EASLEY on sun 6 jan 02
Before any of us dare share a coffee recipe, I think we should research and
consider who the recipe came from in the first place and give due credit.
also, what type of coffee maker is used, has it been tested? aluminum (a no
no), glass, stainless steel, etc. this can make a distinct impact on the
outcome of the brew. do you candle it for a bit before it's done? how long
should it brew, drip, perc, etc. we certainly do not want to infringe on
anyone's creative rights!!
Pam in Seattle who is still shaking my head over the sharing of recipes
thread.
Philip Poburka on mon 7 jan 02
Dear Easley, et all interested in these diversions or digressions...
Ahhh...in many cases I would agree that 'Aluminum' is ill advised as a
material for Pots and Pans or some other things as well.
I think too that it depends somewhat on the use and the kinds of use as well
as the maintenence one may bestow.
And I should also suppose that 'Aluminum' (The 'Wonder Metal', as they used
to say) is willing to respond nicely enough 'as' a material for a
coffee
Pot, if a layer of the coffee -'oil' is allowed to remain on the surface of
the interior of the Pot and it's Basket and so on.
Similarly, I had for many years a splendid shallow pan I had used for Eggs
and only for eggs...I never scrubbed or abrasively washed it on the
'inside', nothing ever 'stuck'
and it was 'perfect'.
It were made by the "Illinois Pure Aluminum Co." in the latter 'nineties,
was a mite 'soft', and was allways just 'coated' with enough 'seasoning'
where, with fresh butter each use being wiped out, was as nice as 'nice'
could be.
With my Percolator, one 'rinses' it out, and that is all one does.
I had used an early 'teens era "Universal" Range-Top Percolator since I was
in hi-school - for twenty
odd years thereafter with no evidence of either metal corrosion or any other
problem I
could find, and thence, having made of that one a present to a friend, began
useing a different, larger "Universal" Percolator some six or eight
years ago
with continuous happy results.
One day a (different) friend who was over did me the presumtion of a 'favor'
of scrubbing
out the inside
of the Pot and I had to make about eight or ten 'new' and prolongued pots of
not-to-be-drank coffee
to get it to where it had the beginnings of the desired coating again.
The old "Universal" Percolators are fast, effecient and look and sound good
doing it.
They will 'beat' a 'Mr.Coffee' any day for speed and and at least match it
for flavor, and remain my
favorite method for making Coffee.
French Press or 'drip' or 'espresso' methods are nice too, and I like them.
I just settled on the "Universal" as the mainstay, and have been happy in
that aquaintence.
'Flat-botommed' Percolators 'boil' the Coffee, and may get confused with, or
lumped in as charcteristic of Percolators as a 'type' or on-the-whole, or
that I have seen this among
people unfamiliar with other kinds of 'Percolators'...who think all of them
are the 'flat-bottom' kind.
The 'Flat-Bottommed' ones are not at all in the same league as those which
posess a small 'chamber' where very small amounts of extremely brief
abstract
'boiling' occur in a
thermal 'cycle' to produce the 'percolation' business.
I have never had a 'good' cup of Coffee from one of those 'Flat-Bottommed'
ones, and I do not expect too either, no matter how much the 'Romance' or
associations of
the 'Farm' or the 'Chuckwagon' may becloud the tastes others choose to
posess.
It might smell 'good' for some early portion of it's perking...but fall off
fast from there.
Some people CAN make coffee that is maybe sort of 'okay' in those...that is
about as good as it will get, or can get.
It was and is a 'bad' design for the task.
The two leaders on the 'desireable' Percolation method were (firstly, by
merit, so far as I know,) "Universal" and
thence "Manning Bowman" who had a somewhat different kind of 'chamber' and
'tube' configuration to
call their own.
Once their Patents ran out in the 'twenties, or were not renewed, other
concerns made imitations or made use of the approximate 'method' as they saw
fit.
The "Universal" brand item, ("Landers Frary and Clark, New Britain,
Conneticut, U.S. A." -
"Pat'd May 22,'94 , May 11, 97 , July 12, 98 , May 22, 06 , and July 16,
07" or so being said on mine...) has a small exterior 'flat' bottom
terminateing in a very narrow connection to the 'Pot' proper,
to soak up the heat (from a presumably Iron , coal or wood-burning
Stove or Range top, or from a gas flame and burner-grille as may be,)
interior to which is a
small chamber at the base of where the percolator-tube is set...which 'tube'
ascends centrally to above the 'Basket' where one has their Ground
Coffee ("Grind Coffee Medium fine" it says ON the basket...) ready for the
process.
Well...you likely know all this, and I am getting too descriptive here!
Mine is a "Universal No. 79"...there were many models...I think that the
designation is '7' for Aluminum, and '9' for the number of 'Cups' it were
rated to hold...I have a small one in aluminum, which is a No.74...and have
had others as were Nickled Brass or Copper, as the 'Deluxe' models were.
Anyway, one may not 'clean' them on the inside, and one must use them pretty
near everyday to keep matters happy.
If it dries out too much, the coating on the inside will sluff off, and one
must initiate the 'seasoning' process anew.
If to travel or be away some days, one does well to 'perk' a sacrificial pot
and leave 'er sit cold till the next round, rather than leave it empty where
it would dry out.
Kept up, they behave splendidly, and will be glad to do so I must
suppose, for many centuries of use...there is nothing to 'wear-out' and
barring catastrophic calamity or mishap, why shouldn't they remain happy and
faithful?
They are a nice design.
Phil
Las Vegas...
----- Original Message -----
From: "EASLEY"
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Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: coffee Recipe
> Before any of us dare share a coffee recipe, I think we should research
and
> consider who the recipe came from in the first place and give due credit.
> also, what type of coffee maker is used, has it been tested? aluminum (a
no
> no), glass, stainless steel, etc. this can make a distinct impact on the
> outcome of the brew. do you candle it for a bit before it's done? how long
> should it brew, drip, perc, etc. we certainly do not want to infringe on
> anyone's creative rights!!
>
> Pam in Seattle who is still shaking my head over the sharing of recipes
> thread.
>
>
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