The "bottle opener" is also an old school can opener (no moving parts I know right?) and old cans of coffee came in sealed cans that didn't have pull tabs

Holy shit a coffee KZfaqr finally bought one!!!!!! This is how I make coffee at home daily. I own three currently. I love that someone is actually looking at them lol Edit after watching the video: I’m surprised that you didn’t utterly hate it, anytime I see someone talk about these they just say they make the worst coffee ever and it’s irredeemable.

I grew up in the '60s drinking percolater coffee from the age of 12. I remember it was the aroma of coffee that woke me on school mornings. My memory of it was that it tasted good. Of course, I used milk and 3 sugars to get it that way! The selection of coffees available at the time wasn't vast: there was 8 O'Clock brand, which one would grind fresh at the market, and all of the usual canned suspects. No delicate florals or citrus notes. Great reminiscence for me, thanks!

"and we're going to be grateful for the three spoons we did get" *laugh/cries in invisible disability*

I think the best thing about the Kar-N-Home is that it's suitable for making TWO videos.

Morgan not knowing that was a can opener really hit me in the age right there. I think I'm officially old now.

"Made in the 70s, so it's about 50 years old." You didn't have to hurt me like that.

"let it be known" ... I love these old/weird brewer videos!

These types of percolators were common in the 70s, whether portable or just the electric home brew. It was funny that you mentioned how hot the coffee was, because my grandfather would basically boil coffee on the stove, pour a cup, and take his first sip before leaving the stove. Not able to see your little metal device that you couldn’t figure out what it was, I assume it’s a type of can opener. Back in the 70s coffee was sold in stores in timings, unless you bought the in store freshly ground coffee. (Miss those grinders in the stores) Everything about your kar n home brings back the nostalgia of those days when people were on the go, and they wanted to convenience of home right in their cars. I hope you enjoy your purchase, you seem to be very happy showing it off! 😊 ☕️

My parents had this. Remember - hotels did not always have coffee makers in the room. Also, if you were "on the road" you were in a motel and there was never room coffee. This was the height of the day travel necessity. And if you are car camping you could us it too. Back in the 70's you just pulled over in a campground or rest area and camped. This was super fancy for the times.

I love starting my Saturday watching your videos and having a cup of coffee, thank you for being so fun and brightening up my weekend morgan :)

The 'bottle opener' is probably a can opener for tins of coffee if I had to guess

Please do more out more vintage equipment reviews. These are fun and interesting to watch, I could watch these all day!

the can opener is a manual one you use for opening condense/evaporated milk essentially it can be use as a "creamer/half and half opener" it a really good video

Wow, back in time for me! In 1976 as an AF captain we had one of those on an assignment to Clear AFS, Alaska. We used it mostly to heat water for our instant oatmeal breakfast in the motel room (we drove the Alaska-Canada Highway to get there and money was tight). Yeah, the Kar ‘n’ Home worked and lasted several years afterwards. Thanks for the time warp!

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. My parents had a clear glass Pyrex percolator that worked on our gas stove. They always used Folgers coffee. :)

This was fun to watch! I've been using a Farberware "superfast" percolator daily since the early '90s - what they call "cups" in the instructions and on the markings are not the same as an 8 ounce cup (I think they're about 5 oz), and I assume this is the same. I've just always gone with the measure of 2 tablespoons per 6 ounces water and that gets me a good final result. The grind for an percolator is definitely fairly coarse, and probably would have been "normal" in those days because drip makers were not very common yet (supermarket grinders often have an electric percolator setting). I know there's better coffee - in fact I drink it at the office - but I just like the vibe of percolators...

You made my day! I was watching some troll negative KZfaq comments but then I saw the thumbnail of you sliding into frame and I was like "yeah, I rather watch her!" Thanks!

I absolutely love my Gastrorag percolator so it was fun to see you brew coffee in this oldie but goodie. My preference is espresso but since I don’t have an espresso machine at home, I swear by my percolator, which by the way has a clear top knob so you can see the coffee percolating, to make D’Lish coffee. Thanks for your videos, which are always fun. ❤

It's always interesting to see how many items they tried to sell as a suitcase product. And the bottle opener is likely a can opener for coffee cans.

