COLETTI Classic Percolator Coffee Pot — The Most Nostalgic Camping Coffee Pot, Now Modernized [Blue Enamel, 12 Cup]

The media could not be loaded. Great coffee maker. Well made. Been a while so I had to look up how to make manual coffee. This is not a plug and go operation but well worth the effort if you enjoy a really good cup of coffee. I always used the drip makers and tried many, many brands of coffee looking for a good cup of coffee. Never could. Now my cheap brand of Maxwell house is wonderful. Here is how: Do not boil the water. It takes about 10 mins on a gas stove on high for 7 8oz cups of water. As soon as the perking starts turn the heat down. Way down. I turn my gas burner as low as it will go and it perks. A perk every second or two is perfect. Perk for 5 to 1 minutes. I use a level tablespoon per 8 oz of water, and perk for 7-8 minutes. These times and measurement's are what works for my taste. A little experimentation on your boiling time, coffee amounts and perk time to get your perfect cup. The process needs to be watched carefully to get great consistent results. It may sound daunting but is very simple and enjoyable after a couple or three times. You can hear it making my wonderful pot of coffee if you turn the sound up. If you hang the wire handle to the spout side away from the handle it does not get hot. It will stand away from the pot due to friction. The handle does get hot.

GREAT!! Quality all the way. Best is it is Veteran owned!! Made in the USA!!!! Purchased this for when the power goes out and can use this on the grill to make coffee. Very highly recommended!!!!

This was bigger than it needed but great packaging. Sturdy product and came with filters. The extra handle is a good touch for fire pits.

Super cute and large capacity for the Water but the perk cup needs more holes and more space to hold the grounds. After you perk the grounds swell and spill out of the cup.

Love it! Beautiful pink color! Works fantastic! Holds a lot of water!

I like everything about the percolator but I am not in love with the way the lid is hinged on. I really don't see that thin piece of stainless lasting very long. I may be totally wrong only time will tell. We are still playing around with different coffee grinds, amounts of coffee, perc times and with or without filters. All in I think it is a very nice coffee pot.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Because it had 12 cups

Does not work. The percolator grounds container is only held on by it's own weight, not a snap-on lid similar to Faberware's electric percolators. Although the instructions stated use medium heat, I still had grounds boiling out of the percolator grounds container. This engineering method of using the weight of the percolator grounds lid for keeping the grounds from boiling out, if using a specific level of lower heat, however the water still needs to boil. Everything else appears well designed or manufactured.Whether or not I received a percolator not intended for this container, I'm not sure. However, does appear to be as intended as the main lid does not snap-on, however nor does the main lid provide any additional weight upon the percolator grounds container lid.Long story short, this unit had grinds all over the place. And upon pouring, liquid also leaked all over the place.What Should People Expect From a Percolator?After my experience using this range/stove/campfire percolator, find returning to using a simple pot with water and cooking the grinds "cowboy style" and subsequently simply using a strainer for removing grinds method far better and far cleaner!These stove/range/campfire percolators seem to be the predecessor of the famed electric percolators. The real benefit of a percolator are the electric percolators. Electric percolators have many many benefits such as being plugged into any remote receptacle, certainly no leaking, grinds are well contained within the percolator grinds container. If using a stove/range/campfire, likely far better just resorting to a pot of water with grinds, and straining with a metal sieve strainer.Think people are being mislead from watching Western TV Movies, a campfire percolator is a need, when likely people long ago just relied upon a simple pot of water and using a strainer. The two methods of boiling grinds I've used for two or more decades without investing and wasting money with coffee makers, pressure cooking or boiling grinds subsequently straining grinds out and an electric (Faberware) percolator.And if you're camping/traveling and forget the strainer, just let the liquid sit a short period, allowing settling of the grinds!PROS1) Coating and manufacturing, all appears well made, more so once washed and heated a few times.2) The main metal container is lightweight, but still supposedly a (enamel coated) durable stainless steel.CONS1) Percolator grounds container lid is only held in place via it's weight alone, and will significantly leak grinds into the water during boiling, or heavy boiling. I would certainly fix the lid for making a tighter fit, and ensuring additional pressure down upon the percolator grinds container lid.2) The entire metal container excessively leaked while pour! Some refinement of the metal shaping is needed.I'm certainly returning this, reverting to a pot of hot water when boiling grinds on the stove or campfire!