pyrex warning forward....
Here's the forward:
I went to Snopes & checked this out. Be careful when using Pyrex. --
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/pyrex.asp
Subject: Pyrex dishes
I HOPE EVERYONE TAKES THE TIME TO READ THIS MESSAGE.
Got any new Pyrex dishes in your cooking utensils? This is a must read.
I Checked at Wall Mart and all the warnings are there.
About 5:30 PM there was a loud bang from the oven. Sylvia opened the
oven door and the Pyrex dish had shatt ered into a million pieces.
The roast beef (our first in many months) was peppered with small
shards of very sharp glass. Normally,I am quick to inform Sylvia she
did something stupid. However,this time she was nowhere near the
stove when it blew. I shoveled the glass and the now mashed potatoes
into a bucket with two putty knives. I then ****** the remains with
the shop vac. I let everything cool down and then scrubbed the oven
with Simple Green and some hot soapy water. It took over an hour to
clean up the goo. Upon completion I ran the oven empty to see if the
temperature controller was working okay. I suspected the oven got
too hot and the dish simply blew. This was not the case however.
The oven came up to temperature and cycled normally. We threw a
disgusting frozen pizza in the oven and it cooked okay.
What is going on?
I Googled exploding Pyrex dishes and got ten million hits.
Exploding Pyrex is very common
Here is the story: . A long, long time ago in a country we all know and love was a
company named Corning. They made Pryex dishes. The material they
used is called borosilicate glass. This stuff is indestructible.
But like everything else, the Bottom Liners had a great idea: sell
the technology to another company. The Chinese discovered that using
soda lime glass was almost as good as borosilicate glass and a lot
cheaper. Today, Wal-Mart is the lar gest distributor of Pryex
products. Corning not only sold the technology to a company called
World Kitchen, they also sold the rights to the original Pyrex logo.
Seamless. The consumer will never know.
Now it seems people are getting hurt using soda lime Pyrex. We
were lucky because the dish broke while the oven was closed and the
damage was limited to the oven cavity. Others have been less
fortunate. Some dishes explode when they are lifted from the heating
rack in the oven with devastating results. Some people are heavily
scarred. World Kitchen is in denial. They say that the dishes are
another brand, not theirs.. Contrary to their denials the victims
usually have more than one of these dishes and the Pryex logo is
clearly visible.
If you buy a Pryex dish beware. The label on the front says oven
safe, freezer safe, microwave safe. The instructions on the back
tell another story. You cannot move a soda lime Pyrex dish from the
freezer to the oven and expect it to survive. The fine print goes on
and on about what you are not allowed to do with the Pyrex dish.
What to do?
If you own borosilicate Pryex dishes, no fear. They have to be more
than 25 years old to be sure they are indeed Corning dishes. I am
not sure if the old Pryex dishes have anything stamped in them that
indicates they are made by Corning. You may continue to use the soda
lime dishes for holding stuff. Just do not attempt to roast or
microwave with them as the hazard is very clear.
The reason the soda lime dishes let go is that over time they
develop micro-cracks. Once a few micro-cracks are present and once
some liquid finds its way into the cracks you have the bomb
situation. The liquid is like shoving a crowbar in the dish and
pulling it apart. Super heated liquids expand rapidly and it is the
super heated liquids that force the soda lime glass to shatter into
tens of thousands of shards.
Since Corning no longer makes Pyrex and Sylvia proudly holds a
large collection of the soda lime Pyrex, we decided that one bomb in
the kitchen is enough. The Pyrex dishes will go bye-bye in this
week's trash. I do not know what we will use for cake and pie dishes
going forward . If you have some suggestions we are listening.
I strongly urge you not to use the soda lime Pyrex for the oven,
stovetop or microwave. The slightest invisible crack is all it takes
to have a mess and a possible injury.
I went to Snopes & checked this out. Be careful when using Pyrex. --
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/pyrex.asp
Subject: Pyrex dishes
I HOPE EVERYONE TAKES THE TIME TO READ THIS MESSAGE.
Got any new Pyrex dishes in your cooking utensils? This is a must read.
I Checked at Wall Mart and all the warnings are there.
About 5:30 PM there was a loud bang from the oven. Sylvia opened the
oven door and the Pyrex dish had shatt ered into a million pieces.
The roast beef (our first in many months) was peppered with small
shards of very sharp glass. Normally,I am quick to inform Sylvia she
did something stupid. However,this time she was nowhere near the
stove when it blew. I shoveled the glass and the now mashed potatoes
into a bucket with two putty knives. I then ****** the remains with
the shop vac. I let everything cool down and then scrubbed the oven
with Simple Green and some hot soapy water. It took over an hour to
clean up the goo. Upon completion I ran the oven empty to see if the
temperature controller was working okay. I suspected the oven got
too hot and the dish simply blew. This was not the case however.
The oven came up to temperature and cycled normally. We threw a
disgusting frozen pizza in the oven and it cooked okay.
What is going on?
I Googled exploding Pyrex dishes and got ten million hits.
Exploding Pyrex is very common
Here is the story: . A long, long time ago in a country we all know and love was a
company named Corning. They made Pryex dishes. The material they
used is called borosilicate glass. This stuff is indestructible.
But like everything else, the Bottom Liners had a great idea: sell
the technology to another company. The Chinese discovered that using
soda lime glass was almost as good as borosilicate glass and a lot
cheaper. Today, Wal-Mart is the lar gest distributor of Pryex
products. Corning not only sold the technology to a company called
World Kitchen, they also sold the rights to the original Pyrex logo.
Seamless. The consumer will never know.
Now it seems people are getting hurt using soda lime Pyrex. We
were lucky because the dish broke while the oven was closed and the
damage was limited to the oven cavity. Others have been less
fortunate. Some dishes explode when they are lifted from the heating
rack in the oven with devastating results. Some people are heavily
scarred. World Kitchen is in denial. They say that the dishes are
another brand, not theirs.. Contrary to their denials the victims
usually have more than one of these dishes and the Pryex logo is
clearly visible.
If you buy a Pryex dish beware. The label on the front says oven
safe, freezer safe, microwave safe. The instructions on the back
tell another story. You cannot move a soda lime Pyrex dish from the
freezer to the oven and expect it to survive. The fine print goes on
and on about what you are not allowed to do with the Pyrex dish.
What to do?
If you own borosilicate Pryex dishes, no fear. They have to be more
than 25 years old to be sure they are indeed Corning dishes. I am
not sure if the old Pryex dishes have anything stamped in them that
indicates they are made by Corning. You may continue to use the soda
lime dishes for holding stuff. Just do not attempt to roast or
microwave with them as the hazard is very clear.
The reason the soda lime dishes let go is that over time they
develop micro-cracks. Once a few micro-cracks are present and once
some liquid finds its way into the cracks you have the bomb
situation. The liquid is like shoving a crowbar in the dish and
pulling it apart. Super heated liquids expand rapidly and it is the
super heated liquids that force the soda lime glass to shatter into
tens of thousands of shards.
Since Corning no longer makes Pyrex and Sylvia proudly holds a
large collection of the soda lime Pyrex, we decided that one bomb in
the kitchen is enough. The Pyrex dishes will go bye-bye in this
week's trash. I do not know what we will use for cake and pie dishes
going forward . If you have some suggestions we are listening.
I strongly urge you not to use the soda lime Pyrex for the oven,
stovetop or microwave. The slightest invisible crack is all it takes
to have a mess and a possible injury.
