Food Snob® > wrote:

>On Aug 15, 6:20*pm, phaeton > wrote:

>> What made me think of this was last weekend, when at my girlfriend's
>> aunt's cabin, she made us all coffee in an oldish electric
>> percolator. *She used just regular unspecial Folgers ground coffee and
>> it was the most lovely cup I'd had in quite some time. *Bold tasting,
>> well bodied, had some octane to it but wasn't too strong or acidic
>> tasting*.

>Percolators destroy coffee. To call them primitive would be
>generous. Buy a cheap Mr. Coffee, or any other decent drip maker.

Hypothesis: the water at the OP's aunt's cabin is really good,
and this resulted in good coffee, not the percolator method.

Steve