# exploding pyrex? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958 "2016-01-01T23:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/21 "2016-01-02T06:13:56Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not the proper role of government, surprise-surprise. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter as soon as I pull the shard of Pyrex glass out of my little girl’s eye. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/22 "2016-01-02T06:15:19Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not the proper role of government, surprise-surprise. Pointing how how lame a riposte this is (which is not in itself a surprise at all) would hijack the thread, so I won’t comment further. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/23 "2016-01-02T13:17:02Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not the proper role of government, surprise-surprise. You might want to tell these people that: [http://www.cpsc.gov/](http://www.cpsc.gov/) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/24 "2016-01-02T14:03:40Z")
Pyrex (with a capital P) was the good stuff, containing borosilicate. pyrex (small p) is the brand in the stores now. StG ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/25 "2016-01-02T14:07:06Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not the proper role of government, surprise-surprise. Protecting the citizens is the only role of government. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/26 "2016-01-02T14:35:16Z")
I made a taco casserole for dinner last night. As I was putting my remaining glass baking dish (this one made by Anchor Hocking) into the oven my wife said “I have the pizza delivery number handy…” It turned out OK. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/27 "2016-01-02T16:01:54Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > That’s not the proper role of government, surprise-surprise. Product safety certainly IS a proper role of the government. Except to those who prefer market forces to respond alone to product that sickens, kills or maims. Exploding pirex? Piffle. The “market will take care of it” crowd could care less if you new tires explode on the freeway. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/28 "2016-01-02T16:05:58Z")
Contact the company – I always do this when something breaks or fails, and about 90% of the time they send me a replacement (even an improved one – once I had a plastic orange squeezer; it failed on the first use, and the company sent me a metal one that has never failed!). For some reason many or most customers don’t do this, even though it almost always works. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/29 "2016-01-02T16:16:26Z")
Why would you want a second pan that’s already proven prone to unexpectedly shattering dangerously hot glass about your kitchen? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/30 "2016-01-02T16:31:55Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Also, Pyrex was never intended for use on the stove top. That ones on you I’m afraid. Apparently it’s not designed to be heated with an acetylene torch, either. :smack: Er, um, ah, so I hear. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/31 "2016-01-02T16:39:14Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Why would you want a second pan that’s already proven prone to unexpectedly shattering dangerously hot glass about your kitchen? Free stuff, man! Maybe the first had a manufacturing defect or the replacement is better made. Personally, I would go with a refund. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/32 "2016-01-02T22:34:29Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > You might want to tell these people that: > > [http://www.cpsc.gov/](http://www.cpsc.gov/) The CPSC only came into existence in 1972. Billions of people managed to get by without it before then. Do try again. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/33 "2016-01-02T22:42:18Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > The CPSC only came into existence in 1972. Billions of people managed to get by without it before then. Do try again. [FDA.](http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/) > [@](#): > > The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency in the U. S. federal government. Its origins can be traced back to the appointment of Lewis Caleb Beck in the Patent Office around 1848 to carry out chemical analyses of agricultural products, a function that the newly created Department of Agriculture inherited in 1862. Although it was not known by its present name until 1930, FDA’s modern regulatory functions began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, [FTC](https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc) > [@](#): > > When the FTC was created in 1914, its purpose was to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce as part of the battle to “bust the trusts.” Over the years, Congress passed additional laws giving the agency greater authority to police anticompetitive practices. In 1938, Congress passed a broad prohibition against “unfair and deceptive acts or practices.” Since then, the Commission also has been directed to administer a wide variety of other consumer protection laws, including the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Pay-Per-Call Rule and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. In 1975, Congress gave the FTC the authority to adopt industry-wide trade regulation rules. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/34 "2016-01-02T22:46:20Z")
Obviously, consumers were not doing so well otherwise why pass the Consumer Product Safety Act? And it’s 209.9 million as the Act is American law. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/35 "2016-01-02T23:01:12Z")
I used to cook Trader Joe’s frozen French Onion Soup in a two-cup Pyrex measuring cup. The pucks of soup fit perfectly, and Pyrex is oven-safe. One day, the cup exploded in the oven. Ticked me off, as I really wanted the soup that day. I bought some Chinese ceramic soup bowls with handles on them, and I cook my TJ’S FOS in those now. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/36 "2016-01-02T23:36:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [FDA.](http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/) > > [FTC](https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc) Yes, and? The government that governs best is the government that governs least. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/37 "2016-01-02T23:42:51Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Yes, and? > > The government that governs best is the government that governs least. Start a thread. GD would be a good place for that. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/38 "2016-01-02T23:50:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Start a thread. GD would be a good place for that. When did you become a moderator? This is actually the worst “feature” of IMHO. People seem to think they can post whatever silly idea pops into their heads, without backup, citation, or even a basis in reality. Because it’s their _opinion_, so everything’s ok. NO. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/39 "2016-01-03T00:05:09Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > When did you become a moderator? > > This is actually the worst “feature” of IMHO. People seem to think they can post\*\* whatever silly idea pops into their heads, without backup, citation, or even a basis in reality.\*\* > > Because it’s their _opinion_, so everything’s ok. NO. Quoted for irony. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-pyrex/741958/40 "2016-01-03T00:18:50Z")
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