Farberware Electric Coffee Percolator, FCP240, Stainless Steel Basket, Automatic Keep Warm, No-Drip Spout, 4 Cup

Recommend this product.
Love this coffee maker!!It’s quick, coffee is hot and delish.

Taste better and stays warmer!
For the price it makes a good cup of coffee. Better than those pods, that’s why I went back to the way my mom and grandma used to make coffee in a percolator. Coffee tastes much better and brews fast. Plus it comes out hot and stays warm much longer than my pods. Perfect size for me. I get two 10oz cups per pot which is all I need.My only complaint with this unit is it looks like it was a return as the pot and basket were stained with coffee when I removed it from the box. I cleaned it and it works well so I’m keeping it. Just a little disappointed that I received a used pot when I ordered a new one.

complete trash BUT only slightly high price as just a pour-over pitcher
i bought this july 2023. this review is march 2024.this item makes TRASH COFFEE *but* it is only a slightly high price for a pitcher to make excellent pour-over coffee if you prefer steel over glass (which i do) and more than a single cup at a time.this is my first percolator. i was coming off trader joe’s instant coffee since working from home in our covid-endemic era. at my office, i drank the peet’s brewed in the kitchen. instant tj is an ok approximation to peet’s brewed cos at least it is wayyyy better than folger’s.at first this percolator coffee tasted fine (amazon, starbucks, peet’s, dunkin) cos it tasted like tj instant and i’d already adjusted myself down to that flavor/quality.issue 1: after a while, i wanted afternoon coffee so i made a pour-over cup and discovered what incredible trash coffee this percolator makes. same grinds had AMAZING flavor as pour-over but were only a moderately acceptable instant-like flavor from the percolator.SAME GRINDS.issue 2: the bottom has straight slits (same as the spreader/basket lid) instead of holes and they became clogged so i ordered filters which caused the coffee to come out GOLDEN. since i can’t see the percolator operate, i speculate that the water either (1) never enters the basket and instead flows out the wide gap along the rim of the spreader, OR (2) enters the basket but passes over the folded filter top (which filter has holes at the four corners to specifically fold over the straw) and exits through the slits along the top side of the basket (never actually reaching the bottom of the basket).CONFIRMATION:today i poured the percolator’s golden water into an electric kettle, let the percolator cool to remove its lid, boiled the golden water, and poured it over the spreader myself. i made sure the water never exited the wide gap along the rim of the spreader (speculation #1).COFFEE STILL GOLDEN. i didn’t observe whether the water flowed through the slits along the top side of the basket (speculation #2) but i was super mad so didn’t even try to use the spreader again.instead, i again poured the percolator’s golden water into my electric kettle, boiled the golden water, and unfolded the top of the filter — and poured the boiling golden water directly over the grinds (not over filter paper) — and got AMAZING POUR-OVER COFFEE.this percolator makes (1) trash coffee without a filter, and (2) golden coffee with a filter.btw the filters are ‘Melitta White Wrap Around Coffee Filter for Percolator’ and i’m returning them cos they brew golden coffee.i will use this percolator as a pour-over pitcher. i will use my steel pour-over cone with its filters (no percolator basket, no percolator straw).conclusionTHIS PERCOLATOR IS TRASH but a $60 pitcher if you prefer steel over glass (and more one pour-over cup) is pretty much as good as it gets cos i don’t even see any others.oh well.

Stopped working after 5 months
Update: I loved it but it stopped working.I haven’t used an electric percolator since I was a kid living at home (I’m 77). But I wanted to try one, having read an article that claimed drip coffee makers don’t really get the water hot enough to extract the full taste from the grounds.That may be true. The coffee from this little brewer comes out piping hot and tastes better than the coffee from my Mr. Coffee. If I were blindfolded, I could tell the difference. They’re both good coffee makers, but the Faberware makes it hotter and a tad richer.Surprisingly, the Faberware maker is faster than the Mr. Coffee.There is no ON/Off button. You plug it in when ready and it goes to work. When you’re done, you unplug it.The coffee grounds do not fall through the stainless steel basket when brewing. And when you pour out the last drop, and the brewer is upside down, the coffee grounds stay inside the basket. So you don’t need a disc coffee filter, though I use one because they are supposed to be healthier.Overall, I’m quite happy with the little beast.

Difficulty removing the lid of the pot. There was no on and off switch on product and no indication with a light telling you the product was on or off unless you went to the main switch. The product was more like tin than stainless steel and had a very weak plastic handle. The product came with an American electrical connection and not a British connection with plug. This was not in the advert of the product. The product would not work with a British electrical connection that we had to buy and so would not heat up the water in the percolator which looked more like a tin kettle.We have to pay postal costs to send this product back to America which was also not in the advert of the product. Altogether a terrible purchase and a waste of one’s time.

Es un producto excelente, ya que por su material es lo más sano al preparar un buen café, de fácil limpieza y muy durable.