Coffee makers: How baseball put them in our homes 

Above 100 you can die below 0 and you can die. Seems like its pretty useful.

@@CaleTheNail Celsius: Above 100 you can die, and below 0 you can die Kelvin: Above 100 you can die, and below 0... well, you certainly wouldn’t be alive

@@bubbledoubletrouble Kelvin doesn‘t go below 0, that‘s why it‘s called absolute zero :P

@@rchaykovskiy woah that’s almost as if that was like the joke or something.

@@CaleTheNail Yuup. The scale is actually useful for human existence. Unlike Celsius, of which only a third of the scale is actually useful for regular life

haha, that's funny, just go get instant coffee and get it over with haha. Whatever works though I guess right?

I also find humor in your plebeian methods of caffeine extraction.

I too tittered like a school girl when I imagined you rummaging amongst the junk and plebs in ASDA or B&M Bargains buying your inferior cheap made in china kettle and your disgusting instant coffee granules. I feel all dirty just thinking about it, I'm going to have to make a lovely espresso with my expensive Kopi Luwak coffee and my Italian made Elektra espresso machine.

Epple Bradley - Haha, well bully for you!

@@97channel you are the reason for the term "cup of Joe". It's the drink of the every man, your average Joe.

Yep, can confirm that 100%

There indeed were ones going back to 1908 when they were first invented but they were neither common place nor affordable for businesses or in the home until Bunn and Mr. Coffee came around. Percolator coffee ... yick.

Holy shit wow

I never thought of that before that us amazing

You blew my mind lol

hmmmm... www.snopes.com/language/eponyms/cupofjoe.asp

The coffee brand Martinson coffee claims that their founder Joe Martinson is where the phrase "Cup of Joe" came from, but I don't know how true that actually is. martinson-coffee.com/joemartinson/Pages/ourstory.aspx

I'm with you, in my former work life we had a percolator and I've not tasted as good coffee since.

Both of you get the benefit of using a modern percolator. Try using that cowboy shit when your house might still be using wood in the stove.

@@justsomenerd8925 just means you're doing it all wrong

@@infinitelink what the fuck are you on about?

@@justsomenerd8925 He's saying you can make great percolator coffee under any conditions. Some of the best coffee I've had was made by my aunt with a percolator in embers while camping.

Nice! No country for old grumpy men I guess.

I think that has to to with the fact that the rest of the process involving a percolator has been vastly improved; percolators have better filters now, it's easier to make water just the right heat, the quality of coffee bean roasting has been improved. It's like how rifling in guns isn't as important as it was in the 1700s because we can mass produce perfectly straight barrels

Rifling is still as important as it was in 18th century or earlier. There are flechette slugs for smooth bored weapons, but they are still far behind in accuracy to bullets fired from rifled barrels.

Done right, not over brewed, percolator coffee can be good, if that is what you are used to. It is not so good for those not used to it. I am ancient enough that percolators were your only choice when I started drinking coffee. I remember liking it just fine. Recently, i bought a cheap percolator is see what it tasted like now. I hated it, it was way too bitter, because I am no longer used to boiled coffee.

at the time, compared to what?

Agreed. I think brewing coffee in a plastic drip coffee maker is lousy and the percolator makes the whole house smell of freshly brewed coffee. If I don’t percolate I French press, but I prefer the percolator.

i have to try this!

And another German company came out with one back in the 50's: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigomat

You're forgetting the espresso machine, that makes the best coffee, although some integralists prefer the moka.

Daniele Menni That's not coffee lol.

Neceros Just so you know, all the world that is not u.s.a. think that your coffee is just dirty water, and they're right.

Daniele Menni Go ahead and point me a source to that. I don't believe you. You're just being prejudice.

Neceros Just ask yourself this: why starbucks is in every country except italy? We invented the espresso, the moka, we don't drink that "coffee". Yes, I tried it, it's diluted coffee, it has very little taste.

