We have a French press, drip coffee makers, Keurig coffee makers, an espresso maker etc. We grind our own coffee beans. Lately, the coffee just seemed blah.
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A couple of weeks ago, in the back of a kitchen cabinet, I found our old stove top coffee percolator. We haven’t used it in about 10 years. I decided to give it a try. Wow, it made a really good tasting cup of coffee.
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We have since purchased an electric percolator and use it more than any other coffee making method. The left over coffee goes in the fridge and makes really good iced coffee. We still grind our own beans.
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Maybe as you get older your taste buds change, but I now prefer percolator coffee over other methods.
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I had forgotten how to use a stove top percolator. After some Google searches and also looking in old online newspaper archives, here is how to use a stove top percolator:
[b][i]–Stove Top Percolator Coffee–
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Here is how to make a good cup of stove top percolator coffee:
-Start with cold water.
-You should use at least half the capacity of your percolator for it to work properly. If it holds 8 cups, don’t make less than 4 cups.
-Use 2 level Tablespoons (or a level standard coffee scoop) of coarse coffee grounds for each 8-oz cup of coffee. (Some references say use 2 Tbsp of coffee to 8 oz of water and some say to 6 oz of water.) Then add one more scoop for the pot. If using finer grounds for drip coffee, add paper filter to coffee basket.
-Add desired amount of cold water to coffee pot.
-Add recommended amount of coffee grounds to coffee basket, try not to let any grounds go down the perking tube.
-Place coffee perking rod, spring (if it has one), coffee basket and coffee basket lid in place. Snap exterior coffee pot lid in place.
-Place coffee pot on stove top burner and set to medium-high or high heat.
-It will take 5 or 6 minutes for the water in the pot to boil and the coffee pot to start perking (water spurting once or twice a second inside clear bulb on top, and dripping the hot water through the basket of coffee grounds).
-As soon as the coffee pot starts perking, reduce burner heat as much as possible, while still keeping the coffee perking once or twice a second. You want to use as little heat as possible to perk the coffee, to prevent over-boiling the coffee and a bitter taste.
-Perk the coffee for 5 to 8 minutes, depending on coffee strength desired.
-Turn off the heat and enjoy a good cup of coffee.[/i][/b]