Woodstove coffee

Nothing like brewing some good coffee in a vintage percolator on the woodstove......anyone else cooking on their woodstove yet?

Honestly, it just tastes better IMO. Even my wife thinks the same. Probably just the psychological connection of seeing that little perker thumping like mad on top of the woodstove and the smell of that Columbian bean wafting through the house!

Scotty, you better put a old time wood cookstove in the kitchen. That with a couple of well seasoned cast iron pans, and you would have reached Nirvana.

trust me, rotti ......that's in the plans someday. We built our hearth specifically to fit the Esse Ironheart cookstove. Someday, someday......

Know where you are coming from. Wish my kitchen could accomodate one.

Not yet Scotty, how was it?

zap

Zap, it was delicious! I love percolator coffee. Reminds me of when I was a kid over at grandma's house. I can still smell that coffee perking and the fried taters and eggs cooking in bacon grease ......wow, how some smells can stir up old memories!

My parents used a faberware electric percolator until the 90s. The chug chug chug sound is a fond memory of childhood.

How hot did you have to crank the stove to get that going?. My steamer pot almost never boils...

Not very hot, was probably around 450 to 500 stovetop temp. Since I made the trivet hole in the top shield big enough to accommodate a pot or pan, now I can sit cookware right out on top of the firebox. I can bring water to a boil now in a big stockpot, I couldn't dream of doing that before. Do you have access to your stovetop or is there a shield on top?

that's one nice perker there!

I remember some times at the cabin like that, right before my buddy passed away from cancer several years ago.
Still have the "drip-o-later" he used up there, its probably from the 40's. Love those times at camp!

O ya Scotty it isn't home this time of year without cooking on a good hot stove with my legs on fire from the heat of the stove glass I have not made coffee yet but we keep a pot of hot water for tea and coco for the nieces. There was a pot of chili going about a week ago that misteriously vanished int some bellies before I got there also some awesome biscuits. Well at least I am home alone tonight to eat the crumbs

Pete

Hmm, might just be that hte heavy cast steamer doesn't get hot enough... We have it right on the griddle, no heat shields or anything. But it is a VC cat stove with the combustor in the back of the stove.... the stove top doesn't get as hot as a lot of other stoves do, this one throws a lot of heat from the back.

I'm betting that is most of the problem right there. Try putting a stainless steel pan on it once, see if that will boil.....

Cooking beakfast (hot cereals, eggs, vegetable omelets), making coffee and tea, cooking soups, casserole, steaming vegetables, making stew, processing food from the garden, making jelly, roasting ...anything I need to cook. Once I can light the stove, hardly ever use the kitchen stove or range. Do still use the microwave, but less than I used to.

Ah ..yes ! perked coffee. Absoloutly the best At least my brain thinks that ..

buzzkill bart

dammit Bart. Party pooper.....

"I have a good enough memory to remember those damn coffee grounds in the bottom of the cup in peculator days. "
Ding, ding, ding.
Don't miss eating my morning coffee.

I might do some eggs on the stove in the morning.....or oatmeal. I should eat more oatmeal.
I like oatmeal. Really.
It's only taken 6 years for the romance to wane a bit.
Back to the coffee. Keurig is my new friend since my son got me one last year.