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I had never heard of the recall. When I bought my current house just about a year and a half ago I was real antsy about the deal concluding so I told the survivors of the elderly couple that had lived here for forty years they could leave whatever they didn't want to take. There were at least seven
of the CW Electric percolaters in one of the kitchen cabinets!
 
Is this what you were referring to????

Hi Gary,

Yes!! The one on the right is the one that I just received. The only difference is that mine is in about 30 shards!!! Thanks to another careless armchair entrepreneur "eBay seller"

It was great chatting with you last night. Please keep up the great pics...I'm enjoying them!!!

I will post a pic of the coffee percolator that we spoke of and hopefully you can identify it for me :-)

Rich
 
Keep the Korning

Those poor little percs, rejected by their own creator.

So who cares if they fall apart and spill hot Starbucks all over you, let's keep'em going.
 
No name perc

Hey Gary,

This is the percolator that I was talking with you about. There is no name or any other identification on this perc. Has anyone seen this or know anything about it. It looks very much like a Cory carafe but it is a percolator. The unit stands 1 foot tall.

Rich

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That's a long pipe ya got there

OK, so tell me, a perc noob, as myself.

What's the best way to clean out a perc so it will work properly and how do you work the stove top percs? How much heat do you use? I'd like to get a glass perc and use it every now and then.
 
Interesting to see that recall press release. I like to use mine occasionally and will take my chances. It's a neat piece of Americana. I knew about the recall but didn't realize it was that long ago already. (!)
 
So long ago.......

I love my Corning Ware percolators. I think they come a close second to the coffee from the Farberwares. Both brew consitently HOT and flavorful coffee. I never think of the handle separating from my Corning Ware perks.

Pictured is a Corning ware original plug with box, and, the 6 cup electric version with a 'snowflake' motif.

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Let me get this straight, er right

7,000 complaints out of 18.5 MILLION coffee makers
or 0.0003783 which is 0.03783%

Three one-hundreths of one percent?
*FAINT*

I REALLY must be jaded, because I don't get it.
 
And some more varaitions on the Corning Ware electric....

The pot on the left has a black band around the top by the metal.

And the pot on the right has a fall theme complete with a cornucopia.

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And more......

Pot on the left has those 'blue' birds(Amish), and the pot on the right has some type of 'grid' on the body and the metal band around the top is not shiny. It is like brushed stainless steel.

The pot on the left takes that special Corning cord, and the one on the right takes the standard cord.

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There's a history of the Corning Glass Works that I've picked up and glanced through at Borders...it goes into some detail on their moves in the teens/twenties with Pyrex and the late 50s/early 60s into cookware. It also (as I recall) mentions the recall saying that it was really traumatic for the corporation but they felt they had to do it because they were so trusted and well-regarded.
 
most bizzare pot I've ever seen!

It is a pretty strange pot. I have a passion for bizarre coffee makers of all kinds and this is one of the more strange ones that I've found. Looks like the earliest Sunbeam vac pot from the 1930's yet it's a percolator?

Some one asked me if it was all original. I would have to say it is. I have owned two of these and they came from very seperate areas of the USA. The first one broke and I found the second one within a week or so (both on eBay). I had never seen one before and I havent seen one since. I hope that someone will see it and say "Oh....you have a _____ percolator"

Gary....love those Corning pots!

Rich
 
Wow Gare, I had no idea Corning made so many different patterns! I have the plain 'ol Cornflower stovetop perc, but that's the extent of my C'ware collection. Well actually it's not, but that's a whole 'nother thread.

One of these days I'd love to drop by for coffee and some gay cookies. I guess they'd be like, fruitcake bars?

Something is telling me that odd glass perc is by Inland Glass, but that's just a hunch. Haven't found it in any of my sources yet, but will continue searching.

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I'd love to drop by for coffee and some gay cookies

And where would you find those goodies?

Perhaps the freshly baked section of your local grocery store?

Or, do they need to be refrigerated with the fresh meats?
 
Gary I love those Corning flower design coffee makers. Just beautiful. All toll how many Corning pots do you have? Terry
 
I can't believe it, another one that I have never seen.

Believe it Terry....My closet is 'packed'.

That door is swinging(swaying).

Rucks, Duns and skips g**ly str8 forward~!
 
Stop it LOL...I see loads of these Corning coffee percs at the thrift stores around here, albeit the cornflower ones and I haven't picked one up yet.. in fact there were 2 at VV this a.m.. I can't support another collection.
 
How about a picture of the closet then? For a fleeting moment, I entertained the thought that you might only have four of these Corning pots and were just changing the designs like Colorforms! ;-)

You really have a great collection - thanks for taking the time to share them with us! My grandmother had something like 18 different coffee makers in the house when we were cleaning it out, little did I know there were people saving and collecting them! One of her favorites was the Corning drip models with the glass bowl on top of the oversized base, shaped like the teapots of the day. There was a black "plug" for the drip/brew basket - they must have made good coffee, she used them for years.
 
How about a picture of the closet then?

No pictures of my 'closet' but.....will this do????

Cannot find a date on the brochure? Help me in the closet!

And you never knew anyone collected these treasures and put them away in the closet????

The things you learn with a computer.........

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don't the gay cookies live in the gay cookie jar? You kn

Just happened to photograph my 'pots' with the so-called gay cookie jar in the background. Someone picked up on it and I think now it has become Gadget's signature, along with other rainbow things that are stored in that 'proverbial' closet.
 

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