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Nostalgia … is weird.

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It sometimes makes
us do things that don’t make any sense.

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Now look, I’m not immune from it either.

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I still like to make compilations of the music I like on cassette tapes.

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Rather than just
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I like to listen to each song as I record
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get good at pausing the deck at just the right time for small gaps,

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adjust the levels so that it doesn’t peak too much, and

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Ooh!

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When you get to the end
of a side, you gotta look for a song that’s

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just the right length, or maybe go with one
that’s a little too short and then rewind the tape

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and re-record the last 4 with a
bit of a longer gap in…

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Anyway, nostalgia makes us do weird things.

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And it made me buy a percolator!

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Ya know I’m glad they chose to pitch in because I was getting a little bored with my selection of coffee makers.

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Every morning I like to brew two nice cups of joe, and I’ve grown weary of only having

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five coffee makers to choose from.

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So I’ve bumped that up to seven with the addition
of these two percolators.

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What is a percolator you ask?

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Why, what a great question!

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If only there were a piece of long-form internet content to answer that for you.

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Oh right!

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This is a percolator.

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For some reason you
can still buy these!

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These stalwarts of coffee’s past used to be in nearly every home,

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but then we were introduced to the wonders of drip coffee and we decided

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these are awful!

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At least most of us did.

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And now of course we’ve been introduced to the wonders of plastic single-use coffee pods,

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because we can’t be bothered to put a filter in a basket
anymore I guess.

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And for those of us who like to work for our java, there are just so many ways to go about it these days,

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like pour-over, French press, cold brew, and whatever other fanciful techniques are making the rounds.

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Fun fact! Coffee gadgets make
up 80% of Too Many Small Kitchen Appliance’s

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yearly portfolio.

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We interrupt this program with a public service
announcement.

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Dear demographic,

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we would like to inform
you that "fresh" and "hot" are two different concepts.

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Believe it or not, the freshness of a cup
of coffee is largely independent from its hotness.

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Those of you who will accept nothing
less than burns-your-tongue fire liquid

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are ruining it for the rest of us.

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For you see, many establishments which subscribe to this “hot IS fresh” philosophy

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(or else cater to those who subscribe)

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use carafes warmed by a hot plate.

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This burns the coffee in short
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For those of us who can taste things,

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burned coffee is bad.

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An alternative philosophy is to maximize the
time a given quantity of coffee remains palatable.

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Some establishments use insulated coffee servers
to keep brewed coffee hot as long as possible

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without introducing more heat and burning
the coffee.

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While this may lead to coffee which is slightly less hot,

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I promise it actually tastes
much better!

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And as a bonus, it reduces waste.

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Related pro-tip! If you use a drip-coffee
maker, be sure not to start the brew too long

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before you intend to drink the coffee.

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Likewise, when brewing is complete, be sure to turn the unit off as soon as you can.

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This minimizes the time the hot plate burns the coffee,

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a side-effect of this style of coffee maker which your host feels gives them an unfairly poor reputation.

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After all, what is drip coffee,
but slower, automated pour-over?

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Speaking of pour-over, 
how does one actually make coffee?

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Aha! At last, we are back on track.

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Well,

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it all starts with a plant with particularly
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where it would like to grow.

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Let’s just skip over all of the in-between thorny things like exploitative labor practices

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and get to the part where
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(which we call beans for.. reasons)

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of this plant.

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We burn them, but like,
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(with some notable exceptions).

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After this rather heated ordeal and possibly
a bit of grinding,

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Arabicadabra!

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it ends up on store shelves where you buy it because
you’re addicted to it but of course really

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you could stop whenever you please it’s just... it's just so good so why...

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why... why bother amirite?

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[slurps obnoxiously loudly]

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OK, well to turn coffee beans into delicious
Hot Brown, we need to make hot water

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and ground coffee very close friends through some kind
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This as you may recognize is a maintenance serv…

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an ordinary coffee maker.

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To use it, you simply put a filter into the basket,

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endure the internet comments about how you should be using unbleached filters prompted by this shot,

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add some ground coffee,

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put the thing in the thing,

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the water in the other thing,

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and flip the switch.

