A History of Corning Ware and the Corning Ware Percolator

[@nra1ifer970]

About 10 years ago got a 10-cup electric pot from an estate sale. I cycled it 3 or 4 times just using water. Sure enough, the "handle", which was actually the handle AND the metal band, got noticeably mushy and loose. Being Mr. Handyman, I took it apart. Once the handle and band were off, it was obvious how the epoxy between the band and the pot had deteriorated over the years. (It really amazed me how these brilliant engineers could have though that simply smushing that band/handle onto the pot with an adhesive would be good enough!) I cleaned all of that old stuff off to the point where I was left with the beautiful white pot and the handle/band. I put it back together using a strip of that squishy, non-slip shelf liner slathered with some food-grade silicone. I pressed the handle/band onto the pot and sat a heavy weight on it for a couple of days. Then, I drilled 4 tiny holes through the band to line up just under the upper lip of the pot (if you've ever seen one of these pots apart, you could picture it), then ran some short stainless screws into the band ALMOST but NOT touching the pot underneath..... but enough to be able to catch the lip of the pot if it EVER decided to try to come apart. I have used this pot almost every morning since (as well as THIS morning)...... I have also acquired another identical pot and keep it in our RV. It is my FAVORITE method of making coffee. (Well, maybe as much as I like making "cowboy coffee" (boiled coffee) that I learned from Cowboy Kent Rollins.)

[@squishy8758]

I'm definitely gonna do this if I ever find one of these coffee makers at a thrift store.

[@lanahundley8625]

Thank you!! I just purchased a stove top coffee maker from ebay. I did a screenshot of your comment for future use. 😊😊

[@LeighBWhite]

My grandmother passed away at the age of 92 last year. She and my grandfather built their home (which is now my home) in 1955 and their many collections of vintage gadgets and gizmos still remain. I have seen the "percolator" before but never attempted to use it until last week. Goodbye long lines and overpriced coffee! Hello Percolator! Cheers to my Granny and her immaculate collection of all things Corning Ware and the Corning Ware Percolator! ** BTW, I am overly obsessed and totally loving your channel! **

[@peggyhall843]

You sound like someone about my age... So you get it. Our parents and theirs grew up when times were different. Things were built to last- and they saved everything. Rubber bands- plastic bags and we'll - everything!! I found ancient 'Vicks' jars. News papers, I will never find out who saved them- cause my grandma was not a fashionista by any means but we had stacks of these from 1919 1925? Awesome stuff. There's so much of this stuff in our attics - such a treasure!!

[@peggyhall843]

Hey- I'm sorry- I missed the most important part, I'm sorry you lost your grandmother. It's so hard to let go- but, we have to. It's not over. 🔆😞

[@PK-bh1ww]

@@peggyhall843 Some people think it's silly that people save(d) all that stuff. But I go to a lot of estate auctions and those that think we should toss things out, would be amazed at how many people will buy that at sales and what they'll pay for it. And I love looking through all the stuff too. You can nearly pay for your funeral with the $ from those sales.

[@jimtongas821]

Good old American quality that still holds up to anything of today. God bless America! Bring back these great long lasting quality items

[@antoniahormann1533]

I got one at my wedding shower 52 year ago and still have it.

[@caroleannevannoy9520]

The percolator really made GREAT coffee!!

[@MegaMm76]

MY MOTHER STILL HAS ALL THE CORNING WARE SET AND THE PERCOLATOR VERY GOOD CONDITION AND SUCH GOOD QUALITY!

[@ealswytheangelicrealms]

I found my grandmother’s Corningware Percolator buried in the pantry, and I just didn’t know how to use it, since it seemed ceramic. Your video helped me understand I can actually put it on the stove. The percolator is intact, and in great condition, after clean up. Thank you! I love your channel! I use subscribed! ♥️

[@thevintagecompany]

Thank you! I'm glad the video was helpful! 😊

[@thudor1]

The "Corn-perc", whether stovetop or electric, is the GOAT of kitchen appliances from the latter half of the 20th Century!!

[@thudor1]

My mom had a whole set of Corningware in the iconic blue cornflower motif, including casserole dishes, stovetop kettle and the legendary electric 10-cup coffee percolator.

[@jeffj126]

Still using my parents Corning Ware Percolator that the had since the early 70's. Works great and makes wonderful coffee. Never had had an issue with the handle.

[@happyface4713]

when I was young I wanted but could not afford a Corning Percolator - in the 2000s my sister and my cousin came across a 1950s version and a 1960s --- I LOVE both and use every day and use one when the other needs cleaning.

[@delia5588]

Great informative video. Thank you! My mom (who is 60) didn’t want this beautiful ceramic dish. Its a Corning ware 12x10. I love it and didn’t know much about it! Now I do. :)

[@Mozart2Muse]

I want a Corning Ware perc!!!

