Anchor Hocking Cookware

The blue lids for the Anchor bowls are faulty. I have not used the bowl lids in the microwave, and I have only washed them by hand. It is advertised that I could do both. So far both lids for the 2.5 qt. bowls have cracked the very first time I used them. I e-mailed "Anchor" to advise them of the problem and they have not contacted me. I am trying to 'live green" by purchasing bowls with lids, but I am back to using Saran wrap to act as a cover for the bowl.

It would have been proper public relations to at least get back to me. I would like replacements for their defective bowls--lids that do not crack. It seems that the Anchor people are aware of the problem as they have a website that makes it easier for the consumer to 'purchase' just the lids for all their bowls. It is poor customer relations to sell a faulty product and expect us to put more money out to their company when it is clearly their fault. I do not want a lawyer to contact me. I just want useable lids for my bowls. I would like someone from Anchor to contact me.

I was reheating leftovers and when I opened the microwave to remove my "microwavable" plate, the dish exploded. Thankfully my two children were nowhere around because glass went everywhere. I would like a refund but can't find any information on how to contact the manufacturer. Please give me some information.

I bought Anchor glass bowls with blue lids and the lids are all ripping and I have washed them by hand not in the dishwasher. I would like them replaced. Thank you.

My husband was heating leftovers in my Anchor Hocking Microwave safe bowl in the microwave. Two minutes into heating, the bowl exploded in my microwave. I am so glad that it didn't happen after he opened the door. My microwave is on eye-level! I want my money back! I don't want another bowl!

I cooked BBQ chicken in my 9x13 anchor bake dish. I took it out of the oven, set it on the table on pot holders as I have done before. We all four started eating, approximately 5 to 8 minutes later, the entire bake dish exploded on the table and I mean exploded. My first thought was the overhead light fell onto the table, however, it was the dish. We tried to salvage the meal that was left but glass was actually inside the chicken thighs, in the butter tub, in the potatoes all over the floor. I chewed on a piece of glass that was infused in the chicken, I thought it was clear but it wasn't. I guess I shouldn't have eaten anything else but we had dinner guests and tried to salvage the meal that my girlfriend worked 2 hours on.

The dish exploded so hard it scratched up the kitchen table around and under the dish. I still can't believe this happened. None of us has ever seen anything like this. Thankfully, the glass stayed low to the table and no one got hurt by the shattered glass. Hopefully, no one ate any either.

I got a three piece glass casserole set for Christmas. As I opened the plastic on the three-piece set, the bottom dish, which was the biggest, shattered. I have sent an email before to the company to see what I could do about replacing the dish and there was no reply. I had ended up stepping on one of the pieces of shattered glass. It took me forever to get it all cleaned up.

I was heating up a Knorr Pasta Sides in my microwave in one of my Anchor Hocking mixing bowls (which I received as a gift from my mother last Christmas 2010). I started eating and I felt something hard go down the back of my throat, the next bite I bit into something crunchy. I examined my food to find a shard of glass about an inch long in my pasta. I threw the rest away and called my doctor.

I'm sending pics of exploding bakeware. My 2-year-old grandson had 2 pieces in his foot, because when we opened the oven door to check, it shot out near the broiler door. I have the bakeware frozen in the basement freezer if you would like proof.

The baking pan exploded while cooking dinner! It exploded after 15 minutes in the oven. After reading all the comments on here, they should all be recalled. I called Anchor Hocking and they want me to send the glass dish back so they can test it. Well, there is nothing left but small chips and they are going to replace the dish. I'm not sure if I'll use their dishes again to cook!

My husband was melting butter in our microwave in an Anchor Hocking 4-cup glass measuring cup. It is 11 years old, used many times. When opening the door of the microwave, the glass measuring cup exploded and butter and shards of glass were everywhere, even shooting across the kitchen. It was microwaved only 10-15 seconds on high temp.

We have an old pyrex bowl that I've used for thirty years. I just noticed a small chip from the side. I was heading to the recycling bin with it, and my husband grabbed it. "We can sand this and it will be as good as new!" says this normally smart man. He was not kidding and he agreed to abide by advice I find on the net, since I evidently have no credibility here.

He doesn't know it yet but the bowl is in the bin. Would you please set him straight on his wacko idea? I have no problem with the manufacturer of the bowl, of course. My problem is with my husband's ideas that he can fix anything in his workshop. Please help.

I heated some chili in a glass Anchor Hocking dish in the microwave. About five to ten minutes after I took it out of the microwave, I had it in my hand and it exploded. Glass shards went everywhere--in my hair, down my back, all over my hard woods (leaving divots) all over the room. Luckily, I was looking up at the time or it would have exploded right in my face. I walked away with only a tiny cut on my finger. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The glass left divots in my hardwood floors but other than that, just a huge mess.

I bought a set of two Anchor Hocking 9x13 baking dishes about a year and a half ago. I was baking some flounder last night (12/28/2011) when one of the dishes exploded violently: I set both dishes out on the counter top from the cupboard and turned on the oven to start pre-heating it to 350 (F). The dishes were room temperature at the time. I sprayed both dishes with cooking spray and then put in a layer of fish from the refrigerator and topped the fish with spices and lemon juice. I then put the dishes on the middle rack of the oven, which read 325 degrees at the time. The dishes were side by side, not touching each other and not touching the sides, back, or door of the oven.

At 9 minutes, I opened the oven a small amount to look at the fish. The lemon juice around the fish had just started boiling in the bottom of the dishes. I closed the door gently. 2 or 3 seconds after, I closed the door of the oven (enough time to cross the kitchen to the microwave stand). I heard a loud bang from the oven. When I looked in, one of the dishes had exploded violently, spraying the top, sides, back, bottom, and door of the oven with pulverized glass and fish. The other dish was unharmed, but filled with a thin layer of glass chunks.

I was using my Anchor baking dish to cook my Christmas eve ham. When I took it out of the oven and set it on the stove the pan exploded, ruining my entire dinner because the charred glass went everywhere and I still had the oven door open. If I would have bent down to shut the door, it would have got me in the face. So needless to say, our holiday was ruined. I received this baking set as a gift last Christmas and loved it, but I think it's time to throw the rest of the pans away to prevent a future accident. I'm surprised reading all the comments about this bake ware and its exploding. I think its time for a recall!

On 12/27/11, my wife took a 12"x 9" dish of meatloaf from our oven and set down to cool. After sitting in the open air for about 15 minutes, the dish exploded into a thousand pieces. Luckily, no one was hurt and just some food and time was lost. I'm concerned about the other Anchor items we have.

I preheated my 9x12 glass pan. Took it out of oven to put hot macrone (it was also cooked drained and hot). The pan blew up and out. Large pieces of glass on floor counters and top of stove. Part of small pieces of glass melted on rug in front of the sink. The oven was at 350.

I just discovered a second bowl that has exploded. This one contained coconut and don't think it had ever been used for cooking. It's never been a dishwasher. A couple months ago, I heard a loud bang in my kitchen then later found the biggest size of bowl (with lids) had shattered in the cupboard. I was sitting at the table at the time. I had no idea this could happen but this is scary now that I have read so many other accounts of these bowls exploding. This is so dangerous! I will be contacting the department store where I purchased them and let them know and will not be getting any others. Very, very scary.

I was making baked ziti. It was in the oven for approximately 40 minutes at 350 degrees when I heard a loud explosion in the kitchen. I opened the oven to find the Anchor Hocking bake ware exploded into hundreds of pieces. This baking dish has not been used more than ten times and had no chips or cracks. I took photos if needed. Thankfully, the explosion happened while the dish was still in the oven or I could have sustained severe burns from the sauce. My bake ware is destroyed and I will be throwing out all other Anchor Hocking products that I own. Cleaning the oven was a daunting task, taking over an hour to clean and ensure all the glass was gone. Now I am stuck going to Burger King for dinner tonight.

