What is that coffee pot?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Miracle on 34th Street
danmax67 — 10 years ago(December 10, 2015 04:56 PM)
While Kris is acting like a monkey, they are talking and preparing coffee in the kitchen. What is that cool double coffee pot they are using? I want one. I've never seen one like that before.
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fchilds — 10 years ago(December 19, 2015 04:29 PM)
It's a percolater; water goes in the bottom and grinds in the top. You put the percolator on the stove and the water starts to boil it travels through a center tube pouring out onto the coffee grinds turning the water into coffee. Look for them on ebay.
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esskayess — 10 years ago(December 19, 2015 10:00 PM)
I'm old enough to have seen many different percolators (before the drip coffeemaker "revolution") and I had never seen one that looked like that. Definitely caught my eye.
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Bowserb46 — 10 years ago(December 29, 2015 11:56 AM)
In spite of other opinions, I believe that is a drip coffee maker. You put grounds in the top and pour a pot of boiling water, which soaks through and drips into the bottom pot. Do a Google image search, and you'll see a bunch of different styles. Later we had Mr. Coffee and scores of other automatic drip coffee makers. We still do. Ours is a Cuisinart.
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DeepFriedJello — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 01:09 PM)
jbaer-5 finally has a correct answer. Water in the bottom grounds in the top. As the water boils it moves to the top. Turn off the heat and as the bottom cools, the vacuum in the bottom pulls the coffee from the top back to the bottom. Kind of like those love testers which use the warmth of your hand to send the liquid to the top and back to the bottom as it cools.
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wlfrench — 2 years ago(December 03, 2023 04:08 PM)
That is a Sunbeam C30
Siphon
coffee maker. They had just come out when the movie was being made. It's an electric coffee maker. Water goes in the bottom. Coffee grounds in the top. As the water heats it's forced up to the top to mix with the grounds. The heat remains on for about 3-4 minuets so the hot water can mix with the coffee grounds. The heat is turned off and the brewed coffee is sucked back down to the bottom through a mesh filter. The C30 is one of the best methods to make fine coffee. It was discontinued long ago but there are many other Siphon coffee makers still being made.