Tuesday, December 7, 2010

shattering news!

I was reading the Jan. 2011 Consumer Reports at the library today and came across a huge spread on SUDDENLY SHATTERING PYREX!  A blog post about the article is available here...and, if you'd like, watch the video below:





My fave quote, "We also tested a decades-old Pyrex dish, in nearly new condition, made of borosilicate.  It did not break, even at five hundred degrees!"

4 comments:

  1. Just goes to show, they don't make 'em like they used to! Definitely a reason I don't have any glassware newer than the 70s, except for measuring cups as I haven't found old ones yet! :)

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  2. They did a piece on this yesterday on Good Morning America...kinda scary!!
    Love the quote about the "decades-old Pyrex." Yet another reason why we all love the stuff!

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  3. I watched the piece on Good Morning America yesterday. They did NOT make the distinction between old and new glassware. In fact they said that a spokesperson for Pyrex claimed that their glass composition hasn't changed in 60 years. They made is sound as though ALL glass bakeware was dangerous.

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  4. I'm 45 y/o and can remember a few times through the years that our Pyrex casseroles exploded in the oven. If I remember right scalloped potatoes seemed to be the culprit a couple of times.:) I remember my mother telling me when I was about 7 or 8 that it was important that the Pyrex dishes not go into an oven over 375-400 max. Nothing like some good old fashioned homemade research. :) I'm sure if my mother were alive she'd laugh and say, "Good thinking, and did they really have to study that??"

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