Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a great little coffee percolator, especially for the inexpensive price. For one person it makes more than I need, since the full "8 cups" comes out to about 4 normal mugs full. I used the original plastic top for the first use, and it didn't seem to get too hot at all. Some mentioned the top melting in other reviews. Once the pot reaches a boil turn the heat down to medium, since it will still percolate there's no reason to boil on a red hot "high" burner (which may have caused the melting they mentioned). Just in case I also purchased the replacement glass top (B0000CFM6K) advertised with the percolator here. It attached nice and tight, and works great too. I'm sure the inexpensive glass replacement top will last as long as the coffee pot. Another great thing I noticed was that when I wet the basket, as recommended, before loading the coffee grinds no grinds ended up in the coffee at all. I thought there would be, but no grinds in any cups of coffee after a half dozen uses now. It's a great little percolator. (I also added some photos to add to the stock image above so you can see the size of the pot, and a comparison of the stock plastic and replacement glass tops) UPDATE 6/10/2015 - It has been almost a decade now, and both the percolator and replacement glass top have both held up and performed flawlessly. I could not be happier. One of the better purchases in my life, I lucked out. Highly recommended (if they still sell them). UPDATE 1/29/2018 - It's been just over a decade now (I bought it in Dec '07) and the little coffee pot is still percolating like a champ. Just for fun I took a new photo of it on the stove this morning (the photo with the black stove). So if you buy this percolator I guess you can expect to get more than 10 years out of it. Good times. :)