Exploding Pyrex

October 8, 2009

Exploding Pyrex

A long, long time ago in a country we all know and love was a company

named Corning. They made Pryex dishes. The material they used is called

borosilicate glass. This stuff is indestructible.

But like everything else, the Bottom Liners had a great idea: sell the

technology to another company. The Chinese discovered that using soda lime

glass was almost as good as borosilicate glass and a lot cheaper. Today,

Wal-Mart is the largest distributor of Pryex products. Corning not only sold the

technology to a company called World Kitchen, they also sold the rights to

the original Pyrex logo. Seamless. The consumer will never know.

Now it seems people are getting hurt using soda lime Pyrex. We were lucky

because the dish broke while the oven was closed and the damage was limited

to the oven cavity. Others have been less fortunate. Some dishes explode

when they are lifted from the heating rack in the oven with devastating

results. Some people are heavily scarred. World Kitchen is in denial. They say

that the dishes are another brand, not theirs. Contrary to their denials the

victims usually have more than one of these dishes and the Pryex logo is

clearly visible.

If you buy a Pryex dish beware. The label on the front says oven safe,

freezer safe, microwave safe. The instructions on the back tell another story.

You cannot move a soda lime Pyrex dish from the freezer to the oven and

expect it to survive. The fine print does on and on about what you are not

allowed to do with the Pyrex dish. The fine print has prevented World Kitchen

from being sued because they have warned the consumer that their Pyrex

dishes are junk from the get go. And they are the same price as the original

Corning dishes. What a bunch of losers we all are for buying this crap.

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