Name/Title
Mirro Stove Top PercolatorEntry/Object ID
2025.2.85.259Description
This Mirro thermal aluminum stove top percolator was made in the USA. It holds 3 quarts. The glass knob on top is missing.
The Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company launched Mirro brand in 1917. Mirro's aluminum cookware, including percolators, became the best selling in the United States. The company was renamed Mirro Aluminum Company in 1957.
The modern percolator brews coffee by pushing hot/boiling water through a basket in the pot. The basket full of ground coffee improves the older design which brewed the grounds in the water. The technology traces back to France in the early nineteenth century. A similar patent did not occur in the United State until after the Civil War. Electric percolators improved the technology. They stopped the brewing process when it was complete. Stove top percolators would continue brewing until the percolator was removed from the stove top. By the 1970s, drip coffee makers replaced the percolator as the more popular means of brewing coffee.Cataloged By
Erin BistlineLocation
Ohio State Park
Malabar Farm State Park
