Yesterday while getting ready to head out I decided to make another mug of coffee. I usually just fill a pyrex container, 32 ounce one, with water, toss it in a pot and heat it up then pour the hot water back into the pyrex cup and pour it over the grounds in the drip container.
Well..I was *really* pre occupied about certain events and dummy me fills the pyrex cup with water and I set the cup right on the stove grill and cranked the heat all the way to the max.
I was in the other room placing the TS batteries back in the case after charging them and hear this huge BOOM.
My gosh! Shards of glass all over the place. Pyrex may be oven proof to some extent but they are definately not built for direct flames :party:
You are very lucky to not be in the room, or we could have been reading about you in the news.
I'd tell you to count your blessings, but I know you do.
I had similar learning experience about 35 years ago, when I decided to cook spaghetti in a big Pyrex bowl. As the bowl was heating up, my cousin stopped by. She and I were standing next to the stove when the bowl shattered into a zillion pieces, leaving glass, water and spaghetti everywhere. She tried very hard to keep a straight face.
Did that about 9 years ago with a large glass Pyrex bowl full of shrimp, olives with orzo pasta at a dinner at home with a lot of guests. I had placed it on a low burner. I am glad no one was hurt. Everyone was in the dining room.
It made a nice little boom and fractured into zillion little 3mm size cubes.
Found a few pieces last year installing a new dishwasher.
we lost a pyrex monday night, making rosemary beurre blanc. when it breaks, the glass truly is dangerous splinters.
Pyrex, and any other glass bake-ware, is not intended to be placed directly on a flame.
In addition, some types of glass have different temperature ratings......they should have been marked on their original boxes, "Do not use in temperatures over XXX degrees."
I should have stated that I accidentally place it on the burner which I thought was off and ok.
Moe, Yes besides the cubes there were some splinter slivers as well.
My neighbor was lucky a few tears ago making fig wine in the house in glass containers.
She had a major explosion. They were lucky that her and the kids were not in the kitchen at the time.
I think it would have been nearly fatal.
Not the heat of direct contact with the burner, it is the stress set up in the glass from uneven distribution of that heat. Glad no one was injured.
jud
This sounds really cool. I'll have to try it.
HA HA HA
My thoughts exactly. Haven't had much fun since I burned a hole in the microwave making plasma with a grape!
Paul, glad to hear you are OK. Hope the rest of the set is in the recycle container!
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Glad you are ok!! :-O
I would be devastated if my Pyrex got broke by any way shape or form. It was my grandmas old set and when she died in 1975 my aunt got it then when my aunt died in 2008 I got it. Sad part (but good part for me) was no one else in the family wanted it. They all went for the jewelry and $$--I wanted the Pyrex set!!
I also came home with grandmas 2 cast iron frying pans. Wendell uses these regularly and I'm not allowed to wash them anymore because every time I do I break his "seasoning" efforts. Fine with me. 😉
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I have one 1950's vintage red PYREX bowl that mom had when I was kid and I remember all the goodies she made in it. My main use for it is making chili-mac.
Even the new bowls have intent clearly labeled on the lid about oven and microwave use only.
The only kitchen explosion I remember was when I was sitting at a coworker's kitchen table drinking a beer after a hot day of work and a thermos in the middle of the table exploded. He had forgotten it contained chili from the past winter, I think this happened in like May or June, and was an instant gagging experience with chili and glass splattered on us, ceiling, walls and appliances. TG we were watching news on tv which was in the opposite direction. It pretty much kept me away from his house for awhile.
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take my word for it, don't try to hard boil an egg in a pyrex bowl of water in a microwave. It will explode (the egg).
Pyrex may be oven proof to some extent but they are definately not built for direct flames :party:
At one time Pyrex produced some cooking ware that were supposed to be stove top safe. I don't think they went over well. I haven't heard of them in years.
SJ:-|
