Making Coffee In a Percolator

By

Deeli

JimKC222, you were looking at answers in the archived comment section for completely different questions posted May 2010 and September of 2005. OliveOyl and Knitter06040 gave the correct information for Araucano's current question. :-)

By

JimKC222

Actually some of these comments are wrong! 1 teaspoon per cup? You may as well drink hot water!! Someone also stated a coffee scoop is 2 Tbsp. WRONG on that! It is 1 1/8 Tbsp for a coffee scoop. 1 teaspoon is completely wrong. It should be 1 Tablespoon per cup, or to your taste, more or less.

By

knitter06040

Wow, that's gonna be some strong, expensive coffee! Start with 1 Tbl. per cup. Percolator coffee is stronger than drip coffee because the hot water is run over the grounds more than once by bubbling up through the tub unlike a drip which only drips hot water through once.

By

OliveOyl

Once the coffee begins to perk (bubble), let it continue for 5 minutes, then it is ready to drink. It will be very hot, so be careful. Three tablespoons for 6 oz. of water is way too much. I'd measure one tablespoon per cup and see how that turns out, then add more ground coffee next time if it was too weak. It takes a bit of experimentation until you get it right.

I recently bought an old 10-12 cup aluminum stove top coffee pot (percolator) in very good condition. I would like to make some coffee, but don't know the correct way to brew it.

How much coffee grinds do I use to make coffee in a 60 cup percolator? I would like to know the same for 20, 30, 40 and 50. I'm hostessing a big BBQ today and need to make the coffee.Thanks.