I did this once, but it was completely my fault. Took the dish straight out of the oven (at 400 degrees) and straight onto a counter top. I didn't notice that the counter had a puddle of water on part of it. The thermal shock created a beautiful crack that followed the pattern of the where the puddle's edge was just before the water vapourized.
To those saying it's a general reaction to cold water, check out the Consumer Reports video. When borosilicate glasses were filled with sand (which gets hotter than food) and baked for 80 minutes at 400 degrees and then placed on a wet countertop they DID NOT SHATTER. For them to shatter they had to be heated at 500 degrees, which practically no one uses. Interestingly a vintage Pyrex DID NOT SHATTER either at 500 degrees! All the modern day Pyrex dishes shattered.
Hello, I had 38 years with Corning and World Kitchen. World Kitchen has the Pyrex brand. I was in forming and tempering. What I saw in the video looks to me like a tempering problem . There also could have been what we call a stone in the glass. This is refractory from the furnace. This ware should have never got through the lab.
You never ever put pyrex on a an electric ring/ceramichob/solid electric plate or halogen cooktop switched on or with a gas burner lit if a gas hob or gas cooktop.
wow my Pyrex pan exploded last night. i did exactly what you did, i had the pan on the front burner and i wanted to use the back one but instead i put the front burner on. the pan had our leftover dinner on it and it started to smoke, i jumped up and quickly took it off the burner and put it on the counter, i turned around to talk to my girlfriend and POW! shards of glass sprayed all over my back and legs, 2 inch shards covored my kitchen, along with billions of tiny pieces. daaangerous ...
go to a garage sale or thrift store and buy vintage pyrex (just watch out for the metallic patterns from the 60s/70s because they aren't microwave safe). You can find way cooler patterns anyways! I believe Pyrex started using a different glass in the 90s...and this proves that it wasn't a good move
I made the mistake of preheating an oven to 400 while a pyrex casserole was in it. When i discovered it I tossed a handful of ice-cubes into it to cool it down, totally forgetting the effects of rapid expansion. There was the sound of a gunshot and instantly whole thing was a pile of sand in my oven's bottom.
There was the briefest of moments when I thought the damn thing had just vanished. disappeared into the abyss or whatever. fucking horrifying.
I just seen this on the local news in St. Louis. So I'm checking out all the explosion videos. WOW. Now Im afraid to even make jello by boiling water per directions and then putting in the fridge to firm up in my pyrex. I sure don't want that thing exploding in my fridge with glass shelves. The pyrex I have is at least 20 yrs old, but I will be checking for chips though. Does anyone think I,ll have a problem??????
Wow! Thank you so much for posting the video of your bad Pyrex experience! I think the only safe thing we have left to bake in is stainless since aluminum is very unhealthy and Pyrex is a bomb waiting to explode!
Our pyrex exploded last night. I filmed some of the aftermath and has been uploaded on Youtube. We are glad we're not the only ones that have had this happen to them.
Why would somebody do that? Sudden water impact causes torsions in the material, so does partial heating. I guess in the U.S., that would make an awesome law suit. You don't need a rocket scientist to figure that.
Pyrex and Corning ware are made of tempered glass, it is highly pressurized during the molding process, so, if you were to drop it really hard on purpose, or to put it over a stove top, gas or electric, you see the results, I personally hate tempered glassware, when it is dropped, it litterly explodes!
This just happened to us as well. Glass shards were EVERYWHERE, one 3" chunk was propelled into the other room 15' away.
Most of the pieces hit my thick leather jacket and jeans I was wearing at the time. If I was shorter (I'm 6'2), I would have lost an eye and been scarred in the face.
I'm just thankful no one was hurt. As to this company is able to advertise "microwave and oven safe" is beyond me, because it obviously is NOT microwave and oven safe!
A few hours ago, I was making lasagna for lunch for 10 people. I used three Pyrex baking dishes. One exploded FOUR times! I stood there (like an idiot) watching it pop. Insane. I'm pitching EVERYTHING pyrex at home and at work (commercial kitchen).
