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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
My wife is married to you too???? 
There are many ways to make an excelent cup of coffee. BUT, there is one thing that they all lack, the house filling aroma of coffee brewing.
Although my wife doesn't like the taste of coffee, she doesn't mind the smell of coffee. So she bought me an electric coffee percolator for a birthday present.
It percked the coffe for such a short time that there was no aroma comming out of the spout. It was almost exactly like drip coffee. Not bad in it's self. Just uninteresting. She then ordered a stovetop perculator.
Now I can enjoy the full aroma and flavor of the coffee on the weekends. People who drip or plunge will never know how good it is to fill the house with the aroma of hot coffee. It's exactly like bread. Bread in a wrapper from the store is fine. Fresh baked bread from the oven is GREAT!
I know that few will go so far as to buy one, but there are only two rules; NOT aluminum, and NOT electric even if you can adjust the time that it takes to perk. |
My mum has a percolator which is very much like, or is, this Corning Ware one:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72963623...nflower-10-cup
It bubbling away on the stove is one of my earliest memories, and the smell of coffee always triggers an image of it in my head. I recall we'd sit down to lunch and it would come out and we'd all have coffee from it served with milk and pouring cream (I used to just use the cream
). This was a common, though not regular thing (maybe once a fortnight or month), as instant coffee was what was standard in our household.
To be honest, I liked its strength, and aroma, but was never too mad about its taste. I am the same now with filter and plunger too. I'd rather them than instant now, but for my tastes espresso is my brew of choice.
But now I want to buy a percolator.
Cheers,
Marc