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The water in the reservoir is heated and pumped 
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to a little drippy thing where it will land on and seep through the coffee grounds

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and end up in the pot below it,

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now infused with the sweet sweet caffeine that was in the beans.

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And flavors and other
things probably, too.

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Before we were introduced to the wonders of
Mr. Coffee, we had to deal with...

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these things.

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Now, don’t get me wrong, the invention of
the coffee percolator was itself a pretty neat thing,

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as it presented a good balance
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There had been other ways to get your Hot Brown before, but some were really finicky,

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others couldn’t make larger quantities of coffee, so

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for a time here in the US we settled on these as fairly good catch-all solutions.

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I have here two kinds of percolators.

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A stove-top version,

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and an electric version.

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They both operate using the same exact principle,

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but the electric one has a distinct advantage which we’ll see shortly.

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However, the glass one illustrates
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because it’s glass and we can see through it.

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Percolators use the fact that boiling water creates bubbles to force water up a tube.

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Percolators have three basic parts:

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A vessel for holding water to be heated.

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A vertical tube, sometimes called the perk tube but that’s
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And the tube travels through a basket which holds ground coffee above the water level.

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you’ll find that the base of the tube has
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When it's assembled,

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this funnel covers much of the bottom surface.

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The purpose of that is to catch bubbles that form as the water boils.

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See, when you fill the percolator with water
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water will travel up the tube to the same level as the
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As the water is heated and approaches boiling point,

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bubbles of water vapor form on the bottom.

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Many of these bubbles simply float to the surface but some of them get caught by our little funnel thing.

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This forces them to travel up the tube, and as they bunch
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the tube to travel upwards as well.

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It then splashes
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(which allows you to see that the pumping
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and falls onto the spreader plate below it.

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After the spreader plate spreads it out, this
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and seeps through them.

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Which, by the way, is where the name percolator
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Percolating just means filtering liquid through porous materials.

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Really, all coffee makers are percolators.

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Because percolating is how you make coffee

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(excluding of course things like a French press which use infusion,

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but that’s not important right now).

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But, probably thanks to the lovely sounds these make as water splashes to the top,

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we’ve confused things a bit in the States at least and sometimes refer to this water splashy action itself

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as percolation.

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That’s probably how these tubes got called the perk tube,

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and anyway I’m spending WAY too much time on this

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so let’s continue.

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As the water percolates through the coffee,
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(and flavors and colors I guess)

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and…

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then it ends up right back
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This here is the fatal flaw of the percolator.

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For you see, there is no
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and the brewed coffee.

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It’s just one big happy family!

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This of course means that the coffee’s concentration continually increases as the coffee is percolating.

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You eventually start running brewed coffee through the grounds again,

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and then again,

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and that’s generally not a recipe for good coffee.

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Some people like the fact that the coffee
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We call these people

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"masochists."

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To be fair, though, you can control how strong the coffee becomes using time.

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Just let it percolate for however long you like, then remove the heat and serve.

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This was after all how everybody did it before our savior Mr. Coffee appeared.

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But designs like this glass one have one more
flaw up their sleeves!

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They don’t start moving water up the tube until the water is boiling.

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And quite roaringly, I might add.

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Remember how I was saying in that PSA earlier that
adding heat to brewed coffee will burn it?

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Well, this percolator burns the coffee
while it brews!

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Hey, at least it kills two birds with one stone!

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This electric one works in a much more elegant
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[metallic clanging as the things are removed from the thing]

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Its water conveyance tube doesn’t have a funnel thing at the bottom,

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and that’s because it heats the water in a very small spot.

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Look in the bottom and you’ll see
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This is the only part that actually gets hot,
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almost immediately.

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Effectively the tube traps
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which causes it to boil rapidly, and so the
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where it will then percolate through the grounds.

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In this basket.

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That water then gets replaced by the colder water surrounding the heat chamber.

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This does still have the recirculation flaw
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that it’s not constantly burning the coffee.

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Most of the water gets heated from the water that falls through the basket and back into the pot

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and this allows the device to have an automatic stop function.

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As it percolates,
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and once it gets near boiling point, a thermostat
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In this mode it no longer gets hot enough
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so the brewing action stops.