I was fixing chicken and took it out. I sat it on the counter and it exploded everywhere, come a hair hitting me in the eye. I will never buy or use your bake ware or anything you make ever again. You need to make it right and send me my money back for what I was out.

I received large set of cookware (2 large oblong casserole dishes, 3 small bowls with plastic lids). I received this as a wedding gift about 3 weeks ago. The largest of the two casserole dishes was chipped off on the side, as well as one of the small bowls with lid.

I was baking chicken in the Anchor glass baking pan for my husband. The temperature was on 375. While in the kitchen with my 5-month and year old, I heard an explosion in the oven. It cracked open the oven and glass came tumbling out. There is a big mess all over the kitchenglass in the oven and all over the floor.

I had made a potato and ham casserole as a surprise for my husband. I put the anchor hocking glass baking dish in the oven at 375 degrees, set my timer for 30 minutes, turned and started to prepare a salad. Then an explosion in my oven. The baking dish had exploded and I had a mess to clean up. I am sick. I had just paid $27.38 for the ingredients needed to prepare this meal. I took my time to make sure it was just perfect and bang, everything is gone. I hate the thought of McDonald's for dinner tonight. My experience rate really is "0" unless "5" stars are the pits.

I baked a casserole in a 11x13 Anchor ovenware dish last night for 1 hour at 350 degrees. I took the dish out of the oven, and put it on top of the stove with no burners on, and it blew up everywhere, and it barely missed my face! I will never use these dishes again. I am throwing them all out! It was a very large mess to clean up, with glass slivers everywhere! I was very disappointed with the product! I sent the company an email, but I never heard back from them today!

I purchased an Anchor Hocking 8x8 IR 9x9 square pan at Wal-Mart over a year ago. I have used it quite a few times. This evening after dinner, I was making a dessert. After mixing the ingredients and putting them in the pan, I put it in the oven at 400 degrees. I was to cook it for 20 minutes. After about 15 minutes, we heard an explosion in the oven and went to look.

The pan had exploded and the oven was a mess with the cobbler and shards of glass all over the inside of the oven. After reading other stories, I guess I am the lucky one. No one was hurt. My grandsons were in the room playing and it could have been tragic. This shouldn't be allowed to happen. With all of our protective agencies in this country, something should be done. I am now needing a new pan, but wonder if what I can buy that will be safe.

This is my second cooking platter that has broken in less than a year and I had to throw my food away. I think this time I would like some other kind of cooking platter replacement or a refund.

I purchased a 13x9 (I think) Pyrex pan. I can't check the size because it is in a million pieces and is now all over my kitchen. I purchased Anchor Hocking because I heard about Pyrex shattering. I was cooking baked chicken in the pan at 350 degrees; when it was finished, I took the pan out of the oven and set it on the counter. The pan burst and shattered, sending glass and hot food everywhere.

I had a cut on my arm and have glass shards in my foot and near my eye. This was scary and I was afraid I had inhaled some of the glass because it happened so fast. I am lucky I was not seriously injured.

I bought an 11" x 15" Anchor baking dish today--along with two organic chickens, onions, etc. I baked chickens uncovered at 325 degrees for three hours. Just before I pulled out the dish, it exploded in the oven. Broth and glass went everywhere. I feel very blessed that we were not injured as some have been. It will be costly, but I am throwing out all glass cookware I have and replacing them with metal.

Wow, I thought I was the only one this happened to. I was making pumpkin bread in mine about a year ago. I baked the bread at 300 degrees and took it out of the oven and set it on a wire cooling rack. Thankfully, the kids and I had left the kitchen. We heard a large crack sound and went in to find glass shattered everywhere. I was finding glass everywhere for months. I talked to a friend and they said the same thing. I have been afraid to use any of my other Anchor Hocking cookware in the oven or freezer. I had a freezer safe dish crack in the freezer also.

I bought the 16-piece Linden glassware set. Over the course of about three months, they all started breaking from even the lightest touch. One day, as I was hand washing one of the tall glasses, the cup broke and cut me so badly I had to go to the ER and could not work for one day. Never buy from this company.

We bought a brand new Anchor baking dish and a cake. We followed all instructions and baked at the right temperature. When my wife took the dish out of the oven and set it on a potholder on top of the stove, the dish exploded like a grenade sending glass in her face and hair. We picked up pieces of glass as far as 11 feet away from the explosion. She didn't drop the dish, it simply exploded. I saved the dish because I feel I was ripped off and hopefully it can be inspected to prevent future explosions. We are out the price of the dish and our daughter's birthday cake. Other than that, we were just inconvenienced. Lucky that my wife was not seriously injured since the glass hit her face.

I bought a 16 piece glass set. They weren't even 6 months old. I have only had them about for 3 month. I was washing a glass and it broke when I was washing it. I was unaware that it broke. There was blood in the water. I lift up my hand with the glass in it, and saw it broke. My hand was very badly cut, with blood pouring out. Not good.

I had to go to the hospital on Halloween to get stitches on my left hand. I have arthritis in that same hand too. I got about eight stitches, plus at they had to straighten out two of my fingers on my left hand. I'm in a lot of pain. A lot.

On May 20, 2011, I purchased two piece oven basics Value Pack set (item # 82761) from Blain's Farm and Fleet. With summer on the way and no immediate baking plans in the works, I just put it away on a wooden shelf in my pantry for future use. Yesterday, October 31, 2011, I planned to use them for the first time. I was shocked to see the large dish sitting on the shelf, untouched, still covered in its original shrink wrap, and it was shattered in a 1,000 pieces (like a shattered automobile tempered glass window)! I am a retired instrument maker from the Department of Energy and have extensive knowledge of material science and thermal expansion of types of liquid and solids. This has me completely baffled. The temperature in my pantry may at most varied from 70 to 90 degree F this summer. Could it be a material composition defect?

I was very happy with my baking dish until I opened my oven door to check to see if my pumpkin was done and saw that the dish had blown up. Good thing I didn't have the door open all the way or it would have ended up in my face.

We were ready to sit down for our dinner of corn beef and cabbage that had cooked all day. The table had the corn beef, garlic bread, horse radish, butter, the dishes, napkins, all the fixings except the baked acorn squash. The girls took out the anchor hocking dish with the squash and set it on the stove top, then proceeded to put the dish on the table on some holders to protect the table top.

As they set the dish down and took their hands away, there was a very loud noise and everyone rushed to see that the dish had exploded. There was glass all over the table and in every dish of food that had to be put in the garbage. I have felt so bad and went into the internet to replace my niece's dish when I found this list of complaints. Needless to say, I am not replacing with Anchor Hocking. Even after the expense of the dinner, we all decided that we would go out to eat.

My Anchor Hocking glass loaf pan exploded in my kitchen, sending chunks and very sharp sherds of glass all over the kitchen. My banana nut bread was ruined as was the other loaf that I was baking. There was a glass 15 feet from where the pan was cooling. It was a pretty big blast. It ruined my baking, wasted the ingredients and made me very wary of glass which I have used for years. I'm still finding pieces of glass of all sizes. This was a fairly new pan. If I had been anywhere near, or my dog or kid had, they could have lost their eyes or been severely injured. This wasn't a little pop, it was literally a blast. I'm stunned that this could happen. I'm telling you this because this is a safety issue. I still have the pieces if you want them. I offered them to Anchor Hocking.

I was baking a Homestyle Bakes that was about 15 minutes into baking and the 8x11 casserole pan shattered in the oven. This pan was used last week for lasagna and had no defects. This was bought in a two pack with a 9x12 pan at a local Kroger two months ago.

