Yes, the eyes are heat resistant, but as indicated above, placing hot glass on cool metal could result in shattering. Instead, set the dish on a silicone or cloth hot pad, or on an impeccably dry dish towel draped over a wooden cutting board. Or, as the Pyrex website puts it: "Add a small amount of liquid sufficient to cover the bottom of the dish prior to cooking foods that may release liquid. Starting the cooking process with some liquid already in the pan will prevent cool or room temperature juices from having a negative impact.
This includes cooking on the stovetop unless the glass dish is specifically designed for that purpose, in which case follow the manufacturer's instructions , grilling, broiling, and cooking in a toaster oven. Especially if you plan to dish up your dinner with a metal spoon. Allow the glass dish several minutes to cool down before digging in with that room temp spoon.
Do not change its temperature rapidly, regardless of what the website says. Pyrex, in its current incarnation, should be treated more like any other piece of glass. Last updated: January 30, Sharing is Nice Yes, send me a copy of this email. Send We respect your privacy. Thanks for sharing. Oops, we messed up. Try again later. 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. However, all brands of glass bakeware are susceptible to breakage under certain conditions, especially when subjected to sudden extreme changes in temperature.
Exploding Pyrex is very common. But do these complaints really chronicle problems with a substandard and possibly unsafe product, or do they merely constitute a relatively small roll call of consumer misuse incidents that have focused scrutiny on a single company? The borosilicate glass version is still sold in Europe. The Charleroi [Pennsylvania] plant has produced PYREX glass products out of a heat-strengthened tempered soda lime glass for about 60 years, first by our predecessor Corning Incorporated, and since by World Kitchen.
Consumers should know that soda lime glass, such as that used to make PYREX glass bakeware, is significantly more resistant to breaking on impact than borosilicate glass and comparably resistant to breakage caused by severe temperature changes. In a January article on glass bakeware, Consumer Reports stated that they were unable to determine exactly when major U. In the U. World Kitchen and Anchor Hocking now manufacture all of their glass bakeware using soda lime glass, which is less expensive to produce than borosilicate.
Soda lime is commonly used in products such as drinking glasses and bottles. Anchor Hocking spokeswoman Barbara Wolf says borosilicate glass was phased out by the industry by the early s. Sarah Horvath, a Corning spokeswoman, says Corning made Pyrex out of both soda lime and borosilicate at several locations before selling the U. Bruce Adams, formerly an executive scientist at Corning, says that borosilicate was still being used to make Pyrex when he retired in However, others including World Kitchen have criticized such claims as misleading, conjectural ones based on anecdote and misuse rather than on hard evidence and reliable documentation of manufacturing flaws.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency charged with protecting consumers, maintains a database of injury reports to identify potentially hazardous products, and these records do not indicate any safety issue with glass bakeware. The CPSC estimated that a total of 11, such injuries had occurred nationwide during that period based on their sample size. Some Pyrex-branded products sold in the U. As we noted at the head of this article, all glass bakeware is susceptible to breakage.
All users of glass bakeware regardless of brand should follow some basic steps to minimize the possibility of such an occurrence:. Fact Checks. Inboxer Rebellion. Does Pyrex Brand Bakeware Shatter? Pyrex brand glass bakeware is now manufactured from a different material and is more susceptible to breakage. Mixture About this rating. What's True Pyrex, like all brands of glass bakeware, is subject to breakage due to thermal shock; Pyrex glass bakeware was originally made from borosilicate glass and is now made from tempered soda lime glass.
What's Undetermined Whether Pyrex switched from using borosilicate glass to tempered soda lime glass only after Corning sold the brand to World Kitchen in The October e-mail missive reproduced below suggests that Pyrex brand glass bakeware products sold in recent years are unacceptably even unsafely susceptible to breakage in ordinary use, and that current Pyrex products are inferior because the Pyrex brand, having since been sold to another company, is now manufactured from cheaper materials: About PM there was a loud bang from the oven.
What is going on? I Googled exploding Pyrex dishes and got ten million hits. Here is the story.
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