Re: Retro Coffee-Finally a pot of coffee with taste
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I’m with you Keith.? I still use a Mr. Coffee style, a Black &
Decker, that makes decent coffee.? I too grind my beans each day.
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My first coffee make, though, back in graduate school, was a Chemex where
you used filter paper to contain the ground coffee and you heated water and
poured it through the coffee in the filter paper.? The coffee was good but
it required a lot of effort to make it.
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Chuck
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [dalton59] Retro Coffee-Finally a pot of coffee with
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Well, what'cha gonna do?? One day you are not to drink more than one cup
and now it's good for you.? All through it I continued to drink my two mugs
per day and doing okay.
Guess I got used to more conveniences.? Perking on the stove top is
not my style. Our's is a Hamilton Beach that has a thermal pot so it stays warm
but doesn't get burnt and overheated (yuk!) from a hotplate. Also grind my beans
each day.? So I'm a snob - but, hey, to each their own.?
"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs
nothing, and conveys much."? Erastus Wiman
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HAVE A GREAT DAY!
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KEITH GOUDY
512-590-2832
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On May 25, 2012, at 1:28 PM, jhdouglas59 wrote:
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After all these years of suffering with the electric coffee makers
such
as Mr. Coffee and all other brands which make lukewarm nasty
tasting coffee
disbursed by these marvels of technology, I finally
decided to get a
non-electric percolator which makes coffee the
old-fashioned way of 50
years ago.
I chose the Farberware Yosemite Percolator which I got
online at
for $19.99. The coffee
which it brews is actually hot
and actually has a taste. It works best with
cheap coffee. I prefer
Chase & Sanborn but I can't find that brand in
Texas. So I use
Master Chef which I can buy at Wally World in Boerne. 33
ounces
for $5.35. Master Chef is roasted by Massimo Zanetti (which
also
roasts Chase & Sanborn).
The Yosemite Percolator is a 10
cup percolator.
We have an electric range. After many attempts at how
to make the
perfect pot of coffee, here is my routine:
For a full
pot of coffee, use 4 giant scoops of cheapo coffee.
Our electric range
has a burner setting from 0 to 10.
I select the 5 setting and perc for 25
minutes.
Then I select the 2 setting and perc for 8 minutes.
Then I turn
off the range and let the coffee set on an
unused cold burner for another
2.7 minutes.
The coffee is then ready to drink.
Pour as many
cups as you wish.
Put excess coffee in a thermal carafe to keep the
remaining
coffee scalding hot.
I tried in vain to find a stainless
steel vacuum coffee pot
but could find none. So I selected the Yosemite
percolator
instead. I am pleased as punch with my purchase.
To all
you coffee freaks, I recommend this Yosemite percolator.
As an aside, I
suggest you also buy the glass percolator top
for a few dollars on to replace the yukko plastic
top
which comes standard with the Yosemite.
Anyone else out there frustated
with lukewarm foul tasting
coffee? Ditch those Mr Coffee and related copy
cat devices
and go back to the future with a percolator!!!!
Have a
swell day,
The Coffeemeister
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