Our large, blue glass Anchor Hocking pan exploded in the oven while baking an acorn squash. The oven was at 350 degrees. The meal was ruined and there was shattered glass inside my oven.

I purchased a set of Anchor glass bakeware. The second time I used one of them, it exploded not once, but twice. The first time, I raced to the oven and opened it to see what happened and it exploded again sending glass out of the oven itself. I was only cooking a half pan of potatoes at 350 degrees. Going to their website to get the contact info, one of their FAQ's is "Why did my glassware explode?" If this is a known problem, why are they allowed to continue selling them? I could have been seriously injured!

I was cooking chicken in the dish at 375 degrees. When I took the dish out and set it on a pot holder, the glass made a big popping sound and exploded all over! Someone could have been seriously hurt! I think that someone needs to be investigating this, and I would like to be refunded for the glass wear.

Last year 2010, I had baked a meat loaf in a 13x9 Anchor Hocking dish. The oven was 350 degrees, and I had cooked the meatloaf for about half an hour. Then I heard something explode in the oven. I opened the oven, and there was a big mess; glass debris was everywhere, and it had ruined our supper. Then recently, on Monday of September 26, 2011, I had baked some cheesy potatoes in the oven, in a 8x8 square Anchor dish. The oven was 350 degrees. I had cooked it for about less than an hour and all of a sudden I heard a loud boom in the oven. I opened the oven, and there was a huge mess. Glass debris was found everywhere, and it ruined my supper. I am unemployed with money, and I want to know, if I can get a refund for it. I do have a receipt for the one fifteen pieces bake ware set, which was back in December 19, 2009. The other anchor bake ware set was a Christmas gift last year, December 25, 2010. I want to know what could be done about this.

I had my empty pan in my oven when I realized that I had turned the oven on to preheat and it was in there. I opened the oven to take the pan out and sat it on top of my stove when it blew up all over the kitchen and into the living room. It was a good thing that I had turned to walk to the other side of the kitchen.

Why on earth are the pans being sold? There have been so many complaints about them blowing up and injuring people.

I was cooking a birthday cake for my six year old. I was absolutely shocked when my Anchor Hocking glass baking dish exploded as soon as I removed it from the oven. Shards of glass went everywhere, ruining the cake and cupcakes that were on the counter and causing a huge and dangerous mess in my sink, my counters, and on the floors. My poor dogs heard me scream and came running into the kitchen. I'm waiting to see if their feet will bleed. I will never use Anchor Hocking again, and in fact, I am throwing out all of my Anchor Hocking and replacing them with Metal Bakeware. Be aware!

I was broiling fish in the oven for supper. I heard a crack from the oven and when I opened the door, I found the Anchor Hocking pan had split into three pieces. I've never heard of this happening to anyone until I went online and found this site.

My experience was a lot better than some of the other people. Anybody gotten any satisfaction from the Anchor Hocking Corporation for these problems?

I was baking vegetables in a blue glass Anchor Hocking lasagna style baking dish. The oven was at 450 degrees and the food had been cooking for about 20 minutes when we heard a loud boom from the oven and found that the baking dish had shattered completely while inside the oven. Some pieces were very sharp and the entire dish blew into a million pieces and tiny fragments.

Consumers need to be aware that their glass baking pans do explode. I was using an 8 x 8 pan to bake brownies. I took it out of the oven to check and see if the brownies were done by placing it on my stovetop, which had not been used. I determined by using a toothpick that the brownies needed a few more minutes to cook and immediately placed them back into the oven. Approximately 3 minutes later, the pan had exploded inside the oven. The glass was shattered in a thousand sharp pieces and my oven was a mess. Thankfully neither I, nor any family members were injured. I will never use an Anchor glass pan again, it was terrifying! Someone is going to be seriously injured or blinded from these pans.

Me, Amanda **, and Matthew ** were cooking chicken pot pies in a glass anchor cooking ware. We were cooking them for my son, nieces and nephews. When we pulled out the glass cooking pan and put it on our safe stove top, the anchor cooking pan exploded when we put it down. The glass flew everywhere. I got some glass in my foot but thank God, no one was seriously injured and the children were in the living room. These glass pans from anchor cookware are not safe.

I was baking pork chops in my oven. My husband opened the door to check on the chops when the baking pan exploded in his face. Glass flew through out my kitchen, into his face, stomach, leg and a shard of glass scratched his eye.

I bought a measuring cup and have only used it 7 or 8 times. I was sitting on the couch eating mashed potatoes out of it (just because I wanted to) and I noticed my jeans had turned bright red. I thought I was bleeding.

As it turned out, the measuring red dye on the outside was bleeding off all over everything. It ruined my sofa, my jeans and favorite shirt.

This makes my 3rd bad experience within a 1 year time. 1st time had company,made a huge pan of lasagna,looked and smelled great,but never got to taste it . The dish blew up in the oven,what a mess . Had to send out for pizza to feed the company we had, ONLY COST ME AND EXTRA $45.00 to feed everyone. the 2nd dish blew up as I taken it out of the oven.And the third was my large deep dish, It busted after it had gotten cold and my husband put it in the sink to wash it and when it touched the hot water it exploded.

I put a small glass container in the refrigerator and then used it for a vinegar dipping sauce. When I was dining with my family, and the container warmed up to room temperature, the container completely exploded into many small pieces on our dining room table. It was an unbelievable experience. I told my wife this was a poltergeist, but she said it was simply quality defect on behalf of Anchor.

I was cooking pork tenderloin inside the oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes when I heard a loud bang in the kitchen. Upon investigation, I discovered that the Anchor Hocking glassware, in which I was baking the pork, exploded/shattered inside the oven.

I can't believe the amount of complaints I have already read about this seriously defective product and am angry that consumers are not being made aware of this.

On June 14, 2011 I made chicken enchiladas and used an Anchor Hocking baking dish. The dish was in the oven, set at 375, for only 20 minutes when I heard a loud boom. I opened the oven door and the dish had exploded into pieces. I was only minutes away from opening the oven door to remove the dish. I will NEVER use this product again and will make sure my family and friends avoid using this hazardous product too.

I just heard a loud pop in my microwave and it continues to pop. I was warming up some water in my measuring glass and it just popped. I've done this before and it never happened. My microwave has so much glass chafes in the crevices and in the holes where the vent is.

My baking dish of one year exploded as I was opening the oven. There were hundreds of glass shards embedded in the hot oven and on the floor. The exploding shards barely missed my eyes. Today May 25th, 2011, I happened to see a spot on the news that this has happened to many others and glass chemistry analysis shows that it is regular glass not suitable for oven temperatures. Class action.

I bought an Anchor Hocking, I believe, an 8" round-class mold. I used it several times without any problems, mainly to do a dessert (flan). On Friday, May 21, 2011, I was doing another flan and caramelizing the sugar, when the mold exploded sending pieces everywhere.

Several pieces burned my face, fingers, and, worst of all, hot pieces burned my lips. I have been trying to cure the burns myself, but after 5 days, I think I have an infection and am going to the doctor tomorrow. I also went to Walmart and spoke with the general manager to alert him of the poor quality of this product. He said that they cannot remove it from the store, unless it comes from the corporate office.

I was baking brownies to take to our monthly social group in an 8 x 8 Anchor oven-proof pan. I had the pan at room temperature before putting it in a 350F oven. It was in the oven for 25 minutes and I checked the brownies and they were done so I took the pan out and set it on a cork hot mat. About one minute later, I was standing beside the pan and heard a big bang. The pan exploded and the whole area was covered in glass shards.

