On Aug 15, 4:54*pm, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> 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.

That would have been my guess. I'm always surprised when the delicious
drip coffee one couple we visit brews is Maxwell House or Hills
Brothers -- "It's the Water."

We bought our MIL a two-cup dripper to solve the problem of brews that
don't scale down.