On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:05:30 -0400, "J. Clarke"
> wrote:

> 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".

<laughing> I thought I was the only person who felt that way.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.