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Carrie of Cerritos, CA September 15, 2008

Carrie of Cerritos CA (09/15/08)
As I have on many occasions over a number of years, I was cooking chicken in a Pyrex baking dish at 350 degrees. When it was almost done, we heard a loud bang come from the oven. When I opened the oven, there was glass everywhere and the food had to be thrown out. After this incident, someone told me that Pyrex should not be used at temperatures greater than 325 degrees. I still have lots of Pyrex and Corningware and I do use it, but it scares me. I can't afford to replace all my cookware!

Jo of Rockaway Point, NY September 15, 2008

Jo of Rockaway Point NY (09/15/08)
we use our pyrex baking dishes to ferry food from the grill back to the house. Last night, my husband brought the grilled chicken in like he has done countless times, and placed the dish on the counter. We were counting down to sitting down to dinner, but having a bit of appetizer in the kitchen first.

Next thing we knew, we heard a loud crack, and it was our dinner sitting among large and small chunks and tiny shards of glass. By this time the chicken and the dish had been in the house for at least 10 minutes. As we were staring in disbelief, it continued to fall apart under and around the chicken. It was just way too freaky. By the way, this was the small casserole dish -- I believe the 11x7 one.

Andy of Chattanooga, TN September 14, 2008

Andy of Chattanooga TN (09/14/08)
We have a large number of Pyrex products. my wife made a Chicken Dish in our Pyrex 3qt, 3l, 13X9X2 baking dish. after cooking and storing the leftovers in the fridge, I took leftovers to work. I was very surprised to find a 2 sliver f glass in the leftovers. I tossed the lunch in the trash, and examined the dish when I came home. There was a matching piece of glass on the inside edge by the handle.

I have no exploding dishes, but the subtlety of a sliver concerns me very much. what are we to do?

Lynne of Columbia, SC September 13, 2008

Lynne of Columbia SC (09/13/08)
I was making an apple pie and had an empty pyrex pie pan sitting on a front eye of the stove. I thought I'd turned on the back eye for another pot, but instead I'd accidentally turned on the eye that the pie pan was sitting on. As I turned and took a couple of steps to stand over the trashcan a couple of feet away, I heard a loud explosion behind me. Shards of glass flew out in every direction of the kitchen except where I was standing.

My husband came running towards the room and I had to yell for him to stop because the floor was covered in thousands of shards of glass, large and small. It was a mess. No part of the kitchen escaped the explosion. It was difficult to clean up and I did end up cutting myself because some of the shards were tiny splintered pieces that went right through the rubber gloves I was wearing. I am so lucky. A situation like that could easily send someone to the hospital.

All I lost was a crappy pie pan and a few apples. I just want to warn others of the danger. Beware, Pyrex can expode

Andrea of Calgary, Alberta, OTHER September 12, 2008

Andrea of Calgary, Alberta OTHER (09/12/08)
I am writing in response to the above noted article. Just last evening I had my brand new Pyrex baking dish shatter into hundreds of pieces in my conventional oven. I had been cooking a dinner for nine people for a birthday party. The oven was only at 350 degrees, and the dish had already been in there about 45 minutes. It had gone from the fridge straight into the pre-heated oven. I had just put the dish back in after checking to see the chicken was not yet cooked when I heard the shatter and loud sizzling as the sauce flooded down onto the element and bottom of the oven.

Absolutely all food stuffs had to be thrown out that had been in there as none of the items had lids on them. The dish was literally in hundreds of pieces. I had another Pyrex in there (purchased at the same time as the shattered one) slightly smaller in size that did not break, but how can I trust it?

This was my first personal experience cooking with Pyrex; I had always trusted the brand name growing up with it in my mother's kitchen, and so had not thought twice about purchasing the new bakeware. You can have no doubt I will not ever by it again, and will be sure to tell my friends and family to be careful if they have some from now on. I will also be sending my complaint in to Pyrex, along with the pictures my dinner guests and I took showing the complete and utter mess that resulted from their faulty product. I am extremely disappointed that an occasion meant for celebration turned into such a disastor.

Luckily no one was injured/cut when this happened. But I threw out about 75 worth of food plus the cost of the pyrex dish, not to mention the 70 cost of four large pizzas to replace dinner.

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