Beautiful collection! We still have my mother's and grandmother's perculator.

percolator coffee is the best!!

I love all the Vintage percolators you have

The thing I love about your youtube and food blog is you give us the gift of nostalgic sustaining power! There is a phrase "Everything old is new again". No matter how hard or good times are, there is a way of making do, and doing it with fun and style! Thank you!

Oh be still my heart! What a great video! Love coffee and I think I may have met my match w the various pots! Would love to see you do Turkish and French press too!

I remember these old perculatore both electric and stove top . They make the best coffee

Wow, you guys outdid yourselves with this! I love coffee, and I love how there are so many different ways to make it. I bought a French press, and I like it, but don't use it often anymore. But I've always wanted to get a percolator, as I've never had percolated coffee. My grandmother made it every morning, but I was too young to have any. Even the aroma is different than the coffee made by automatic drip coffee makers. Mmm, that sweet nostalgia... what a soothing place! I'm going to be on the lookout for an old West Bend now. :)

We had cups just like the one you poured the espresso into. My neighbors when I was growing up, had a pyrex glass stove top percolator, I don't think they ever went to a electric coffee maker that I can remember. Great video guys!

Great percolators! I still use a Revere stainless steel stovetop percolator from the 1940s! Keep it like new by cleaning it with "DIP-IT" and it still looks like new on the inside. The outside is another story. It shows the wear and tear of over 50 years of use but it makes the best coffee - nice and steaming hot unlike the drip machines. I also use your method of putting the grounds in the WET basket and I never get grounds in my coffee. I've had people ask me what kind of coffee I use because they comment on how delicious it is. Maxwell House Colombian and Eight O'clock (whole bean) are my favorites...nothing fancy. You guys make the best videos. Almost time to go to the cottage!

A man after my own heart, and you just know I'd have to comment. We collect coffee makers too. We have mostly Sunbeam appliances, so that means Sunbeam Coffeemasters. One is a 60's perc, the others are vacuum brew, both automatic, and glass stove top. They make the most perfect coffee in my opinion. However the seals are now dried up, and we can't use them. We have a Maxwell Braeton Sunbeam coffeemaker that uses a plunger basket, and matching hot plate. That model also had a vacuum brewbasket as an option. It was used, and named after a famous golf resort. We have a West Bend large drip, a Chemex that my husband's mom had. However we didn't know at the time that the copper water bath bowl went with it, and didn't take it. Our best piece is 100 years old, and an electric percolator urn. It is part of our silver set, and found online. It works, cloth cord and all. It makes about 15 cups. It was also sold as a Samovar, and also brewed using an alcohol burner. The rest of our collection is Pyrex perc, in all sizes, but the cutest perc we have is our Poly Perk. It is part of a travel set, and is actually in a little suitcase with jars for coffee grounds, sugar, cups, tea. It matches the one we have that is a portable travel bar set.

Ahhh..I so want to live in vintage world there with you. Nice, comfortable, neat, tidy, overflowing, vintage world. 💙💚💛

I've been perking my coffee for almost 10 years and won't go back to an automatic drip. I use a 12 cup Presto that I bought new back when my old Bunn gave up the ghost. As far as pour over coffee makers I had always heard that a pour over is a machine that has a built in water tank that is heated at all times like a Bunn brand machine and when you pour the water in the top it siphons through and forces the already hot water from the tank out and through the coffee in a steady stream unlike a Mr Coffee type machine where you fill a tank and then the machine basically perks the water from the tank over the grounds and into the pot. The advantage of the Bunn style is since the water is already heated in the machine it only takes about 2 minutes to brew a whole pot. I also have a small 6 cup Drip-O-Lator that I sometimes use if the guts of my percolator are in the dishwasher but it hasn't been run yet. For coffee I always use the red bag 8 O'Clock whole bean that I grind to percolator grind. I used to love the 8 O'Clock Bokar blend but they have discontinued that variety.

love the Corning Ware stove top model...i got one a thrift store for 6 dollars

Kevin!! As if you guys needed another reason, you're truly my heroes now!!! I was simply giddy when I saw all of those percolators! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has...many :) I was very curious to see how you made yours. I've never seen those disc filters! I just use a plain old "Mr Coffee" filter as you called it, snip a hole in the bottom and there you go.I'll have to be on the lookout! I have used the pouch ones, though. I've never used the water marks on the side of my pots. If I'm making 4 cups of coffee, I measure 4 cups of water in a measuring cup - then 1 Tbs. per cup + 1 for the pot. I'll have to try your method. Something else to note about percolators, is that many vintage ones have a knob where you can set how strong it is. Makes a big difference! AND I LOVE Cafe Bustello. In fact, that's all I ever use at all. Good stuff. Where did you find Hill Bros. Coffee?? It was my grandmother's favorite but we cannot find it anywhere around here! I've never made the stove top drip method. Dear friends got a Chemex for Christmas after years of perking. They like it a lot. Also, an espresso maker is on my list if I find a nice one at an estate sale or something. Have never made it, though. Now I know how! Cheers!!

