Friday 26 July 2019

Decaffeinated?

When I was doing my Post Grad Teacher Training at Oxford, I bought myself a lovely Ceramic Wedgwood Russell Hobbs Coffee Percolator. I'd load it up and spend the evening typing essays or preparing lessons- and constantly refilling my mug. Except friends often dropped round, and they too would share in my coffee. 
And then a few years later, along came my favourite Belgian, who declared he hated percolated coffee ["as bad as instant"] My Perc certainly brought out the worst in one coffee snob!
So The Perc was relegated to the back of the cupboard, and only ever comes out at Christmas, when I use it to make Wassail [recipe here]
But a recent audit of our coffee making equipment [here, Cornerstones and in Bob's Office at Church] has revealed a surfeit of kit for producing a variety of brews - cafetieres, electric machines, and a stovetop espresso maker. So this one has to go. I've just put it on eBay hoping there's a retro fanatic out there somewhere. Next Christmas the Wassail will be made in a saucepan.

I will let you know if it sells...
How do you make your coffee?

8 comments:

  1. I'm a coffee fanatic and have three mugs each morning before I get dressed. (Just finished my third now.) I have an insulated cafetiere but for single cups I use an in-mug filter.

    Having said that, I had no coffee at all yesterday - this heat is getting to me.

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  2. We had the exact model bubbling away in our kitchen for years when I was growing up! And we called it the Perc. Our family didn’t drink tea then. Now, mainly tea, occasional coffee: instant if just us, cafetière if we have visitors.






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  3. Feeling ignorant as I've only ever had instant and never owned any of the other coffee making things......wouldn't know what to do with them!

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  4. I am very happy with instant coffee, although I drink more tea than coffee and I am particular about my tea!

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  5. I drink neither coffee nor tea, only hot water (cold in summer) so have no coffee makers in my possession. Grandma's teapot and cosy is kept for guests who come but I never offer coffee. All the best for a sale of your pot.

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  6. I don't make it often at home but when I do I have 2 French Press pots that I use. I used to have an electric drip machine but it just never seemed hot enough. Coffee is something that I usually have while out as restaurants here rarely make a decent cup of tea.

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  7. I had one of those too! I use a cafetiere with French ground coffee.

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  8. I had exactly the same thing. I remember buying it when first married in the 70's and feeling very sophisticated. Even my ghastly mother in law (who thought I was not good enough for him) was impressed.
    As it happens I was thinking about it very recently and have no idea what happened to it.

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