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> On 9/11/2011 9:05 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> > In article<2d1fe5b7-af03-42a6-93c6-
> > >, says...
> >>
> >> On Sep 11, 5:28 pm, projectile vomit chick
> >> > wrote:
> >>> On Sep 11, 10:02 am, > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2011-09-11, > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> It appears that World Kitchen (which makes Pyrex ) has hired "Food
> >>>>> Network celebrity" Sandra Lee for a nationwide consumer education
> >>>>> campaign. The campaign aims to teach consumers how to safely use their
> >>>>> products so that the glass will not suddenly explode.
> >>>
> >>>>> http://pyrexware.com/index.asp?pageId=32
> >>>
> >>>> Pretty sad when a mfr has to teach its customers how to use dangerous
> >>>> products rather than make them safer.
> >>>
> >>> Pyrex is not dangerous, you nitwit. All there is to Pyrex is don't
> >>> put it on a stove burner or change the temperature of it suddenly.
> >>>
> >>> Some people are such pussies. Everyone has to make everything "safer"
> >>> for them, because they can't grasp the concept of common sense.
> >>>
> >>>> How come in cars we gotta
> >>>> buckle up, buy kid seats, pay for incredibly expensive airbags, etc,
> >>>> yet Pyrex gets away with selling a MORE dangerous product!? What's
> >>>> next? Passenger seats in front of the grill and a youtube vid from
> >>>> Jeff Gordon telling us to drive into a concrete abutment?
> >>>
> >>>> If the insurance companies had to shell out more money, you can bet
> >>>> Pyrex would be making safer glass. I solved the whole problem by
> >>>> tossing all my exploding soda-lime crap and buying steel pans or
> >>>> stoneware.
> >>>
> >>> Yer a retard.
> >>
> >> Years ago I had a few Pyrex pans that I used to cook on my gas
> >> stove.
> >> I still have my Pyrex coffee pot. I read that the original Pyrex
> >> makers
> >> sold the company. The new owners wanted to save money so they
> >> changed the formular. Since them there's been lots of breakage.
> >
> > The formula changed long before the brand was sold. The "company" is
> > Corning Glass, they spun off their cookware operation as "World
> > Kitchen" in 1997, however they had gone to tempered soda-lime glass
> > instead of borosilicate long before that--according to the current
> > owners of the factory the change was made in the 1940s. And anyone who
> > has ever dropped a Bodum drinking glass will tell you that borosilicate
> > is not particularly durable.
> >
> > On my list of things to be afraid of "exploding pyrex" comes somewhere
> > behind "struck on the head by a meteorite".
>
> I am quite sure you and I both know the difference between Pyrex and
> Corelle.

We weren't talking about Corelle so why are you bringing it into the
discussion?

> There still is a white glass line called Corelle but it is not
> Pyroceram, which started as glass but was partially crystallized and
> allowed putting a red hot dish into water without breaking. It could
> break if dropped on a hard surface.

That's nice but what does it have to do with Pyrex?

> I don't make coffee that way any
> more but but, since the 60's, I have had my white coffee pot with blue
> cornflower decoration which was heated directly on the stove.
> Incidentally, the dishes were not suitable for use in a microwave since
> the blue metallic decoration tended to heat faster than the rest. Tho
> you can get away with a few minutes nuking, it is not a good idea.

Still don't see how your point is relevant to exploding Pyrex.