Primula Today Aluminum Stove Top Percolator Maker Durable, Brew Coffee On Stovetop, 9 Cup, Silver

Great Percolator and the coffee is fantastic!!

Bought to replace a old coffee pot that we've used for twenty years to cook asparagus. I should have bought one a bit taller as I put about an inch of water in the bottom and stand the spears upright to cook them. It cooks the asparagus quickly, just pour out the water and you have crisp asparagus without buy an expensive French cooking pot.

First off, as others have said high heat will melt it and distort the metal since it is thin aluminum. It does work it does make a good cup of coffee, you can make it a strong or as light of coffee as you want depending on the brewing time. Quality is questionable, this can bend, dent and nick very easily. Watch the handle due to the build quality and the clear plastic piece, the plastic looks like it will melt easily with too high heat Tips for better brewing: The holes in the filter are too big. If you are grinding your own coffee use a medium grind. If you are using a finer grind or pre-ground finer grind like Kirkland Columbian, it will go through the holes and you will have grinds in your coffee. To avoid that, use a wraparound paper filter or reusable filter or like I did since I have a ton of basket filters, I punched holes in two filters and put the coffee between the filters.. Brewing, since my stove settings are Off, Low,1 through 9 and High, I heat the water on around 8 just until it just starts to percolate then reduce the temperature to between 2 and 3 for around 15 minutes. I then turn off the stove and let it sit for a few minutes. Brewing times are subjective to individual tastes. Too long it will be bitter due to overextraction and under extraction will result in watery coffee. For my taste I make it with 24 oz water to 6 tbsp coffee, 8 tbsp if I want it stronger. I will eventually replace it with a steel one.

Very good, i really like it, just be careful where you put the handle so it doesnt melt or get burned.

Bought this for when electricity goes out we can still have coffee on our gas stove. Works as described.

Updated: I have made several pots in it and it has has been seasoned. The holes in the basket leak coffee grounds into the pot so you must use a filter. I just cut a small hole in my small drip basket filters to fit onto the stem. I followed some suggestions in the reviews here. Some suggestions said to let the coffee percolate longer. This helped a lot. I now percolate for 17min on med. heat to start, then drop to med-low (4) on my electric burner once the perc. starts. Once done, turn the burner down to low and wait for the perc. to stop. You can keep the coffee warm like this until you are done drinking. I now get a good cup, but not a great cup. I just perc. water in it once in a while and see all the floaties. They may not be good for me. You really can not use this to just boil water for tea once in a while. It is a coffee pot and that is all it ever will be. The walls of the pot are very thin, like soda or beer can thin. This will eventually wear through and leak. I think I now have the best pot out of it that I can get, which is not for my taste. So, back it goes. I never had high hopes but I did try. I give it 3 stars for the fact that it can make a cup some people may like but not me. For camping, this would be perfect because you would not mind leaving it or if it gets stolen. Just not the quality I expect for my daily brew.

Arrived on time with no damage. Nicely buffed. Your basic all-aluminum coffee pot. Plastic perk indicator at the top. Some scoff at plastic rather than glass, but that plastic doesn't get as hot nor is it as likely to break if you drop it on a hard surface. Reading the reviews on here was entertaining, so I'll try to put my two cents worth into the discussion. To begin with, a measured cup is 8 oz. That's a normal sized "mug" of coffee. A regular coffee cup, like mammaw has in her china cabinet, is only about 6 oz. IN THE MANUAL it says "do NOT fill above the lowest row of 3 holes in the spout". Using this as a guide, I measured water into the pot just touching the lowest row of 3 holes. It held 5 1/4 "mugs" or 42 oz to reach that level. They advertise this as a 9 cup model. Adding enough water to reach the top of the lowest row of three holes required just one more ounce of water so it took 43 oz to reach the upper limit. So bottom line is you can only brew just over five 8oz mugs of coffee or you can brew just over seven 6 oz grammaw size cups of coffee. Or you can brew 9 tiny little 4.7 ounce cups of coffee. Now that we know how much the thing holds lets talk a little about how to use it. Old style regular grind (or coarser) works best in a percolator. The finer grinds are meant for drip coffee makers and espresso. I use Maxwell House original, same as my mom and her mom did in their percolators 50 years ago, mainly because I don't want to have to pack a coffee grinder when I go camping, it's available everywhere, and it's not too expensive. But I'm not brand loyal so anytime I see a coarser grind available, I try them all. You're always going to get some sediment in perked coffee. You can buy and use paper filters inside the basket to eliminate them, but doing so changes the flavor and kind of defeats the purpose. So I don't use them at all. Using a percolator: Measure your water and add your ground coffee to the basket. You'll have to decide how many "mugs" you want, and then you'll have to experiment over several days to learn how much coffee to use to get it as strong as you like, according to your taste. Put it on the burner but be mindful, if you start it out on high to speed the process up, you have to be ready to turn the heat way down as soon as it starts percolating. You don't want to boil the water in the pot, just apply enough heat to keep the bubbling going with as little "steam" as possible coming out of the spout. Too much heat will make it taste burnt. On my gas range or Coleman stove, I have to turn the flame almost all the way down to get a slow perk. Once it starts perking slow and regular, start watching your clock or set a timer for three, no more than 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the pot sit for another 3-5 minutes to allow whatever sediment is in the coffee to settle out. Now you're ready to serve. I pour the entire pot into a thermos to keep it hot, but if you take the lid off and remove the basket and stem you can put the pot back on the stove on the lowest heat setting to keep it hot. The above advice applies to all percolators. This Primula Today model is economical, and does exactly what it's supposed to do, aside from brewing 9 cups of coffee.

Love this pot. I started grinding my own coffee beans and using this pot to perculate my coffee on the stove top. It makes my house smell amazing and it is the best coffee ever. Cleans up easily as well.

A hob top percolator that cycles the water over the ground coffee over and over again and so gets the very best out of the ground coffee until you turn the heat off.

Decepcao , produto fraco ,alumino debel nao tem valvula de seguridade, infelizmente foi usado , eu nao poso devolver e pedir reembolso, erre. Muito lindo esteticamente mas insisto fraco. Entrega en data marcada .

Es lo que necesitaba. Es un buen producto, con una excelente relación calidad-precio. Recomendable.

O alumínio é bom, mas ainda não consegui fazer funcionar. Acho que ela só funciona com um tipo específico de café moído ou está com defeito. Falta orientação sobre o produto. Estou tentando descobrir o modo correto de usar.

Muy práctica y fácil de usar