Please, Please Read This Article and Check Your
> Dishes!!!
> >
> > You can read the "official" info at
> > www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/08/pyrex.html
> > <http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/08/pyrex.html>
> >
> >
> >
> > About 5:30 PM there was a loud bang from the
> oven. Syl via opened the oven
> > door and the Pyrex dish had shattered 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 sucked 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 Pyrex 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
> largest 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 th ese dishes and the
> Pyrex logo is clearly
> > visible...
> >
> > If you buy a Pyrex 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. The fine
> > print has prevented World Kitchen from being sued
> > because they have warned the consumer that their Pyrex
> dishes are junk from
> > the get go. And they are the same price as the
> originalCorning dishes.
> > What a bunch of losers we all are for buying this
> > crap.
> >
> > What to do?
> >
> > If you own borosilicate Pyrex dishes no fear.
> They=2 0have to be more than
> > 25 years old to be sure they are indeed Corning
> dishes. I am not sure if
> > the old Pyrex 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.
> >
> > As to World Kitchen: them and their
> cheap dishes. In case you are
> > wondering: World Kitchen is not a USA company.
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THANKS!! 1|1|I got this awhile ago too....I've never had anything happen with the Pyrex I have, and it looks like that's how they've been making them since like the 40's or 50's. |saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|21:09:41|10/28/2009|
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2|2|Checked this out @ Snopes, its partially true..you can check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/pyrex.asp|jen_ron|bugsmamma@earthlink.net|21:34:29|10/28/2009|
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