BEAN BASICS S3 E1: Using the Presto Percolator
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Once upon a time (think the 1970s and earlier), a majority of American households had one important thing in common: they kept a pot of coffee percolating on their kitchen counter all morning. People would come and go and grab a cup. In my house, the percolator was the star of the dessert table at dinner parties where the women wore Pucci prints and cat eyes. With their sleek, pleasing design and their ability to make coffee by the boat load, electric percolators were the epitome of home convenience. By the 1980s, most of those percolators had been replaced by auto drip coffee makers. Why? Because the coffee wasn't that good, especially if you were drinking it hours after it percolated. But what if you could make a really good cup of coffee with a percolator? BIGGBY COFFEE Co-CEO, Bob Fish, shows you a few tricks that can help you rehabilitate the reputation of this nostalgic brewing method, and make yourself a great cup of coffee in the meantime. It's not your grandma's percolator any more!
00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - What's wrong with a Percolator?
02:40 - The parts to a Percolator
03:44 - How it works
05:20 - Infusion vs. percolation
06:05 - All about the brew basket
07:00 - A square filter?
08:18 - The round filter?
08:55 - Coffee to water ratio
10:31 - Dosing the coffee
11:50 - Grinding the coffee/grinder settings
12:48 - Loading the brew basket & adding the water
13:50 - Starting the percolator
14:42 - Don't try this at home!
15:55 - How long does it take?
16:57 - REALLY don't try this at home
17:20 - The history of the percolator
19:02 - The most important hack
21:10 - The taste test
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Tried all different coffee makers and always go back to the percolator. Taste is so much better.
I use a vintage percolator every day, and would never think of using anything else.
RIGHT ON THE REST IS SOPE.
@ Just My Opinion,
I totally agree! My vintage percolator is a pyrex flameware glass percolator. Although there is a learning curve regarding temperature, brewing time and grind, once you learn it, you'll never have any other coffee. I've been using it over 25 years and have never owned a drip coffee maker. It makes the BEST coffee from a time when making coffee was art.
@@bunkyman8097 I have two Pyrex glass percolators and I use them regularly! They really DO make the best coffee!!!
I have the small Presto electric percolator. I have had great results by grinding the coffee the night before and putting it in the freezer. Using cold coffee grounds produces a very smooth cup, not bitter at all! One of my favorite brewing methods.
Never heard of freezing it, guess I have to try that for tomorrow! Thanks for the tip!
oh the sound of a electric peculator brewing brings back so many memories, my grandparents had a peculator that made the strangest noises the older it got. every third glug it would sound like someone saying wooooo. so we would wake on the weekends to glug glug woooo LOL
You’re pretty negative about the percolator. I find these to brew coffee much better than todays standards. Yes, it takes a bit longer but the wait is worth the taste.
I agree with you 100% I used all kinds of methods. Get it dialed in, Time versus grain size and they are very consistent. See my comment above
I agree 100%
He was not negative, he was truthful. Someone who knows a lot about coffee like this couple, they know multiply ways of making a great cup of coffee, and this probably wouldn't be their first choice for a grade A cup. There are people like yourself who think basic is good. He also said he would be keeping the machine, if you watched the video.
Presto Perculators Are All I’ve Used For 50 Years! Makes The Best Cup Of Coffee Ever!
Tim, this is my first Presto Percolator and I have used several types of filters but for whatever reason,I am still getting coffee grounds at the bottom or pot. What do you do?
@@luisc1748 I Just Don’t Drink That Last Cup
@@timburris3758 , thank you and I don't.
My percolator is from 1945 and still works like new and i love it 😊
I just got a 1960s corning-wear percolator, it's like brand new.........the coffee is SO smooth, I love it!!!
I have been using the same presto percolator since 2019. I love the way it makes coffee and added a plug in timer to start brewing coffee before I wake up. Works fine every time.
Here in America we have the freedom to make our coffee the way we like it, and millions of us love our boiled coffee. The boiling water repeatedly going through the grounds only enhances the flavor. Many easily misled people have had the wool pulled over their eyes and have been tricked into thinking there's something wrong with percolator coffee. They've been duped into thinking that beans should be burnt and that coffee should taste sour and acidic. Too bad for them that they can't think for themselves. They stick their noses up in the air while I laugh at them and enjoy every single drop of my percolator coffee. You can buy flat disk coffee filters for the bottom of the percolator basket and they work great. Easy peasy.
I love my presto percolator ❤️. Stainless steel is ideal for someone who doesn’t want to heat plastic. Rich flavor, but I don’t use a filter. Medium roast Guatemalan organic.
