West Bend 54159 Classic Stainless Steel Electric Coffee Maker - Percolate Your Coffee to Perfection!

Donna S Culpepper: It's a good looking coffee pot and takes hardly any counter space. Coffee taste great. The cord is very short but that's the case with most electric appliances

United States on Sep 13, 2023

Marion Stein: We are fans of perked or "brewed" coffee and have used a non-electric percolator for years. The problem with that is that it is SLOW coffee, and it doesn't stay hot on the stove. An electric percolator solves this problem as it takes about half the time (still longer than a drip coffee maker but reasonable) and keeps the coffee nice and hot for as long as you want.

One of the reasons we switched to perked was to avoid any heated plastic coming through our coffee. This coffee pot doesn't perfectly resolve this as there seem to be two small rubber stoppers holding the handle in place and a plastic see-through top to watch the coffee perk. It also seems hard to remove that top piece to replace with a glass top which would improve this. This is why I'm taking away one-star.

The quality of the coffee is great. We use coffee ground for percolator/French roast. We use a filter which also problably makes a smoother more ground free cup. (Paper filters probably aren't necessary with percolators especially with coarse grounds, but studies show paper traps some of the coffee oils which can contribute to higher LDL cholesterol levels.)

The overall design is attractive....

United States on Mar 04, 2023

Amazon Customer: After our last 'modern' brewer became possessed - the grinder (which hadn't worked at all in quite a while) on the stupid thing would start up on its own - I decided to go back to a good old reliable percolator. After much thought, I decided on this one. Glad I did! This is a very nice percolator and it does everything I expected. I also love the fact that it doesn't take up half my counter space like the fancy new drip machines that don't last long anymore. I read all the reviews and took some advice from other reviewers (like making sure the basket is wet before putting the filter in, especially if using finer (drip grind) ground coffee - genius!) I'm using regular basket filters ... just take a little stack, fold in half, make a snip; fold in half the other way, make another snip; now you have a filter with a 'hole' in it to fit over the stem in the basket. A couple of reviewers said they have had problems with coffee dripping from the clear knob on the top. (The clear knob is plastic, by the way ... but what else can you expect in today's throw-away world?) Mine has had maybe one drip on a couple of occasions, but no big deal. I just make sure the lid is securely fitted onto...

United States on Nov 13, 2020