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Post by jacobs on May 6, 2011 7:28:29 GMT -5
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Post by jacobs on May 6, 2011 7:31:56 GMT -5
Double Post....Sorry
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Post by cinnabar on Jun 21, 2012 19:55:26 GMT -5
OK, so do I have a problem here?...? I do use the majority of them , really. One at a time of course. There are several I like best, some are a pain to clean. They are all toooo cool and fun to use. One is absent from this class picture, used it and was in the sink. I use these Wear evers the most. (Hubby likes the 'lectric Superfast Farberware in the above pic)
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Post by Chuckie on Jun 21, 2012 20:40:38 GMT -5
OK, so do I have a problem here?...? " Hi, my name is Cinn, and YES, I have a problem. I think it started long ago, in a galaxy far away, when I got my Chambers stove"... LOL, viva la Cinnabar!!! CHEERS! Chuckie Chambers
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Post by karitx on Jun 22, 2012 15:48:27 GMT -5
OK, so do I have a problem here?...? I do use the majority of them , really. One at a time of course. There are several I like best, some are a pain to clean. They are all toooo cool and fun to use. One is absent from this class picture, used it and was in the sink. The only problem I see is a lack of pie to go with all that coffee!
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Post by sporko on Jun 22, 2012 17:09:54 GMT -5
...and lack of enough burners to get them all going.
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Post by cinnabar on Jun 22, 2012 18:20:16 GMT -5
Burners? The drip pots need only use the hot water from the mothership kettle. Now, I just need lots of friends to come over and bring pies and goodies so we can drink up the coffee. ;D
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Post by lwagne on Jun 22, 2012 21:47:50 GMT -5
How funny ;D I have this mental picture of them all dripping away
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Post by pooka on Jun 23, 2012 15:32:05 GMT -5
OK, I'll have to admit I'm usually lazy & use my Braun electric drip coffee maker, so I admire that you actually use all of yours regularly. My previous roommate like it because it has a clock & timer that you can set to automatically start the coffee in the morning, & it automatically shuts off after one hour so you don't have to worry about forget to turn it off. He was a real coffee addict. ;D I guess I'm just weak. ;D But I'm glad I don't share your obsession. I don't need another obsession for coffee makers. ;D I will admit my aluminum West Bend Flavo-Drip is much prettier to look at, sitting there on the stove, than the plastic Braun (I actually have two of the Brauns, a black & a white one). I finished polishing it up since the last time I showed it, see, isn't she pretty. ;D I use my little copper tea pot as my mother pot for the hot water. I want a bigger one more like your, but I haven't found the right one yet. I found a couple of ads for mine, but they are both post war, so it almost seems too modern for my stove even though it was patented in 1937 as I showed in my earlier post. Your pics of your collection got me to thinking about some other coffee makers I've got around here. This is a Forman Bros. Inc. one that I got years ago, but I never have occasion to use such a big & fancy pot. Then there's my grandmother two Pyrex percolators, but I've never used them either, because I need a heat diffuser to use them, or I risk breaking them. Maybe I should make an effort to use them. I haven't had "perked" coffee in years. It's a whole different experience than "drip". I remember it from when I was a kid. My dad being a twenty year navy man, & working twenty year at the US Post Office, working odd shifts as a clerk, always had a pot of hot coffee going in the kitchen. That's where I get the habit of cream & sugar in my coffee He always used "PET Evaporated Milk" in his coffee. Another habit he picked up in the navy. I've heard navy coffee is notoriously strong, so you needed something to tone it down unless you have a strong stomach. ;D To me, coffee has become more of an almost ceremonial experience. For too many today, it's more of an addiction that they can't get fast enough. Case in point, why the pause & serve feature on modern drip coffee maker came about, because people can't wait for the pot to finish before they have to pour a cup. For me, I swing open the top of great grandpa's No. 7 Enterprise coffee grinder, then scoop the beans into the hopper. Next you slide open the gate that allows the beans to fall down to the grinding plates & crank the big wheels until you can hear that you've finished grinding the beans & pull the drawer out relieving a neat pile of ground coffee. If I'm lazy, I then use the Braun to