0 a device for making coffee in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below
1 a device for making coffee that boils water and forces it up a tube and through crushed coffee beans held in a container
His invention of the physeter or percolator by atmospheric pressure admirably accomplished this purpose.
Drip brew coffee makers replaced the coffee percolator in the 1970s due to the percolators' tendency to over-extract coffee, thereby making it bitter.
A distinction must be made between the chemical process of percolation and the coffee percolator as a device.
In a percolator, boiling water is forced into a chamber above a filter by steam pressure created by boiling.
The new brewer also produced a more mellow, lighter taste than a percolator.
Domestic electrification simplified the operation of percolators by providing for a self-contained, electrically powered heating element that removed the need to use a stovetop burner.
The items included coffee percolators from 10 rooms, 10 pillows, 40 towels and one of our delegates in a dress.
It is unlike a percolator in that the brewed coffee is not re-circulated.