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And for the icing on
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to let you know that it’s done!

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So, want my impression on how...

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"well"

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these make coffee?

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Let’s do a taste test shall we‽

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I’m going to be using my everyday coffee,
so I’ll get a great sense of how badly these butcher it.

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I’ve ground the coffee rather
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This is, incidentally, another
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as coffee manufacturers stopped selling pre-ground percolator grind coffee.

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Anyway, let’s cut to an unscripted segment!

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[ jazz piano plays softly ]
Hi! Welcome to an unscripted segment!

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So, you may notice that one of the percolators
is not here, and that’s because while I

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tried to make it work with the little hot
plate that I’ve used in other videos,

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that does not produce enough heat to make it percolate
so it needs to be on an honest-to-goodness stove.

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So that will be happening upstairs,
and I will bring it back down here when, uh,

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it is ready.

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But first! I’m going to start this.

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And show you how to do it!

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As I said in the scripted segment, I am using
my everyday coffee.

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What is my everyday coffee you ask?

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I’m not gonna tell ya because everybody
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I will tell you it is NOT from Starbucks and
it is Fair Trade.

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That's all you need to know.

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I am definitely not a coffee snob and I refuse
to let myself become a coffee snob,

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but I am pedantic enough that I measure my coffee
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And I have put the exact same amount of weight that I always do with a drip coffee maker

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inside this coffee thingy.

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Basket.

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And, the same exact amount of water that I
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coffee is in the percolator.

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The only difference
here is this is a percolator, and this was

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ground more coarsely so that it would work
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not have a filter in it. I could put a filter
in it, but I did not.

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♫ slow, rompy piano ♫

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And, I will not be judging grounds that get
in the water because I expect that to happen

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both on this one and the stovetop model.

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But, for this coffee maker,

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you start by filling it with water which I already did.

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You put the perk tube

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[a perfect little water bloop noise just happened]

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into the bottom and fit it in that little recess.

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Slide this over it…

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[slidey noises]

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Cool.

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Now this is the spreader for this one,

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that goes on top.

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And then this whole thing
gets shoved down with the lid.

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[more metallica]

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[THUD]

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Is that difficult?

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No, but I find it to be
way more finicky than

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a regular old coffee maker.

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This has an old-school kitchen appliance plug,
so I will plug it in.

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[pluggy sounds]

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And you will notice that this starts making noise quite quickly.

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It’s already making… making noises and

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it’s only been this long

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♫ suspenseful music ♫

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And now it is percolating.

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So, I’m now gonna
go upstairs and start the other one.

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You guys, uh…

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keep watch of this.

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[ pew, pew pew pew, pew pew ]

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(it does sound weirdly like a laser blaster when sped up)

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Fascinating, innit?

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[now it sounds like a steam train]

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[I think I can, I think I can I think Ican
ithinkican]

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[ithinkicanithinkicanithnkcaithcith]

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Oh god, IT’S GONNA BLOW!

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[sound returns to normal as video resumes
normal time]

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[click as the light turns on]

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[A throbbing gurgle/boiling sound slows and gradually stops]

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There were also beeps coming from upstairs - that was me setting a timer for the other percolator

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I just got back from upstairs because the
one on the stove JUST started percolating

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and this is already done.

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So, uh, again the
stovetop models…

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I don’t know why anyone would use them.

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Anyway, I have set a timer for five minutes; that’s how long I’m going to let that percolate.

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Umm...

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I just wanted to say that the one thing I’m
not quite sure of but it looks to be OK is

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some experimenting I was doing earlier indicated
that the glass one needs to have a fair bit

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of water in it in order for it to percolate,
if you only have enough water to, say,

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fill a mug like this it doesn't really percolate
at all.

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Um, so the amount that I have in there seems to be percolating pretty well… um,

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but if it is noticeably weaker than this I will assume that it just needs more water

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but I’m not wasting ANY MORE of my good coffee on this experiment.

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Anyway, I’ll be back in a bit.

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I’m back! And I brought this!

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Now, this is, uh, not particularly dark but the coffee

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that I use doesn’t make a very dark coffee
anyway so I’m not necessarily concerned about that.

