On Aug 16, 7:48*am, brooklyn1 > wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:03:30 -0400, George >
> wrote:
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> >On 8/15/2010 7:20 PM, phaeton wrote:
> >> My some-years-old Black N Decker drip coffeemaker sprang a leak while
> >> I was vinegaring it out yesterday, thus destroying the delicate
> >> ecosystem of my countertop. *I'm considering replacing it with an
> >> electric percolator. *I see them for around $40 at misc stores, such
> >> as Sears.
>
> >> 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*.
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> >There is a pretty good reason why percolators are next to extinct.
>
> Whast an uninformed and angry statement.
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> Percolators are far from extinct, many households have and use them.
> Anyone who goes camping uses percolators.

We use a French press when we're camping, feeling the hiking we do
makes up for any blip in the LDL. When I go hunting we have cowboy
coffee.

>*Anyone who lives where
> power outages are common and has gas cooking uses percolators. *

French press, Bialetti, or we'd break out the Chemex.