Now I know I'm not the only one whose Pyrex exploded. I bought a 24-piece set from Costco a few years ago & one of them exploded in the microwave as I was reheating the food & another piece exploded in the oven even though it says ovenproof. The Deluxe set has a much better glass-thickness --more sturdy.
@kiheitek100 This would never have happened with the original borosilicate glass Pyrex. But that's been gone for decades. Yet another corporation going cheap and lying to the public while putting everyone at risk.
This looks very familiar! Our fairly new Pyrex pie pan did the exact same thing a few months ago. It exploded into a million tiny shards. Luckily my kids (who are at eye level to the counter) were in the other room when it happened because the force could have done them serious damage. Our stainless steel countertop may have been a bit damp as I had just wiped it clean before placing the hot pan on it, I am assuming that is why ours exploded.
We're very interested in this video. Please contact the WSMV-TV I-Team in Nashville at 615-353-2421. We'd very much like to hear from you, as we've heard reports of this happening.
My pyrex dish just exploded 10 minutes ago. I cooked some fish cakes in it, then I put the dish in the sink and ran some water over it, and BOOOM! probably shouldn't have done that I guess.
i thnk pyrex is the name of a specific type of glass (borosilicate glass) the stuff being sold is NOT pyrex (soda-lime glass) so they have being lying about it being pyrex (Illegal under the trade descriptions act)
mine exploded inside the oven. the pan was room temp and the oven was pre-heated. this product is dangerous. i think the company changing ownership has something to do with it. i heard the product they sell in britain is still made well.
In 1998 American manufacturer World Kitchen, formerly the Corning consumer products division, changed its Pyrex kitchen brand glass products from borosilicate glass to tempered soda-lime glass, while European manufacturer Arc International continues the use of borosilicate glass in its Pyrex glass kitchen products. In North america true borosilicate glass is resereved for more expensive labratory equipment under the names of Simax or Bomex.
Pyrex used to be made from low-expansion borosilicate glass. This 'old' Pyrex was pretty good stuff. Laboratory glassware is still made from it and can be safely heated over an open flame. However, Corning sold the tradename "Pyrex" to bunch of crooks who started marketing tempered soda-lime glass as "Pyrex". This is what you have here. It's garbage and very dangerous. There are many lawsuits over this crap. Sadly, all household "Pyrex" sold today is tempered soda-lime. Avoid it like the plague.
Part of what you said is true. It used to be made from borosilicate glass. It was excellent stuff, and lab glass is still made with it. However, PYREX started using soda lime glass in the EIGHTIES. The Pyrex brand wasn't sold to World Kitchen until 1998. So the new company made it the same way that Pyrex had been making it for over a decade. Don't get me wrong, I think it's garbage and no one should use it. But it wasn't the "new guy" that changed it, it was Pyrex themselves.
My breakfast just exploded - was stirring the contents in a pyrex bowl and it exploded violently. Large shards of glass all over but luckily missed my eyes. I will never use a pyrex bowl ever again.
@REWYRED Yes, there are serious problems with the older Pyrex items. I dropped a vintage 1960's Pyrex mixing bowl my parents got as a wedding gift on my kitchen floor. And it just shatered into a million plus pieces. I was sweeping,vacuuming,mopping glass shards for 2 days! I even had to take a wet paper towel and go over the entire floor. And i was still picking up glass shards! I threw all my Pyrex wear out. Never again. I'm going to use metal cookwear or pottery mixing bowls.
same thing happened to me today. Took a pyrex pan out of the oven, was holding it taking my buffalo wings out and KABOOM! After cursing up a storm and picking the glass shards out of my face I am going to throw away every pyrex thing in the kitchen. I've never seen something literally explode into that many pieces before. To hell with pyrex, im using metal everything from now on.
happened to me 2 days ago, with a pyrex jug. No reason for it, was whisking an egg in a dry cold pyrex jug.Exploded in my hand. Be very careful with them...