make the coffee the way most people do. If I'm feeling nostalgic, I put the grounds in the top of the Flavo-Drip & then, I have to fill the copper kettle & put it on to boil a sit down & wait..... Not something most are willing to do. But when you see the steam puffing from the spout, It's time to make coffee. Pour the water from the kettle into the top of the coffee maker & again wait..... You'd think that's it but not yet. I then have to select the the cup. Which one today. Perhaps one of these, Or maybe one of those. ;D It's usually this one. I looked for many years to find one that was just right, but they are all hand made & unique. Some are nicer than others, but nothing mass produced will do. Or if I want something to make me smile, this one. ;D Then I select the right spoon, And pull out the sugar pot. After that, I return to the ordinary by reaching in the fridge for milk. I never acquired the habit for "PET Evaporated Milk" that my dad did. I pour the milk & stir..... Then sit down & ponder the day, as I listen to the birds singing in the neighbor's holly tree outside the kitchen's open window or in the cherry tree outside the basement kitchen's open window in the back yard. I don't do this every day. To me a cup of coffee is more than a dash to the nearest Starbucks, or local doughnut shop, or what ever local coffee shop most others do. For me, a cup of coffee is a walk through time, from great grandpa old coffee grinder that he got in 1901, to boiling the water on my 1935 chambers in my little copper pot, & remembering grandma boiling water on her 1920's stove that fascinated me so as a child. That stove started me on the quest to replace it when the cousins carted it away, & led me to find my little model 74. And thinking of the hands molding the clay on a potters wheel & selecting, painting & firing the glaze in a kiln. Especially when I look at that face on that particular cup that must have made that potter smile when he made it. So you see, a cup of coffee is more than a hot drink to perk me up in the morning, & give me a caffeine boost to start the day. A cup of coffee is a reminiscence of thing gone by & things to come. It's something to ponder & savor, that most take for granted. So, think about that the next time you grab a quick cup of Joe, & stop & ponder for at least a moment, before you rush along to what ever your day has in store. And maybe pause for just a few moments more the next time, because coffee can be so much more if you let it, or at least it used to be. ;D THE END ;D ;D ;D
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Post by divecchio on Jun 24, 2012 0:49:49 GMT -5
Pooka: REALLY enjoyed your post! I have a pyrex double boiler that looks quite like your 2 coffee pots - it has a metal ring that holds the handle on that hinges/clamps (don't know the right word) and when it UNhinges/clamps you can remove the handle. I use it quite often and never thought to use a diffuser. I've never had a problem with it cracking - do you think that I've just been lucky and should use a diffuser? .....beth
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Post by pooka on Jun 24, 2012 6:26:16 GMT -5
Perhaps a heat diffuser isn't necessary. I've just been too afraid of having one of grandma's break in the process of perking, so I haven't tried. That metal ring on your double boiler like my coffee pots is called a "Snap ring handles". I had to look it up at The Antique Attic a Shoppe run by George and Linda. www.nettally.com/attic/Pyrexflameware.htm There's some neat info there. According to them, my tall pot "PYREX Flameware" was produced from 1938-52. The shorter pot was produced from the early 50s to the mid 60s. another place I looked was here, www.pan-tex.net/usr/j/julie/ju07000.htmGrandma also had some of the pans that had handles that you could be detached, but I don't know what happened to them. Another interesting thing I ran across at www.worthpoint.com about my West Bend Flavo-Drip was this posting about an old eBay Auction from 12/14/2007 titled, "ORIGINAL FLAVO-DRIP COFFEE POT OWNED BY MARILYN MONROE". My room mate that originally moved in here with before he moved to Baltimore, MD, had a fascination with her. It's funny how life work out sometimes. Another coincidence that just occurred to me. In sixth grade a kid moved in near me & I went to school with for only one year before they moved again. His name was John Chambers. Was this a portent of the future? It's one of those things in life that makes you go hmm. Sometimes I think too much & have too good of a memory for the oddest things. ;D
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Post by marka on Jun 24, 2012 8:51:38 GMT -5
I use my second hand store find Pyrex coffee pot on the stove top with no defuser. Of course it's not my grandmothers so..... It does have the hexagon handle which I've been told makes it one of the early models.
