Looking for recommendations: good-if-not-excellent quality stainless steel campfire percolator coffee pot. Willing to pay for quality.We really enjoy sitting around the nighttime campfire with friends and a pot of coffee. We had a real nice what I'd call safari-type pot but it grew legs and walked away, and we haven't seen another like it anywhere. We inherited it from my Dad and it was easily +50yo when it walked away. (Not all new campground friends are good friends.) The past few years we've tried & discarded at least one pot a year, we find them either waaaay too cheaply made or too difficult to handle when hot.We've checked out the outdoors & camping stores, seems they all have pretty much the same stuff. Box stores the same in even poorer quality.Searched Amazon, etc, but it's real hard to judge by the picture, description and user comments. Really need to see/handle it myself.FWIW we bring the kitchen Keurig for in-trailer use. Good as it is, there's no fireside romance with the Keurig.

You may have to check out garage sales and thrift shops to find anything the quality of the one that walked.We do not perc our coffee, we use a SS french press. We have an old kettle that sits on the fire water is hot for coffee, hot chocolate and tea.

We've found that simply heating water and then slowly pouring it into the top of a coffee maker does a fine job and keeps the coffee pot clean.And when camping with electric, we just plug it in!We did buy a stainless tea kettle to reheat it on the stove if boondocking.Not exactly the question you asked, but it may open up some options for you. Handles and soot are the main reasons for this.

I just bought a 70,s glass percolator. It can't go on the fire but it is awesome watching the whole percolating process and not to mention...it makes great tasting coffee. I bought it on ebay. tons of old percolators to choose from.

Try LL Bean, if they have one it would likely be good quality.

I bought the...Meyer Cookware 50124 Yosemite Percolator, Stainless Steel, 8-Cup.From Amazon.Was about 20 bucks.Check it out and be sure and read the over a 1000 highly rated reviews.I highly recommend.Good and heavy duty, should just do fine in a campfire.Mine says it a Farberware Brand.

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Tothill
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
You may have to check out garage sales and thrift shops to find anything the quality of the one that walked.

We do not perc our coffee, we use a SS french press. We have an old kettle that sits on the fire water is hot for coffee, hot chocolate and tea.
DiskDoctr
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
We've found that simply heating water and then slowly pouring it into the top of a coffee maker does a fine job and keeps the coffee pot clean.

And when camping with electric, we just plug it in!

We did buy a stainless tea kettle to reheat it on the stove if boondocking.

Not exactly the question you asked, but it may open up some options for you. Handles and soot are the main reasons for this.
Wagonqueen_Truc
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
I just bought a 70,s glass percolator. It can't go on the fire but it is awesome watching the whole percolating process and not to mention...it makes great tasting coffee. I bought it on ebay. tons of old percolators to choose from.
riven1950
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
Try LL Bean, if they have one it would likely be good quality.
stevekk
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
I bought the...Meyer Cookware 50124 Yosemite Percolator, Stainless Steel, 8-Cup.
From Amazon.
Was about 20 bucks.
Check it out and be sure and read the over a 1000 highly rated reviews.
I highly recommend.
Good and heavy duty, should just do fine in a campfire.
Mine says it a Farberware Brand.
Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Mar 09, 2014
We bought a SS 14 cup coffee pot 10 yrs ago from Cabela's.

We used it on camp stoves, on grills, in fire pits out camping and then on RV stove top for past 7 yrs FT. It still looks like new.

Good quality, durable, well made.........pricey!

LINK
lakeside013104
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
We use this one LINK

Very good unit so far.

Lakeside
rhagfo
Explorer III
Mar 09, 2014
dcmac214 wrote:
Looking for recommendations: good-if-not-excellent quality stainless steel campfire percolator coffee pot. Willing to pay for quality.

We really enjoy sitting around the nighttime campfire with friends and a pot of coffee. We had a real nice what I'd call safari-type pot but it grew legs and walked away, and we haven't seen another like it anywhere. We inherited it from my Dad and it was easily +50yo when it walked away. (Not all new campground friends are good friends.) The past few years we've tried & discarded at least one pot a year, we find them either waaaay too cheaply made or too difficult to handle when hot.

We've checked out the outdoors & camping stores, seems they all have pretty much the same stuff. Box stores the same in even poorer quality.

Searched Amazon, etc, but it's real hard to judge by the picture, description and user comments. Really need to see/handle it myself.

FWIW we bring the kitchen Keurig for in-trailer use. Good as it is, there's no fireside romance with the Keurig.

There is just something about a coffee pot blackened in the campfire!!! The coffee that comes not is not all that bad.
westend
Explorer
Mar 09, 2014
For some of you folks that don't have a percolator, are not into fancy Keurig types, or are tired of pouring hot water into a coffee maker, I'll offer this:

Cowboy Coffee Making: Boil water, dump in ground coffee (usually too much), let steep for a few seconds, dump in a cup of ice cold water, pour coffee into cups. The cold water will sink all the grounds to the bottom so you don't have to pick your teeth.
bukhrn
Explorer III
Mar 09, 2014
westend wrote:
For some of you folks that don't have a percolator, are not into fancy Keurig types, or are tired of pouring hot water into a coffee maker, I'll offer this:

Cowboy Coffee Making: Boil water, dump in ground coffee (usually too much), let steep for a few seconds, dump in a cup of ice cold water, pour coffee into cups. The cold water will sink all the grounds to the bottom so you don't have to pick your teeth.
Been there & done the Cowboy Coffee thing, but now we use what Old-Biscuit & Lakeside use, not really sure of the brand name though.
For a while, we had the Mr coffee type, but got real tired of waiting for "generator hours" before making coffee.