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Pyrex pan just exploded

Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:49 pm
Posted by John88
Member since Sep 2015
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:49 pm
Dang. Just cooked some food in a glass pan, took it out and put it on the counter and the whole pan exploded and shattered everywhere. Anyone had that happen before?
This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 6:50 pm
Posted by OWLFAN86
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:49 pm to
at least its not a corona thread
Posted by Mr Clean
New Iberia
Member since Aug 2006
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:49 pm to
Yes, when I’m cooking meth
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:49 pm to
I had it happen in my sink. Stupidly ran water on it while it was hot and it exploded in my sink. Spent half an hour digging shards of glass out of the garbage disposal.
Posted by Commandeaux
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:49 pm to
Food? Yeah, ok. Sounds like you was cooking crack.
Posted by FenrirTheBeard
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:50 pm to
Yeah. Always set it on a trivet or an oven mitt. Rapid hot oven to cold counter will shatter it.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:50 pm to
Posted by Tiger Ryno
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:51 pm to
My neighbor decided to heat up my dish which was in a Pyrex on his Memphis smoker on Christmas eve because the ovens were all full. It was like the 4th of July.
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30152 posts
Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:52 pm to
that stuff is so freaky like that, all it takes is a tiny chip is the slightest nick or scratch and it explodes as the temp changes

was the food a total loss or could you save some of it?
Posted by triggs85
Member since Nov 2007
480 posts
Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:54 pm to
We had a gallon size Pyrex mixing bowl explode inside one of our cabinets, no drastic temperature changes. Only thing I can think of it was winter time and the cabinet was on an external wall.
Posted by thermal9221
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:55 pm to
You cooking some trap
Posted by tigerfoot
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:58 pm to
Not that I know of, but I dropped a Correl(SP) bowl a few months ago, it hit the floor and turned into a bomb. Shards of glass everywhere. Tiny little pieces all over the kitchen, wouldn't surprise me if you could get down on your hands and knees and find a little piece under the counters still.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 6:58 pm to
Read about a lady who opened the oven and--Boom!--she got tiny shards of glass in her eyes.
Posted by The Boat
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:00 pm to
BOOOM

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Posted by Obtuse1
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:01 pm to
You likely had a pyrex dish instead of Pyrex. Corning used to make Pyrex out of borosilcate glass which has a VERY high tolerance for thermal shock but today pyrex is made from soda-lime glass with a much lower tolerance for thermal shock. What you describe would be VERY rare if it was borosilcate glass. With quality borosilcate glass you would have to do something like direct from the oven to an ice bath to cause an explosion.

ETA I should have explained when Corning sold the Pyrex name the company that owns the name moved all production to China and went from boro to soda lime glass and the P in Pyrex is no longer capitalized.

I have seen the difference in thermal shock in boro and soda-lime glass many times. My wife's hobby is hot glass work, when something goes wrong with something she is working on using soda lime glass she just sticks the mandrel with the glass on it in water and it explodes off the mandrel even when boro is almost straight of the torch and incandescing half the time it won't explode when it hits the water, sometimes it will crack but it won't shatter into a bunch of pieces.

This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 7:21 pm
Posted by grape nutz
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:02 pm to
Made in China?
Posted by dbeck
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:03 pm to
Subtle "I've never cooked before" brag.
Posted by Chef Free Gold Bloom
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:04 pm to
Your counter was probably cold. You have to put Pyrex on a silicone mat, trivet, oven mitt, or stove top. Dramatic temperature swings shatter it
This post was edited on 3/22/20 at 7:06 pm
Posted by Relham10
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Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:05 pm to
quote:

Yeah. Always set it on a trivet or an oven mitt. Rapid hot oven to cold counter will shatter it.
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23918 posts
Posted on 3/22/20 at 7:05 pm to
Dude, I have a Pyrex in the oven right now. Getting me nervous
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