Arlee finds a coffee pot

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Arlee found this beautiful, vintage General Electric 10 cup Coffee Maker Model A1SSP10 at Goodwill yesterday. It's in 100% perfect condition, never used. The only things missing were the original carton & paperwork.

I'm not sure exactly how old it is. G.E. made many "variations on this theme" for many years. But based on the orange plastic mini-basket parts and the graphics thereon I'm going to guess late 1960s - early 1970s.

Best part: He only paid $10.00 for it!


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[this post was last edited: 2/24/2014-19:39]
 
Congrats to Arlee on his purchase.

I also recently purchased one at a thrift store that is definitely older. It's Cat. No. is A3P15. There is also another number arbitrarily stamped on the bottom that is either 1038 or 038. Anyway, it has a metal brewing basket, a dial for strength of coffee, a clear knob and calligraphic letters for "Immersible", "Mild" and "Strong". Whenever I see Helvetica letters on yours ("Mild", "Strong") I also think late '60s or '70s.

I paid $5 for it on half-price day.

I don't have a camera, but I did just find a similar coffee percolator online like mine:

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I made our first pot of coffee in the G.E. WOWWWWWWW!!! It makes incredibly good coffee! I like my coffee strong, so I set the control to its strongest setting which perturbed Arlee a bit -- he likes coffee that looks more like hot tea. But he took a sip and said, "Oh Wow! That's really good!" So we're both quite pleased with it. It's a very quiet coffee pot -- you can barely hear the "gurgling."

I don't drink coffee too often because it tends to give me heartburn. It's most often a Saturday morning treat.
 
I love to sMELL it perking..

But it tastes VILE to me, I cant stand anything with even a hint of coffee in it, but Donald will drink it occasionally ,and company always drinks it.I hardly ever drink anything but sweet iced tea. Im a true product of the South! LOL
 
I'm watching eBay for

either a Presto SuperSpeed or a Hoover percolator.  The Presto is the one my family had when I was growing up, and it makes good coffee.  The Hoover percolator is a re-badged Presto, so I would be happy with either one of them.
 
<span style="font-family: times new roman,times;">What a beautiful machine!  I have still yet to try percolated coffee, but I will soon - just need to find a nice percolator at the right price.
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Jamie:

If you're looking for a percolator on your side of the pond, Russell Hobbs made some of the most beautiful ones seen anywhere. It will always be one of my regrets that they are not usable here, because of our 110-120v American mains power. I owned one for a while that turned up in a flea market in Atlanta, but could never use it. I've no idea how it made its way across the Atlantic to be sold for a pittance. I sold it on as a film prop eventually.

Here's a Russell Hobbs perc - just like the one I owned - in brushed stainless with a wood handle and knob. The U.K. eBay site has this one and a lot of others for sale:

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I had three stove top stainless steel percolator pots from the 40's or 50's hanging around for years and never used them. But after reading about percolators here I cleaned them up and figured out how to use them. Had to play with the amount of coffee to use per cup ( 1/8 cup coffee ) per 6 oz. cup of water which is a little over a big tablespoon and perk it for ten minutes. This seems to work best with my pots. I found if you perk to long it gets bitter. One pot is a Revere ware. One is a Flint and the third is a Lewis Pot. They are all stainless. It is amazing with this old technology there is no waste. The pot last indefinetly, the coffee grounds you can compost them. With the latest craze the ( Kuerig ) coffee maker you throw a lot of little plastic coffee containers in the dump to sit there for hundreds of years. Plus the plastic machines will be thrown in the dump some day to sit there with the Mr. Coffee machines that Joe Dimaggio hawked and all the other brands of plastic drip coffee makers times that by millions of people and there is a lot of stuff in the dump. Makes you think If you really want a green society what people could be taught that is low tech that yields big savings for the enviroment. It's not just the sound byte ( Windmills and Solar panels)That some people use over and over in their speach's. Bill,
 
Bill:

You are so right about the inherent, obscene wastefulness of many coffeemakers made since percolators were last popular.

Two tips about using stovetop percs:

1) Eight minutes is about right for perking time with most models.

2) Do not center the perc on the burner - put it over to one side, to protect the handle. OCD people who insist on centering the pot on the burner end up with a scorched or melted handle on their perc.
 
Danemodsandy tips

I figured your second tip out myself about not centering the stove top percolator on burner to avoid scorching or damaging handle.I have a couple of other pots that are really nice but someone burnt the handles on them. Also worth mentioning is to turn down the heat after it starts to perk good you only need enough heat to keep the perk going. Bill,
 
Beautiful appliance

Charles, what did you use before you found this vintage brewer? I like strong coffee, as well, but I've always had only drip-style coffee makers (Mr. Coffee until I was around 6, then Bunn ever since). When Keurig and K-cups became popular and ubiquitous at stores, I bought one and got used to the different taste. I love the convenience of the Keurig single-cup quantity in the early morning before work, but I freely admit that the flavor of an equivalent type of coffee is better from the Bunn. Are you using the new vintage find daily now, or do you use something you had before?
 

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