i just had a good dinner in the oven! took me a lot of work to prepare, so its in a glass casseroll pan, cooking good next thing i know boom the whole pan explodes!!!! the whole meal is shot!! i dont even know were or who i bought it from! its the second time this has happend to me! how is it that they are even allowd to sell this shit!!!!!!!!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it wasnt that hot 350 , im wondering if it has to do with the moisture content or somthing needless to say im going to spend the cash for a reputable set this time! arrrr! hehe! still havnt got the glass out ! can you say pisssssst! but im laughing about it now! peace!
Does sound like the casserole was defective. At 350 this shouldn't have happened, even if you took the casserole out of the freezer and stuck it in a hot oven. Go Pyrex, I am using old ones I inherited from my grandmother, and never had that kind of problem. Probably made in China I am betting.
ya im going with a better set as soon as i can get out shopping, i just had to post it because it pssst. me off a whole pan of chipolte chicken enchilatas went to the compost!
Check out the local thrift shops, usually lots of good older caserole dishes there for pennies. Look for the name pyrex or corelle.
i just always thought all glass cookware was pyrex i geuss its cause it was the original and im getting old! heee!
Today with what you buy at Walmart and the other cut price places...you can't be sure. I am glad I have a stock of old tried and true cookware. I'd hate to be out there trying to buy new stuff. If you go the thrift store route, turn them upside down and read the imprints on the bottom. Corningware, Corelle, and Pyrex you can be pretty sure of.
Maybe if it actually is cookable pyrex, maybe it's something like tempered glass? Tempered glass has its pros and cons, if I understand it right. Car windows are tempered, which means when they break, they shatter into tiny little pieces, rather than razor-sharp shards. Isn't that why tempered glass is often called "safety glass?" The glass is cooled suddenly, which stresses it, to keep it from breaking into dangerous shards, should it ever break. Also, at least in windshields, there is a plastic inner film, to hold it together if it breaks. Well I hear that tempered glass car windows, can just suddenly break, when they have to remove them to repair a leak. So maybe it's something similar? Yeah, the food is shot, because if you drop a jar of some food item, you can never be sure you got all the glass pieces out of it, and so it's all worthless, not worth the risk of eating any of it. I have a couple of ideas. Maybe your cooking dish is some cheap Chinese slave-labor knock-off, and wasn't of good quality. Or perhaps did you do anything that subjected it to more "thermal shock" than normally expected? Like don't set it on some countertop that pulls the heat off of it too fast. Potholders aren't just for protecting one's hands from the heat. It doesn't sound like you subjected it to any abnormal "thermal stress," meaning changing its temperature too fast causing uneven thermal expansion/contraction. Or you may have just got one from a bad batch or something? Then there's that "Murphy's Law" that claims that the chipped plate never breaks. Perhaps it's because your glass pan wasn't chipped? I rarely use my oven, but use the microwave oven most all the time. When somebody gave me some frozen beef, I had to do something with it, so a made a couple of meatloafs. I think my pans were metal though. I don't buy raw meat, because then I would have a "have to cook it" deadline. But that would likely change, if I had a family to cook for.
Isn't that an example of the corporate corruption of society? Cheap, poor-quality shoddy stuff, just because corporate CEOs don't care, and to save a few cents per item manufactured. Wal-Mart squeezes supplies to shave off a few cents, so they export our jobs overseas, or find some quality-robbing way to "cut corners." What's this about the new, higher-efficiency refrigerators, that everybody tells me, don't last as long as the old ones? My old refrigerator that they hauled away, the delivery guy thought it must have been 30 years old. I don't know? It came with my house. It was a Philco. Even he said the old ones last almost forever, while the new ones don't last very long. I hear something about the new compressors running faster or having to work harder? I would have kept my old one, but it refused to defrost anymore, even with manually turning the defrost timer knob, once or twice a day.
i hear ya all!! fuck wallmart i think i bought it at the dollar store but im not sure! i was always under the impression that pyrex was a type of glass and not a brand name! and thought that all glass cookware was made with that type of glass sooo! i geuss i was mistaken (funny word "mis TAKEN") live and learn! peace!
i hear ya all!! fuck wallmart i think i bought it at the dollar store but im not sure! i was always under the impression that pyrex was a type of glass and not a brand name! and thought that all glass cookware was made with that type of glass sooo! i geuss i was mistaken (funny word "mis TAKEN") live and learn! peace!
The stuff from the dollar store are usually seconds, items that didn't pass quality control, no matter where they were purchased. I shop there too, but not for the stuff I cook with.
