Oh, I ALWAYS have several Melitta funnels and filters around--that's how we got through the power outages of the FrankenBlizzard of 2011 and Sandy in 2012. I lived for years boiling water and pouring it through a Melitta funnel in graduate school and after.

It's the lazy luxury of stumbling downstairs in the morning and immediately pouring yourself a cuppa fresh joe, fresh-ground the night before. Ya get spoiled--and when you've just gotten home at midnight and find the maker DOA in the morning. ARGH!!!

But the new pot's GREAT. Those 14 cup pots just don't last very long. Seem to get no more than 2 years before they croak.