My brownies were ruined! I am so thankful that I did not get any glass lodged in me as I was standing right beside the explosion. It took us over half an hour to clean up and our food was all ruined! I thought that this was an isolated incident but apparently, it is not.

It could have been a serious injury and the food was ruined.

I was baking eggplant lasagna at 350 degrees for 20 minutes in my Anchor Cookware, when I heard a loud boom. I ran over to the oven, opened the door, and saw that the dish had exploded, leaving glass everywhere in the oven including all over the food. I had to throw the entire meal away, including all the food that had fallen in the oven due to the bottom of the dish blowing out. I had just checked the food and sat down when this happened. I could have been seriously injured if it had blown when the oven door was open. I ended up with glass in my foot and finger and was out approximately $10 to $15 of food.

I was roasting a nice whole chicken dinner that I splurged on for the first time in months. I always use my Anchor big rectangular glass baking pan. I had two glass pans in the oven, one had my chicken and the other had my roasted potatoes. I was making stuffing for my son when I heard a large bang and the house filled with smoke. I opened the oven to find out what happened and discovered that my large baking dish had exploded throwing glass into my chicken and potatoes . I had to toss out my whole dinner. I was very upset that I had to throw out about $10.00 worth of food that we really could not afford to waste. I was very upset that my baking dish that was less than a year old exploded. I demand my money back as these pans are not cheap! It took us two hours to clean up the mess this caused inside our gas oven.

My Anchor Hocking 1 quart measuring cup exploded in the dishwasher. I never used the hot dry cycle on my dishwasher and the cup was in room temperature when it went in to the dishwasher. There should have been no reason for this.

I was cooking dinner for family, had casserole in microwave. After the time was up, I removed my glass casserole bowl. About the time I sat it down, it blew up in front of me and other food. I had not thought anymore about the previous time. The same thing happened. My mom got glass in her foot this morning as it was like a bomb that went off. I was glad my kids were not in the room. This was a dangerous situation.

I was baking with an 8x8 Anchor Hocking dish and had the dish at room temp before putting it in the oven. I put my chicken into the dish and placed it into the preheated oven (375 degrees). Once the chicken was done cooking I placed the dish on a pot holder on the counter (which was not wet, to say the least). I went to go take the chicken out of the dish and it exploded. Glass went flying everywhere, nearly missing my eyes, and I have cuts on my feet because I instinctively backed up when the dish exploded.

I was at the computer in the kitchen about a week ago and suddenly heard the sound of breaking glass. I searched all over the house and couldn't figure out where the sound was coming from.

I went back to the kitchen and started opening cupboards only to find that my 2 qt. Anchor hocking batter bowl had exploded in the cupboard! The cupboard wasn't abnormally hot or cold and I haven't used the bowl in several days. It was just sitting there. The bowl says "freezer, refrigerator, microwave...safe" so it has never been used on the stove or in the oven before.

I have no idea why it spontaneously combusted but I am so very thankful that our kids (ages 1 and 3) didn't happen to be playing in/near that cupboard when the bowl shattered. What a disaster that could have been! As it was, it took a long time to clean up and a week later, I'm still finding glass shards in the cupboard. Thankfully the greatest damage is what could have been. The girls weren't in the kitchen at the time and the cupboard door was closed.

I was using the large square glass dish to bake barbecue pork chops. The chops were done and I picked it up with my oven glove. I also felt something peculiar in the solidity of what I was holding immediately. Then, it suddenly exploded! Glass shards, boiling barbecue sauce and grease shot everywhere. I turned my head to the left and the hot grease and shards of glass went up from my neck bone, up to the center of my throat to under my chin--and a spot on top of my chin on my face. I hadn't even had time to set it down. It exploded while holding it with my left hand (gloved). Thank goodness I was wearing a long sleeve, long pants and socks--and that I threw my face to the left so quickly that only my neck up and under my chin to a spot on my chin got burned.

I have some minor scratches on my throat area from the smallest of shards which singed into my clothes and my area carpet of the kitchen. I have heard of these explosions of glassware if put from heat to cold. I had never thought that that glass would have exploded in my oven mitt. I had to throw out my area rug, and my clothes were singed with large pieces of glass. There were also some small shards in my hair as I showered immediately because my neck was instantly burning as the glass exploded. I didn't know whether my throat was cut or burnt.

Fear surged me immediately. I dare not move as I hollered for my 9-year old daughter. She came into the room. I had her stop immediately, but look towards my neck to tell me if I was bleeding or just burnt. The pain was intense momentarily. I have other pieces of the glassware set and no intention of using this cookware again! Thank goodness I was quick enough to close my eyes and throw my head away from the exploding glass. As a few minor burns, singed clothing, and small cuts to my hands is all I suffered. Someone really should follow up on these complaints as I am sure that I will not hear anything to my complaint.

My glass baking dish exploded on me due to a mistake of placing it on my stove top that I forgot to turn off. I have shards of glass everywhere in my house and I am still finding them after 10 days. The dish exploded in my face, hands, and I now have a huge gash in my left foot on the ball joint. I have been out of work now for 10 days, my linoleum and carpet are burned and melted. I have a hefty E.R. bill to pay since I am uninsured and I do not have paid time off. I lost over a week's pay totaling more than $1,000.00. Plus, my wound is huge, deep and it hurts very bad. Also, all my Super Bowl food was ruined since the glass exploded in it. Now, I am half afraid to use glassware. I also have a picture of my sliced foot.

I was making dinner last night with our 9x11" glass casserole dish made by Anchor. I pulled the dish out of the oven, set it on the stove-top to cool off for a few minutes before cutting the casserole to serve for dinner. About five minutes later, we heard the knife fall to the floor and a loud "Boom" sound. We look up to find that our casserole dish had exploded all over the stove, counters, and floor! There was glass everywhere. It took over an hour to clean up all of the tiny shards of glass and even the large pieces were still shattering when we moved them off the counters. We have small kids. We were so thankful that they were sitting at the table and not near the stove.

I was washing my 10.5 x 14.75 x 2.25 inch Anchor ovenware baking dish today. It was at room temp and I had cleaned most of the food out of it the night before. I was using warm water but it was not too hot as it did not burn my hands. I went to set the dish on a towel on the counter and it exploded. There was not much change in temperature. I can't explain why. I don't think I will use my other Anchor brand dishes. I had cuts on my hands from the flying glass but it was not hot so I did not get burned.

I was given, as a gift this past Christmas, an Anchor bake pan with a red cover. Today, as I was hand washing it, and lifted out of water to rinse with hot water, it literally shattered in my hand and sent shards and slivers of glass everywhere.

I had glass embedded in three places on my hand that was holding the pan. I bled for about half an hour and couldn't use my hand till an hour later.

Earlier today, I went shopping at local Wal-Mart. I bought 2 Anchor glass measuring cups (1-cup, code number 7644055175). I bought this after buying the three piece set back in November of 2010. Since then, I used the 1 cup almost daily. At this time, the high temp red paint that is used to mark out the measurements has washed completely. So, I replaced it today. The clerk wrapped each cup with double plastic. At getting home and putting everything else away, I unwrapped the cups and put one in dishwasher. I had only room for one. I sat the other in our stainless steel sink. There was another glass and a plastic lid in the sink. Everything was fine. My husband was watching TV in living room. There was no wall between the kitchen/living room. The couch sets' back were facing the kitchen.

Anyway, I was tending the stove and dicing up an onion for hotdogs. Then all of a sudden, no warning, nothing, the explosion of glass just shattered in the sink, peppering the counter and floor. It shattered into thousands of pieces. The handle is the only solid piece left. My husband came running into the kitchen to see what was going on, to see if I was okay. There are big enough pieces that look just like spider cracks, just like a damaged windshield that cracks. I bagged up the pieces. I have not contacted anyone yet. I have googled Anchor glass. I found that they have pages of complaints. And I found about change of hands and bankruptcy.

