Knit Chic wrote:
>
> "Nancy Young" <rjynly@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:D7WdnZPiFsUEFVTbnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d@comcast.com...
> >
> > "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton@verizon.not> wrote
> >
> >> to say that coffee is always good; I still remember the over-percolated
> >> stuff and that served on British trains that turned grey when milk was
> >> added!
> >
> > Ugh. One year I bought my parents a nice drip coffee maker
> > for Christmas hoping they'd retire that nasty percolator.
>
> I love my percolator, and never use a drip maker. Drip coffee is like tea
> to me. A good percolator won't make coffee taste burnt, maybe they didn't
> wash it or maybe they did burn coffee at one time and couldn't get the burnt
> coffee out of the pot?

Dunno, I hear lots of talk about how percolators are the worst way to
make coffee, but I've always found they produce good results as do other
methods.