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Post by cinnabar on Jun 24, 2012 10:00:24 GMT -5
pooka, cool pots BTW, think I need to keep an eye out for some of those. I would think you could be able use the glass pots without a diffuser. Heating and cooling the pot gradually might be key to avoiding breakage. If I remember right, Don Mattera, used a coffee can lid with a hole cut in the center as a diffuser. That might be worth a try for the time being. I like to try the different methods that each pot uses and would love to see a glass pot in action. I did some side-by-side with the Sumbeam C50 and the Wear Ever 2206, same coffee and water amounts. The start to finnish times were very close. The perked coffee needs a little watching so you don't scorch it. Especially on the mega burners of my Chambers. Water boils quickly when the burners are up all the way. The convience factor is why I think so many don't use these older pots. Just not modern enough for most. Back when we used the Black and Decker or whatever it was, you push the button and walk away. With busy mornings it can be very helpful in the bustling home. Bustling I try to avoid these days. ;D
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Post by ronruble on Jun 24, 2012 10:30:02 GMT -5
cinnabar: It's better to collect coffee pots than full size Chambers stoves but you do have two Chambers now and looking at a 3rd (?), so.....
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Post by 58limited on Jun 24, 2012 15:19:26 GMT -5
I have a Pyrex perc pot too. It works great. I generally use it during power failures (another advantage to having a gas stove) but don't use it as much now that I've switched to a french press.
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Post by karitx on Aug 6, 2013 16:02:04 GMT -5
Burners? The drip pots need only use the hot water from the mothership kettle. Now, I just need lots of friends to come over and bring pies and goodies so we can drink up the coffee. ;D Cinnabar! Paging vintage aluminum expert Cinnabar! I'm looking to get a kettle like this (well, maybe not mothership sized...), but all the ones I see are pretty gunked up on the inside. Is there a good way to get them spiffed up? Or should I just look for one in better shape?
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Post by cinnabar on Aug 6, 2013 17:21:12 GMT -5
The insides are cleanable but it takes some work. The crusty yellow or tan is lime/calcium deposits from water being boiled over the years. Really nothing bad unless it plugs up the spout holes. Sometimes flakes will fall into things at inopportune times. I put glass marble(s) in mine to keep the scale from reforming once it has been cleaned. This works in new kettles too. If the kettle has dents, they can be fixed, rust??? should not be any inside, these are all alum. The handles and fittings have some iron in them, they may have rust.... so SOS pads to get the deposit off. Black carbon is the worst to get off, takes some time. DPD is not very effective on the carbon, (just clean my mom's 1920 pot, eeew) so I stick to SOS or Brillo. Not to worry about the surface getting scratched with these, kettles have been through a lot worse in their lifetimes. You can always buff it up later. Some of the "non stick" green scrubbies will scratch the daylights of the aluminum, test first. Of course not sure of what gunk is in the kettle, soak with vinegar, lemon juice, cream of tartar, take your pick, but keep an eye on it so that if there is a pin hole you won't be making it worse. Hope you find a good one. There are lots of them around, I only have one, for now heh, heh, heh,
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Post by cinnabar on Aug 6, 2013 17:46:07 GMT -5
Three new pots have been adopted this year. Have not tried these yet.
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Post by karitx on Aug 6, 2013 20:52:34 GMT -5
Thanks for the tips! I've mostly seen the yellow/tan stuff, but since I wasn't sure what that was, I was hesitant to buy. There have also been a few that made me wonder exactly what had been boiled in that poor kettle! I like your new coffee pots! I just bought one like the one in the middle on ebay. It's scheduled to arrive in the mail this week. It looked pretty clean in the pictures, so I'm hoping to try it out by the weekend. Now I need to find a good kettle and a non-electric coffee grinder and my caffeine levels will remain in the safe zone the next time the electricity goes out. ;D
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Post by wannaredun on Aug 19, 2013 2:36:49 GMT -5
You can use a cast iron pan as a diffuser.
