I religiously set a timer when I start my Bialetti. But like most things done religiously, you will eventually forget. First it produced the coffee. Then the he

I religiously set a timer when I start my Bialetti. But like most things done religiously, you will eventually forget. First it produced the coffee. Then the heat rose up to the upper level, boiled the coffee, and sprayed it all out the spout, onto the stove and the wall behind it. Also, it melted the rubber gasket. I was alerted to the smell of burning coffee and rubber. Luckily, I got everything cleaned up, and made a new gasket from bike innertube rubber, which worked OK. Then I discovered that I could buy a new gasket. One sign of a classic product is when you can buy spare parts for it.