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Jean of Chicago, IL July 2, 2009

We used a glass pyrex baking dish to cook 3 pieces of fish in a 475 degree oven. The dish had been at room temperature before going into the oven for 8 minutes. When we went to take the dish out of the oven it seemed to literally explode - there was a loud noise and glass shards went flying. Luckily no one was hurt, but the potential for serious injury and damage was huge.

April of Worthington, OH June 16, 2009

I bought a digital thermometer and used it for approximately two months before it just stopped working. I cannot return it to the store because I used it. I am extremely disappointed with this product and the company. I am out the twenty plus dollars that I spent on it and have to spend more to buy a new one.

Stephen of Oakland, CA June 19, 2009

WHile roasting potatoes at 400 degrees in the oven, our 9x13 Pyrex dish exploded! This shot glass fragments all throughout the oven. Fortunately the door was closed and there were no injuries, but a real mess. I never realized the potential for Pyrex to explode. This is clearly NOT oven safe and tested material and should be removed from the market. The potential for injury is extremely high.

Anthony of Middletown, NJ June 17, 2009

Last night, a Pyrex dish exploded in the oven after my wife opened the oven door. It exploded as she stepped back to obtain a pot holder and before she could remove the dish from the oven.

Carmen of auburn, WA June 11, 2009

I made dinner tonight for a few friends. My scalloped potatoes turned out awesome. Dinner was done by 6:30. At around 9pm my husband and I heard an explosion in the kitchen and thought someone had broken a window... it was my brand new pyrex that I had used for the first time tonight to make my potatoes. Nothing on or around it was hot.... I can't explain what happened

Gaye of St. Charles, MO June 9, 2009

My Pyrex 9 x 13 baking dish exploded in my oven while baking pecan pie bars on May 23, 2009. I have made the recipe many times in the past, but always with a dish bought in the 1980's. The Pyrex dish that exploded was new--purchased in April 2009 at a Target store. I have the shard of glass marked "Pyrex".

brien of vernon, BC June 9, 2009

clear, rectangular pyrex dish broke in three pieces on removal from oven

Catherine of Orewa, Auckland, New Zealand June 7, 2009

Don't use Pyrex, I have had two dishes explode on me they are hazzardess. How Pyrex can get away with this I don't know. I had followed all the guidelines but still it happened. I now use stoneware for all of my cooking and baking. It costs less, looks better and cleans up easily withough scrubbing unlike Pyrex.

Norine of Toronto, ON May 27, 2009

I was roasting peppers in my oven last night, May 26, 2009, when I heard the Pyrex glassware explosion happen in my oven. I knew exactly what it was because I had heard it before 2 years prior while a friend was baking delicious smelling eggplant dish on her Pyrex glassware. I remembered the amount of glass shards we had to clean up the first time around and was not looking forward doing it again. I've left the wipe down of tiny specs of glass for tonight. At least, this time I remembered to wait for the shards of glass to cool down before discarding...

Katie of Nashville, TN June 4, 2009

Tonight for dinner I had a beautiful piece of haddock cooking in a small rectangular pyrex baking dish (smaller than 9x13, it was a great size for cooking for two). The fish cooked for 15 minutes. I opened the oven, reached in with an oven mitt, began to lift the dish out, and the dish fell apart in my hand. It did not explode as others have reported, it just fell apart, spilling glass and fish all over the oven, oven door, and floor. A terrible mess and a great disappointment not to have any dinner.

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