I’ve been doing some research for an article about the price that people pay for coffee, and how it’s impacted by things like Fairtrade and so forth. The International Coffee Organization’s website is really quite helpful on statistics to do with exports, production and so forth, so when I saw this gem online, I had to read it a couple of times just to confirm that I wasn’t going mad. Perhaps someone just has a grudge against the poor percolator:
The percolator heats the coarsely ground coffee and cold water so that it boils and bubbles up into the top of the unit. It is an excellent way to have the relaxing sound of the coffee liquid burbling and gurgling, and to waft the aroma of coffee through the home, as all the volatile wonderful flavours go out of the percolator and into the air! There is possibly no worse way to make fresh coffee than this.
Haha, no, you are not mad. The author clearly was brought up in a home with a percolator in it, and still resents the passive-aggressive verbal abuse the parents doled out to all their children every morning while they were waiting for the first cup of coffee to brew.