How can I choose a percolator for gas or electric stove?

Buy percolator with heavy bottom to allow for even heating and do not buy percolators with plastic parts.

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Can you recommend a brand to buy?

\r\n\r\nThank you. I bought with heavy bottom, it's fine!

Probably one of the best types of multi-purpose coffee percolators around is the enameled steel variety. You've seen them. They are usually blue or black with white spots. The enameling process creates a vessel that can withstand high dry temperatures as well as flame. They are usually all metal except for the glass boiling bulb on top, so keeping a pot holder handy will be a necessity.

If that style of coffee maker is a bit too "rural" for your tastes, be sure to try one of the more modern copper bottomed stainless steel pots. These are, I believe, the heavy bottomed type the others were talking about.