Usually, if a piece explodes in the oven, it is because of a missed defect-albeit rarely missed-called a "stone." A stone is actually a piece of the bricks that line the melting furnace. As time goes by, the molten glass eats away at the refractory lining of the furnace and those small pieces fall into the pool. They show up as tiny white pieces embedded in the glass. Thru quality control, they are always filtered out. The stone will contribute to uneven heating which will fracture the glass.
I work at the plant in Charleroi, PA that makes Pyrex products--the only one in the USA. It states on the bottom of every piece of ware, except lids, that it is "Not for Use on Stovetop." All Pyrex products, except for laboratory ones, made of borosilicate glass, are soda lime glass. It is a remarkable product that goes thru numerous quality control phases to ensure quality and freedom of defects. It is also durable. I've accidentally dropped ware onto concrete and they bounce and do not break.
How about when they are used properly and explode as you take them out of the oven? The product needs to be pulled from the shelves bud , I suggest you find a new factory to work in , because lawsuits are soon to come !!! My son was nearly struck in the neck by one of the shards of glass. WE FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS THAT THEY SUPPLY !!! PYREX IS DANGEROUS !!!!
this same thing happened to me last night. we accidentally turned on the wrong burner and turned on the one underneath a pyrex pan that was left on the stove. when i realized this i turned off the burner and was about to move the pan when it exploded right in front of me. amazingly i wasnt hit by any of the fragments but my roommate was hit in the crotch by a chunk.
If you were using it correctly, then perhaps I should add Corning to my list of nefarious corporations. They have a place along with Monsanto, DuPont, etc.
yeah, that's why here in USA coffees have "hot drink" precautions, "objects in the mirror are closer than they may seem" and such. It breaks and it explodes like a bomb are different and pyrex does NOT warn you or anything. I dont think it was her mistake, could be anyone.
I can't stand the fact that they put warnings on simple stuff like that, and I didn't intentionally try to heat it on one side, it was a mistake, but it's was unexpected cause the thing can withstand 450 degrees of heat as long as it is constant and on all sides of the pan. Thats what did it.. it got too hot on one side which made only one side of it expand and it shattered. I'm just glad we all lived.
@dougRmartin It is not just heat that affects pyrex. I had my pyrex jug on my worktop at room temp and accidently clipped it very very gently with another glass bottle. It went BOOM! Shattered into millions. Wasnt just shattering though, it was an explosion. The glass not just went out over, it went up! even in my mouth. Luckily my kids were also in other room. Throwing everything out and reccommending all family and friends do too. Pyrex is Lethal and should be banned!
Well it can withstand a lot of heat, but not unequal heat. The bottom got hot and expanded and the top stayed cold and the force of the two made it explode...
i only found this video because i was looking for reviews on pyrex LOL
torinakins 1 month ago
I did this once, but it was completely my fault. Took the dish straight out of the oven (at 400 degrees) and straight onto a counter top. I didn't notice that the counter had a puddle of water on part of it. The thermal shock created a beautiful crack that followed the pattern of the where the puddle's edge was just before the water vapourized.
LordGroundhog 2 months ago
Just did this 2 min ago. Apparently it's not only my house where this happened. Pretty startling.
KiranStevens 3 months ago
Sounds like a defunct woman... I'd return her as it appears to me she can not be in the kitchen.
"I exploded ANOTHER pyrex pan.."
xXTheThinkTankXx 3 months ago 2
To those saying it's a general reaction to cold water, check out the Consumer Reports video. When borosilicate glasses were filled with sand (which gets hotter than food) and baked for 80 minutes at 400 degrees and then placed on a wet countertop they DID NOT SHATTER. For them to shatter they had to be heated at 500 degrees, which practically no one uses. Interestingly a vintage Pyrex DID NOT SHATTER either at 500 degrees! All the modern day Pyrex dishes shattered.
kmj2000 4 months ago
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djsufferthing 5 months ago
Hello, I had 38 years with Corning and World Kitchen. World Kitchen has the Pyrex brand. I was in forming and tempering. What I saw in the video looks to me like a tempering problem . There also could have been what we call a stone in the glass. This is refractory from the furnace. This ware should have never got through the lab.
civilwardoc1 5 months ago
@civilwardoc1 Nah. I think I was just using it improperly. I know that, but it still scared us all.
reialuz19 4 months ago
You never ever put pyrex on a an electric ring/ceramichob/solid electric plate or halogen cooktop switched on or with a gas burner lit if a gas hob or gas cooktop.
