In article >,
Julie Bove > wrote:
>
>"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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>> On 3/16/2011 5:38 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
>>> Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> therustyone wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yellow glass pans (not ordinary pyrex) ere very common in the 90's and
>>>>> I still have a yellow glass frying pan in use. They are now retro
>>>>> items for collectors on eBay.
>>>>
>>>> I can pick up a set of three handled pots of assorted sizes
>>>> with lids from that series. I wonder if I should bother?
>>>
>>> I checked. There's a big pot with tab handles (or whatever
>>> you call the little ones, a medium-size pot with a long handle,
>>> and a small pot with a long handle. All of the pots have lids.
>>> They were last used about 30 years ago. Too bad the reviews
>>> are so scathing. They don't sound worth saving.
>>
>> They are horrid. I had a set of them. I believe they were called
>> "Corningware Visions" Never hated pots as much as I hated them.
>>
>Yep. Useless.

IME the glass had so much thermal inertial that they were uncontrollable
- took forever to heat up and then retained it for far too long after
turning the heat off. Like other posters, I found they burnt with
regularity and were very hard to clean afterwards.

Nick
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