Loved the word play with spoons! Felt so seen in them.

"Always measure your sugar with your heart" Lovely

So I was wondering how the plug adapter for the car could possibly work, since of course you can't expect to send 12V to a 120V heating element and expect much to happen. I looked at some other pictures of it and I realized that the adapter has a pin that goes into the plug from the brewer, and it all made sense. The cord has 3 wires: 2 used for 120V AC, and a 3rd that's used for 12V DC (along with one of the other wires). The middle wire attaches to a point in the heating element that's suitable for 12V, while the other wires attach to the ends of the element that are suitable for 120V. Another picture of the percolator showed that at 120V, it uses 435 watts, while at 12V, it uses 165 watts, so presumably it takes ~2.6 times longer to brew in the car.

It's videos like this that make me realize I'm old.

My grandmother had a bad experience with her first taste of coffee. She told me when she was a child, 7 or 8, and she was clearing the table after dinner. She took a sip of the leftover, cold, black coffee in her fathers cup. Then, when she was about 60 or 65, she tried coffee again (my mother insisted she try the pumpkin spice latte from starbucks,) and loved it. Now she drinks a cup of coffee every morning, with a packet of splenda and, no joke, a teaspoon of cream. She actually measures it😂

My mom had a stainless steel percolator and the lid had a glass or clear plastic knob on top. So when the water was shooting up out of the tube you'd see it splash across the knobs base. This made it easy to see your brew cycle was working and you could see the water changing into coffee. I seem to remember a lot of grounds in our coffee back then. I was 8 or 9 I think when my mom got her first MR. COFFEE drip maker as a present (Joltin' Joe Dimaggio advertising FOR THE WIN!!!!). She loved it. We used it the next morning and put the percolator on the shelf and never used it again. I guess at some point it got trashed. But I do remember that percolator was what I got my first cups of java from. Which for me back then was half a cup of coffee, the rest milk with a couple of tablespoons of sugar.

I don't know why your content got recommended to me. I don't even drink coffee. But I'll tell you what, there's something great about watching someone talk about a specialist subject that you have no idea about and learning about it.

I recognize that sort of can opener, used all the time at home to open cans of evapourated milk for tea and coffee back home. Probably not the intended use in this set, but that's the first thing that came to mind.

Adding to the can opener - many people, I think, used evaporated and/or sweetened condensed milk in their coffee in the 70's. My gram did! She used one of those openers to puncture a pouring hole in the can.

Made for all the door-to-door sales men. Those were the days and some juicy family stories came out of them too. Thanksgiving is right around the corner too. 🤣😈🤦‍♀️🤫😂 (Peddlers or Hawkers)

My dad had one of those in our basement when I was younger. It’s definitely from the early to mid 70s.

I remember my grandma having one of those when we went camping.

OMG those levels when she switches to the sponsored content. Morgan could be a professional voice actor.

Percolators were one of the first electric appliances. Presto made a famous one. The only earlier electric coffee maker was just an electric coffee pot for making Turkish/cowboy style coffee, what is now considered an electric kettle.

0:35 - 0:51 - 1:19 - 5:12 Let it be known, that this video was fun.

i've got an old sunbeam model ap-20 percolator i bought off of ebay a while back and in my opinion it makes the best coffee that i've personally ever had it has a little strength dial on the front of it so you can set your strength from mild to strong and i always set it to strong and fill it up to the 10 cup line with fresh cold bottled water put in my folgers 1tbsp to a cup and it makes the best coffee i usually drink a cup or two and put the rest in a plastic pitcher and set it in my fridge and drink it for the next two or three days heating a cup in the microwave and it still tastes great as if i just made it love my percolator it has surpassed both my old drip machine and my keurig

I imagine that opener is for coffee tins from back then?

I vaguely remember my grandparents having one of these in a camping trailer circa early 80s.

Need another review in the Kar!

