“It’s heavenly coffee, Mary ...” Wear-Ever drip pot

Iconic American coffee brewing kit.




Well, with the essentials of a Coleman stove (a 501A from 1962 - the tamed version of the notorious 501), an MSR kettle from a later era ...




... oh, and a Coleman enamelled steel mug.




Such a simple concept and compared to a cafetiere with its wire mesh plunger seal trapping coffee grounds, much easier to clean.




The crucial drip holes - not too many or of too large a diameter to flood the coffee but to allow a drip-through soak and transfer of the flavour from the coffee.




Base stamp.




Put to the test, stove fired up ...




... kettle set to boil




Heavenly coffee? Pretty good, yes.



A better definition photo of the Wear-Ever advertisement.



John

 

My apologies, having taken the handle off the drip pot to clean the parts I’d put it back on upside-down in the above shots.




Corrected.



John

 

Nice setup for a quick cup o' Joe on the go!

 

Nice Americana themed write up John, well done! Jerry

 

I'll take mine black. Thanks John!

Ben

 

Lovely! I like it a lot! Before the days of the paper coffee filter people over here would use a "sock" to contain the coffee, made it even easier to clean the pot (and less fine grinds in your cup...)
BTW, the pressure cooker in the ad looks a lot like the Miss Mary pressure cooker mom used to have (that one was larger tho than the one in the add). I think it dates back to the 1950s, still have it! (I changed the rubber sealing ring this summer) But I no longer use it.

Best regards,

Wim

 

To me that looks just like ordinary see-through American so called coffee.
Which looks more like tea to us in the old worlds northerly parts...

 

Feeling rather embarassed at the moment. Put it this way, if nobody has ever told or shown you how to operate all the controls in a De Havilland Sea Vixen, then you simply won't know how it operates. That's how it is with me regarding these coffee pot things. I don't know of anybody who has one, nor do I know how they work. I did see some for sale in John Lewis and was tempted to buy one, but they're mysterious to me, so in the end I didn't buy.
I'm still thinking I'd like one as I drink lots of coffee - could someone remedy my ignorance and explain to me how they work please?
January sales will soon be on, so I might get one cheaply from John Lewis!

Baz

 

Very interesting coffee maker! I love the style of it and the black handles that speak of an era when details like this were more common.

So... apart from lanterns and stoves, the other thing I collect is tea and coffee making equipment. The list of my acquisitions is too long to go through here but Picquot ware is one manufacturer I love and I've got most items in their collection apart from the stove top kettle. Espresso coffee pots feature quite heavily too and an Alessi Cupolo coffee pot. Of course, I'd love an Alessi Conica, but those things really cost!

Damn, I really love collecting things!

 

Admittedly, I like my coffee on the weak side - but flavoursome thanks to freshly-ground Monsoon Malabar beans.

@Go Scout
Use of this type of coffee maker features in this video.

 

@presscall Thanks John. I thought the coffee pot would somehow be heated on the stove and water would somehow bubble up into the coffee grinds, but I guess it acts just like a re-usable 'filter paper'.
Another one of lifes little mysteries solved!
Baz

 

Brave one, you are, making a cuppa' on a 501!!!!

Murph

 

My first wife was french and drank tea. But when my french sister-in-law came to visit she tasted my coffee and declared it "pee pee le chat" which translates to "cat piss." At home I drink 4-6 large mugs of cat piss a day.

Order coffee in a french cafe you get little demitasse cup of strong coffee which is gone in one gulp. So, I'd always order a double which arrived in a larger cup but still didn't last long. By the time I finished reading the International Herald Tribune I was a jittery mess having consumed at least three doubles.

Ben

 

I’m reassured the 501A put to rest the dangerous faults of the 501 though Murph, so not such a gamble. Coleman must have realised that though their redesign was safe, just giving it that ‘A’ suffix wasn’t enough to convince anybody and they went for a completely new stove and number with the 502.

@z1ulike
That’s a very funny anecdote Ben. I enjoy a strong coffee only as an espresso. Otherwise, probably pee-pee le chat for me.

John

 

And it cleans you socks at the same time So never trust a barefoot barista! Ivan

 

I am such a heathen. A copper coffee boiler for camping. You can roughly gauge the length into the trip by the depth of grounds on the bottom. I do not mind boiling in the pot loose coffee. The grounds settle to the bottom and just don’t drink the last swig in the bottom of the cup! This pot is a fine camping pot as the spout and handle are both soldered and riveted on so a campfire won’t cause them to fall off if too near an open flame. Pictured on an old-tech stove I am restoring as a tent heater for those chilly wet nights out in the woods.

 

No heathen, that’s a sophisticated coffee pot with a nicely-formed porcelain lid knob, unless my eyes deceive me. Much as on this Thompson Richie kettle.

Lovely brick patio too - a man of taste, no heathen.

 

@MartyJ @presscall

I recently joined the copper kettle club myself.



Ben

 

My wife has taste but fortunately I have her. The world seems to have forgiven her for the one lapse. Ben, that boiler looks heavy duty! Copper and brass, all our downfall.

 

And it's huge! 11 inches across the bottom.

Ben