MONEY can’t buy you love. But it can buy you a percolator full of coffee and that’s darn close enough.
Happiness is: A vintage percolator
Posted by: • June 11, 2009
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LOVE vintage percolators!
My grandmother had one just like that! I have no idea how the coffee tasted!
I have a small collection of vintage perculators. In fact I have that one in the ad. That is the one I use every morning to make my coffee. Tastes delicious.
I have a 4 cup Farberware electric perc that I had bought new when Farberware reissued the product about 20 years ago. It makes a very good cup of java and I am fussy about my coffee!
We bought a reproduction one about 7 years ago and used it until it gave out (about 3 years later). I thought it was great but Nathan wasn’t so keen on it…..
I have a small collection of vintage G.E. Percolators. One has been in the family since new back in the late 50′s and still works. They make great coffee. I use one every morning. I also think they look better sitting on the counter than the modern coffee maker.
As I type this I am sipping on a cup of coffee made in an earlier version of the Universal CoffeeMatic (circa 1946) and I say that there is no tastier way to make coffee than in an automatic percolator or an automatic vacuum coffee maker…
We have two, a smaller one and a 12-cup!
David got me into perk coffee and I’ll never go back. We did find a Universal like the one in the pic at one point and booted it on e-bay.
Melitta makes some neat disc filters to go in the bottom of the basket to keep the grounds out of the coffee, too. Hey-mine’s almost ready now!
Laura
Nothing beats vintage percolators! I have several, dating to the 40′s, and all work wonderfully well. I have Farberware, Citation by Proctor Silex, Montgomery Ward’s own brand, and others.
The Citations have glass bodies with etched starbursts, chromed fittings and peach colored bakelite handles and base. Super stylized 50′s!
We use vintage percolators, which we find at garage sales for a few bucks. We currently have two almost identical GE models, with black bases and handles and stainless steel tops. They have a nifty feature on the side that lets you set the strength from “mild” to “strong.” (I’ve never heard anyone refer to “mild” coffee, but I guess that word sounds better than “weak.”)
I agree with Northside CJ — these pots look great on the counter. Also, the whole sensory experience is better with a percolator — they make a nice bubbly sound, you can watch the coffee splurt up into the little glass bulb on top, the handle is pleasant to hold, and steam from the spout looks cool and has a great aroma.
We are the only ones among our relatives to use percolators — except for my 96-year-old grandma!
I just found a mint condition stovetop percolator for $5 at Goodwill. I was quite pleased because it’s the Cornflower blue pattern I grew up with, and I don’t have a coffee maker for guests. At our last get-together, I had 3 people in the kitchen with me giving advice on how to use it! It seemed to take forever to perc, but they all liked the coffee! I’m a tea-drinker, myself…. (and I have the matching teapot!)
I have to say there is nothing better than “Perked” coffee, I bought a Purculater that Cuisenart makes and it is the best!!!
I will never buy another drip pot again.
Just remeber the old Maxwell house commercials…
How did a percolator cost in the 1920′s? I need to know for a history project!!!!! HELP
I don’t think anyone will answer you here, marlee. Try the FB page.
ohh ok thanks