I used to have a percolator. Loved it ❤. Had to leave it behind when we moved to Australia 😢

I love the smell of percolator coffee. My Nana use to make with a stove top one, think proctor Silex. A few years ago I found a brand new stand alone pour over coffee maker. Its called Coffee Manor individual coffee maker. It takes small paper filters , it does pretty good for a pour over coffee. It came in hand after my coffee maker broke.

The can opener moment hurt my old

Hi! I had a coffee maker with same system at the office. But a modern one. It has detachable base, like an electric kettle and also a cool clear tip at the lid. You can see the water flowing up. And as this brewer brews over the water used to brew you can see the water color changing from clean to dark brown. In general everyone loved it at the office. We definitely had better coffee than from an cheap automatic dripper like your black and decker. After pandemic and home office it disappeared from the office. No one knows where it's gone.

I’m pretty sure the two containers were for sugar and powdered creamer. The coffee would’ve stored in the coffee can it came in that you opened with that can opener. Yep back in the 70s coffee was sold in cans that had to be opened with a can opener and that’s the simplest kind of can opener or you could get no moving parts. They all came with a plastic snap on lid and that’s where you stored your coffee.

FI suspect the opener may be for the old cans that had a wind off strip to get the lid off the coffee cans.Also a cup of coffee was 5-6 oz

I love all of your weird brewer videos! Hope you had an amazing time in Italy!

I had a clear glass pyrex stove top percolator that I used daily in the 70' & 80's. It made pretty good coffee & I used it until I accidentally smashed it. I ended up replacing it with a drip coffee machine.

I would love if you took a look at the Bialetti Brikka, my dad bought me one a few months ago and i absolutely adore it. It has its querks being a moka-pod but it brews nices cups of coffee once dialed in. If you ever get around to try it make sure to use coffee with a bit of robusta in it, so the Brikka is able to give you the super nice "crema" it was made to produce. Love your channel keep it up

I was so excited when you said "perc-UH-lator" because I finally heard a pro pronounce it! And then you also said "perc-YOU-later" 🤣 I think your videos are fantastic. Thank you for making them!

Oh nooooo a percolator! Technology Connections did an amazing video on these and... why they're a bit problematic. It's nice to have his deep dive, but also nice to have your narrative and exploration. Thanks for adding to the body of work on... the percolator 😭

Always measure your sugar with your heart 🤍👏🏻

Could we have a montage of failed slides and bloopers? I would love to see that!

Morgan, you really should have used a coffee that most people would have used. Something like folgers from a can. :)

This looks super lovely

The can opener seems out of place there. Church keys like that were intended for use with cans containing liquids. You puncture one side of the top, leaving a large triangle-shaped hole, then you turn the can and puncture it again at 180 degrees to the first one, but you don't lever it all the way in, so you've got a tiny triangle to allow air flow in while you pour or drink. I suppose it would work to open a coffee can that way while traveling, but then you'd have to open the can all the way when you got home. And I remember my mother complaining that it was hard to open cans that had been punctured that way, because the metal that was pushed into the can got in the way. Source: my father, who loved calling those things "church keys" for some reason, and who also liked using them on every can he got his hands on. This was the only way he "helped" in the kitchen, puncturing cans of corn or peas with a church key, then draining the liquid. He had to use them on vegetable cans because beer cans had tabs by the time I was around to be his audience.

Great video, looks like a fun product. Great to see some old school units getting a new look 👍

I have a coffee maker from the 50s! It unfortunately has stopped working recently, but it worked really well for a while!

This is so 70’s brown. I’ll never understand why this color was so used then. This and almost pastel green and orange 😂

You may want to look into the Hertella and Paluxette (50's and 70's versions :D) in car coffee machines, though I wouldn't advise attempted to buy one :D

The two lidded canisters are for sugar and non dairy creamer.

The problem with percolators is not the temperature so much (I mean it's not great, but...) as the "re-cooking." The hot water percolates through the coffee bed and ends up back in the heating chamber. So the coffee you brewed gets cooked, and re-cooked, and re-cooked, ad nauseam.

