Lucille wrote:
>James Silverton wrote:
>> J. Clarke wrote:
>> > In article<2d1fe5b7-af03-42a6-93c6-
>> > Lscha says...
>> >> projectile vomit chick wrote:
>> >>> notbob*wrote:
>> >>>> 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".
>>
>> I am quite sure you and I both know the difference between Pyrex and
>> Corelle. There still is a white glass line called Corelle but it is not
>> Pyroceram, which started as glass but was partially crystallized and
>> allowed putting a red hot dish into water without breaking. It could
>> break if dropped on a hard surface. *I don't make coffee that way any
>> more but but, since the 60's, I have had my white coffee pot with blue
>> cornflower decoration which was heated directly on the stove.
>> Incidentally, the dishes were not suitable for use in a microwave since
>> the blue metallic decoration tended to heat faster than the rest. Tho
>> you can get away with a few minutes nuking, it is not a good idea.
>>
>> I'm *not*
>
>I still have a set of three small pans of Corning ware with that
>blue flower and has clear Pyrex covers to fit them.
Me too. But I never cook/bake in glass, it's strictly for microwaving
and fridge storage or used for serving. And I rarely use those glass
lids for microwaving, I prefer plastic wrap... and I love big knobs
but not on Corning lids, the larger pieces won't fit in my microwave,
there's not enough headroom with those huge erectile knobs...
occasionally to heat something and rather than dirty a new container
to gain more headroom I'll place those lids upside down, but that can
ruin my appetite because they're so much like inverted nipples. eek Ya
know, inverted nipples are easily corrected by plastic surgery, do it!
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