The cardboard between the layers of new glasses I bought says embalming fluid with Enthrone! I have called and left messages with the company with no response. I don't know if this is their policy, to reuse embalming fluid boxes. However, we, as consumers, would like to feel safe. This sure doesn't make me feel comfortable. Just the lack of trust in this company. Wondering what kind of chemicals they are exposing us to.

Recently, I purchased a new two-cup Pyrex measuring cup. The first time I used it, I was heating two cups of water in the microwave. It exploded, blowing the microwave door open, and glass and water flew everywhere. Much of the water ran into the working parts of the microwave and ruined the motor of the turntable. My husband was sitting close by and saw the whole episode. We are so thankful that neither of us was injured.

Cleaning up the glass and water was a big job. My husband was able to remove the motor and ordered a new one. He successfully replaced it, but the cost was over $50. It is disgusting to think that a new $3.77 measuring cup could end up with such a mess and expense. We feel that Anchor Hocking should reimburse us for this accident involving their product.

I tossed diced carrots in olive oil and put them in an Anchor Hocking 8x8 baking dish. I had the oven on bake and 500 deg. The oven may have gotten into the 300's when I put the dish in. Within minutes, it exploded.

I bought a 4-quart Anchor Hocking bowl. I washed it out and put it in the cupboard. A few hours later, I went to use it in the microwave (it was microwave-and-oven-safe). I put in margarine, sugar and evaporated milk to start my fudge recipe and I set the microwave for 3 minutes. Around 45 seconds into the cycle, I heard a loud explosion from inside the microwave. The bowl had exploded. There were hundreds of pieces of glass in the microwave, along with the ingredients. I opened up the microwave and stood there in shock. The biggest piece was around an inch square. Most of the pieces were tiny shards. I had to get several store bags to wrap my hands in so I could get this glass out of the microwave, and mop up the glass shards with paper towels, as well as clean up the mess. As careful as I was, I ended up with glass shards in my fingers and was picking them out with tweezers.

How can this company continue to sell these products if they are so bad? If it had exploded as I was taking it out of the microwave, I could have been seriously hurt! These products are a menace!

I have read many complaints about the glass cooking pans exploding. The same thing happened to me with the glass 9 by 12 hot and cold baking dish. It is very dangerous because it didn't just break, it sent glass shards everywhere. This needs to be recalled and people compensated for the cost of their dishes. I bought a set but am afraid to use the others.

I had a 9 x 13 Anchor Hocking glass baking dish blow in my oven. The oven was set at 400 degrees. I placed the dish in the oven and shut the door to bake the meat. The dish was in the oven 15 minute when I heard the explosion/cracking/boom (no kidding). I immediately shut the oven off. The mess was insurmountable!

The house filled with smoke. I had to wait until the smoke cleared and the oven cooled to begin the clean-up. I had to take the oven apart to remove all the glass. I am not sure if I was able to retrieve all glass pieces. I lost a dish, expensive pork chops, potatoes, a throw rug, two oven mitts, four kitchen towels, 4 kitchen cloths, a roll of paper towels, a pair of work gloves, a vacuum cleaner bag (to clean around the oven to make sure all glass shards were removed), cost of eating dinner out, time, energy, frustration, and who knows what else!

I am not sure if the oven is in proper working order. I am a bit fearful to go near it for the now. I contacted Anchor Hocking. I am still awaiting a return phone call. The product was bought at my local Walmart. I spoke to a manager at Walmart. He was not helpful except to say he was not aware of any problems with the dish and I could return the dish for a refund. I thought ok - I returned the glass balls, pieces, and slithers. They gave me back my money. There obviously is something wrong with the product from Anchor Hocking and the public should be warned.

I bought a 4 quart bowl that is microwaveable and I had mixed up Chex Mix and had it in the microwave under 400 degrees. Not even 2 minutes went by and it exploded. I wasn't gonna eat the Chex Mix with all that glass pieces in it. I had called Walmart and talked to the manager about it. If there was a recall on this, why was it still on the shelf? I had to throw away about 4 quarts of Chex Mix. Try picking up glass through the mess without cutting yourself. It's not easy. I did get a little prick out of it.

I was cooking a roaster chicken. As I was basting it the Anchor Hocking 13x9 glass pan exploded, spraying shards of glass in the oven and out of it. I was lucky not to get any glass in my face. I will not be using my other pan.

I received an Anchor Hocking glass baking dish with an insulated tote. I used it for the first time and made a broccoli casserole in it at 350 oven. I removed the baking dish and put it in the tote. I heard a loud pop inside the tote. I opened the tote and the glass dish had shattered. There was a million pieces of glass. Thank God it didn't shatter 5 minutes before that as I would have been holding it. Or it could have shattered in the oven, causing a huge mess. I am worried about using any glass baking dish because of this incident. It is important you find what is wrong with these baking dishes as I have heard on the news of this happening to many people.

I was cooking in oven last night, Dec. 8, 2010, in the baking glass dish. I opened the oven and within not a minute the glass shattered all over, big small pieces all over. I did get some scratches, but thank God it's not worse and had my glasses on! This is extremely unacceptable. I read other similar complaints. Please look into this before someone gets really hurt.

When we went to remove the casserole dish from the cupboard, it exploded into a million pieces. I've never seen anything like this with cookware and it scared me because my grandson was in the kitchen at the time. There was not so much as a piece even an inch big.

I had a heavy piece of Anchor Hocking bakeware that I had used for about 2 years. I put it in the dishwasher last night and ran the cycle. Today, I opened the washer and started unloading the dishes. As soon as I touched it, it exploded. It did not fall apart. It exploded into a million pieces. Glass was all over my dishwasher, went out of my dishwasher 8 or 9 feet across the room on the floor and counters! I couldn't believe I wasn't cut. My hand hurt for about an hour from the force of the impact and it shook me up pretty good. I called my dad to come see it and we videotaped and took photos. Took forever to get my dishwasher cleaned out. Do not buy this product!

I was making turkey pot pie in a 375 degree oven (Thanksgiving leftovers), in an 8" square baking dish. 17 minutes later, we were startled to hear a gunshot like sound from the kitchen. I opened the oven door and was shocked to find the glass dish had totally shattered.

Thank you Anchor Hocking for using tempered glass so there are no sharp shards to cut myself on when I go to clean up the mess in my oven - that is after I let everything cool so I can clean the heating elements, oven racks, oven walls and glass door. I'm shocked and appalled to find this is not a first situation. Rather, there are hundreds of others out there who have encountered similar situations. I'll be in touch with A.H. come a business day, and will be sure to post my status on various review boards.

I purchased two Anchor Hocking 3-piece 2-quart Oven Basics casserole dishes to use today, Thanksgiving, to take my casseroles to my sister's for dinner. Boy, how I wish I had read the complaints here before using. I had them both in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. I went to grab the pot holders to remove from the oven when I heard a loud pop and the oven started shaking and rattling. Needless to say, I had the same experience as many others have noted here. Thank goodness, I didn't open the oven. One of the bowls exploded! Glass pieces everywhere. These need to be taken off the market before someone gets seriously injured!

I put a half of a ham in my anchor hocking casserole dish in the oven at 350 for 3 hours. After basting on the second hour, I went back to watching some TV and I heard a strange sound. Opened the oven and the glass dish had exploded into a thousand pieces in my oven.

I cooked an apple pie at 400 degrees in an Anchor glass pie plate, which was labeled as oven and microwave safe. It exploded about 20 minutes into baking, and fortunately, it happened in the oven so there were no injuries. It's very disappointing.

