Congratulations on your gift, but I want to give you a bit of safety information about the Electromatics. Corning recalled all of them maybe 15 or 20 or more years ago. You had to cut off the end of the cord that plugged through the opening in the handle and mail it in to Corning to get your money back. The problem was that not every one of them, but increasingly more and more were having the cement fail that held the wide stainless steel collar or handle band to the Pyroceram body. Given that the perk was heavy empty and naturally heavier when full, the stress on the cement was high and the cement was not durable as it aged. Add to that the fact that the Pyroceram broke very easily if dropped and you can see the scalding dangers. When you use the perk, do not carry it from the counter to pour, but rather tip it forward on its little plastic coaster without lifting to pour at the counter. If you are entertaining company, pour the coffee into one of your decorative carafes to serve, maybe one that has a candle warmer to keep the coffee hot. You might see listings on eBay for parts for these perks and wonder what the hell good are they without the pot? Because of the big recall, eBay will not allow the perks to be sold, but the understanding is that if you buy the inside parts, the seller will send the body, lid and, most importantly, the cord with them. The other thing that happened to the Electromatics was that people put them in the bottom rack of the dishwasher, often with the Bakelite handle right over the heating element. The handle would get heat damaged over the years and because it had that opening where the terminal pins of the heating element passed through, it was not as strong to begin with as the handles for the stove top perks so the handles broke there also. Most people did not use the stove top Corning perk very much because it took forever to get the water boiling in that tall, narrow coffee pot. You certainly could not have a gas burner on high because the flame would just go up the side and even a 6 inch electric element had the outer ring glowing orange because the diameter of the pot was narrower than the element so the handle got hot from the wasted gas or electricity. Actually a good deal of the element under the pot was orange on HIGH also because the bottom was not flat unless you had the Cook Mates with the ground flat base.