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I have two mugs with some cream and sugar
in there.

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Yes, I take my coffee with cream and sugar

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because I love myself!

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And yes, this one was in keep-warm for five
or six minutes, but I don’t think it will matter much.

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♫ a rhythmic jazzy riff starts to play ♫

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This is about the darkness that I would expect
out of my, uh, out of my drip coffee maker.

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[some lovely pouring noises]

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Ehh, it’s a little lighter but not much.

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[man this is good Foley]

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This also pours really weirdly out of this.

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And I’m sure it’s bunching up against
the [clears throat] the grounds.

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I tried to put the same amount of cream in
here and it is a very similar color.

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So, hey!

298
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We did uh… we at least got that kinda right
didn’t we?

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I think this is a... is a tad lighter, but not much.

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OK.

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So, time to come clean I used this once
before and it wasn’t awful

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but it smelled horrible.

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Same exact thing, the smell…

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it just smells…

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not pleasant.

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You know, like I like the smell of a fresh cup of coffee.

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This is NOT. THAT.

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This is very pungent,

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like there’s a sharpness to it and, uh,

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and also like a chemical smell?

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And I don’t like it.

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At all!

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This one, which definitely has more grounds
in it for what it’s worth.

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Oddly enough this one has less of a smell.

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It’s still not good, it’s… it’s not…

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Oh no, that chemical, that... that weird, like,

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pungent smell is there so these both smell really bad.

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[laughs]

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Like if you’re… if you’re someone who likes the smell of coffee and this is what you’re used to…

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ugh!

321
00:17:35,020 --> 00:17:36,500
You’ve not smelled
good coffee.

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00:17:36,980 --> 00:17:40,680
I’m kind of afraid to taste these. Plus
they are probably quite hot.

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00:17:41,540 --> 00:17:45,920
This one was boiling just a moment ago, this one’s probably not quite that hot.

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And I’ll start… I’ll start with this one.

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[grumble]

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It’s not the..

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I… If I were served this at a restaurant

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I would consider it bad coffee,

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but I wouldn’t not drink it. So It’s not so bad that I would send it back but this is not...

330
00:18:11,180 --> 00:18:15,060
This is NOT the coffee that I have for breakfast.

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With breakfast.

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[lip smacking]

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00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,640
Uh. No.

334
00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:20,260
No. Ugh!

335
00:18:20,260 --> 00:18:22,680
It tastes so
bad! There’s a…

336
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it’s like worse than vending machine coffee.

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00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,580
At least I think so.

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It is not… there’s nothing… it, it,

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it is coffee but it doesn't have any of the
pleasant aspects of coffee.

340
00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,280
Shall we… shall we try this one?

341
00:18:40,660 --> 00:18:41,860
I’m a little afraid.

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[slurpy slurp]

343
00:18:47,180 --> 00:18:49,180
Oh this is worse.

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00:18:49,180 --> 00:18:50,620
See, this one actually doesn't

345
00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:51,120
[clears throat]

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00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:53,820
this one doesn’t taste burned to me.

347
00:18:53,820 --> 00:18:58,210
Surprisingly enough. This one does.
This tastes like coffee that’s been,

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ya know, left in the coffee pot for two hours.

349
00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:01,720
And it’s…

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I JUST made it.

351
00:19:05,420 --> 00:19:07,040
Yeah. It’s got…

352
00:19:08,780 --> 00:19:12,380
It’s a different kind
of burn from what I’m used to but it’s there.

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‘Cause normally I describe the taste
of burnt coffe as almost a, almost a carameley

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00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:20,780
(or care-a-meley) um,

355
00:19:20,780 --> 00:19:23,170
obviously it’s not
pleasant like that but I think it’s almost

356
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like a caramelization is what I get from it.

357
00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,280
This one is so much better. Like, if you’re
gonna use a percolator…

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00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,120
don’t!

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Not on the stove.

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Get... get an electric one.

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00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,130
And I should
say, I don’t know if all electric ones are

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created equal but I’m assuming that since
this is still available for purchase, this

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is the design that is, ya know, left. The
one that’s been refined to that.