Drinking game: shot every time Morgan says let it be known 🤣

So out of nowhere I was recommended a barista championship final and I saw her..now I’m a huge fan, which is weird because I never see he duo anything coffee related🤣

I was waiting on your take of a percolator after watching Technology Connections

Greatings from the other side of the world from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷

I'm forever looking for a good travel setup. I kind of wish there was an electric kettle / aeropress / hand grinder that nested together or something.

When I see the construction of this pot, I feel that it is similar to the principle of coffee extraction in a moka pot.

Lol that walk of shame back to the counter to do the outro

Fun fact, the "percolation" is the water flowing through the bed of coffee, _not_ the rising of water through the "perc tube" (as some would fondly call it). [Things Morgan likely knows but are fun to add to the comments.]

At least the coffee container, in that percolator, had a lid. The ones my parents used to use never did. So, you still got grains in the finished coffee.

Didn't know Cadey Mercury loves coffee so much 🤣

Shockingly floral...💐

Ahh a nice percolator

‘From the ‘70’s… so like 50 years ago’…. I need a moment….

To be faithful to the old 70’s percolator, Morgan should’ve used ground Folgers or Maxwell House from a can. That’s what all the older folks drank when I was growing up then.

So cute

could you do a video about different decaf coffees? I need that in my life

Percolated coffee can be really good. It gets a bad rap sometimes because it gets over brewed

honestly, a coarsely ground light roast is probably the best choice if you have to use a percolator

nice to see you agan 👍🌹 welcome back

I'm not 100% sure but my instinct says the little bottle/can opener may be for evaporated milk? I'm assuming if bringing coffee on the go you can't bring fresh milk or cream and evaporated milk is decent in coffee (much better than powdered creamer) so it makes sense to me lol

Me encantan tus videos ❤❤❤❤🥰 La verdad no entiendo muy bien ingles pero aprendo escuchandote . Y me gusta el contenido que haces 🛐🛐🛐🛐

Can opener is for opening tins of coffee and the two container is not for sugar and coffee... It's for non dairy creamer powder and sugar....

Vessi shoes will be sold soon in Metrotown soon a mall in Burnaby BC andThis was fun for us but for me I would only use it as a display and to remind that Perculated coffee is soo wrong

I actually have the 4 cup version 😁mine is called the “home ‘n away”

how about a follow up video...... boil the water with out the coffee in it and then try and do some form of a pour over onto the grinds just a thought :) love from canada xoxo

That is a can opener for opening I would imagine canned milk like carnation

My grandma used to drink her coffee with condensed milk instead of cream or creamer which is pretty common in Germany. So I thought the can opener might also be for a can of condensed milk. Ist‘s just impractical because you can not seal it again… and you have no fridge on the road

Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!💯🔥

Yo yo Morgannnnn. I'm asking here if you can possibly do a video of some sort on a Moka Pot? I've just bought one and while I'm gonna trial and error it myself anyway I'd love to hear advice from someone who definitely knows what they're talking about. Thank youuuuu

you should try a bew pipe or bripe. I thiink you would have a blast with it

I would love it if you could test the Philips Cafe Duo maker that was around everywhere in the 70s and 80s. I have an old one my grandma gave me and I find it odd how it always seems to brew very weak coffee even though it's labelled as a "espresso maker". I would like to know if I'm using it wrong or if it's just a bad coffee maker 🤔

An odd gadget.Thia looks like an offering from a certain gearhead catalog back then. I suppose, as you said, it's a way to avoid gas station coffee. But electric percolators were very common, maybe the most common way to make coffee.

I want a Teasmade Alarm.... they no longer make them. Found a the Barisier but it's $800 and I don't have that, yet. In the meantime is there a Cheaper option for a Coffee maker that can be set to auto-brew your first Cuppa for in the morning?

I'd like to know how long 12V would take to boil that pot. If ever.

Regular grind coffee. I.e. What you get when you buy preground coffee.

You can just tell a piece of kitchenware is from the 70s if its in brown and beige or has flower patterns on it.

take a shot for every "let it be known"

It's time for the percalator It's time for the percolator Imma shake what my grandma gave me Imma shake my coffee maker

The can opener was probably for opening your can of ground coffee lol