Your thoughts on the percolator, the classic method of coffee

I love them but the heating element in these things fail pretty quickly. You'll be lucky to get a year out of it.

Too much of a fish problem.

>>8315740
Imagine a drip machine that ran brewed coffee back through the filter over and over.
The percolator singlehandedly reinforced the idea that coffee was just bitter wakeup juice to an entire generation of americans.

>>8315740
Do you want horrible, bitter coffee? Because that's how you get horrible, bitter coffee

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>>8315756
I'm still using a GE percolator from the 1950s. I use it daily, the thing is damn near indestructible.

>>8315740
Least pretentious method for making coffee.

I bought a stovetop one and wanted to like it but the coffee was super bitter every time. Even after trying out many different heat settings/coffee ratios it was never great. They look and sound cool though.

>>8315740
why not a moka pot? a percolator just runs brewed coffee over coffee grounds through a filter over and over again making it bitter. Compared to a moka pot steam pressure pushes water through a the coffee grounds in a short amount of time which gives a coffee similar to espresso.

>>8316030
Well they're very efficient

>>8315740
It's fine for poor quality canned ground coffee, because no matter the quality of coffee you feed it the resulting drink will taste like that's what you started with.

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>>8315763
>Too much of a fish problem.

>>8316030
Moka pots really should have some failsafes. They can easily become clogged and explode.

>>8315763
This, I always get fish in my percolators