About six weeks ago my husband and I were awakened by a loud bang. The loud bang caused us so much concern we got up and looked all over the house but didn't find anything out of order. However, the next morning when I opened the cupboard door to put away a clean glass dish, pieces of glass fell to the countertop. I had found the source of the "loud bang"! Two days ago, an Anchor Hocking bowl went to pieces in the cupboard. I couldn't believe it-2 pieces of glassware exploding while in the cupboard! Why? This is dangerous! I have told family and friends about this. Be assured I will never buy another Anchor product. Consumers need to be warned.

I purchased the 3-piece set of Anchor Hocking baking dishes a couple of weeks ago along with one 10X13 baking dish. I took it out of the cupboard to use last week and baked chicken breast at 3500. I opened up the oven to take it out and the whole baking dish had exploded in a million pieces. Needless to say, the dinner was ruined and my oven was a complete mess. Last night, I was baking stuffed shells and the same thing happened. Again, another ruined dinner and another mess. Please take it off the market. I want to be reimbursed. It's a wonder that no one got hurt. I have used Anchor Hocking many many years ago and had no problems. What did the company do to change their formula? I will, from now on, buy Pyrex. I have had one dish for 20 years and no problem. For your information, I also purchased it at WalMart.

Now, I know that you have read on this site about this company's glass pans blowing up after they take them out of the oven, when they put it in or while it was in there. But believe it or not, my story has nothing to do with an oven. I am in college and bought Anchor's three piece set. We made a cake at 9 o'clock in the evening. We let the cake cool, iced it, and ate it.

About half an hour later, I took the rest of the cake out and put it in some Tupperware. Now, mind you, it is 74 degrees in this room. It is about 19 ft by 15 ft. After I took the cake out, we sat around for about an hour or so. We went to bed and the next morning, my roommate had class at noon. She woke up and got ready. She heated up a microwave dinner to lukewarm! You could hold this dinner in your hand because it was so cool! She set it in the pan for about nine seconds, took it out, and sat down on the floor eating it for about 10 minutes. She left for class.

Twenty minutes later, I was asleep in my bed, and I woke up to a noise that sounded like somebody pushed our microwave and all the stuff on top of it off of our refrigerator. It was that loud. I looked around and the microwave was still there. My roommate wasn't in the room. There was nobody else in there. I looked down and there was glass all over my room. I was shaking because I was so scared. I took the other two pans home and I am terrified to use them. I had to ride with them in my truck and was scared to turn the a/c on. I was that scared. I could have gotten seriously hurt. And if my roommate had been there 15 more minutes sitting in the floor right next to it, she could have gotten hurt even worse.

Thank God my kids were not in the room when it happened. How do I contact this company to make a formal complaint? I will not be using the other pan anymore. I'm terrified.

My daughters, daughter-in-law and I were preparing a holiday meal for our family. We used an Anchor Hocking 13 x 9 glass pan in the preparation. When the food was baked, we took it out of the oven and were planning to set in on some straw hot pads to cool a little before serving it. While carrying it to the hot pads a crack/popping noise was heard. There was a crack near the bottom corner (where the 13 dimension meets the 9 dimension. We set it down quickly! Needless to say we did not eat the contents.

The dangerous situation we encountered was that the pan could have cracked and the contents could have dropped out burning someone. Someone could have been cut, glass could have shattered and people and pets could have been injured. We used the correct temperature and cooking time. I feel we should be compensated with a new replacement glass pan at no charge. I would be happy to send the pan to you if you so desire. It still has dried food on it. I will not wash it as further cracking may occur. Thank you for your cooperation.

I bought the largest bake dish Anchor makes as I wanted to double the recipe for baked macaroni. I made it and took it out of the oven and set it on the stove top. That's when it exploded! There was glass everywhere. I was still finding glass behind things a week later. I am so lucky I did not get cut to pieces. Needless to say, not only did I lose the dish, but also that night's family dinner. I cannot describe the shock my daughter and I had when the dish exploded. What is the company doing about this problem?

I was making overnight French toast. I went out and bought brand new Anchor-Hocking cookware. I made the toast at night and refrigerated it. I placed the 2, 3 and 5-quart cookware and food in the oven and started the oven. I came back 35 minutes later and when I opened the oven door, the 5-quart exploded, sending pieces of glass and caramelized sugar all over the oven and on all the food.

It sounded like a gun had went off! I had to get the lasagna out of the stove because the glass would just fall everywhere and there was no stability in it at all. It took awhile to get the stove cleaned out, and lost out on my dish and money. I threw the rest of the set in the garbage. I won't ever use that brand again!

I was cooking up a nice meal for the family which took me almost two hours to prepare. I pulled the fish out of the oven. I had it still in my hand ready to place down on my stove top when it exploded, showering glass shards all over my food and the open containers of food that was used to prepare dinner. I just spent a lot of money replacing my entire kitchen to have. Now hot glass rain down all over new floors, counter tops and a new stove.

This cookware has to be outlawed! Someone is going to get serious injuries from using it. After reading all the complaints, I see that this is not a isolated issue. What are our politicians and government agencies doing about this obvious product that is unsafe. How did they get it passed to sell to us! Why is it still being sold!

I would love to send you the pictures I just took of my Anchor bakeware that exploded as I removed it from the oven. I was just sitting it on my cooktop when it popped like a gun going off and blew all over my kitchen, including my new rugs I just put down today, and melted spots in them! A miracle it didn't hit me in the eyes and thankful I had on pants!

Glass bake ware 9x9 size pan, exploded in the oven. It had been in the cupboard, so it was not cold. The explosion was like a gunshot. Thank God, I was not opening the oven!

It was my first time cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my family. All was going well until I took the stuffing out of the oven and placed it on the stove top. Two seconds later, there was a big pop. The Anchor Hocking dish had exploded sending glass about seven feet. None of us could believe it until my sister asked, was that an Anchor Hocking dish? She said this same thing had happened to a friend of hers.

The oven was also full of glass so when it cooled, we vacuumed it out. We are very lucky that nobody was hurt. Someone should get this bakeware off the market.

I purchased the 4 pack back-ware a few years ago. I have used both the 10 x 13 and the 8 x 8 bake-ware with no problems. Last night, my family was sitting at the kitchen table waiting to start dinner. I removed the 8 x 8 baking dish from the oven when suddenly the dish exploded all over the kitchen and into the adjacent family room. I worked quickly to sweep up the hot glass from my laminate kitchen floor.

While doing so, I noticed a piece of glass that was on my rug in front of the sink. It had melted to my rug, it was then that I thought of my carpet in the family room. I quickly looked in that area and found a large piece of glass laying on the carpet, I flipped the hot glass onto the laminate floor and found the carpet had melted. We are so lucky that non of the glass hit anyone in the eye, or did any bodily damage. I highly recommend caution if using these dishes.

Last year, I bought a set of three Anchor Hocking measuring cups. I used the largest cup in the set a month ago to measure some cold water. That is the only time it was used. Two weeks ago. I was microwaving something in the microwave which sits about two feet under the shelf where the measuring cups were stored. The cups were stored on the middle shelf in the cupboard. When I took the food out of the microwave and closed the door, I heard a loud bang like a gun shot blast. I could see a large amount of shattered glass lying on the top of the microwave and on the floor. I opened the cupboard door and saw that the bottom cup in the set had exploded with such force that the cupboard door had opened allowing the glass to drop outside the cupboard and then closed. The two other glass measuring cups in the set were not damaged. I have taken a picture of the broken glass as it sat after the explosion.

