on the stove with one of those glass pyrex coffeemakers. She used something as a filter but I don't remember what. It could have been a paper towel, a napkin or maybe a real coffee filter. I just remember there was something in the pot to contain and filter the coffee and she had one of those wire things because she always had an electric stove. She eventually transitioned to a BUNN and never changed after that.</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I had a friend years ago who's mother put an egg in the coffee. I don't know how or when she did it but I remember a white percolator on the stove. It was really good. Does anyone know anything about this method? </span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">It's really a personal choice and probably best to just experiment with different methods to determine which you like best. I like the filters because they help to filter out some of the oils and sediment that can make coffee bitter but that's me. I think I got that from my Mom. I can remember when I was a kid she made coffee on the stove with one of those glass pyrex coffeemakers. She used something as a filter but I don't remember what. It could have been a paper towel, a napkin or maybe a real coffee filter. I just remember there was something in the pot to contain and filter the coffee and she had one of those wire things because she always had an electric stove. She eventually transitioned to a BUNN and never changed after that.</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I had a friend years ago who's mother put an egg in the coffee. I don't know how or when she did it but I remember a white percolator on the stove. It was really good. Does anyone know anything about this method? </span>
