Origin Outdoors WESTERN enamel kettle with percolator, 1.8 litres, BLUE

A two-litre enamel kettle with a removable percolator and lid. The percolator is used to filter coffee (details below). The kettle is equipped with a handle.

• Capacity - 1.8 litres
• bottom diameter - 16 cm
• Weight - 620 grams.

And what exactly is a "percolator"? It is a device in the pot used for simple coffee filtration. The name comes from the word percolation, which means "passage through a permeable substance, especially for the purpose of extracting a soluble component. When brewing coffee, the solvent is water, the permeable substance is ground coffee beans, and the soluble components are compounds that give coffee its colour, taste, aroma and stimulating properties. Water circulates through the coffee (it is pushed up through a tube and then flows down due to gravity) until the desired "strength" of the brewed coffee is achieved.

The water circulates through the coffee (it is pushed up through a tube and then flows down due to gravity) until the desired "strength" of the brewed coffee is achieved. Perkolators used to be very popular, but in the early 1970s, they were replaced by automatic coffee makers.

Perkolator coffee pots used to be very popular, but in the early 1970s, they were replaced by automatic coffee makers. In perkolators, often exposed to higher temperatures than in other methods of preparation and is also leached repeatedly. Percolator advocates praise the delicious coffee with higher bitterness and claim that the disadvantages of this method can be eliminated by careful control of the process.