AnthonyUK 5 months ago
@AnthonyUK I know that as I stated in the video, but it still scared us all.
reialuz19 4 months ago
Pyrex was made from borosilicate glass a long time ago. Corning switched to cheap soda lime glass to reduce costs.
Borosilicate glass has a MUCH lower coefficient of expansion and resistance to breakage from temperature change.
Pyrex hasn't been Pyrex for a long time. They lie.
rs2013 8 months ago
@humongerous Putting cold water on any really hot thing will mess it up badly every time.
shifty327 9 months ago
this happened to me last night! I put the Pyrex pan on the burner i didn't know it was on :(
AndyHurleysChicklet7 9 months ago
wow my Pyrex pan exploded last night. i did exactly what you did, i had the pan on the front burner and i wanted to use the back one but instead i put the front burner on. the pan had our leftover dinner on it and it started to smoke, i jumped up and quickly took it off the burner and put it on the counter, i turned around to talk to my girlfriend and POW! shards of glass sprayed all over my back and legs, 2 inch shards covored my kitchen, along with billions of tiny pieces. daaangerous ...
INeverFinishAnyth 10 months ago
go to a garage sale or thrift store and buy vintage pyrex (just watch out for the metallic patterns from the 60s/70s because they aren't microwave safe). You can find way cooler patterns anyways! I believe Pyrex started using a different glass in the 90s...and this proves that it wasn't a good move
awood339 11 months ago
I made the mistake of preheating an oven to 400 while a pyrex casserole was in it. When i discovered it I tossed a handful of ice-cubes into it to cool it down, totally forgetting the effects of rapid expansion. There was the sound of a gunshot and instantly whole thing was a pile of sand in my oven's bottom.
There was the briefest of moments when I thought the damn thing had just vanished. disappeared into the abyss or whatever. fucking horrifying.
knottytrevor 1 year ago
I just seen this on the local news in St. Louis. So I'm checking out all the explosion videos. WOW. Now Im afraid to even make jello by boiling water per directions and then putting in the fridge to firm up in my pyrex. I sure don't want that thing exploding in my fridge with glass shelves. The pyrex I have is at least 20 yrs old, but I will be checking for chips though. Does anyone think I,ll have a problem??????
1brewtus1 1 year ago
Wow! Thank you so much for posting the video of your bad Pyrex experience! I think the only safe thing we have left to bake in is stainless since aluminum is very unhealthy and Pyrex is a bomb waiting to explode!
Larzabeth 1 year ago
ANOTHER one, time to start using stainless don't you think?
paulfultz41 1 year ago
Our pyrex exploded last night. I filmed some of the aftermath and has been uploaded on Youtube. We are glad we're not the only ones that have had this happen to them.
HondaRaycer 1 year ago
you did somethin wrong, get some common sense. it's not pyrex's fault.
silvergarland 1 year ago
u put the burner on under they pyrex ... cant do that
TheGdgdgdfg 1 year ago
Why would somebody do that? Sudden water impact causes torsions in the material, so does partial heating. I guess in the U.S., that would make an awesome law suit. You don't need a rocket scientist to figure that.
Bense23 1 year ago
lol what if that happens if ur cooking crack so much money wasted lol
Clark977 1 year ago
The Pryex dishes When I was 5 years old My Mother cooked Scaloped Potatoes in the oven when I was laying down the dishes Exploded.
Klog7792 1 year ago
Pyrex and Corning ware are made of tempered glass, it is highly pressurized during the molding process, so, if you were to drop it really hard on purpose, or to put it over a stove top, gas or electric, you see the results, I personally hate tempered glassware, when it is dropped, it litterly explodes!
italobambino43 1 year ago
it is dangerous to be careless, yes
melvis9000 1 year ago
This just happened to us as well. Glass shards were EVERYWHERE, one 3" chunk was propelled into the other room 15' away.