My mother had the legendary Corningware 10-cup electric percolator with the iconic blue cornflower motif back in the Seventies. I bought the Presto 02811 about two years ago and it's an elegant beast!!
Great video. I grew up watching my mom make coffee every morning in a percolator. The smell was amazing, even though she was probably brewing either Folgers or Eight O'Clock Coffee from the A&P. Great memories. To relive my childhood I recently picked up a 12-cup West Bend electric percolator and plan to pull it out on the weekends when I'm feeling too old and nostalgic. 😄
Eight O'clock coffee WAS actually a superior coffee "back in the day" from A&P..
I have one of those as well, it works great!
I use a percolator and I love it.
100% stainless steel no coffee touching toxic plastic.
Wow you guys did such a great job so entertaining and so informative thank you so much
Great video out of all the different coffee makers you have demonstrated the percolator is the healthiest for anyone to use no toxic plastic, more and more research is showing just how bad all that plastic is in coffee makers.
Lol Bean Basics That's actually a great name for a Show channel. ❤
My grandparents always had a pot either one on the stove or the electric percolator in the kitchen. First cup of coffee I ever had was percolated coffee. When I used to go to hunting camp in the up we had one we kept one on the woodstove.
Thank You! I'll try this.
A percolator does NOT "burn the coffee"! What it does is allow the water to flow through the grounds multiple times to get the most robust flavor out of the beans. It also takes slightly less grounds to brew the same intensity as a drip coffee maker, and that is precisely because of the above: "water flows through the grounds multiple times...". Yes it might take a tad longer than a drip coffee maker, but the results are OFTEN SUPERIOR!
I had a normal everyday coffee pot maker and switched back to a percolator because my husband and I felt it made a stronger smoother coffee than our regular coffee pot. It stays hot longer and using stainless steel instead of ingesting micro plastics everyday makes us both feel better having that second cup. The downside is the last cup does get some grounds but that is because we don't use a filter since we discovered it bubbled grounds over the top anyway. We purchased the Presto keep warm cordless percolator which has a beautiful sleek black design with clear glass lid. We love our Presto percolator. It definitely is similar to having a German or Turkish coffee (in our opinion) which we love. Thanks for sharing your video and tips. Enjoyed your video especially the part where you said everyone should enjoy their coffee their way. 😉🤗☕
This is really helpful - I thought I was doing something wrong. My coffee was tasting like cigarette ashes!
I make it like I made it back in the 70's and I like it that way. Never did care for drip coffee.
I'm looking to get a new coffee maker for my mom who has struggled finding a machine that works for her, I really enjoyed this presentation, and how you went through all the details of this percolator.
Honestly don’t hesitate buy a percolator it’s fantastic I got rid of a drip maker for one
One Bigg Island In Space Percolator Coffee is all I will use I have many Vintage Percolators Beats All the other Luke Warm Coffee from the Drip and Kureg Pots using a 1951 Universal Coffee Matic Love it.
I have a Farberware Perculator and the instructions say to wet the basket to keep the grounds for passing thru. I done it both ways and the wet basket is best!
This was exactly what I needed to watch to make my first coffee in my first percolator. Thank you! You two covered all the bases and I even went over to Amazon to order a package of filter discs. Kendra from the Seattle area.
I have a 2-4 cup faberware made in the bronx. I use the discs made by Melita. I love that I just learned that if I unplug it immediately after brewing I not only stop the warming but I also stop the over extraction. My second cup was always a bit more bitter than the first so I'm going to try this on my next pot of coffee; which by the way is every morning with this pot.
I grew up making coffee for my parents daily, several times a day in a percolator. I now am a proud owner of several percolators. Mine are ones with the glass handle on the lid. You could watch it work. We stopped using the percolator when the auto-drip came out and even had the one that you attached to the cabinet to save counter space. That was a mess as the steam ended up ruining the cabinet it was attached to. Thanks for the video Bob, this brought back fine memories and I am going to have to dig one of mine out and start using it again.
Thank you for the details.
9:03 ratio coffee to water 30:500
People in general follow the masses. You say it's not a perfect way to make a cup of coffee but it depends on your taste and no matter what method you use there are methods that produces better results. In fact I would say it's hard to screw up the brew in a percolator as compared to a drip. The drip machines truly take more skill and a good machine. And that is why in my opinion there's more bad coffee produced in drip machines.
So you have touched on most important thing. And that is time versus grind size. Some percolators have holes on the side the basket others do not. The ones that don't and you use the flat filters produce a very clean cup of coffee.