364
00:19:57,540 --> 00:19:59,780
See, it’s so funny ‘cause now this tastes
pretty good

365
00:19:59,780 --> 00:20:00,900
[laughs]

366
00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:03,360
In comparison to this, this is…

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00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:04,800
MUCH better!

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00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,000
This is…

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and to know that it did this to coffee I like makes me wonder if I had, ya know,

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00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:17,480
just like... had some
random coffee and put it in there would I

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even tolerate it at all.

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00:20:20,740 --> 00:20:21,480
I…

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mmhmm…

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could not tell ya.

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Since I don’t know if you can see this at all I will take a picture of the tops.

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This is just so you can see that the, uh, darkness is pretty… is pretty similar between the two.

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00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,540
But, uh, yeah.

378
00:20:37,340 --> 00:20:40,700
This… neither of these make
what I would consider good coffee.

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00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:46,160
This makes “okay” coffee but I still would not take
this over drip coffee…

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00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,279
EVER.

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00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,780
If I had no other option but this, I would
definitely take it over this.

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00:20:51,780 --> 00:20:53,820
Especially because it was faster!

383
00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:57,120
I'm surprised how long it
took this to even start percolating.

384
00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:03,380
This, um, I mean it didn’t start until this had
finished so this is definitely faster.

385
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,460
I mean this is kinda charming! I’ll give
it that.

386
00:21:08,460 --> 00:21:09,460
That’s it, though.

387
00:21:09,460 --> 00:21:12,960
The actual finished product… gross!

388
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:13,700
Gross.

389
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:14,960
Gross.

390
00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:18,680
Do not use
a percolator… I mean like…

391
00:21:20,260 --> 00:21:21,520
really? I just… ugh.

392
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:26,140
I just have to ask the people who say
they like this… have you had coffee that’s

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00:21:26,150 --> 00:21:29,120
been in a drip machine or anything better?

394
00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:30,990
Lots of people consider drip to be “bad,”

395
00:21:30,990 --> 00:21:35,169
I disagree with them. I think it… as I said
earlier I think it has to do with when people

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00:21:35,169 --> 00:21:40,000
allow it to get burned, I think coffee fresh
from a drip machine is perfectly fine;

397
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,040
pretty good, even. But...

398
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,300
If this is your idea of what “good
coffee” is, I dun… ehmmm.

399
00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:49,020
We are at an impasse ‘cause I can’t agree with you.

400
00:21:49,020 --> 00:21:51,020
But anyway, shall we get back to the scripted part?

401
00:21:51,020 --> 00:21:53,560
I think we should get back to the scripted part.

402
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,020
So there you have it.

403
00:21:55,020 --> 00:21:56,560
Percolators.

404
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,040
Why are they still made?

405
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,820
Well I suppose these ones are good for camping… or

406
00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:04,820
other places where
you have fire but not electricity...

407
00:22:04,820 --> 00:22:07,880
But as far as electric ones? I have no idea.

408
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,010
It’s gotta be purely nostalgia at this point.

409
00:22:11,010 --> 00:22:15,320
Or else fears of plastic components maybe?
I did read that in some reviews.

410
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,600
Whatever the reason, I would not recommend purchasing one.

411
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,720
I mean… they’re not even easy to use.

412
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,740
It’s much more finicky than just a
drip machine, and it’s a huge hassle.

413
00:22:25,740 --> 00:22:29,300
In general I just don’t see the appeal of these at all.

414
00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:34,000
Now, in fairness, its coffee is nowhere near as bad as this guy's coffee

415
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,250
so I could probably get used to it eventually.

416
00:22:37,250 --> 00:22:41,660
Still, though, it is much much worse than my plain
‘ol drip machine.

417
00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:45,080
Then again, I’m just a youngster whose only known
drip coffee

418
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,620
and the supposedly better options everyone tells me I need to embrace,

419
00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:57,220
and just as this coffee tastes weird and wrong to me, I suppose there are people out there to whom this…

420
00:22:57,220 --> 00:23:00,300
style of coffee is just right.

421
00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:01,070
I mean,

422
00:23:01,070 --> 00:23:05,750
it’s smelly dirt water to my tastes but,
different strokes and all that.