I had recently bought an Anchor glass baking pan from Meijer's and put some chicken in the oven in this pan and set the over at 375 degrees. It looked like the chicken was done so I removed it from the oven but the over door was still open. I set the pan on top of the stove and the whole pan blew up into pieces. I had pieces fly in my oven, all over the kitchen floor, in my sink and etc. I am so lucky that none of those pieces hit me. This baking ware needs to have a warning label on it before someone gets seriously hurt.

My husband baked an apple cobbler in our 8x8 Anchor Ovenware dish. When he removed it from the oven and set on top of the stove it exploded and send glass spraying out into the kitchen. Thankfully, neither of us was injured. We have used this item many times and have several more pieces that will be replaced with metal pans. The only damage was the loss of the dish and dessert.

Last night I placed a casserole in the oven at 350 degrees and I used an Anchor Hocking 9 x 13 inch baking dish. The bake ware was in excellent condition and it had no chips, cracks, etc. After the casserole was in the oven for about an hour, we heard a loud sound and then the sound of glass shattering. We could not believe what we saw. The largest piece of glass that was remaining was not over 1" in size as the glass shattered in 100s of pieces.

The malfunction of this product is "extremely" dangerous! Pictures were taken and they will accompany a letter to Anchor Hocking to document what occurred. "Every" piece of Anchor Hocking that I owned is now in the trash as I am concerned about another hazardous performance. And, I "will never" purchase or recommend any Anchor Hocking products to anyone. The process used by Anchor Hocking to manufacturer their glassware/bake ware products needs to be seriously reviewed and changed as someone could be seriously injured.

I had purchased a 10-piece Anchor cookware set on September 29, 2010. Yesterday around dinnertime, I was opening the package and once I removed the plastic, the larger of the dishes exploded into a million pieces for no reason at all.

I am writing because this product is not safe in any means. I was cooking a simple popcorn chicken meal in my electric stove, at 400 degrees, which the pan is suppose to be able to be in 425 degrees with baking in the oven right looks like people even had problems in the 300 degrees settings. Well my food was done I took it out of the oven and set it on my hot pads my house temp was at 72 degrees so not freezing or anything to make such an explosion sending glass and popcorn chicken everywhere in the kitchen, glass went into my dining room and living room too! We were all hit with glass luckily no one is hurt but got small pieces of glass in my feet to ensure my husband (Diabetic) and kids would be safe.

I do not think these should be allowed to be sold anymore or something else needs to be done because this is extremely dangerous. The glass is hot even after it explodes. It took me over 4 hours to clean up all the glass and food dinner was wrecked and had to go and buy something to eat because I sure couldn't make a new meal with glass all over the place. You can call the company they send you to person to person until you get to talk to their complaint people, then sit and blame you for using their product wrong and I have done my fair share of investigating with this deal and there has been over 300 complaints now. I hope someday this can be put to a stop because all the care is about making their money not peoples safety on making a better product.

I just bought a set of Anchor Hocking Mixing Bowls. I used one of them to hold potato pancakes when they were done being cooked. I cooked the potato pancakes in a separate pan and placed the cooked ones in one of the Anchor Mixing Bowls that sat on my counter. The bowl was room temperature and the counter was dry and clean. Well, I had filled the bowl half way when out of the blue the bowl exploded. We had glass every where. It was like a bomb went off. Thank God I was not hurt. I was getting ready to place another pancake on the pile. We took pictures and I have five very good pictures to show you. These should not even be sold. I was not even cooking in it when it happened. Now I am too afraid to use them at all. I still have the rest of the bowls put aside if you need them back to study them. Some one is going to get hurt bad sooner or later if it has not already happened.

Here is the response I got back. But I want to point out that nothing is really being done. The response: Thank you for taking the time to contact Anchor Hocking regarding the problem you experienced with your mixing bowl. Providing a high quality product to our valued customer is very important to us. Therefore, please return the glass (as much as possible, unclean) to us for product analysis at the address listed below. Unfortunately, without having the failed product we are unable to determine the cause of the incident. We will also reimburse your postage expense. You may include your receipts for the requested expenses.

We would like you to know the material used in glass ovenware in the market place today is known as soda lime glass, which has been subjected to a manufacturing process known as tempering. It is the same process used to produce tempered safety glass found in many windows or glass shower doors, etc. A characteristic common to this glass is the manner in which it breaks. It will generally break into many smaller rounded pieces (some larger), which are less likely to cause serious injury. Although this method of failure can sometimes be unsettling to you, it is specifically made this way to protect the consumer. A warning on our Care/Use/Warranty and ovenware packaging describes this mode of failure.

Additional information regarding tempered bakeware products is found under About Us, "Bakeware Facts" on our website. Because we would like you to continue to use Anchor Hocking products if you will email the capacity size of the bowl we will send a replacement baking dish with our compliments.

I baked a double recipe of a beef casserole for a family birthday dinner last Sat. On Sunday, I took the dish out and sat it on the cabinet for one hour to warm up. Then I put it in a cold gas oven and let it warm up with the oven to 300 degrees. In thirty minutes, I increased the temperature to 350. As I was washing dishes, I heard a strange sound from the oven.

The dish and food was everywhere in the oven, and spilled out onto the floor as I opened the door. The cost, time spent, and the disappointment of my guests, and the enormous clean-up was terrible.

I used the 9x5 baking dish to make beer bread in 350 degrees oven. I removed it after 50 minutes and sat it on a warm stove top for 15 minutes. The baking dish was not exposed to extreme temperatures, no water made contact with the dish, and nothing hit the dish. I went downstairs and heard an explosion with the sound of marbles hitting my floor. Glass flew 10 feet across the room in all directions! I lost an expensive bread mix and dish. It caused one hour of clean-up!

Their 13.5 X 9.5 3 qt. baking dish exploded, sending glass slivers 20 ft. in all directions after siting on the kitchen counter some 15 minutes after it had been removed from a 350 degree oven after baking a large hen. The hen had been removed about five minutes before the explosion. The explosion sent about a quart of hot grease and glass over three rooms. The largest piece of glass was about a penny size, most of it was slivers. It ruined a wholly prepared meal and took over four hours to clean the mess and we are still finding glass! It did not crack, it exploded!

I only write this down because this is obviously a very unsafe product! My experience was much like the rest of these. I was baking a casserole at 350, checked on it after 15 minutes, and as I was shutting the oven door (gently--the baby was asleep), it exploded. Never mind the cost in time and money of the dish--my face and hands were in the oven not one minute earlier! Now I'm afraid to use the other two dishes! Luckily, the damage was minimal--we have a really nice oven.

I lost the casserole (which was expensive, actually, and took me forever to make! ) and the dish, obviously, but I got most of it out of the oven okay. I'm sure there are still glass shards in there, but hopefully that won't be an issue for future baking.

I was cooking pork steaks in the oven at 350 degrees. After 30 minutes, I went in to turn them. I opened the oven. As soon as I touched the pan with the potholder, it exploded in my hand! To make matters worse, this is the second of the set that has done that. I thought the first time was a fluke, of sorts, and didn't think too much about it. The first time it exploded, glass had gotten down in my garbage disposal as it flew across the kitchen. We didn't know it and it burned up the motor in the garbage disposal! These pans are dangerous and much more costly than the price you pay for them, in terms of medical bills and home repairs from their use!

I was baking a pie (to keep it from dripping on the oven) and had put it in my new AnchorHocking 11"x15" baking pan. I opened the oven to check on the pie and the entire pan exploded. There was glass everywhere, it even blew across the room. Thank heaven, I only had cuts on my fingers. The glass could have put an eye out. When the oven finally cooled, I waited a few days. I was able to clean out the mess but it took several hours, a plastic drop cloth on the floor and lots of oven cleaner, playtex gloves on my hands, sponges and paper towels.

