Help! Does anyone know?

[retromania]

An elderly friend of mine has been using her vintage Pyrex percolator on her smooth top range. She recently replaced the stove and returned to a stove with conventional electric burners. I told her she can't use her glass percolator on the new stove until she get a metal tivet or little piece of twisted metal to put between the burner and the pot. I was a child when my mother used those glass percolators and double boilers. Does anyone know what kind of metal was use for the buffer between the pot and the burner? I told her I would try to find out and get her one or make her one.

 

[perc-o-prince]

I just checked the one Rich uses and it's ferrous (attracts a magnet). My guess would be a thin steel rod that's been bent in a jig.

Chuck

 

[gansky1]

The one I have appears to be copper. Almost like a 4-prong star shape, it looks to be about 12 or 10 gauge wire. Shouldn't be too hard to fashion something that will work, perhaps someone will chime in with what type of wire works best, wouldn't want it to melt! Good luck, very nice of you to help her out!

 

[retromania]

So....

A harware store should have the wire I need when I find out what guage I need. Also, the folks at the hardware store might be able to suggest soemthing.

Thanks you all!!!

 

[petek]

I'm sure I've seen those little wire things still for sale in some hardware stores not all that long ago,, but where I can't remember.

 

[combo52]

Wire trivits

You can make these out of an old steel coat hanger, and you can use the pyrex item without a trivet if you put the pyrex item on a cool burner and then turn it on. But putting it on a red hot element may cause breakage.

 

[retromania]

Thank You!

Great. Thanks!!