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***** I have calculated the time difference using a drip coffee maker makes to using a percolator, here: >8 (stove top) to 16(electrical) minutes to brew cofee with a percolator (preparation included) so an average of 12 mins each morning >4 to 6 minutes for coffee with drip coffee makers including preparation(average= 5min) So with a lifespan average of around 30,000 days (~82 years) that means you waste 145 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes (210,000 mins) of your life only brewing coffee more than with drip coffee makers because the time difference is 7 mins (12 minus 5) and 30,000 mornings of 7 minutes longer makes (7x 30,000) 210,000 minutes which equals 0.4 years.

Juan Valdez

@@c.ake8033 It absorbs the bitterness and carcinogens. Stainless steel mesh lets that all through. If you like it bitter and grainy, you're doing it right.

Bunn does make a restaurant machine that does not need to be plumbed in. It is the VP17, it’ll make two pots of coffee. I have one as my home coffee maker and love it.

The commercial machine I used would heat the water, then a pot of cold water was dumped in, it sank to the bottom making the hot water overflow over the grounds.

I agree, my perk coffee is smooth as silk! The new chinese percolators get the coffee too hot. I use the old american made electric farberware. ;-)

@@jagboy69 I have a old red WhiteWestinghouse percolator.

@@ohio If you watch a drip coffee machine, it fills the coffee to the top with water, before letting the water out. During the whole drip cycle the coffee is brewing.

@@stevenm8970 Uhm, no, the water just constantly drips out of them. Unless every single coffee machine that my family, and any friends, and everyone we've ever seen using a coffee machine owned had a faulty filter holder.

@@ohio Drip coffee IS pour-over coffee and vice-versa. How do you not understand this? What you just said is basically 'coffee is better when you pour the water over the grounds by hand than when a machine pours the water over the grounds'. Huh? Coffee makers aren't all exactly the same. If you've never found a good one, then you must not have looked very hard if at all.

Just because the worst coffee you've had came from a drip doesn't mean that a percolator is better, it just means that the drip coffee you had was made terribly.

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No, the first recorded use of the term "cup of Joe" was in 1930. It's slang for "drink of the every man," your average Joe.

@@justsomenerd8925 Hmm OK. I thought it was a twist from Java

Calling it a Cup of Joe was around long before Jolting Joe started his Mr. Coffee commercials.

I still think the invention of the bicycle is the most important invention. Without it, the wright brothers would not have invented powered flight.

The most important invention was Star Trek, because it inspired cell phones 😆

I don't think it was meant to be taken all that seriously when he said it was the best. And it isn't really "American-Centric", drip filter machines are common in many many many countries.

I'm an American who has lived in Australia...and Australia has the best coffee hands down. It puts American coffee to shame. They are an espresso first country..and that's another history lesson of "why"...but they make good brewed coffee too. Better roasters, better beans, better preparation all round.

Clearly, this *one* video is an accurate representation of _every_ American's coffee preferences. Jeez, Australians are stupid. (You see what I did there?)

As an American I'd like to say many of us like espresso. That's why Starbuck is a thing. People just dom't seem to have realized how easy things like espresso, or French press are. It's not tha that we all like bad coffee, it's that not many put in the effort to make good coffee.

Starbucks doesn't make coffee. They make crap. Bitter watery crap. Although the free Wi-Fi was useful when I was in Americcar

Automatic percolators make great coffee because they don’t boil the water and they stop percolating the second the coffee is done. Stove top percolators are difficult to use well, that’s why most people don’t like percolated coffee. I use a stove top siphon, that thing makes excellent hot coffee easily, much better control.

Thank you. I can't even find a percolator now and I grew up with it. First thought was, and is, the coffee is weak as hell from a drip so I add more coffee grounds to it but doesn't actually help. I like my coffee just black and I gave up on coffee 15, or so, years ago and barely have it now thanks to the drip coffee makers. One good thing I must say in defense of the drip maker is that I never have grounds in my cup like you will get with a percolator.

