Exploding Pyrex -- anyone have it happen to them?

[caseydog]

I got a viral email about exploding Pyrex cookware, and immediately checked at Snopes.com, which actually says it is true.

Here is a link to read the whole story...

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/pyrex.asp

Just curious, has anyone here actually experienced this?

[doug hodder]

I blew up a dish of lasagna in an oven. I just figured that the center wasn't thawed completely prior to baking. Doug

[madjack]

...yep, large pie pan blew up in the oven...scared/PO'd the hell outta me........................

[ARKPAT]

Yep ! Large two cup measuring cup.

Don't ask what I was heating ( soup ).

BOOOOOOOOM !

All over the Micro Wave ( insides - lucky ).



Pat

[caseydog]

Wow, I never saw it happen. My wife used to bake with it. I don't use it much.

I cook and bake in metals of one kind or another.

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

I don't believe Pyrex is produced recieving the full blown tempering process, but perhaps is heat strengthened.
Tempered glass pops all at once when it breaks and heat strengthened glass has a similar reaction when broken, as if it's partially tempered.
What a lot of people don't realize is tempered glass can break spontainiously for no apparant reason.
I've heard of Pyrex and Corelle dishware breaking in this manner.

[nevadatear]

not pyrex, but corelleware. I broke 2 plates in a million pieces. On in the microwave, and one one my smooth cooktop. I turned on the the wrong burner and it exploded a plate that was sitting on what I thought was the cool burner. Didn't take much heat to do so.

[alffink]

Yep! My youngest daughter, only three at the time, was paying close attention to her mothers cooking. When removing a caserole dish from the oven she was safely away from the hot oven, but when it exploded in my wifes hands, a large corner shard caught the top of Kelsie's foot, the hot glass literally cut like a hot knife through butter, Fourteen stitches in a 3 year old's foot makes a real point, Karen imediately went back to cast iorn for most all of her cooking, won't even use a Pyrex measuring cup any more. Oh, Karen was using oven mits and wearing an apron at the time or things could have been much different for her.



No glass cookware in this house hold

[Arne]

oh, good.... the old fashioned pyrex is still being sold in Europe, but not over here.... what are we, chopped liver?

[dreadcptflint]

Nope, I guess when the old stuff breaks we will switch it out for another material.

[Steve_Cox]

And this my friends is just the tip of the iceberg of how corporate greed and a global economy are eroding what used to be the high manufacturing standards of the industrialized world. The emphasis on quality has shifted to a focused view of the bottom line. Brand names that were once associated with high quality have almost all been sold to the highest bidder in the race to flood the market with cheap and often unsafe crap.

[S. Heisley]

Steve Cox wrote:

And this my friends is just the tip of the iceberg of how corporate greed and a global economy are eroding what used to be the high manufacturing standards of the industrialized world. The emphasis on quality has shifted to a focused view of the bottom line. Brand names that were once associated with high quality have almost all been sold to the highest bidder in the race to flood the market with cheap and often unsafe crap.

Amen, brother! You're going to convert me to garage sales yet!

[caseydog]

oh, good.... the old fashioned pyrex is still being sold in Europe, but not over here.... what are we, chopped liver?

Corning licensed the Pyrex brand to more than one company. In Europe, the brand is licensed to ARC, and in America, it is licensed to World Kitchen. ARC uses the old borosilicate glass formula, and the products are made in France.

World Kitchen is an American company (email was wrong), and manufactures its Pyrex glassware in Pennsylvania using the cheaper tempered soda lime glass. World Kitchen also markets Corelle brand products, which are made in both the USA and "abroad."

Pyrex scientific glassware, like beakers and flasks for laboritories, are made by a third company, SciLabware Limited in Europe.

[fireaunt]

Interesting- at the end of the snopes article it says world kitchen also has revere ware, which also, used to have a great name.
Thanks for the heads up.

[caseydog]

Interesting- at the end of the snopes article it says world kitchen also has revere ware, which also, used to have a great name.
Thanks for the heads up.

They also own Bakers Secret, Chicago Cutlery, EKCO, Magnalite and Visions cookware lines, which are all manufactured outside of the USA.

CD