People will think you are a dinosaur for using a percolator, especially a stove top percolator, but that's OK because no drip coffee maker can match the taste and aroma of percolated coffee. If you're old enough to remember the smell of freshly brewed percolated coffee that filled the house when it was time for dad to head off to work and you to school then you know exactly what I mean.
You will have to get a Farberware coffee percolator because they seems to be what the old school. The pattern of Yosemite (not that the image of beer, a pot on a campfire in the mountains?) Is thick-walled stainless steel, and you feel it too. This is exactly what you need on the side of the stove or gas grill burner.
It may not make a habit, make coffee on the grill, but it's something you will appreciate expensive, and if you get caught in bad weather knocks two, that the power off for a week orall electric home.
How long do you want to let go of the machine after it started? There is no absolute, definitive answer, but trickles for four or more cups of about eight minutes seems to be optimal. Be sure to turn down the heat after the first alert. You do not want to cook, make coffee and do not need, nor do it. The lowest heat you can get and still keep the coffee jumped into the crystal ball on top, the best coffeewill taste. Too much heat will cause a nasty burnt taste.
You will also want to use coarse ground coffee in a percolator. That's no problem if you grind your own coffee but it can be if you buy grocery store coffee. Most brands only offer drip ground coffee and if you use this grind in a percolators more porous filter you may end up with some of it in your cup.
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