Bitter is a naturally unpleasant taste for the vast majority of people, so it shouldn't be all that surprising that people prefer things to be "less bitter".. Same reason why people drink mixed drinks instead of straight liquor. Straight liquor tastes horrible to most people, but they want the alcohol, so they make it tolerable by adding a soda/juice to it. Different regions have different customs. You say you are used to bitter coffee and find it strange that Americans drink weaker coffee. Well, Americans think it is strange that you prefer coffee that tastes more bitter. It's all a matter of perspective.

I forgot to add: Americans were raised drinking weaker coffee and so they are used to it. Just like I am sure that you grew up drinking stronger coffee, and that is why you prefer it. I will say though, not that there is a right or wrong to this argument because it is 100% personal preference, but when you have non-coffee drinkers taste-test coffees, they prefer the weaker brews almost 100% of the time. Bitter taste is naturally unpleasant to most people, but if you grew up drinking very bitter coffee, then it is what you are accustomed to, and that is why when you drink "American" coffee it tastes like a cup of water with dirt in it. Just like when I drink espresso or the extremely strong coffee you prefer, it tastes like I am drinking liquid aspirin/crushed up tylenol, it is honestly disgusting to me but I understand that people like different things. My dad likes his coffee as bitter as possible but he's just weird, he also chews pills when he takes them(he likes the taste).

simonsays80 lolz, american coffee is the worst coffee there is. I dont know what makes it, the brewer or the beans/grounds. Everyone talk bad about US coffee outside us and even americans does it. By american coffee i mean "home made generic joe doe", that is, brewers. Its weak and bitter and is not strong at all. Long live swedish/scandinavian traditions. And frech. But sometimes the quantity is better then the quality (espresso vs drip)

Bialetti ftw

If you hate the US so much please have nothing to do with it or it's inventions.

I was thinking the same thing. French press does amazing espresso

Because some people care about taste. If I just wanted caffeine, I'd drink energy drinks

Coffee is cheaper (if you brew it yourself) and has less calories (none if you drink it black) than energy drinks.

If you don't boof your beans don't fucking talk to me

Hipsters don't know what pitchforks are nor their purpose.

@@moncorp1 you sir, have killed the population of California's three biggest cities.

It says where. WILL-AM 580. An Illinois AM Radio station affiliated with NPR (National Public Radio)

Having worked in Hospitality and having been trained by experts in the field of coffee I would say your assumptions are invalid. These said experts were from many countries and all agree with what I said about "filter coffee". Having then used this education in the role of barista (person who makes coffee espresso style) among others, I found that given the choice 85% of customers (from around the world) also agree. I declare my "opinion" educated, tested and accurate. I don't actually care if anyone agrees with me or not about coffee. Just like I don't care what anyone thinks of me personally, especially from across the world via the web........

+Graceymay74 Thing is, that does not say anything about what is objectively better, only what is currently in fashion in various parts of the world. Every region has a different 'normalized' pallet. Prefered ratios of the various fundamental flavors vary by culture, and america has different norms than europe or other post colonial regions.

+neeneko I would agree with what you have said. All I've tried to point out is that having experienced points of views from different cultures, the consensus I have witnessed is that filter coffee lags behind in popularity and percieved value to the customer. after googling cafe's from Europe, the US and elsewhere I have found espresso style coffees generally are a premium product which customers tend to be willing to pay more for..... But yes, you're right about cultural pallet differences etc.

+Mike Roberts Prove means to test, so yes flavour can be tested scientifically. results will vary depending on many factors. do you know how to science? I'm no scientist however I understand you can "test" flavour perception, many coffee producing companies do so and spend big doing so. this is how they work out which blend goes to what region...... (yes, you get this insight when you have had to be educated about the job at hand)..... I feel quite comfortable with my "opinion" on coffee having had a lot of experience and training, however I wouldn't give you an opinion of the life-cycle of a patagonian toothfish because I don't know squat about it.....

+Mike Roberts well said. stupid comment but well articulated.....

There is a noticeable improvement using the percolator