Just a warning about glass mixing bowl shattering. DD gave me a set of 3 nesting glass mixing bowls for Christmas. I had used the larger and middle size one 3-4 times and the small one 5-6 times. I stored them on a bottom shelf in a kitchen cupboard.
No one was in the kitchen and I heard a loud noise, so I went to see what had happened. I saw nothing in the kitchen and checked the garage, nothing. I was surprised when I opened that cupboard door 2 days later and saw all the glass on the shelf floor.
I took pictures and saved all the glass and emailed the company. I ended up having to call them after 3 weeks. But they asked me to send them the glass and they replaced the bowl and sent a nice set of drinking glasses as a gift, plus sent a check for the postage also.
This last week I saw on the news that several people have had glass bowls shatter in their microwave ovens. Mine were Anchor Hocking made in the U.S.A. I was pleased to get the bowl replaced and thought the glass set was a nice good-will gesture. If the bowl had shattered while I was using it in the microwave I might not have been as happy.
Pyrex, I believe is now made in China and was the other "microwave safe " bowls and measuring cups that shattered during use, as noted on the news. Here are the pictures. Please be careful.
By Vi Johnson from Moorpark, CA
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This happened to me recently, too. I had small blue condiment bowls. I purchased them a few years ago from the Kitchen Collection store. One shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. It was sitting on the counter and blew all over the kitchen.
It was late in the evening so we just cleaned it up and threw it and the other bowl away. We never thought about sending it to the company until it was too late. Since I threw the good one away, I am not sure if it was Anchor Hocking or another mark, or where it was manufactured.
Also, I noticed that Wal Mart is now selling Chinese-made canning jars. Although they are a good bit cheaper, I put them back on the shelf when I saw where they were from. Not worth it!
This is a great tip to share GGVi! A few years ago I took a Pyrex casserole dish out of the oven and set it on a towel on the countertop and it shattered. It turns out that it happened because the towel was fairly damp and that caused a thermal shock. Even if it doesn't immediately shatter it can weaken the glass.
The materials to manufacture all Pyrex (and probably other brands of microwaveable glass) products have changed. Pyrex was originally made of borosilicate glass, which is highly thermal resistent, and are now made of soda-lime glass. The Pyrex company swears the change is for the product to be more resistant to impact breakage. Hmmm, think I would rather have thermal resistant back.
Another word of warning is don't place any glass bowl, casserole dish or mug, etc directly from the refrigerator or freezer into the microwave or oven unless it and the contents have come to room temperature first to avoid the thermal shock. This makes me think to also be careful to make sure warmed foods that are in the glass containers are completely room temperature when placing into the refrigerator or freezer too.
Did you see the same news report I did where a womans achilles tendon was severed from the exploding glass by placing her casserole dish directly from the oven on to a counter that was wet? Frightening.
I do hope this puts your mind at rest to know Pyrex is for sure manufactured in the USA in Pennsylvania. I know it puts mine to rest because, as you know, I do not trust anything made in China either. ;-)
Thank you, so much, for posting this! With all the warnings for BPA in plastic out there, many people (including myself) have taken to replacing most plastic with glass, where available. I once had an Anchor Hocking (glass) baking dish explode in this manner, but...
Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and experiences. We need to alert as many people as we can about all the dangers we come across from foreign manufacturers. We need to get this country back to being the leader in manufacturing goods we can be proud of.
Yes Deeli, I saw that program. Made me think I should let Thrifty Fun readers know what happened so they are warned and can warn others. Be SAFE and be sure to let others know about defective products as they happen. GG Vi
I don't buy any new glass or dinner ware. The Chinese are not doing what they should in making glass or glazing dinnerware. I buy old glass from garage sales or thrift shops. It is too bad that we have to worry about something as simple as a glass bowl.
Scary! I think I'll keep my old glass bowls & casseroles! Thanks for the warning, I'd never heard of this!
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