the other day bill at our solar cabin I saw on his video that he was using one
of these percolators on his gas stove and I was gonna ask him I talked to him
on the phone yesterday and I meant to ask them how you get one of these things
working I've had this for a while I've never used it and you know it's better
to learn now how to use it then if the lights go out so I've got seven cups of
water in there and I looked online and it says for each cup use a tablespoon so
that's one more dish I'm going to put seven heaping tablespoons in here and
then I'm going to put it on my wood stove and see how long it takes to
percolate and they say once it starts percolating you can tell by the by the
the bubbling up the water bubbles up in here and then as it starts turning into
coffee it turns you know Brown and they say once it starts percolate and give it
between four and seven minutes so I'm going to put the coffee in there go set
it on my wood stove and set the timer and see if it will even boil oh by the
way somebody asked me about my water filter the other day this is my berkey
water filter and I like it but I would not ever trust the murky filters again
the elements I'm by Doulton elements and you know the Berkey filter itself the
body is nice it's expensive but they let me down with the filters really let me
down they broke completely away from the base
and they knew they had a bad batch and they didn't tell people who knows how
much bad unfiltered water people drank before they realized their filters were
no good a man when I tried to get them to warranty the filters I got nothing
but their runaround so I don't use murky filters I use Doulton filters but the
Berkey itself is a pretty good machine all right back to the coffee I'm
gonna put the coffee in there and go up to my wood stove start to start the
timer man it is so nice and warm in here and my other shop next door it's nice
and warm all right here we go I'm gonna set it
back there right over what I think before I think the flame is and as soon
as I shut this off on what I set my timer but I just want to show you how
much brighter it is in here I got a couple more lights
I won't aim you there's one and then I I got one more of them right above my head
there are only like six bucks so uh it's a whole lot brighter in here
I'll be able to work on lawn mowers or weld or whatever and I only spend a few
dollars so we'll be back as soon as a soon as this thing things start sparkly
it just now started to bubble and uh my god it took 30 minutes i sat here for 30
minutes doing absolutely nothing I that never happens I almost fell asleep all
right let's see I'm gonna give it oh
five so I'll give it six minutes of bubbling and then I'll pour a cup and
we'll give it a taste all righty well that's hot
don't be looking at my cream and sugar yeah I like cream and sugar with my
coffee or vice versa don't judge me I have a sweet tooth I'm gonna have to let
that cool down for it and take a sip but that really smells like good strong
coffee and that it really hot okay yeah let me let this cool down I'll be back
in a minute alright let's give it a try
that is actually some pretty good taste in coffee it's uh strong not quite as
strong as I like it but uh you know this is an experiment to see how much coffee
to put in there what I did was put seven heaping tablespoons in there four seven
seven cups of water it's not cups you know like the measuring cup but I guess
what they call you know a cup that you would probably drink like that is
probably two cups so I would probably just put one more heaping tablespoon in
there or let it percolate a little longer I'll let it percolate for six
minutes after it started bubbling so maybe seven or eight minutes but took
thirty minutes to start percolating on that which dope there and I don't have
it going very hot I got to choke down pretty good too because uh it's gonna
get up to 50 supposedly today and I don't want it to get too hot in my other
shop when I got up this morning it was I don't know 28 27 and anyway now I know
how to use it now that's I've often wondered what how you how you used it so
now I know thanks for watching