On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:32:43 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
wrote:
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> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:52:27 -0400, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 9/17/2013 7:33 PM, Michel Boucher wrote:
> >> > Dave Smith > wrote in news
s2_t.70696
> >> > :
> >> >
> >> >> Of course, when I was a kid the standard way to make coffee
> >> >> was in a percolator. I don't know if they even sell those things
> >> >> anymore.
> >> >
> >> > You can still buy them in camping goods stores.
> >> >
> >> I still have a Corningware ("cornflower" pattern - white with blue
> >> flowers) stove-top percolator. 
> >>
> > I learned how to make coffee in a percolator on a gas stove from an
> > Arab man who roasted and sold his own beans. It was damn fine coffee
> > too.
> >
>
> Oh that is just so "Beneath the sheltering sky" isn't it?
>
Not really. It's indicative of the era when I first learned to make
coffee. Electric coffee makers were percolators back then and the
manual dripper was a fancy gadget you had to buy at a specialty store,
which I did after I started living in an electric stove environment.
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