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I am very happy with this coffee pot and glad it came so fast.It works great and easy to clean. Thank you
I used to wake up with a percolator perking away in the kitchen; I think the smell of the coffee was my alarm clock. You can time it to your liking.
If you're old enough to remember them.this coffee pot is the very best. It's like the sound of a hand pushed lawnmower.
I find between 6 and 7 minutes is the best for me.I have an old aluminum dented 1930's percolator which I use daily; this Yosemite is for company.Just the sound of the perking coffee is worth the price. Some sounds are forever in your memory.
I am 80 years old. I've had all kinds of coffee pots but, to me, the percolator is the very best.
Remember that click clicking sound.
I soon learned that buying a "classical (read old-fashioned) coffee pot" was not a task easily accomplished. Along with the company's closure came the end of my free-coffee delivery service.Now at home all day without the coffee delivery service, I continued to pick up a coffee from time-to-time, but as time-to-time became several times a day (at $2.00+/cup) I finally bought a drip coffee maker, but my home-brewed coffee was not nearly as good as what I bought at the store counter, even though I purchased my coffee beans from the same store. At first, after a few "polite" sips, as soon as I was alone, most of mine went down the drain. I chose the Farberware Classic Yosemite Stainless Steel Percolator based on several reviews and because all my pans are stainless steel and I wanted the coffee pot to be stainless.I've not been disappointed in the least. Also, though it was never part of the original equation, there's a certain pleasure and nostalgia in smelling and listening to a pot of coffee perking on the stove. Invariably, generous souls that they were, they brought back large coffees for everyone in the department. I got hooked while working with a group of hardcore coffee-drinking computer programmers.
Something like the metal coffee pots my mother always had sitting on the left rear stove burner during the first 35 years of my life (each of which lasted for years). I looked in nearly a dozen stores without success. One night, while reading book reviews on Amazon, it came to me, maybe Amazon sold coffee pots; they sold everything else. Using the same brand of coffee (and actually somewhat less grounds/6-cup pot of coffee), I'm making coffee that has the same body as what I buy at the store counter. For a time I "settled". All the varieties of coffee pots you could hope for. (If you don't have as many birthdays behind you as I do, this might be lost on you, but trust me, it's great and is a great way to heat the kitchen on a cold, winter morning).Several of the Amazon reviews on this coffee pot spoke of a variety of issues with the transparent plastic top that inserts into the top metal cover and I elected to buy a spare (glass) top recommended by several people.
Periodically (most often when yet another carafe broke and I soon learned that replacing it often cost as much as buying a new coffee maker), I tried a variety of brands of drip coffee makers but they all had one problem in common: the coffee they made did not have the "body" that the store-brewed coffee had.
Being too "busy" (read lazy) to bother with making coffee or dealing with at least minimal efforts at ptomaine prevention, one of them was always jumping into their car and making a coffee run.
But over time the amount sipped increased and the amount down the drain decreased until one day it became apparent; I had become a confirmed coffee drinker.
Adding more coffee grounds did not increase the "body" of the coffee but simply made it stronger and more bitter (the very reasons I never cared for coffee in the first place).I'm not certain when the idea came to me (probably around the time I sprang for my umpty-umpth coffee maker, but I decided I needed a coffee pot that did not break.
I give it five stars and, based on my experience, highly recommend it.
I've been using the pot for only a short time and so far have had no issues with the original plastic top and have had no need to replace it, but I'm ready when the time comes.So far, I've been very happy with this product.
For most of my life, I've not been a coffee drinker.
When the company closed its doors after being in business for 90+ years, my 25 year career ended and, like so many others, I went into forced retirement.
Bingo.
Delivery was very quick (2 days) It is easy to clean. It's good for electric and gas stoves. (I remember one purchaser saying the plastic knob broke and he replaced it with a glass knob). I would buy this product again and I recommend it if you need a good percolator for the stove. You can take it camping. It appears to be made of good grade stainless steel. So,I purchased the replacement glass knob in case it broke.
The handle is comfortably contoured and does not get hot while in use. I use it on my Coleman gas stove. I like this percolator. The knob appears to be made of plastic but I haven't had any problems with it. It comes with instructions/tips, etc.
Make sure you use course ground coffee. I generally use the 4 cup - just enough coffee to start my morning. I've had this percolator for almost 3 months now, and I use it almost daily. I have had no issues with the handle or the plastic piece at the top.The percolator has 3 (hard to see lines) in it for making 4,6, or 8 cups of coffee. Getting the amount of coffee correct has been a bit of an experiment, but I think I have it now.
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