All of our extended family had other plans the season, so Christmas dinner was just my wife, two daughters and me. I decided that it should be a spaghetti day. I did well at the butcher shop the day before and made my meatballs with lean beef, spicy Italian pork sausage and ground veal. I added chopped onions, garlic and shallots and some herbs and parmesan cheese. They were perfect!
I put 24 meatballs into a 9x13 pyrex dish and set it aside while I put the sauce base together. half an hour later, I put the meatballs into a 350 degree oven. Half an hour later, we heard a muted crash from the kitchen and, u[on opening the oven found that the pyrex had exploded! The bottom of the oven was covered in shards of broken glass and my meatballs.
Has anyone had pyrex catastrophically fail like this?
I did some reading and discovered the people who purchased the rights to make it change both the recipe and the production process. It’s happening more than you imagine.
Why no one in government has acted I can’t imagine, there is clearly a problem.
All that said I now only use Pyrex I buy at the second hand store and recommend others do the same whenever this comes us.
Yep. If you’re looking to replace it, don’t bother with Pyrex anymore. Look for “Borosilicate” on the label. That’s the old stuff Pyrex used to be made of.
Happened to me. I had a casserole full of chicken explode on me when I took it out of the oven. Our theory was there must have been a deep scratch or hairline crack.
Thank you. I always think of those as things I use for hot dishes on my counter or table. I didn’t think of it as the metal star shaped item that came with my pot.
'Bout thirty years ago, one of my sisters placed an empty Pyrex baking dish atop a stove while preheating. No burners were on or had been used recently and, bang, the dish broke into several large pieces.