Most of the pieces hit my thick leather jacket and jeans I was wearing at the time. If I was shorter (I'm 6'2), I would have lost an eye and been scarred in the face.
I'm just thankful no one was hurt. As to this company is able to advertise "microwave and oven safe" is beyond me, because it obviously is NOT microwave and oven safe!
It's actually dangerous as hell !!!
robnox 2 years ago
WOW. Is that what it is?
reialuz19 2 years ago
A few hours ago, I was making lasagna for lunch for 10 people. I used three Pyrex baking dishes. One exploded FOUR times! I stood there (like an idiot) watching it pop. Insane. I'm pitching EVERYTHING pyrex at home and at work (commercial kitchen).
xtofer73 2 years ago 2
Yea, you really have to be careful. Hope no one got hurt!!!
reialuz19 2 years ago
what's a better brand than pyrex? im looking for something that's made out of glass to eat with, bc its the most inert material...
also i currently have a pyrex bowl but i don't heat it up at all.. the small prints on the glass says no boiler top for mines
jellofast 2 years ago
Now I know I'm not the only one whose Pyrex exploded. I bought a 24-piece set from Costco a few years ago & one of them exploded in the microwave as I was reheating the food & another piece exploded in the oven even though it says ovenproof. The Deluxe set has a much better glass-thickness --more sturdy.
kiheitek100 2 years ago
Hmm. Dunno what kind I have. I still use it but much more carefully. That is why I posted it so that people know that they aren't crazy lol
reialuz19 2 years ago
@kiheitek100 This would never have happened with the original borosilicate glass Pyrex. But that's been gone for decades. Yet another corporation going cheap and lying to the public while putting everyone at risk.
rs2013 8 months ago
This looks very familiar! Our fairly new Pyrex pie pan did the exact same thing a few months ago. It exploded into a million tiny shards. Luckily my kids (who are at eye level to the counter) were in the other room when it happened because the force could have done them serious damage. Our stainless steel countertop may have been a bit damp as I had just wiped it clean before placing the hot pan on it, I am assuming that is why ours exploded.
tracybentleywatson 2 years ago
Yea, expansion or contracting too fast.. Glad everyone is ok!!!
reialuz19 2 years ago
We're very interested in this video. Please contact the WSMV-TV I-Team in Nashville at 615-353-2421. We'd very much like to hear from you, as we've heard reports of this happening.
Solomondragonmage 2 years ago
My pyrex dish just exploded 10 minutes ago. I cooked some fish cakes in it, then I put the dish in the sink and ran some water over it, and BOOOM! probably shouldn't have done that I guess.
deanofrob 2 years ago
The exact same thing happened here today.. Glass EVERYWHERE!
adg3 2 years ago
i thnk pyrex is the name of a specific type of glass (borosilicate glass) the stuff being sold is NOT pyrex (soda-lime glass) so they have being lying about it being pyrex (Illegal under the trade descriptions act)
laurdy 2 years ago 2
This just happen to me and my girlfriend. Unbelievable my mom had Pyrex for years and this never happened (Mom's was pre '98 Pyrex, mine wasn't).
edalytical 2 years ago
mine exploded inside the oven. the pan was room temp and the oven was pre-heated. this product is dangerous. i think the company changing ownership has something to do with it. i heard the product they sell in britain is still made well.
BEGlogon 2 years ago
In 1998 American manufacturer World Kitchen, formerly the Corning consumer products division, changed its Pyrex kitchen brand glass products from borosilicate glass to tempered soda-lime glass, while European manufacturer Arc International continues the use of borosilicate glass in its Pyrex glass kitchen products. In North america true borosilicate glass is resereved for more expensive labratory equipment under the names of Simax or Bomex.
Iwantedtoknow16802 3 years ago 2
thanks for the info.... ya learn something new everyday.
talkinshit4fun 3 years ago
should have read your post before commenting lol i said basically the same thing but without the great details you added.
