Just a mini-rant
So today while shopping at WallyWorld (I was looking for a single cup brewer so I can have hot tea or chocolate depending upon my mood), a lady looking much more mature than I am commented to me, "Don't they make any old-time percolators any more?"
So going through my mind was the tin/aluminum one my mom had before she got her first electric percolator. You know the type: the long stem with the perforated basket that held the grounds and the water percolated repeatedly through it until it was done. I commented to her that the percolation method makes the coffee bitter by overcooking it and running the same water through the grounds.
"You don't understand what I'm talking about. This percolator had a switch on it that let you choose the strength and the water only went through the grounds once."
Perhaps I'm dated, but anything that has a switch that lets you choose strength is not old-time.
So before starting this post, I was thinking this lady belongs in the dog house.
After reading up on coffee percolators are Wikipedia and other sites, perhaps we both do. It appears there is a pressure percolator, but that is still a simple device.
After writing this and thinking this through, I am thinking she must have had an electric percolator that limited the number of times the water passed through the grounds.
My gripe is still valid from my perspective. Her use of "old-time" was incorrect.
Or have I failed to completely join the 21st century?
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