GSI Outdoors Percolator Coffee Pot | Enamelware Campfire Coffee Boiler Kettle for Outdoor Camping Cookware, Cabin, RV, Kitchen, Hunting & Backpacking

Awesome coffee pot! It conducts heat very well so water boils quickly, and the water stays hot longer than our old pot. But the handle doesn’t get hot!!! Love it.

This made some great tasting coffee it is easy to use very little grounds in the bottom works great perfect size for 2 coffee addicts

Good coffee maker, but you definitely get what you pay for. I paid just a little over $20. The inner percolator mechanism, upon arrival, had a bent base. As I needed it for my camping trip that weekend, I didn't have time to send it back or complain. I gingerly bent it back into place and it worked fine. The inner percolator assembly, however, is very cheap feeling. I don't think it's plastic, but it's a very soft, easily broken material. In addition, the lid to the coffee basket is so soft that it doesn't really make a great seal onto the basket itself so when the water gets boiling, it has the tendency to actually push coffee grounds out of the basket and into the water. Also, the clip that holds the lid to the handle is very soft and has already broken after two uses.As for the functional aspect, it did exactly as it was supposed to. It produced a pretty darned good cup of coffee. Keep in mind that "8 Cups" is 8 6 oz cups. For the size cups we were using at my camping trip, it was more like 4 cups. Luckily, I had an airpot that I brought so I just made batches of coffee and added it to the airport/thermos for keeping warm.Bottom line: it's decent product for around $20. Handle the inner components with care and it should last you a good long while. Makes pretty good coffee, but has the tendency to include grounds.

Excellent just what I was looking for seems good quality

Percolators make the best coffee. We bought this for when our power is out, and it works great. Side note, the song "Its Time for the Percolator" is the perfect length to make perfect coffee if you turn it on at the fist sign of water boiling....

Let me start by saying if your expecting to get a porcelain coffee pot like you would have 25 years ago your going to be disappointed. My how times have changed. If you drop it it's going to chip. If you kick it it's going to dent. If you use it over a campfire it's going to melt the plastic percolator top. Other than that it's a darn fine coffee pot. I've started not expecting much out of anything anymore including people and I'm a lot happier for it.Edit: After using this coffee pot for several days now I've come to the conclusion it's a piece of junk. It's cheaply made the stem and the basket don't sit level in the bottom of the coffee pot so I brewed a whole pot of coffee with half the grounds not even wet. I tried to adjust it but it didn't make any difference. The raised portion of the coffee pot at the bottom where the basket stem is supposed to sit is larger than the basket stem making the basket stem slide off the side of the raised portion and sit unevenly making half the grounds not get wet. There's also no markings on the pot to tell you how much water your using. So I guess your supposed to bring along a measuring cup for this handy light weight coffee pot that's great for camp fires, (don't use on camp fires it will melt the plastic top that's supposed to be glass), and great for light weight hiking and backpacking, (because it doesn't take up much room just bring along extra measuring equipment), and I could go on but I think you get the point.

It's true what the other reviewers say about how the parts such as the basket, and lid clip are flimsy. The stem and basket that go inside the percolator are made out of thin aluminum, and thus bend easily. I had to actually bend the base of the stem a little bit so that it would sit at a level height, and it felt as if I was about to break it off. After unboxing it, I immediately made a pot of coffee in my kitchen. I'm used to making coffee in my french press which holds about four measuring cups of water. The GSI pot holds at least double that, if not a little more (technically I guess it could hold 12 cups). Usually in my french press, I'll do a chunky grind on the coffee beans, and I usually put in about 8 tablespoons to four cups of water. Since I was only making coffee for myself, I just used the same measurements in the GSI pot, but it seemed like my 8 tablespoons of grounds almost filled up the basket completely; I'm not sure I could make a ton of coffee in this unless I really did a fine grind on the coffee beans (maybe that's how you are supposed to use percolators anyway, but I wanted to use a chunky grind so that I didn't have a bunch of sediment in my coffee).I put the stove top burner on medium heat and set the pot on. After about five minutes or so it started boiling, and I realized why the handle on the top of the lid is clear, because you can see down into the pot and tell how dark your coffee is getting! It was pretty cool watching it turn darker and darker through the lid (again this is my first time using a percolator so this stuff probably seems elementary to people who have used them before). The coffee came out pretty good, I don't know if it's as good as coffee from the french press, but it still tastes better than Keurig coffee, or something that went through one of those paper filters.I can see how over time the parts on this might break. The handle on the lid is made out of plastic, and it's probably going to eventually start turning colors and not be as clear as it is now. The coffee ground holder and stem are definitely going to break at some point, but if you are really really careful, and always keep it stored inside the pot, it might last a while. The construction of the actual pot feels really solid though, pretty much anything that is metal coated in porcelain is going to last a while .Overall I would say buy this if you just need something cheap for camping every once in a while, and you are a careful person who really takes care of their things. Otherwise, if you want something more rugged GSI has a stainless steel version of this for about double the price... now I'm wondering why I didn't just buy that one in the first place... oh well.

Perfect for the look I was going for. Works great while camping