BEGlogon 2 years ago
lol details are my speciality :)
Iwantedtoknow16802 2 years ago
Pyrex used to be made from low-expansion borosilicate glass. This 'old' Pyrex was pretty good stuff. Laboratory glassware is still made from it and can be safely heated over an open flame. However, Corning sold the tradename "Pyrex" to bunch of crooks who started marketing tempered soda-lime glass as "Pyrex". This is what you have here. It's garbage and very dangerous. There are many lawsuits over this crap. Sadly, all household "Pyrex" sold today is tempered soda-lime. Avoid it like the plague.
pupplesan 3 years ago
Part of what you said is true. It used to be made from borosilicate glass. It was excellent stuff, and lab glass is still made with it. However, PYREX started using soda lime glass in the EIGHTIES. The Pyrex brand wasn't sold to World Kitchen until 1998. So the new company made it the same way that Pyrex had been making it for over a decade. Don't get me wrong, I think it's garbage and no one should use it. But it wasn't the "new guy" that changed it, it was Pyrex themselves.
bearcat1973 2 years ago
My breakfast just exploded - was stirring the contents in a pyrex bowl and it exploded violently. Large shards of glass all over but luckily missed my eyes. I will never use a pyrex bowl ever again.
kanjitoon 3 years ago
I have heard of that happening with the old pyrex / corningware stuff from the 60's and
70's that you COULD use on the stovetop
REWYRED 3 years ago
@REWYRED Yes, there are serious problems with the older Pyrex items. I dropped a vintage 1960's Pyrex mixing bowl my parents got as a wedding gift on my kitchen floor. And it just shatered into a million plus pieces. I was sweeping,vacuuming,mopping glass shards for 2 days! I even had to take a wet paper towel and go over the entire floor. And i was still picking up glass shards! I threw all my Pyrex wear out. Never again. I'm going to use metal cookwear or pottery mixing bowls.
Buffalobigboy69 1 month ago
same thing happened to me today. Took a pyrex pan out of the oven, was holding it taking my buffalo wings out and KABOOM! After cursing up a storm and picking the glass shards out of my face I am going to throw away every pyrex thing in the kitchen. I've never seen something literally explode into that many pieces before. To hell with pyrex, im using metal everything from now on.
coldzero1214 3 years ago
happened to me 2 days ago, with a pyrex jug. No reason for it, was whisking an egg in a dry cold pyrex jug.Exploded in my hand. Be very careful with them...
jenenifer2007 3 years ago
WOW! I never knew this could happen. Thanks for letting people know!!
fister10 3 years ago
Usually, if a piece explodes in the oven, it is because of a missed defect-albeit rarely missed-called a "stone." A stone is actually a piece of the bricks that line the melting furnace. As time goes by, the molten glass eats away at the refractory lining of the furnace and those small pieces fall into the pool. They show up as tiny white pieces embedded in the glass. Thru quality control, they are always filtered out. The stone will contribute to uneven heating which will fracture the glass.
Breakfastchief 3 years ago
I work at the plant in Charleroi, PA that makes Pyrex products--the only one in the USA. It states on the bottom of every piece of ware, except lids, that it is "Not for Use on Stovetop." All Pyrex products, except for laboratory ones, made of borosilicate glass, are soda lime glass. It is a remarkable product that goes thru numerous quality control phases to ensure quality and freedom of defects. It is also durable. I've accidentally dropped ware onto concrete and they bounce and do not break.
Breakfastchief 3 years ago
How about when they are used properly and explode as you take them out of the oven? The product needs to be pulled from the shelves bud , I suggest you find a new factory to work in , because lawsuits are soon to come !!! My son was nearly struck in the neck by one of the shards of glass. WE FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS THAT THEY SUPPLY !!! PYREX IS DANGEROUS !!!!
blackriverbrew 3 years ago
Its dangerous stuff.. that explodes under NORMAL use!!! It just happened to us 5 minutes ago... PYREX SHOULD BE PULLED FROM THE MARKET!!!!!!
blackriverbrew 3 years ago
this same thing happened to me last night. we accidentally turned on the wrong burner and turned on the one underneath a pyrex pan that was left on the stove. when i realized this i turned off the burner and was about to move the pan when it exploded right in front of me. amazingly i wasnt hit by any of the fragments but my roommate was hit in the crotch by a chunk.
