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> On Sep 11, 5:28*pm, projectile vomit chick
> > wrote:
> > On Sep 11, 10:02*am, notbob > wrote:
> >
> > > On 2011-09-11, Ubiquitous > wrote:
> >
> > > > It appears that World Kitchen (which makes Pyrex ) has hired "Food
> > > > Network celebrity" Sandra Lee for a nationwide consumer education
> > > > campaign. The campaign aims to teach consumers how to safely use their
> > > > products so that the glass will not suddenly explode.
> >
> > > >http://pyrexware.com/index.asp?pageId=32
> >
> > > Pretty sad when a mfr has to teach its customers how to use dangerous
> > > products rather than make them safer.
> >
> > Pyrex is not dangerous, you nitwit. *All there is to Pyrex is don't
> > put it on a stove burner or change the temperature of it suddenly.
> >
> > Some people are such pussies. *Everyone has to make everything "safer"
> > for them, because they can't grasp the concept of common sense.
> >
> > >*How come in cars we gotta
> > > buckle up, buy kid seats, pay for incredibly expensive airbags, etc,
> > > yet Pyrex gets away with selling a MORE dangerous product!? *What's
> > > next? *Passenger seats in front of the grill and a youtube vid from
> > > Jeff Gordon telling us to drive into a concrete abutment?
> >
> > > If the insurance companies had to shell out more money, you can bet
> > > Pyrex would be making safer glass. *I solved the whole problem by
> > > tossing all my exploding soda-lime crap and buying steel pans or
> > > stoneware.
> >
> > Yer a retard.
>
> Years ago I had a few Pyrex pans that I used to cook on my gas
> stove.
> I still have my Pyrex coffee pot. I read that the original Pyrex
> makers
> sold the company. The new owners wanted to save money so they
> changed the formular. Since them there's been lots of breakage.

The formula changed long before the brand was sold. The "company" is
Corning Glass, they spun off their cookware operation as "World
Kitchen" in 1997, however they had gone to tempered soda-lime glass
instead of borosilicate long before that--according to the current
owners of the factory the change was made in the 1940s. And anyone who
has ever dropped a Bodum drinking glass will tell you that borosilicate
is not particularly durable.

On my list of things to be afraid of "exploding pyrex" comes somewhere
behind "struck on the head by a meteorite".