[@CoryLayman]

If I understand correctly, Corningware was for cooking. Corelle wear was serving and eating. I think a video on Corelle would be a nice compliment to this.

[@TheBoldImperator]

Pyroceram was used for both cookware and dinnerware and it came earlier than Corelle. Corning Centura is a form of glazed pyroceram that was discontinued after the 60s in favor of Corelle - but got reintroduced in the 80s before being discontinued before the end of that decade. Additionally Corning made "direct" Corningware plates and cups up until the late 90s when Corningware the brand was sold off and transitioned into stoneware products (though Corning itself ALSO made stoneware under the "Corningware" brand through the 80s and 90s adding to the confusion). So Pyroceram dinnerware predates and was produced alongside Corelle both using and not using the Corningware name.

[@ddwaters374]

My collection has almost all the items you’re showing. I’m not only collect them but he was them regularly. I love them. I even have the piggy bank pig.

[@X3AmySarah]

I’m from Corning! Corning inc has been going down slowly for awhile now. Now that the children of the ceo are running everything it’s going into the ground. It’s cool to see back home on here, thanks for this

[@osage1948]

I've been using a 6-cup Corning Ware Electric Coffee Percolator every day for about 10 years. I used to use a 9-cup stove top that had the problem with the handle coming loose. I've purchased a half dozen 10-cup models and given them as gifts to family and friends who use them everyday. I currently have in my cupboard a 6-cup and 9-cup stove top and two 10-cup Electrics. None of them had the handle coming lose problem. Why use a "plastic" coffee maker when you can own one of these?

[@croptopqueen]

My aunt recently sent me my grandma's percolator--her and my uncle who have both passed used to use it. I never met her and having it makes me feel connected to them :) going to give it a whirl tomorrow! I use a moka pot for coffee typically and this seems like a bigger version of that

[@PK-bh1ww]

It's a fixture in my kitchen. the Blue Cornflower pattern I have at least 50 pcs in the Blue Cornflower pattern including 2 percolators (tho they make great coffee they are a bit heavy after filled) plus the white electric hot plate to cook on which I use regularly. I also have a dew handles and many lids. Love that stuff. Also have Pyrex.

[@kona702]

Same. I get so excited when I find a piece at the thrift store. Just found a blue Cornflower small loaf pan, pie dish, and large flat roasting pan with lids, also just found a huge corning Visions 4L roasting pan with the lid yesterday. (Love visions) But alas I'm starting to get too many pieces I don't know where to store it besides in my basement cabinets. 😢

[@Tradewinds-s2o]

I have the 10 cup Electric. My aunt gave it to me with some other dishes when I first moved out on my own in 1982. My wife tried to put it in a yard sale one time I brought it back into the house lol. we use it sometimes when our automatic drip coffee maker goes out, or just For old Times Sake. It makes great coffee and the handle seems solid

[@kimberlyaddison9311]

I love my vintage Corning Ware percolator.

[@Bobbythefanman]

I have a lot of my grandmothers corning ware dishes I inherited them after her passing in 2007

[@bunkyman8097]

Great video. We had one of these percolators growing up. I would enjoy a video about Pyrex flameware percolators. Thank you for educating us.

[@gdi9320]

I've been using a Corning Ware Black Starburst 6 cup percolator and shelved my French press. I use the same ratio coffee and not as bitter taste as the press.

[@thevintagecompany]

I love the starburst design! 😊

[@imperiallebaron2391]

My Grandmother had one for as long as I could remember.

[@rochellewilson4679]

Thanks for the info! I received a percolator from my cousin's wife back in the fall. She said is was owned by a deceased relative, and she knew I was collecting Corning Ware, so decided to give it to me. I"ll have to try making some coffee in it! :D

[@thevintagecompany]

Thanks Rochelle! Let me know how it turns out, if you decide to give it a try! 😊

[@nicolahyman543]

Thank you so much for sending me the instructions from your 1973 link. This time it worked and the coffee....well it's drinkable! I really appreciate it though and will eventually find the right blend etc

[@thevintagecompany]

Yay, that's great news! I'm so glad it worked!

[@nra1ifer970]

I still use mine almost every morning! (There are a few days that I make “cowboy coffee” as taught by Kent Rollins…)

[@estrellanava2738]

New subscriber here, from Philippines, thanks for info...

[@jacobprater4578]

My aunt has one i have had coffee every morning for a week from it a have yet to be disappointed by a cup of its coffee

[@DarrellWefel-ts2kr]

Thank you,

[@Logiconfire]

Very Informative!

[@jw77019]

The original Corning Ware was great. I don’t know when they changed the formula but it’s nothing like it was. Maybe this video will telll me.

[@sharity3289]

Pyrex is handy for a lot of things...😉😉

[@DonJuanMarco1994]

Woah, those Corningware cookware.

