On Sep 12, 11:41*am, Lucille > wrote:
> On Sep 11, 10:27*pm, James Silverton >
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> > On 9/11/2011 9:05 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
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> > > In article<2d1fe5b7-af03-42a6-93c6-
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> > >> On Sep 11, 5:28 pm, projectile vomit chick
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> > >>> On Sep 11, 10:02 am, > *wrote:
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> > >>>> On 2011-09-11, > *wrote:
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> > >>>>> 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.
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> > >>>>>http://pyrexware.com/index.asp?pageId=32
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> > >>>> Pretty sad when a mfr has to teach its customers how to use dangerous
> > >>>> products rather than make them safer.
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> > >>> 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.
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> > >>> Some people are such pussies. *Everyone has to make everything "safer"
> > >>> for them, because they can't grasp the concept of common sense.
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> > >>>> * 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?
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> > >>>> 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.
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> > >>> Yer a retard.
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> > >> 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > On my list of things to be afraid of "exploding pyrex" comes somewhere
> > > behind "struck on the head by a meteorite".
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> > 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.
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> > James Silverton, Potomac
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> I still have a set of three small pans of Corning ware with that
> blue flower and has clear Pyrex covers to fit them.
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> Lucille

You remind me that I have some Cornflower stuff somewhere. I ought to
look for it.

Jerry
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