While Kris is acting like a monkey, they are talking and preparing coffee in the kitchen. What is that cool double coffee pot they are using? I want one. I've never seen one like that before.
shareThe are cool looking. My grandmother had one. Try a second hand store. Not really antique, but very mid-last century.
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It's a percolater; water goes in the bottom and grinds in the top. You put the percolator on the stove and the water starts to boil it travels through a center tube pouring out onto the coffee grinds turning the water into coffee. Look for them on ebay.
I'm old enough to have seen many different percolators (before the drip coffeemaker "revolution") and I had never seen one that looked like that. Definitely caught my eye.
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LOL I watched it.. and saw the coffee pot. It's really just a fancy perculater type.
But it is cool looking
In spite of other opinions, I believe that is a drip coffee maker. You put grounds in the top and pour a pot of boiling water, which soaks through and drips into the bottom pot. Do a Google image search, and you'll see a bunch of different styles. Later we had Mr. Coffee and scores of other automatic drip coffee makers. We still do. Ours is a Cuisinart.
shareThat coffee pot was called a vaculator. It was popular in the 1940s.
sharejbaer-5 finally has a correct answer. Water in the bottom grounds in the top. As the water boils it moves to the top. Turn off the heat and as the bottom cools, the vacuum in the bottom pulls the coffee from the top back to the bottom. Kind of like those love testers which use the warmth of your hand to send the liquid to the top and back to the bottom as it cools.
shareMy parents had one of those when I was a kid in the '50s and '60s. It had a clear glass handle on the lid through which you could see the water bubbling up through the tube. I wish I still had it.
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