It did not appear cracked or defective before this."īut Arnold would no doubt beg to differ with Gayleen. I am still picking glass shards out of my hands. "A Pyrex 9x13-inch dish exploded in my hands before I got it stored in my cabinet. It had run the night before, so the contents were cool," Gayleen wrote. Like Dave, Gayleen of Sheldon, Ill., didn't just hear a noise. As glass bonds break, people may hear a noise and be surprised." Arnold, a vice president of World Kitchen.ĭeeply hurt by the consumers' cruel cuts, Arnold continued: "We want to assure you that neither PYREX glass bakeware nor other glass bakeware 'explodes.' Glass does not explode but it can break. breaks in a manner they deem to be 'exploding,' huffed Douglas S.
"This letter is in response to your December 1 article entitled 'Bakers Beware: Shattering Pyrex Pans,' which includes claims that PYREX glass bakeware. Just a few days later, we received a FedEx letter from World Kitchen, a Reston, Va., company that now owns CorningWare and Pyrex, as well as several other household names. Pyrex Respondsīut the story did not go unnoticed. Nor had it flooded anyone's home, unlike certain Kohler toilets we could think of. After all, unlike the GE Microwave, it had not set fire to anyone's kitchen counter. The dishes mostly the 13-by-9-inch baking dish have shattered unexpectedly," the story read.Īs such things go, it seemed innocuous enough.
"Food seems to go hand in hand with the holiday season, but some cooks using recently purchased glass Pyrex baking dishes have reported nasty surprises. Our curiosity aroused, we began looking through some of the other complaints late last year and, with the holiday baking season fast approaching, wrote a short story that was published on our site Dec. It wasn't until the dish complaints started piling up in 2005 that we noticed Manny's. Like a tree that falls when no one is nearby, Manny's report went unnoticed. 18, 2003, when Manny of Bethel, Conn., filed this report: "While taking a casserole out of my oven at 375, the casserole was placed on range to cool and exploded." So we're not sure whether Pyrex dishes have been acting like incendiary devices for decades or whether it's a recent phenomenon that we've just become aware of. Unfortunately, some consumer grievances fall through the cracks simply because they don't happen very often or don't sound very serious. "I gave it a real good tug and got it out, then the bleeding started, and continued for at least 30 minutes." Canaries in a Cage I finally after watching the blood spurt out, told myself I was going to have to pull the glass out of my finger and soon," Dave recalled.
"I am not a pro with pulling sharp objects out of myself.
I continued on washing, not realizing that there was about an 3/4-inch-long piece of Pyrex glass stuck in my left index finger," Dave wrote, adding: "I mean stuck, stuck." "My left hand index finger was starting to have a bad burning sensation. Dave was washing a Pyrex cooking dish in soapy water when he noticed something strange. Many of the consumers we've heard from, like Dave of Fort Smith, Ark., have become adept at picking shards of glass out of their feet and fingers.
Molly's dinner was ruined and there were burn marks on the carpet, where the shards of hot glass landed but, fortunately, no one was injured. "I had four people for dinner, had just taken a Pyrex baking dish from the oven and placed on top of stove when it exploded, sending glass all over." "I have used Pyrex and Corning Ware for all my 33 years of married life and never had a problem until last evening," Molly wrote us last October. So Molly of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was shattered when her trusted Pyrex baking dish blew. Nothing's worse than being betrayed by an old friend.