Texsport Aluminum 20 Cup Percolator Coffee Maker for Outdoor Camping

This is the cheapest 20 cup camp percolator I could find on Amazon. It really is 20 cups, and it feels solid and sturdy. The boiler is made of a heavy gauge aluminum and does not feel flimsy or weak. The globe is made of plastic, so if you plan to use this directly on a fire you may want to replace that with a glass globe. The basket and column feel sturdy, and are made of an equally heavy gauge aluminum. The column does bend at the base easier than I would like, but has not been a problem yet. A little food safe high temp epoxy (such as jb weld) will take care of that permanently should I ever decide it to be an issue. Based on what I see, I fully expect this to last a decade or more just like my previous camp percolators. Pretty amazed for the $16 that I spent.

We use this primarily to boil water for hot drinks and freeze dried meals when we are camping. Water hits a boil super fast, and this is lightweight to carry. It's much easier to pour from this than from a camping pot that we used to use to boil water. Last week we took it on a paddling and camping trip through the Everglades where space and weight in our canoe was at a premium. It worked great!

My family are huge tea drinkers. I got the enamel one for my brother and this one for me. both are good at brewing tea on the stove, but mine never boils over like his. We were using an ugly old stock pot to brew tea in. I was watching westerns and i saw the kettles they used to use by the fire. Granted this is for camping but i use it on the stove. It kind of reminds me of really old milk jugs, like the big ones they use on the farm. Some people said this was too cheap or too flimsy, well it is aluminum folks duh. As long as your not trashing it around it should be fine. I use tea bags in mine but with the little basket that comes with it you can use loose tea or coffee if your electric one died. One thing i will recommend, don't fill it up past the bottom of the beak. mine got dinged during shipping but as long as i don't fill past the bottom of the beak it's fine. And those handles will get hot, so don't go grabbing it with a bare hand when it's hot. The tea will stain the inside after awhile probably will with coffee too. I just use some comet or ajax and a scrubby sponge to take it off. I thought about taking some big wood beads and putting them on the handles to make it easier to pick up when its hot. but they might break or burn. Either way i like my tea pot, and have made a whole lot of tea with it. This was a good investment.

I needed a coffee pot for on top of my stove. Other than being extremely lightweight it actually makes 20 cups of coffee. It’s such great tasting coffee because it percolates. Love it!!!

So I used this pot on my most recent camping trip and all I can say is that it is fantastic. I did not make the full 20 cups of coffee, I filled the pot to 18 cups worth of water and 10 coffee scoopers of coffee grinds which I believe is equivalent to a tablespoon of coffee grinds per cup. Once it began percolating I kept an eye to see how dark the brew was, I pretty much let it brew for about 7 minutes once I saw the brew turn from water to coffee. Everyone including myself the coffee snob enjoyed every drop and I was asked by all in our group of 30 where to get it. I almost didnt want to say LOL the handles do get hot so keep pot holders on hand I really only needed one for the smaller handle attached to the back of the pot. Additionally I did not use this over the campfire. I am not an experienced camper and also I needed the pit for cooking so I did purchase a single butane burner which was amazing for this purpose. I just felt that the temperature over the cook fire might not have been hot enough to boil the water or that the plastic knob (yes it's plastic but it was fine) might have melted if the cook flames got too high. I was very happy with the performance, if I douse it over the amp fire at some point I will update this review.

I have not used this pot yet, but the items seems to be made pretty well. It is aluminum, but it's not flimsy by any means. I had no problems with taking off and putting the lid back on, and the filter basket and support seems to be make pretty well. The percolator dome is plastic, was hoping for glass, but it should work fine. I can't wait to use it this summer while camping. I'm sure it'll get used before then at home just to try it out. **Update after camping trip** We took this with us after a 3 day - 2 night camping trip. It was nice to have fresh coffee at the campsite in the morning. The capacity is huge but I only made about 10 cups at a time, enough for my wife and I. The durability of the pot itself, the percolator dome, and the grounds basket is pretty good. If you don't throw anything around or set a heavy cooler full of ice on top of anything, it should last for years. The only thing I am concerned with is the post that sits inside that holds the grounds basket. The connection at the base seems a little flimsy. You do have to watch this. I would imagine that if it gets bent out of alignment too often, and then bent back, it will eventually weaken the joint and would possibly break. Other than that, I do like the product. Cleaning is easy. I've used it several times on our trip and maybe 5 times at home on an electric stove and it is still shiny and looks new.

I ordered this so we wouldn't have to make so many pots of coffee in the morning when camping. Mission accomplished!! It is a thin unit, as are my others, but worked very well. I was concerned about the plastic percolator/ top, but worked great and did not melt. I read other user reviews and they stated there were issues. I would think that if you are having an issue, then you may be doing something wrong. Time will tell and if it melts I will update this review. So far though, no complaints and am satisfied with the performance! I would recommend this unit.

Not as well made as my previous percolating pot. Also. ..my older. ..percolating put was only a 16 cup pot...but it actually held and made more coffee than this pot does. I used this pot only 2-3 times and the lightweight metal tube wouldn't hold the bottom piece into the correct position anymore. The crimped ring for the bottom piece and the ring that holds the coffee filter up. ..both FAILED after using them only a few times. The metal tube on my older. .original percolator pot...was steel. .this new one is aluminum..and isn't made to last. I ended up modifying the tube from my original..count I questions pot (wasn't an easy task because the inside diameters of the new pot's coffee filtering housing was alot smaller). I also dislike the new pot's lid and it has a plastic perc top (I prefer the glass versions on the older pots). All in all...I now have a pot that works and will last...but I can't recommend this pot to anyone unless they have steel replacement internals that they can modify to make this into a decent percolating coffee pot.

Nice abd good for groups

Item was exactly as described, good quality, and good value. Delivery was prompt, and price was exactly as quoted. What more can a customer ask for?

recomendado para hacer café cuando sales de campamento o en casa, buenos materiales de entrada, aunque la parte superior donde se ve cuando el café esta hirviendo es de plástico, pensé que era de vidrio y tienes que cuidarla ante cualquier caída ya que es muy delgado el aluminio.

Funciona bien solo que sus materiales se notan un poco de baja calidad la parte de arriba no es cristal es plástico. Pero está bien por el precio

made some nice coffee on our trip! big pot so it takes some time to boil, but works great.