[@johnzangari3432]

We had all the Pyrex and Corningware they made. In the 50s, 60s and early 70s my father was an engineer for you guessed it, Corning Glass. One day in th 60s he brings home a ceramic nose cone for a sidewinder missile. Just like the one in the video. At the very top there was made was a small hole. Ours was chipped making it worthless. That nose cone hung around for years, don't know when and how it disappeared.

[@AntiquesFromKarenJanet]

New subscriber - great video!

[@thevintagecompany]

Thank you! 😊

[@viveviveka2651]

Does anyone know of videos or sites that provide information on how to make these percolators safe - how to attach the handle more securely for example?

[@theblindredneck747]

It’s the glue that holds the steel band to the ceramic part, there’s no way to make it safe.

[@jeep146]

@@theblindredneck747 Correct! I read what some people do is put a pad or mitt under the bottom as they carry or pour it just in case.

[@nra1ifer970]

I made mine safe.... I have pics I can send that show the process I used. Going strong (and SAFE) years later!!

[@sandrastewart9581]

@@nra1ifer970 Can you please post the pictures of your safety fix. Would love to see. Thanks!

[@nra1ifer970]

@@sandrastewart9581 It will be a couple of days, but I sure will get some pictures and a description of what I did.

[@Jack-Surreal_Panes]

I got one of these yesterday for $5. They said missing cord. I found it inside the pot and they said 5 it is. Making my first pot tomorrow on T-Day.

[@susantaylor8507]

I just got one and I just watched a video she said the model I have was a recall I really wanted to use it

[@ExcelsiorElectric]

Can you make a video about the Savory brand enamel roaster? History of the company, and how to date them? ❤❤❤

[@waterbot]

Hey great content!!

[@theblindredneck747]

It’s too bad Corningware or another company wouldn’t make an updated safe version of the Corningware percolator. I think they would have a really hot seller. Pardon the pun

[@KLRdrifter]

I have one of those too!

[@ellenrosetolloi3158]

I have the stove top 9 cup percolater it has the orange flower design on it so far I have only seen the blue flower doe anyone know what the design is called please

[@palady1486]

Hi...are you talking about the P-80-EP? The one that I am thinking about has some orange and yellow flowers with a few green stems.? If so, this is called Tropic Summer...part of 4 different vintage electromatic perculator design. They named the group "Say it with Flowers"...the other three are Nordic Winter (blue flowers), American Autumn (dull fall colors of orange,yellow and tan/brown appears like its has some fruit/vegs on it...very rare!) and French Spring (yellow flowers with green stems) These are rare and its hard to find any info on them. There is a picture on Pinterest of all 4. Mfg in the 70's and was part of the recall.

[@koby1960]

How about vintage pressure cookers like Presto or Prestige?

[@FlexibleFlyer50]

My cousin's wife was seriously burned back in the mid 1970s when her Corning ware percolator blew up in her kitchen. Lots of BS surrounding corning ware, its safety, and the way it's made.

[@kathym2563]

I have 2 Corning Ware cornflower baking dishes and I was wondering why there is not any stamp or embossed label on the bottom? Were there fakes ones?

[@nicolahyman543]

I have two of these beautiful objects. One was my parents, the other my father in laws some 3000 miles away in the States! BUT please tell me how to use it. I tried freshly ground coffee as in a stove expresso jug but the coffee did not rise up through the centre tube so no percolating bubbles of delicious coffee. Please can anyone enlighten me!

[@thevintagecompany]

Hi Nicola! How lucky to have two! ❤ I found these instructions from 1973, I hope they help! archive.org/details/CorningWarePercolators197303/mode/1up. If not, hopefully someone will have a solution. 😊

[@viveviveka2651]

Did the teapots also have this problem with the handles?

[@OWK000]

Corning should make a thermal travel cup out of this stuff.

[@deannar2190]

The history of coffeemate creamer please🙂

[@justinmattison1465]

Man iv seen so many dumpsters full of corning and Corelleware

[@kirbyculp3449]

Ouch.

[@justinmattison1465]

@@kirbyculp3449 if it makes you feel better, I lived in Corning and worked for the company that did all of world kitchen and Corning Inc's waste removal. So we hauled out all the leftover cullet and "flawed" products

[@dps6198]

My mom will bequeath all of her cornflower Corning Ware and there's a lot of it.

[@brucehutch5419]

Another example of a demise of a product a company and iconic quality brands that when Market forces change or the parent company looks for profit by a cash buyout the product Fades away or is eventually discontinued by the new investment Company for financial reasons. Other examples Craftsman Tools, Kenmore Home Appliances Amana Home Appliances. 😢

[@susantaylor8507]

It's a plug in

[@freedomofpeach9790]

Cute