423
00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:08,760
Well, thanks for watching! I hope you liked
this silly little video.

424
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,800
It turns out that I bought these percolators almost a year ago!

425
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,820
Now I bought them for making a video, certainly not to make coffee, and

426
00:23:16,820 --> 00:23:19,000
I… I kinda forgot
about them.

427
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,120
Uh, this glass one was a vintage thing from eBay, but the electric one came

428
00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:24,800
right from the Amazon.

429
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,940
And there are a startling number of options on there, including glass stovetop models.

430
00:23:29,940 --> 00:23:33,529
Reading the reviews makes me question my sanity quite a bit

431
00:23:33,529 --> 00:23:36,180
Then again, like I said, some people like
different things.

432
00:23:36,180 --> 00:23:38,140
Can’t account for taste.

433
00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:41,560
♫ scaldingly smooth jazz ♫

434
00:23:43,580 --> 00:23:46,480
A little too short and (chair creaks) and
then rewind… shoot.

435
00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:50,000
My loud chair strikes again!

436
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,020
Then we were introduced to the wonders

437
00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:53,440
(crashing noise)

438
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,540
(laughs)

439
00:23:54,540 --> 00:23:58,560
Boy this was supposed to take… this was supposed to be quick. It is not quick!

440
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,280
...you see, many establissments whits..

441
00:24:01,780 --> 00:24:02,700
Establissment…

442
00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:05,700
establishments which! Oh, that’s a tongue
twister.

443
00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:08,060
And those of you who like to work for our
java

444
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:09,340
[stares confusedly]

445
00:24:09,340 --> 00:24:10,760
Those of us.

446
00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:12,760
Hoooh,

447
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,740
that would explain why that sentence felt
broken

448
00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,240
...ench press, cold brew, and whatever other fanciful
techniques we are mmm...that are…

449
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,320
fffforking the forking fork.

450
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,820
It ends up on store shelves where you buy it! Bec…

451
00:24:23,820 --> 00:24:25,400
oh shoot I need a coffee mug.

452
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,330
How does one actually make coffee? Ah ha ha!

453
00:24:28,330 --> 00:24:29,860
Ah ha ha ha ha!

454
00:24:29,860 --> 00:24:31,160
(ehhh, what the was that?)

455
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,200
...the water in the pot. As the water heated and appro… oops

456
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,740
Now, I’ve grounded the coffee. Grounded?

457
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:40,700
You’re grounded!

458
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,320
OH I'M SO CAFFEINATED RIGHT NOW

459
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:44,980
Let me tell you a story real quick, you see when I was about to make this video there was a knock at the door

460
00:24:44,980 --> 00:24:46,180
but it turns out that was actually just in my imagination! I went to the door and nobody was there.

461
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,500
Startled, I thought to myself "is this a side-effect of all that coffee I've been having?"

462
00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:48,340
but then the Coffee Fairy showed up to reassure me that no, I am totally fine, so on about my business I went.

463
00:24:48,340 --> 00:24:49,380
Really, I'm quite happy to have the Coffee Fairy always there for me when I need him or her or they not really sure on the gender there.

464
00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:50,740
So anyway, I went to go start recording the video after the Coffee Fairy had showed up and everything was going super smoothly! Except is wasn't at all, it was really quite a mess, lots of things were going poorly.

465
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,160
Like for example the lights were all buzzy and flickery but really they weren't it was just something wrong with my vision, again I thought maybe I was having too much coffee but I thought back to what the Coffee fairy had said and they reassured me I was A-OK so I just kept on going

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But then my memory card was full so I needed to re-format it but what if there was stuff I needed on there ya know? Like, maybe I didn't actually finish my last video, maybe it's in some weird vide purgatory, I don't know these things, so I needed to check real quick that I had finished the video and it turns out I had!

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So I went ahead and reformatted the card, but that angered the lawn mower and so then I had to deal with that guy. He's really quite an ordeal. Pretty sharp but way too fast for my tastes one of these days he's really gonna damage somebody.

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Anyway, I hope this gag doesn't flag some sort of captions spam 'cause like I did it but anyway byeeeeeeeeeeeee-

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HOT BROWN