Hi Guys! Glad to see you guys are well! Great topic! I love good coffee just like you, and many times that $5 cup of coffee can't match what you can make at home. I have my Grandmother's aluminum 2 piece drip coffee maker that she had used since she started housekeeping in 1939. She would grind her coffee by hand with the crank grinder, and I can remember her boiling the water in an old copper bottom saucepan on the stove and then pouring it into the coffee drip pot, and it was the best coffee ever. No filters, just great coffee. She lived to be 91 years old and used that thing every day. And she never used sugar, just a touch of real cream in her coffee. Even as a child, she would let me have my "coffee" with her - which was a little coffee and the rest milk. That drip pot is nearly 80 years old and still makes the best coffee you could ever drink. And since spring is here, and it will soon be cottage time, do you have any hints on what we can look forward to on "Cottage Stove Swap"? I love the Kelvinator, but I can't wait to see what is next!! Any clues? Best wishes, Don.

Love your colkection. Brings back so many memories. I gave up on the automatic drip coffee makers and bought a Presto electric percolator. It makes the best coffee. I also have a graniteware drip.

I have several vintage percolators! Lov this!

Love it! We both collect coffee pots and pyrex butterfly gold as well as probably others....would love a tour of your collections...and thrift store finds😀

I have a few of these makers, but the orange one is a beauty.

Loved this, will be looking forward to part two!

Really getting into the art of grinding and brewing my coffee! Thanks for the post Kevin and Ralph!

Kevin, I so love your videos! This is excellent! I have used my Corning Ware Cornflower percolator for years along with my Mr. Coffee drip machine. My drip machine just gave up the ghost, so I said forget it, I'm buying a new percolator to replace the Mr. Coffee. Now I have a vintage stovetop, and a new electric percolator. As for coffee, I prefer Maxwell House. It is my old Nashville roots coming out!

My grandmother always put some eggshells in the basket. Don't know why, but her coffe was wonderful!

New subbie here...I am a coffee lover as well. I prefer the perk coffee stainless steel pot too.. I 've been doing the table spoon per cup plus one all this time and didn't know it was the correct way..it just tastes better!

I've got a Poly Perk made in US from late 80's early 90's? love it!

percolators are the best. thank you for your videos.

We have the orange one in avocado green (we have a couple stainless new ones too). My husband uses it every day.

I have my grandparents’ old stovetop percolator, has an art deco handle. Love it! We use it on a gas cooker to make coffee when the power goes out.

That was a fun episode. Learned a bunch about coffee that I didn't know. Thank you.

Love this ❤

Dear Kevin and Ralph; When cleaning my Faberware percolator I use baking soda and a bamboo teriyaki stick for the stem and other areas. A small wad of Brillo pushed through a few times helps too. Works great .

My mother had two coffeepots that were percolators that she used when I was a child. I still have them, but have not used them because I have not been sure how to use them. This is helpful.

Oh wow look at all your coffee machines, they're fantastic. I have a few Italian coffee makers handed down by my mother and I use those a lot foe my espresso coffees. I've never used a percolator before. Very interesting, thanks guys

I bought a stainless steel percolator on close out over 15 years ago. I love the full flavor of perked coffee over drip makers. It reminds me of the one my mother had for years.

Spotted the Melitta carafe on the range. Being Italian, my mom always made coffee in one.

I looooove my Chemex. I remember how jazzed I was, when I noticed there was one on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

Grew up with a perculator, but only used Sunday mornings. Instant every other time. Exceptions being holidays. I use to watch the glass top as it got darker. It was used on the stove.

My folks used a percolator and it made great coffee! I'm surprised nobody mentioned the heavenly sound a percolator makes as its brewing. Is there any better morning sound than that? I have an auto drip that I use weekdays and a k-cup machine on weekends. We need a percolator!

Thank you for this video. "one for the pot" I knew there was a secret that I didn't know. Perk ya later.....lolololol I really enjoy yall.

❤i really enjoy these videos

Thank you for doing a tutorial on percolators...I definitely looking into getting one...I think they make a better cuppa of joe...my mom always had a pot on the stove...just wanted to let you know I am slovak and ukrainain and I am making stuffed cabbage, kolbasi and sidetz for Easter brunch!! Happy Easter!!

