Hamilton Beach 12 Cup Electric Percolator Coffee Maker with Cool Touch Handle, Vintage Spout, Stainless Steel

Back a couple of months ago I went on a two week Backpacking Trip. To save weight I carried a small 4 Cup Aluminium Percolating Coffee pot which served a number of purposes; Boiling water, stewing and frying a few meals in and making Coffee..I do have a 12 cup Stainless Steel one for in camp use but it is to heavy to carry in a Backpack. I drink Decafe Coffee and was again re-aquainted with the taste of Good Coffee versus the usual insipid brown water most Resturants and Fast Food places as well as my expensive “Drip” Coffee maker at home makes. I rarely drink Coffee at home because of that reason and had relegated that expensive Coffee Unit to a shelf in the Garage brought out only for guests… With the Percolator pot I found I was liking Coffee again!! It was delicious!! My hiking companion and myself found ourselves just stopping for an hour, kindling a small fire and brewing a pot! When I got home I went on a four day campaign to find a reasonable priced Electric Percolator Coffee pot like my Parents had used. Well tough luck on that on..I wanted the old kind with the timer so I could load it up at night and it would Perk off at 0600 in the morning and be ready for me as I finished dressing..Apparently they do not make that type anymore… I found many of the “Mall” Stores wanted an average of $70. for a plain old no features pot. I also realized the current Coffee makers are made so that you are Required to buy all sorts of extras other than Coffee to make the Units work right…. The Percolator does not require a Filter or Filter Basket or any of those other needful things for Modern Pots. The Marketing people came up with the anti-percolator sales pitch regarding the occasional coffee ground found in “Perked” coffee to get you to buy the new more expensive machines that needs all those extra pieces and parts. But if you let the pot “sit” for a few minutes after it is finished perking you should have no problems….So you all are buying all these extras and fancy machines trying to attempting to get you to think your making great coffee when a plain old $40 plus tax, Percolator type Pot will make all the difference. So out of frustration and not wanting to be “taken” by the Marketing people in all the local stores I went to Amazon.com and found what I wanted except for the Time feature which apparently nobody makes anymore. I also checked out local Swap Meets and Flea Markets for one..Nope….I also wanted a Glass Globe on top and not a plastic one which discolors over time and is hard to clean out nor did I want the solid color black one…So I ordered the Hamilton Beach 40614..It was delivered within two days which was a surprise cause I picked free shipping meaning 5 – 7 days. As soon as it arrived, I washed it out and made a half a pot of Coffee using regular grind off the shelf at Walmart of the Decaf 8 O’clock brand coffee..Memories of my Parents home came back to me as the smell of “Perked” Coffee floated through my home which you do not get with the Drip kind…and the Coffee, black with a bit of Splenda was Oh soo good. Just like the pots we made out on the trail….P.S. the Perk time didn’t really take any longer than the Drip kind did. I also “compost” my Coffee grounds, just wait til the unit cools or use Pot Holders, take the center unit out, take the lid off and dump the Grounds into your composter and then rinse out the Unit.. For Septic Tank households, Coffee grounds do not break down in the Septic Tank so after you dump your grounds into the Composting Container, clean out the basket with a paper towel as much as you can and compost the towel and the grounds…I have no doubts that like me you will place that expensive machine with all it’s extra’s out on a shelf in the garage or do like I am planning to do, donate it to the Salvation Army….

It makes good coffee

This is my 2nd one and it is an incredibly efficient Percolator and returns an excellent cup of coffee. Highly recmmended. Very well made inside and out.

We bought this for when we travel to have our own coffee. Used it this morning to try it out before we left and it makes better coffee than our $200 coffee pot we currently have at home. It makes the coffee super hot, which brings out the oils in the coffee making better flavor, I definitely recommend it

This is old school but if you want a great cup of coffee this is the one for you. Use ground coffee but we grind our own. Within 10 minutes you have a pot of coffee. Be sure to pull the basket out before pouring. If you don’t you may have a lot of grounds in you pot. You’ll also need to use a basket filter.