Bucky87 3 years ago
OMG, was he or she cut?! It is sooooo scary isn't it!?!?
reialuz19 3 years ago
i just put a glass on the stove to melt some chocolate it exploded!
ls277jb 4 years ago
Hope you are ok! Those things can be really dangerous if you don't use them perfectly/properly etc
reialuz19 3 years ago
All present are can rest assured that you are watched over lovingly and protected, otherwise you would have been hurt.
spicedjellybeans 4 years ago 2
Seriously~~~
reialuz19 4 years ago
I just had a pyrex explode in my stove, I checked the site and I was using it correctly. That's some serious evilness.
brattynat 4 years ago 2
Tell me about it!!!!!! It was so scary i was shaking
reialuz19 4 years ago
If you were using it correctly, then perhaps I should add Corning to my list of nefarious corporations. They have a place along with Monsanto, DuPont, etc.
spicedjellybeans 4 years ago
If hot glass is placed on a cold stovetop, it can break.
dougRmartin 4 years ago 6
yeah I made a mistake... it was my fault but I didn't realize that it would explode like that...
reialuz19 4 years ago
To dougRmartin, I realize that glass can explode if heated unevenly, but brattynat says her pyrex exploded while she was using it correctly.
spicedjellybeans 4 years ago 2
That is scary. I guess we should just assume that all things ARE destructible.
reialuz19 4 years ago
yeah, that's why here in USA coffees have "hot drink" precautions, "objects in the mirror are closer than they may seem" and such. It breaks and it explodes like a bomb are different and pyrex does NOT warn you or anything. I dont think it was her mistake, could be anyone.
zadigjaja 3 years ago
I can't stand the fact that they put warnings on simple stuff like that, and I didn't intentionally try to heat it on one side, it was a mistake, but it's was unexpected cause the thing can withstand 450 degrees of heat as long as it is constant and on all sides of the pan. Thats what did it.. it got too hot on one side which made only one side of it expand and it shattered. I'm just glad we all lived.
reialuz19 3 years ago
@dougRmartin It is not just heat that affects pyrex. I had my pyrex jug on my worktop at room temp and accidently clipped it very very gently with another glass bottle. It went BOOM! Shattered into millions. Wasnt just shattering though, it was an explosion. The glass not just went out over, it went up! even in my mouth. Luckily my kids were also in other room. Throwing everything out and reccommending all family and friends do too. Pyrex is Lethal and should be banned!
NUFCuTUBE 11 months ago
I wasn't made a mistake and lit the fire under the pyrex instead of under the teapot!
reialuz19 4 years ago
lol dummy
evans21e 4 years ago
lol
reialuz19 4 years ago
LOL I love you!
reialuz19 4 years ago
wow cant w8 to try that
squidgey999 4 years ago 2
Yea, wear protective gear!
reialuz19 4 years ago
WTF? DANGEROUS OR WHAT
SergantShaw 4 years ago 2
I know right!?
reialuz19 4 years ago
it says right on it not for stove top use some can be used but i guess not yours
therezbucket 4 years ago 2
Well it was an accident, but i had no idea...
reialuz19 4 years ago
Wow!! Thats crazy! Im glad no one was hurt!
DDnKsmom 4 years ago 2
Seriously tho. We are still finding shards.
reialuz19 4 years ago
Lucky no one was standing in the kitchen when it happened.
mike53593 4 years ago 2
Man are you right!!!
reialuz19 4 years ago
i thought pyrex could withstand anything!
lindieinred 4 years ago 2
Well it can withstand a lot of heat, but not unequal heat. The bottom got hot and expanded and the top stayed cold and the force of the two made it explode...
reialuz19 4 years ago
WOW!!! Well at least no one was hurt.
RealCowboyWayne 4 years ago 2
Yeah we were amazed too. We found shards every where. You saw the part where I found one in the couch... wow.
reialuz19 4 years ago