I personally prefer dumping the grounds in a kettle and boiling my coffee 2nd to that is to put the basket in the pot and percolate it on my gas stove, but Jane doesn't like having grounds in the bottom of her cup so sadly boiling is out and it is hard to find coffee that is course ground enough for a percolator so I am relegated to using an electric coffee maker We used to have one that heated so fast and hot that it was almost like an espresso machine but allowed the super heated water to slowly steep through the grounds it was some French made thing we bought in Europe. I've owned commercial Bunn machines bought at restaurant supply but now I just have one of those stupidly cheap Mr. Coffee plastic coffee makers makes horrible coffee so I add more grounds. But every once in a while I drag my granite steel coffee pot off of the wood stove and make myself a real pot of coffee. Let her have her electric thingy made coffee. The river is too far away or I would probably fetch a pot of river water and build fire on the banks for my morning coffee