I would recommend anybody using a percolator to grind the coffee themselves and then experiment with the cook time depending on the taste they like. Start the time when percolation starts. Dark roast coffee's are going to take less time. larger grind sizes will take more time but again it depends on what you like. But once you get that dialed in. You can make very good consistent coffee.
I think the method has become in disfavor because you have to time it where as drip machine you turn it on and forget it but with the wrong machine or wrong dosing you're more likely to get a bad cup out of a drip coffee vis percolation.
I would recommend anybody starting out with percolation. Start out at six minutes and then add or subtract time depending on what they taste. You're recommending 60 g per thousand I don't disagree with that but I would probably make it a little stronger.
Keep up the good work.
Highly recommended for high elevation brewing where full extraction is difficult.
It is not necessary to use a special filter. Just get an ordinary basket filter , open it up, fold over to make a semi-circle, fold over once more to make a quarter of a circle. Snip the pointed end about a quarter of an inch from the end , open up and slide on to the basket. It fits beautifully with no need for anything fancy.
the flat filters are very cheap and a whole lot easier to use compared to what you've just described and no sniping required
My sunbeam died, so I got a presto at a thrift store. Seems to work well. Secret to good percolator coffee is to have a coarse grind, pre ground coffee from the store is way too fine and you’ll get bitter coffee. I use a hand powered antique grinder. People who think drip coffee is better have no idea. Electric percolators recirculate the coffee a lot less , you want to start with COLD water. I even throw in some ice cubes. Drip coffee makers with a paper filter trap essential oils and give bland coffee.
The pre-espresso and pre-gram generation bought course grind with a pic of the percolator on the can at the grocery store. These were designed to perk longer to extract full flavor. Now the grind is only medium for drip. Have to burr grind to course or unplug as demonstrated if have the medium grind but that’s not because of the percolator.
Fantastic video! I just stumbled across a Presto machine in my mom's kitchen and wanted to fire it up. Now I not only know how it works but how to best use it! Thanks for sharing this with the world.
I just found one at a flea market. Cannot wait, about to start 1st pot.
@@allysonlamothe1988 I've been using our now for a few months. It has one major advantage over a standard drip brewer in that, since it recycles the heated water, it has the ability to brew a fairly strong coffee if a large amount is loaded in the hopper. I've made some near-espresso strength cups this way!
Thanks…. Wonderful presentation!! 👍 👏. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️’s All the way….
Ive got a 8 cup 1956 electric percolator from presto.
I just ordered one of those presto coffee maker, percolators and I think it’s great. It’s all stainless steel and now we’re finding out so much about the plastic and nonstick pans and how dangerous that all has for our health long-term and I just think I’m very glad that they still make a coffee maker that’s 100% stainless steel so it’s coming via Amazon. 😊
I like it. It’s totally stainless steal no plastic and I found it was a smooth cup of coffee. I will use your suggestions. Thank you
My MIL gave us a Presto percolator coffee maker for a wedding present in 1975. We used it almost daily (often twice a day) until 3 years ago when some bhole broke into our house and stole it with several other cherished items. We bought a Mr. Coffee, which has now broken; somehow, it only makes 8 cups even though you put in 12 of water - where the extra water goes no one knows. We've decided to go back and have just ordered a new Presto 12-cup percolator. Miss our percolated coffee - so much richer than drip.
I switched to a presto percolator. Probably a year or so ago. All I could remember was the one my dad had and how great coffee was in the morning. That reminds me I need to clean mine out now. I would never turn my coffee pot off before it was done. I use Four Scoops of coffee for a half a pot😇🌻✌️
Thanks.
I have the Presto percolator and Baratza Encore grinder. I'm using medium roast whole bean coffee from my local roaster. I started with setting 20 on the grinder, and 55 g/liter in the percolator. I brewed 375 ml of coffee. The taste was somewhat on the sour side. I wondered why the percolator basket could not hold the required ground coffee to brew 60 ozs at 55g/l. I studied the recommended coffee dose in the instruction manual and did a best-fit analysis and determined that Presto was suggesting a 40 g/liter dose. I am assuming this takes into consideration the longer water contact from repeated circulation during brewing. In any case, I eventually came to a desirable result using 40 g/ liter and setting 15 on the grinder. I let the percolator run until the ready light came on.
I understand that this brand has an aluminum well, so not totally stainless steel. I am returning mine, I understand that Farbarware covers the aluminum well in stainless steel, the manufacturers use aluminum at the bottom for a better heat transfer.
I have the same grinder. I found my preferred flavor was achieved with a grind setting of 32. Percolators are designed for a coarse grind.
