How come people don’t use percolators anymore, or do they?
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How come people don’t use percolators anymore, or do they?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “do percolators make good coffee“
Thanks for the A2A. There are still some of us that use the old school percolator. I have tried pretty much every method and I like percolated coffee the best because of the deep flavor you get. It also keeps the coffee hot and fresh for a couple of hours. If you want to buy one stick with Farberware. They are not cheap but will last just about forever. Happy perking! 😉
I still use one while camping. When the “big one” (earthquake) hits in California, I’ll invite you over for a cup (since that’s the only way you’ll get your coffee if the electricity is off).
There is an assortment of percolators for sale on Amazon so someone must be using them or they wouldn’t still be showing up for sale.
Pwrcolators burn your coffee.
Coffee has been popular in the USA since its founding. It began losing its popularity because bulk canning and using percolators were how people made their coffee at home in the morning from the 1920’s through the early 1960’s, and that method of delivering and making coffee was one of the worst ways to prepare coffee. It served those selling coffee by bulk preparation, not those enjoying coffee, thus, it’s use began to die down because the result was bitter, burned coffee.
I began drinking coffee at The Last Exit on Brookline, the coffee house in Seattle that revitalized Seattle’s coffee culture in the late 1960’s. Of course, Starbuck’s sprang out of that, which began the national (USA) revitalization of coffee consumption. Starbuck’s offered an alternative to burned, at home, percolated coffee or even worse, “it sat on a warmer all day long, getting more and more bitter” swill you could get at the then restaurants and coffee shops of the time. People began to realize, in the USA at least, that coffee didn’t have to be the atrocious stuff that was offered up and the evolution of better coffee began (in the USA, that is – other places had always know what good coffee is).
Thus, the death of the percolator.
The French Press is so much better than the percolator, I don’t know why anyone would bother with one but my grandparents would make coffee you could cut with a knife as they used to say. I have not seen any for sale anywhere. I think the keurig and competitors have driven it out of use. Also you can get Mr. Coffee type makers which are more convenient.
Percolators are often associated with our grandparents, times when things were more formal, just like wearing fedoras and dressing up to go to the movies and flying on an airplane, a gone by era. They probably went out of favour when Mr.Coffee came on the market, a simpler maybe faster way to make coffee with a disposable filter, no more having to clean out the percolator pot and filter. Maybe the biggest reason is as someone as I believe already mentioned, percolated coffee can have more of a bitter stronger taste due to the coffee continuously going up and back down the tube and through the wet coffee grounds.
Whether “they” do or not, percolators recycle already extracted coffee over the coffee grounds extracting acids and other bad tasting elements long after the flavor has been extracted. I prefer vacpots myself, plus they are fun to watch.