Best electric coffee percolator?

[FTG-05]

I want to get my wife a coffee percolator for Christmas this year. What's the best one to get?

Requirements: Electric, 12 cup (64-96 oz) minimum

I'm looking at these two right now:

Amazon.com: Presto 2811 12-Cup Stainless Steel Coffee Maker: Electric Coffee Percolators: Kitchen & Dining

Amazon.com: Hamilton Beach Brands 4614 Coffee Percolator, Stainless Steel, 12-Cup, Pack of 1: Electric Coffee Percolators: Kitchen & Dining

Both have excellent reviews on Amazon, with the Presto with far more + reviews and far less - reviews. However, it comes with a solid top so you can't see the coffee percolating. The Cuisinart (sp) version has terrible reviews.

What do you guys use and what do you recommend?

Thanks,

 

[frugalangler]

IMHO, if you really like diner style coffee, neither of those will be great - peculators are better than most drip units, mainly because the temp of the water in most drip systems is not very hot. In the past when we drank lots of coffee, we used a Bunn small commercial drip unit, made fabulous coffee, as it was designed to generate very HOT brew water. I'm not a fan of recycling coffee through the grounds, but many folks like the flavor from that method.

Your 'requirements' Electric, 12 cup (64-96 oz) minimum - don't specify percolator, have you ruled a good drip like a Bunn out?

 

[JRobyn]

I rarely use a percolator anymore, but when I do, I greatly prefer one of my two Farberware "Superfast". I have both the small and large models. Both are many decades old. The price is commensurate with the design and build quality.

 

[mapper]

Percolator=criminal offence to coffee :ill:

 

[Firemanbuck82]

Percolator=criminal offence to coffee :ill:

^^^this

Also, buy the smallest percolator you can find so it doesn't hurt so much when she hits you up-side the head with it Christmas morning.

 

[teejk]

Percolator=criminal offence to coffee :ill:

Why would you say that? Burnt coffee and the ability to get solids in your cup build character!

 

[Ford850]

Listening to a percolator make coffee is much better than listening to the hisses and groans of a drip coffee maker. I only use a camp stove percolator when camping these days, but boy does that coffee taste great! Thick black coffee is hard to beat.

 

[prichard]

Percolator=criminal offence to coffee :ill:

Amen.

If you don't like the sound drip machine use a French press.

 

[TractorGuy]

Some research has linked drinking unfiltered coffee to an increase in LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels.

 

[txdon]

What do you guys use and what do you recommend?

Thanks,

Since The cholesterol-raising compounds of coffee are removed by a plain paper filter. I use this:
Amazon.com: Keurig K15 Single Serve Compact K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Chili Red: Kitchen & Dining
With this:
Amazon.com: Perfect Pod EZ-Cup Refillable Capsule, Keurig 1. compatible: Disposable Coffee Filters: Kitchen & Dining
and this:
Amazon.com: Perfect Pod EZ-Cup Paper Filters (5 Filters): K Cups Filters Paper: Kitchen & Dining

I know it does not meet your gallon of coffee requirement but each cup is fresh and can be any strength depending how much coffee you put in the pod.

Is this just for her or for her group?

 

[Oldpath05]

Unfiltered coffee raises coletoal? first I heard of that.............

You sure your wife wants a coffee maker, sure she doesn't want a chainsaw or hunting rifle, sounds odd to me because my wife and most of her friends like the tea, I only like tea if it's ice tea and on a hot day with a cold sandwich, but not at break time I can't take a coffee break with tea, I have to have coffee for a coffee break, I'm funny that way.

That Presto gets my vote, looked like it did have a paper filter in that short video description, even looks better then the Hamilton brand, my one complaint would be no auto shut off, I'm into setting and forgetting, mostly forgetting the setting.

 

[FTG-05]

IMHO, if you really like diner style coffee, neither of those will be great - peculators are better than most drip units, mainly because the temp of the water in most drip systems is not very hot. In the past when we drank lots of coffee, we used a Bunn small commercial drip unit, made fabulous coffee, as it was designed to generate very HOT brew water. I'm not a fan of recycling coffee through the grounds, but many folks like the flavor from that method.

Your 'requirements' Electric, 12 cup (64-96 oz) minimum - don't specify percolator, have you ruled a good drip like a Bunn out?

No drip, already got one of those.

The requirements are for a percolator coffee maker with the following: Electric (i.e. not a camping percolator), 12 cup minimum (i.e. no 1-8 cup versions).

 

[Wagtail]

One word - Nespresso

You'll thank me later.

 

[teejk]

Unfiltered coffee raises coletoal? first I heard of that.............

Funny thing about coffee. Whenever you read a scary medical study, just wait a week or two and you'll find a new study saying coffee is a miracle cure-all.

 

[teejk]

Got to thinking. Back in the 60's when the "drip" coffee makers started gaining traction, the major coffee brands started marketing different grinds depending on what you were using to brew it. I guess percolators required a coarser grind whereas the drips had the paper filter and could use a finer grind. I don't think I see that anymore.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just think of the thousands of tons of (used only once) coffee grounds out there, just waiting for all those percolator coffee lovers. There's got to be an excellent "GREEN" opportunity in that somewhere. Just need figure out an economical way to separate it from the wastestream.

My Mom used to drag the percolator out for guests, back in the 60s.

I drink a cup a day and use a stainless vacume flask. Lately, Starbucks from Cosco. Make a pot and microwave the (unburnt) coffee for days. Only thing worse than a purcolator is coffee left heated for hours. Flies in there are an extra treat, (usually) found at the bottom of your cup.

 

[Ford850]

Just think of the thousands of tons of (used only once) coffee grounds out there, just waiting for all those percolator coffee lovers. There's got to be an opportunity in that somewhere. Just figure out to separate it from the wastestream.

My Mom used to drag the percolator out for guests, back in the 60s.

I drink a cup a day and use a stainless vacume flask. Lately, Starbucks from Cosco. Make a pot and microwave the (unburnt) coffee for days. Only thing worse than a purcolator is coffee left heated for hours. Flies in there are an extra treat, (usually) found at the bottom of your cup.

My dad found a stink bug in the bottom of his cup after finishing his coffee. He was not amused.

 

[sseelhoff]

Just think of the thousands of tons of (used only once) coffee grounds out there, just waiting for all those percolator coffee lovers. There's got to be an opportunity in that somewhere. Just figure out to separate it from the wastestream.

You are actually on the right trail regarding re-use of coffee grounds.

London buses to be powered by coffee grounds

As part of ongoing efforts to reduce pollution in the capital, London's buses are set to utilise a new source of fuel: coffee grounds. Thanks to a collaboration between Bio-Bean, Shell and Argent Energy, double deckers will be filled with a B20 biofuel created by blending oil extracted from coffee waste with diesel. So far, they've produced enough to power one London bus for a year, but as Londoners drink 20 million cups of coffee a day, it could provide enough oil to power a third of Transport for London's entire network.

 

[Industrial Toys]

There you go. It's even got a catchy name. Bio-Bean. Now just pretend it's somehow Free Trade.

Then all you need to do is design a WIFI enabled purcolator and charge a monthly fee.

 

[prichard]

Wow! How many billions did they suck out of the British economy in grants for that scheme?