Oh boy! I am trying to get off the caffeine. Last already ground maxwell house coffee I bought, I also purchased a can of decaf and mixed them together for half caf to slowly ween myself off the stuff. Love the vintage coffee makers. I used to have a corningware electric percolator, but the handle broke off it. I think it was a design flaw in those electric ones. If you ever seen one of those I think you know what I mean. Lucky it wasn't full of coffee at the time the handle broke. Oh I have a set of demitasse espresso cups to. They came from Holland and were my mothers.

The percolator makes the best cup of coffee. I have a Cuisinart; my mother and aunt Maire always had a Farberware percolator. Cleaning tip: fill your percolator with hot water and Cascade liquid dishwasher soap and leave overnight. It will look like new.

After watching, I set up my 4 cup glass Pyrex for the morning coffee. We have the vacuum pots etc. When cleaning out my husband's mom's house we kept the Chemex, but didn't know to keep the copper water bath she had. I didn't know what it was. I finally found one, at great expense on EBay.

you can still get a Hamilton Beach percolator at Walmart...I got one in May 2016

Reminds me of the song "Black Coffee" from Peggy Lee! It was never released as a single, but I don't understand why? It is the total culmination of her jazz artistry!

I drive my kids crazy, I collect all kinds of mid century coffee makers.

I learned long ago nobody makes coffee to your liking but yourself what brand of coffee you like and what brewing preference and how strong you like it!

I'm sorry that this question is off topic, but would you happen to have a nice recipe for Polish Babka? I had one that my grandma left me but now I cannot find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys, Frank from Naples Florida. 😎

What I've used for my old coffee pot is just regular old coffee filters pop it right down the middle and it works perfectly you can get a whole bunch of them at the 99 cent store even Walmart I hold back full of paper filters..

The best coffee maker is a simple pot. Bring water to a near boil, toss in coffee grinds, stir, let set for 5 minutes, add a little cold water, then dip out your cup of coffee. Of course a siphon coffee maker does the same thing, just costs more and can only do one thing!

If you want super dark coffee then make it like Lisa Douglas made it on Green Acres.

I had a coffee maker with 2 globes (I call it the double perk pot) It has 2 globes on top each other the bottom perks to the tip globe) Do you have one of these? I would to see that kind perking coffee .. I miss that pot

Cuban coffee is good too.

I know you said that you only own one coffee grinder. Do you have antique coffee grinders in your store? Do you have any recommendations?

Hi Kevin I am a coffee pot collector

More cooking recipes please :)

You did speak to me.

just say no to Keurig! lol

As a non coffee drinker, I’m curious.....has the drip vs percolator debate ever been settled as to which makes a better cup of coffee? Sadly my parents are both gone now but my dad swore the perc coffee tasted best but my mom said the drip was smoother and not bitter like perc, so they each made it their own way each morning. Was curious what other people think.

I've never been too much of a coffee drinker even though I like the flavor. The problem was it would just make my stomach upset because it's acidic. I have a small 4 cup Braun drip coffee maker and it makes good coffee and I've used it for years. I never buy coffee from a donut shop or any where else because it's just far too acidic for me and frankly I think their coffee tastes bad anyway. But, fairly recently, I found another way to make coffee. It's called "Cowboy coffee". Cowboys don't have fancy coffee making machines and no electricity. The cook has a pot and coffee grounds. They put water in a pot, set it on the camp fire and when it reaches a boil, they remove it from the fire and put the grounds right in the water. They let the coffee sit for 4 minutes without the fire. After 4 minutes they add a little bit of cold water to the coffee and that forces the grounds to the bottom of the pot and they pour it into cups and drink it like that. This method is supposed to be richer in flavor and less acidic. I tried it myself. Put cold water in my small stainless steel Revere-ware pan, got the water boiling, once boiling I shut off the fire, tossed my coffee grounds in it and let it sit for 4 minutes. I have a fine mesh reusable coffee filter, so I place that over my cup and it catches any grounds that might pour out of the pot. They were correct! The coffee flavor is stronger, richer and less acidic! I can enjoy coffee more often now. :-) I like mine with sugar and light cream. I drink tea most of the time though. Coffee to me is still a rare enjoyment and an after dinner thing. I could never drink it before breakfast like many people do. It would make me feel sick for the rest of the day. For me, it's something to have only after a few good meals. Then it doesn't bother me. My mother used to have a percolator coffee maker, the kind with the clear knob on the lid. Hers was used on the stove. When I was very young, I used to watch the coffee bubble up inside the glass knob getting darker and darker. I didn't understand how it was doing that at the time, but I remember being amused and fascinated with it at the same time.

enjoyed the video but you say "ok" way too many times