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Post by vaporvac on Jul 3, 2014 18:44:14 GMT -5
rather than clutter up the site with more threads, i thought i'd just add to this fascinating conversation: stove-top coffee makers! My latest addition is a little birthday present, and it IS little at only 2 cups. Little and CUTE! I haven't cleaned up the outside in these pics, but already used it. The action shots were blurry, ( but that didn't affect the perked deliciousness. It's a Comet brand (The Popular Aluminum) complete with the almost new-looking basket. It leaks a slight bit from the lower handle. I need Cinnabar's trusty tightener for that, but it stops dripping once it steams.
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Post by vaporvac on Jul 3, 2014 18:48:51 GMT -5
I'll try and get better pics later, but here's a last one showing the charming deco detailing on the spout. 8 minutes from the boil for a perfect pot. It didn't make a perking noise; is this common for the stove-top models? I've only ever used electric perk before.
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Post by keylargo1 on Jul 5, 2014 19:01:17 GMT -5
What a cute pot! What does that hold 1 cup or 2? Looks great for a quick cup.
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Post by vaporvac on Jul 6, 2014 1:36:36 GMT -5
Thanks for noticing, keylaro1! It's marked 2cups, but it make four old-fashioned coffee cups at 6oz. Do you ever perk coffee? I forgot how delicious it can taste.
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Post by karitx on Jul 6, 2014 10:28:41 GMT -5
Awww, it's a baby coffee pot! I've only had stove top perked coffee once, but I don't remember if it made the noise or not. I do remember that it was the temperature of lava and the first sip burned all the way down.
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Post by keylargo1 on Jul 7, 2014 21:04:36 GMT -5
Especially with a good old fashion cake doughnut !
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Post by vaporvac on Jul 7, 2014 22:43:16 GMT -5
Do not get me going on cake doughnuts!!!! They're impossible to find anymore; everything is yeast with glazing, icing and other assorted additives, or cupcakes that look like miniature wedding cakes. The more icing, the better. which completely throws off the icing/cake ratio. Even Krispy Kreme doesn't make them anymore, and DD at the gas stations don't have any doughnuts at all!!!!!! I just want simple perfection. Is that too much to ask?
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Post by karitx on Jul 8, 2014 11:38:13 GMT -5
Do not get me going on cake doughnuts!!!! They're impossible to find anymore; everything is yeast with glazing, icing and other assorted additives, or cupcakes that look like miniature wedding cakes. The more, the better. Even Krispy Kreme doesn't make them anymore, and DD at the gas stations don't have any doughnuts at all!!!!!! I just want simple perfection. Is that too much to ask? When I heard that all the Spudnut shops were gone from the town where my brother lives, I had to break down and find a copycat recipe to make my own. So if you get desperate, you can always make your own cake doughnuts. Of course, you'll probably need an old Nesco Fryryte or the like if you do that...
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Post by mach12 on Jul 8, 2014 11:52:10 GMT -5
When I was a kid our electric range had a well with a Thrifty Cooker and my mother made cake doughnuts in it. I see in the Chambers cookbook that they say to use it for deep frying too. Mom said she liked that she didn't have to worry about one of us kids knocking the deep fryer off of the counter. I guess we were pretty "energetic". My poor mother...
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Post by vaporvac on Jul 8, 2014 16:32:49 GMT -5
You're funny, Kari! Who do you think you're talking to over here? OF COURSE I have an OLD Nesco Fryryte (or at least my PICC does)! It was $5; too rich for my blood so he bought it and I use it! I generally use a wok for the holiday frying that I do and I also have a vintage electric donut baker. What I need is a good recipe and sounds like you might have one! (hint,hint) Mach12, so far noone has ever written that they have actually fried in their Twell. I've always thought it was a great idea for exactly your mom's reason. Coffee and doughnuts...does it get any better than that?
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