How To Use a Coffee Percolator [Video]

good morning kids i’m talking kind of

soft because it’s uh morning here uh

and i don’t want to disturb anybody but

it’s time to make coffee with a

percolator so um you know when you’re

out camping you need to be able to use a

percolator that’s the best way that i

found um there’s just a couple things to

keep in mind and we’ll talk about that

here in just a second but before we do

that i do have a dad joke for you so

what did the guy say after he found his

there you are where you been

ah so anyway i’m just gonna walk you

through this really quick so one of the

things you want to for sure do

when you use a percolator because a

percolator has

has all these fine holes here okay and

so you want to use a coarse ground

coffee make sure to grind it of course

right some of the older coffee like

folgers i think comes pretty coarse

anyway but these days you know people

are making espresso and if you make a

fine

grind

it uh

it will actually

go through those holes and so that’s

like a fine grind okay and we got a

coarse grind here

so that’s our course see how coarse that

is and it’s bigger chunks so that they

don’t go through

these holes you’re still going to have

probably a little bit of coffee in your

uh in your cup but

that’s part of camping right so

anyway so here’s how we’re going to do

this i’ll just kind of walk you through

it real quick okay

okay so the first thing we’re going to

do is turn on our stove okay

like i showed in my previous video

okay that’s on

this i filled this up with water already

okay

so i just have it sitting here

first thing that goes in is this okay

and this allows the water to come up and

percolate go over the top of the

of the coffee

set that down in there so one thing to

keep in mind when you’re using coarse

my neighbor decided to start cutting

down his trees um one thing you want to

use uh when using coarse grounds you

have to actually add a little bit more

um when these are fine grounds they uh

you know you don’t need as much coffee

because it’s it’s getting more it’s more

powerful

okay so i have nine cups of water in

there i’m gonna go ahead and add nine

teaspoons because that’s how much i

usually like to add because if you add

uh

you know if you don’t add enough

then it makes for weak coffee and nobody

wants wheat coffee you can always make

it

make it weaker right so what are we at

like six

seven

eight

nine

okay so now i take this and i just put

this in here

on top

okay

and then i take this piece and i stick

this on top of that okay

then i close that

and now this is where the fun begins

we’re gonna

it’s probably gonna take

about uh

five or six minutes maybe depending on

the heat of course right if i turn this

heat up it might happen sooner but we’re

going to get to see this start to

percolate here i’m going to give you a

better close-up picture of that

okay it should be it should start going

pretty soon it’s been about uh five or

six minutes uh on a fairly high heat

so it’s we want to capture that moment

where

the first little bit of water comes up

into here because it’ll be clear and

then you’ll watch it slowly turn darker

and darker it’s kind of

kind of one of those nice moments

when you again when you’re out camping

and you

uh

just you know enjoy the moment it kind

of

uh it’s mesmerizing again kind of like a

fire where you’re

uh can just kind of get lost in it it’s

kind of the same way i’ve found with

this for me i don’t know it’s because

the smell of the coffee in the morning

you know maybe you had a rough night

and then um you start to see this

percolate and you can just kind of watch

it and you know you’re looking forward

to your your cup of coffee as well so

let’s just kind of enjoy the moment

until we actually see it finally perk up

there

oh oh there comes oh there we go see

it’s clear now

and it’ll start percolating and you’ll

see that slowly turn

brown

because it’s kind of it’s coming up and

it’s running down over those

grounds and going back and percolating

okay

i can turn down the heat just a little

bit now

not too much because you want to keep

the percolating action going

see that it’s changing color just ever

so slightly

and it’s starting to smell like coffee

now too

love this

see that how it’s slowly

it’s changing rocking now i’m turning

down the heat even more

get that smell of coffee going just

enjoy it

very cool like i said i don’t want to

talk over this because it’s just it’s an

enjoyable moment

so i usually let that percolate for a

while and kind of pay attention to the

color of the

of the water there you can tell when it

kind of gets darker and darker for you

so

so here’s another thing too that you

want to pay attention to when you’re

this is going to be hot right here but

you’ve got to hold that otherwise if you

don’t that’s going to flop open and

you’re going to have coffee grounds

everywhere so you got to hold this

right

hold that top down

okay when you pour it

okay

i hope that was helpful for you thanks

for watching and god bless you