Brewing coffee with Pyrex percolator

I use the vintage instructional film "This Is Coffee" to direct me on brewing the perfect cup of coffee with a percolator.

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• hotpoint
• 1940's
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• stove
• retro

[DELTA912420]

Whats that stove?? that's really neat too

[retrochad]

@DELTA912420 Thank you, This is a late 1940's Hotpoint.

[motocat1]

Great video! Just bought my pyrex percolator today and can't wait to use it in the morning. Your instructions and demonstration really helped...Thank you!

[retrochad]

Thanks! glad I could help! I really like the taste of the coffee brewed in it.

[gardenwife]

There are several videos here that come up when I search for "This is Coffee". Can you put the link you used in your description, please? This is really interesting!

[retrochad]

Hello...the entire coffee video is available at the "archive" "dot" "o.r.g." website (youtube won't let me put the entire link in there).

You can download a higher quality version of "This is Coffee" or view it instantly like youtube.

[SlackJones1]

OMG, I grew up during the "peculator" days. Coffee in those days was very cheap quality and usually served weak. Peculating really ruined the bad coffee sold at the time. Mr. Coffee drip machines were a blessing compared to percolators, when they came out in the early 70's. American coffee in the 1950's and 1960's was really very bad. Although I love old things, 1960's American coffee was an example of private enterprise selling you pure crap for a purpose.

[VolkswagenNut1969]

I found this same percolator among my grandparents old things recently. Now I know how to use it! (but maybe with a heat grid added) Thanks!

PS: I'm dying for that cool stove for my 1940s house! Electric ranges from that period are hard to find.

[tallboyyyy]

I downloaded "This Is Coffee" about 3 years ago from the same website you mentioned. It's one of my favorite films on that site. I especially like the Capitol Production Music soundtrack. Some of the tracks used in this film are also in the film "Shopping Can Be Fun" also on Archive dot org.

[jbranstetter04]

I thought you cleaned the coffee pot "thoroughly"? It looked not clean to me when it was on the cook top. I think it was on the bottom of the pot, so no harm. But if you want to know the best way to clean it, use Dip-It. Some stores still might carry it, but not many. And I'm talking about the powder kind, not the liquid (liquid is for automatic drip makers). In a bigger pan you can put the coffee pot in it with Dip-It to clean the bottom. Also works excellent on thermos's; makes them like new.

[360deeman]

@austin881000 That stove is built a heck of alot better then any modern stove, its built with alot heaver steel so it takes alot less electric to get it hot and KEEP it hot.

[kennyt1230]

I noticed you don't use a heat grid under your percolator--aren't you supposed to use one so the glass doesn't break from the heat of the stove coils?

[1952kid]

Use an electric 1000 watt coffee perculator ,an older one, perked coffee in 3 minutes,done when the red light comes on, and it keeps it hot, remember to unplug these when you leave the house, they dont turn off by themselves. And try coffee with chickory, really strong black coffee with those oily little bubbles on top. Luizziane makes a good one, half the caffine too. Those glass perculators , you have to stay in the kitchen and watch them till there done.

[germadorian]

You think too much to make coffee.

wake UP!!