Breaking glass pans

hi bunnybon I have used glass cake pan but never have'
had them break. but one day just as I came into the
kitchen when we still had our apartment,our glass coffee
carafe exploded and scalding hot coffee and glass flew
everywhere.I had hot coffee on my hands but dashed to
the sink and turned on the cold water, I did not have
any blistering or burns. but I had a heck of a mess to
clean up and I do not know why that happened. I have
a theory that these things might have had an air bubble
or flaw in the glass and as it cooled it just broke.

Hi bunnybon7,



Well, I have never heard that happened as I always cook with all my pyrex dishes for a number of years, so much so they all turning black. Sorry to hear about yours exploding.


Tamara

i have had a glass bowl to break on the stove but it did not exploed. i still use glass baking dishes. i like them. some one told me that the stove was to hot when i put it on it supose to heat slowly so i don't know.i never had any corning wear to break and i use them all time

If there is even a spot of water on the area that the hot glass pan is resting it can cause the glass to shatter. Or, if it is put on a cold surface. I put a hot dish on a cold surface and it cracked into several pieces.

I've had glass pyrex baking pans all my life just about and never had any problems with them. I even still have some of my great-grandmothers old baking pans/dishes and are very old and never had that happened. Sorry it happened to you

I have been using pyrex for over 30 years... and some of those I have would be 30 years old. I never had one breaking on me.

It is most unusual as they are design not to break.
Maybe what you had was not the real thing.

I don't know if pyrex does that...
But glass will break due to extreme sudden change of temperature.
I would not put a hot dish coming out of the oven on an extremely cold surface like marble,ceramic tiles or metal... particulary in winter.

It is also better to put it on a grill rather than a flat surface. It gives a chance for the heat at the bottom of the pan to dissipate.

pyrex can take indirect heat from an oven and those pots they make can take direct heat, but most of the oven type pans, like cake pans and pie plates can't take direct heat

if you had a gas range and put it over the pilot light or on a burner that was hot (even if it was turned off) they can explode

also, if they have the least imperfection, like a tiny crack or chip, they can also go because the integrity of the whole has been compromised.

I have been married for almost 50 years and used Pyrex a lot while the family was still home. I still use it, but not as much. I haven't had Pyrex explode, but I did have one break.

I have always been one to soak all dirty pots, pans and Pyrex dishes, to make them easy to clean. After serving from a Pyrex dish once, I put it in the sink ready to soak it. When I turned on the tap, the dish cracked and broke.

Ever since then I have been careful not to place a hot dish on a cold surface and to wait until the dish has cooled before adding cold water.

I have a friend who has had a glass top table explode twice. The table exploded when no one was anywhere near it, and there was nothing on it. Apparently this happens quite often. My friend now has a wooden table.

Pyrex is not made the way it used to be years ago. It used to be made with borosilicate which had excellent heat resistant properties. Nowadays it's made with soda-lime which is cheaper for the manufacturer to make but doesn't have the same heat resistant properties.

I have a few old pyrex dishes that have been in the family for a long, long time and I still use them. The newer stuff I'm afraid to use for anything other than reheating (at lower temperatures) or in the microwave.

You aren't crazy, because honestly, I've had it happen to me too! Only, instead of breaking in the oven or on top of the over, it decides to break while I'm washing it, and I wasn't banging it against anything or mistreating it, or anything. It was insane. I'm also terrified of baking in them. I'm guessing the reason they break is because they aren't as durable as people make them out to be. They get overheated, and they break. Or maybe its during the cooling process, I have no idea. I just know you aren't crazy, lol