I was always told to go by the smell. Once it smells good, you stop it. Even models with a thermostat will over-brew.
Percolator = no filter
It's funny how you complained that one can overbrew your coffee with a percolator as a negative, and then in the next breath talk about how it was bad to use a coarse grind because it wasn't getting exposed very much to the brewing process.
Maybe that's part of the design, eh? Maybe since the water/coffee is circulated a good many times during the perk, it's actually a perfect match to have coarse grounds!!
Now I need to see how to use the BIG (30-cup?) party-size percolator.
A filter in a percolator? Bad idea. Use a coarse grind, and use more coffee. Filters trap essential oils that give best flavor. Use an electric percolator, they recirculate the coffee a lot less, use COLD water, I put in a couple ice cubes. On most electrics I set them to turn off on the early side for less rebrewing. If it’s too weak, just use more coffee. I use 8 o clock Colombian with a hand crank grinder. Most electrics do best with about half capacity. You need a certain minimum they won’t do well if brewing 1-2 cups at a time. Full capacity is also less desirable because the coffee gets recirculated a lot more.
I have struggled with weak coffee with this pot. Guess will try adjusting the amount of coffee.
UPDATE: Thanks it works, much better coffee was using too little. 👌
Takes up a lot less room to /
great vid
Please, does anyone know why he sprayed the coffee beans before grinding, and was it just water?
How many minutes in did you "unplug" it? You only made what a half pot? 6 cups?
You mentioned you're in Saugatuck, as in Michigan? I appreciate that you took the time to explain things, and the work around to make a better cup of percolated coffee!
Hey there! Thanks for watching, and thanks for the comment. Yes, we are in Saugatuck, Michigan. :)
@@OneBiggIslandInSpace I'm close to Grand Rapids, lol, small world! I enjoyed your video!
I find that if I put a few ice cubes in the wqter I get more flavor with less coffee.
Did you spray the beans with water? If that's water then you could've sprayed the filter if you wanted it wet! Does spraying the beans cut down on static electricity?
Can you tell me why my percolator doesn't perk long enough. Coffee I weak.
I will be making 5 cups of coffee most mornings so how many minutes before I unplug can you tell me
Please?
Per-ko-late, NOT Per-q-late.
Funny thing I thought I ordered the presto, but when it came, Amazon sent me the Farberware one and I like it better the spout that pours is higher up on the side and it goes a lot faster than what you showed that one doing the Farberware one says it does make one cup per minute not up to, but does make and it’s a slimmer percolator so I could see where it would heat faster and it made me 4 cups of coffee real quick I was surprised so maybe you ought to review the Farberware one 12 cup because it I think it’s a head of the presto
My presto percolator has a water capacity of 1.77 liters (60 oz). When I load 106 gms of ground coffee into the basket it is quite close to the top. When the light comes on and I remove the cover I can see that some grounds have escaped from the basket and it takes another 3-4 minutes for the water to drip out of the basket. Do you agree that in order to brew at 60 gm/liter I will have to limit the water to perhaps 1.5 liters or less?
We regularly perked coffee to get my kids off to school. We had drifted away from this, but recently had a trip down memory lane.
I am owndering if starting with very cold water helps with a better brew?
I add ice cubes to the water. It causes it to brew longer, and as I like a really strong cup of Joe, this works for me. I also unplug the unit when it's done. The keep hot function makes it way to hot to drink...
3 tbspoon per 5oz of water....? or 3 tbspoon per 5 cus of water...? For this specific percolator...?
Just take a wild guess and try it. If it's too weak, add more next time. You'll figure it out in no time flat
My go to is a French press... BUT I don't care what conventional wisdom says... I still like percolated coffee and will periodically pull out my Presto 12 cup.. What people think is good coffee today I don't like... most coffee is way too acidic and has a sour taste... this taste has become very trendy... Give me old time diner coffee any day !!!
Diner-style mild smooth coffee for me, too. I do use a press only because I have just one cup most days. But I make it mild.
What about Turkisk coffee? Isn't it cooked? How about cowboy coffee?
What is that rubber water pitcher called???
Hi, there! They are silicone measuring cups. We got ours at Williams Sonoma: www.williams-sonoma.com/search/results.html?words=silicone%20measuring%20cup
Newbie question here: when my Presto 12-cup is done, there are grounds left over on the *top* of the disc... and ultimately in the bottom of the body. Is this to be expected? If not, what do I do to lessen/stop that?
It is to be expected if you are not using a filter. There are a few different types for percolators and I like to use a basket type one for drip makers. You will always have some grinds, but I just do not drink the last bit in my cup or pot.
Cover the perk tube when pouring grounds into the bowl, use a coarser grind, and/or use a wraparound filter that covers top and bottom of the grounds. Also if you pour a little more slowly, the grounds will stay in the pot unless you pour out to the last tablespoon of water.
6 cup 7 min
I grew up with the infamous blue corningware percolator brewing the coffee ☕ every single morning.
I could smell the fresh perked coffee in my bedroom , what a wonderful smell.
My folks use A & P whole beans coffee that they would grind fresh daily.
I'm 65 and we have the same coffee pot ( percolator) on our stove !!
Nothing tastes better than perked coffee ☕.
It's actually dangerous to drip coffee from the little pre made coffee pods.
Your getting plastic in your gut with each cup.
They was a 2 year study done, and it shows plastic in the gut, that builds up.
I wish that I could locate the study and post on here, but I imagine it's like everything else, the company would lose billions of dollars.
Enjoy your cup of perked coffee ☕ 😀
Makes hot coffee not warm
Dissasemble? 3parts complicated? No keybord lost
After several pots of bitter coffee I'll throw this out for comments/ improvements since I don't think the pot turns off at the best time. I'm using green beans from Sweet Marias, roasting to medium roast, coarse grind, paper filter. Into the pot I put 500g water, 20g coffee (40g/ liter). I tried more coffee up to 60g/ liter but adjusted downward to our taste. My addition to this discussion is that I used two temp probes, one on a flexible wire down the spout into the water and the second probe sitting just inside the spout in the air. My hope is that I can tell at what temp to pull the electric plug to not to 'under/ over extract' the coffee. So far I find that when the two temps get to about 180 degrees(they seem to merge at about 175) I can pull the plug and get OK coffee. I'll also try 185 and 190 degrees. If I do this I'll report. I'll next use one liter and then try to eliminate the water probe and use only the air temp. I tried to use the erratic gurgling sounds- didn't work for me. Also tried to use the steam from the spout that was also too erratic. Of course this makes the perking more manual than automatic but one still gets a pot of coffee. At 500g water it's finished at about 3+ minutes so not too long to wait.
Went up to 50g/L coffee results of which my wife says has better body and flavor. This time brewing stopped at 5 minutes with air temp 180, water temp 172. I'll repeat and try to place the air temp probe in a position for a more consistant readout.
Repeated this twice more and unplugged when the air temp hit 180 degrees, giving a good flavor/ body. Maybe someone else can duplicate this test and post results and suggestions. thanks
This is proof that theories are just theories: repeated the above with 50g coffee/ 1 L water. Unplugged at air temp 175 degrees after 6'30"- more coffee than before, longer time. The coffee was terribly overextracted and very bitter. Perhaps different coffee volumes need different brew times. If so, that makes it too complicated to persue.
With all this effort you should be using a stove top percolator to have control over the process, heat timing etc.
I bought this and returned it. This thing sucks. It shuts off like right when it get boiling. Doesnt perculate long enough. Leaves coffee really under extracted. Not satisfying.
Don't use filters
Course grounds and percolating for only 2 1/2 minutes makes the best coffee. What is this guy talking about?
Woke starbucks customer uses sweet additives and cream ruins coffee
only for campers and then not a good method....temp is MUCH too high and you are reusing coffee grounds during the process...this method may be fine for some...but NOT for people who really enjoy coffee perfection.....the major issue with this method is that you are exposing coffee to boiling water ....you have destroyed it...and the coffee taste burnt and bitter...because it is burnt
Bold and judgmental comments for someone who cannot pronounce percolator.
this dude sure aint no serious coffee drinker, he dont understand the meaning of the word percolator. hes missing the whole point of making an excellent pot of coffee and he thinks that perfect tasting coffee taste bad. thats how you know hes not a serious coffee drinker, he dont know anything about it, but then what can expect, hes from michigan. percolator coffee is pure Americana and this dude just dont get it
Gave up...all I wanted to see and know was what type of knob was on top was it clear, was it glass or plastic...was it removable? Oh well.
Too much misinformation here.
Percolating is the best way to brew coffee.
You just need to learn how.
This person is not very knowledgeable in brewing great coffee
You talk grams and Milliliters, then cups ounces, Fahrenheit .. pick your poison man. Imperial or metric. What country are you in.
😂😅
You have no idea what you're talking about, really do you?
Yeah i dont buy that less people are drinking coffee today compared to the 50s. we've had an explosion of coffee houses in the last 20 years and that didn't happen by less people drinking coffee.