In October of last year, my husband had been cooking pork chops in an Anchor Hocking 9 x 13 dish for about an hour. He was just getting ready to take out the butterfly pork chops when he called me into the kitchen. I was in the back of the house at the time, and he asked me if I heard an explosion. He opened the oven door and the dish had exploded. We could not believe it! Glass was everywhere on my top convection oven. We got out as much as we could, held it over the sink and glass went into my disposal, and we put what we could in a plastic grocery bag. The bag was dropped on the garage floor because the glass with some of the gravy and pork chop pieces were still very hot. We left it out there, and notified Anchor Hocking.

My oven still has glass in the back that I cannot get to. The oven flashes a code F1 and cannot be left on for beeping. My disposal was also filled with little pieces of glass. Anchor Hocking sent someone with Specialty Risk Services to come out and look at the damages. He took the back with part of the dish and wrote up the disposal and oven. Tiffany ** said they would investigate the pieces I saved. She came back and said it was no fault of Anchor Hocking, that the dish had a nick or something in it causing the explosion. Please! This dish we used was one of my newest and nicest ones. It did not have anything at all wrong with it, all the edges and the whole dish was in perfect condition. I have been married almost 37 years, and if a dish has a chip or anything like that, I throw them out. This is just not right when we know we are not at fault. Thanks for your help !

I lost my job last year and we have had to eat out more because of the oven. This is a nice double oven that does not work now. Also, the disposal was ruined and it's stressful when you have something nice that works, and this happens and they don't want to take responsibility. All they did was send me another 9 x 13 dish.

My Anchor Hocking 9 x 13 dish exploded in my hand while taking it from the cupboard. There was no previous damage to the glassware. I have only used it on a few occasions. I did store one of the smaller glassware dishes inside. This dish landed on the ground and did not break. There was no extreme heat or cold involved, unless you count my air conditioned room and the difference between the cupboard and air temperature,

I had cooked a pork tenderloin for 1 hour and 30 minutes at 325 degrees. I took the ovenware and placed it on the stove top (not in use). I heard a pop and the baking dish exploded into a million shards of glass everywhere.

I had just told my 4-year-old child to leave the kitchen, that it was not safe to be in the kitchen when I am cooking. Thank God for the warning, he had just made it out of the kitchen when this happened. My 2-year-old child was already at the table ready to eat. Thank God again, that my kitchen counter/bar area is tall enough because the glass was all around the table he was sitting at. It took us forever to clean this horrible mess up. The glass with the splinters of glass, I kept removing from my fingers, better for me than my small children. Glass was everywhere and even though we took the kitchen apart, I am sure I will still find more in the days to come. This is ridiculous and should be addressed.

The very first time I used the 9x13in baking dish it exploded after 5 minutes in my oven. I took it out of the box, washed it in lukewarm water, dried it, poured in my brownie batter and put it in the oven at 325. Next thing I know, there's a loud crash and there is brownie batter all over the place.

I was on my way home from visiting a neighbor at 1 a.m. when I found my wife, Lois, awake with all the lights on in the kitchen. She said she was settled in bed with the TV on and heard heavy glass breaking, but didn't know what it could be, since we have a few house cats and do not keep breakables around. She went to investigate, saw the cats startled and staring into the kitchen, afraid to go in. She searched for a while, then wondered if on the outside chance something was misplaced in a cabinet and had fallen over. She looked in a lower cabinet and was shocked to find the new quart glass measuring cup I had bought just a few weeks ago shattered into a thousand splinters, right in the spot is has been kept since I bought it. I walked in just then to see her startled, and saw the bulk of the cup shattered in its usual storage place, next to plastic and metal mixing bowls, with tiny sprinkles of glass in all the bowls. It was easy to see it just "popped" where it sat.

She said she was grateful it didn't happen when the measuring cup was in the dish drainer, as it might have sprayed all over the kitchen and our pets, and in our pets' food dishes. As we check this morning online for info on this phenomenon, we are reading that, on many occasions, these cups have exploded right in peoples' hands, severing digits and other emergency problems. It is very frightening to think one of us or one of our pets or a child could be near one of these active "hand grenades" when it explodes! We wonder if any of these could explode on a Wal Mart shelf as a parent with a baby in a stroller is browsing the shelves.

was warming up meat in dish in oven at 350.bake ware exploded without warning. cost of bakeware-11.00-cost of meat-app. 10.00

i had a anchor glass dish to blow up in my oven which was on 350 degress for 15 or 20 min. glass was every where. what can be done

On April 22, 2010 I wanted to make some tea and since the Anchor Baking dish was still in the sink from the night before dinner, I opened the water (regular temperature) to clean the dish and put it away so that I could use the sink. As soon as I touched the Anchor dish, it exploded in my hands. I felt an excrutiating pain in my left hand and when I had the courage to look, I saw my pimky finger hanging and I could see the bone. I rushed to the ER.

When I got to the ER they did some stiches and then asked me to follow up the next day with a hand surgeon. Which I did. The surgeon scheduled a surgery because he said that the tendons were ruptured and if I wanted to recover my finger I had to go through the surgery. On April 27, 2010 I had the surgery under general anesthesia and when I woke up and the days following my surgery I was in so much pain that I used to hide into the bathroom and cry my heart out because I didn't want my fiance to know how painful it was. I was not able to work for weeks, couldn't drive or do anything on my own. I started physical therapy about a week after the surgery and I am still going to therapy to try to recover full usuage of my finger.

During memorial day, my finger got infected and I again went in a lot of pain. I haven't contacted the company yet but I will since I don't want to see what happened to me happen to other people. Now I am so affraid to wash anything and put everything in the dish-washer. I will never use glass dishes for the oven anymore and have been speading the word among friends and family. These dishes are really dangerous and it is a shame that the manufacturer is still allowed to have them on the market. My finger is not straight, it is crooked. I can not use my left hand to lift anything since it is weak. I have pain in the joint and can't bend my finger. It impacts my driving, my typing, everything that I was used to doing with my ten fingers and that I know have to handle with nine.

I was baking chicken tonight in glass Anchor cookware. I got the pan out of the oven and sit it on top on the stove and the pan exploded, glass went in a million pieces all over my countertop and stove. It so happen I had shoes on or I would have had to step all in it. It actually made me mad too because I had to start all over with supper. After working 10 hours and coming home and cook and this happens, needless to say, I am not happy. I do not recommend this type of product. This is dangerous. I will throw away my other dish and inform all my friends and family to do the same.

I bought an Anchor 32 ounce measuring cup approximately two months ago from Walmart. I was cooking chicken and rice and I was measuring the broth to see how much rice I would need to put in. I poured the broth in the measuring cup twice with no problems, but when I poured it in the third time the measuring cup exploded. All that was left was the handle that was in my hand. Fortunately, I was not injured badly, but wow, was that scary. I have 11-month-old twins that could have been under my feet like always and been severely hurt. We had to go out for dinner because there was glass in everything. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. Do not buy these products!

I just finished cleaning up a huge mess in my kitchen. My supper had just come out of the oven and I heard a large pop. Right in front of where I was standing was a baking dish exploded into a million pieces. My kids, husband and dog were all within a couple of feet, nobody had shoes on. Fortunately, all that anybody got was hot sauce on them and small scrapes from the shards of glass. I am afraid my dog may have ingested glass as he tried to lick the food from the floor.

I spent over an hour cooking a nice supper and now my husband and kids are at McDonalds because our kitchen is unsafe and I had to clean up. I am amazed at how many complaints there are of the same problem. I can only imagine how many go unreported.

After an oblong baking dish exploded in my hands, I filed a complaint with Anchor Hocking. They turned it over to Specialty Risk Services who came out and took pictures and picked up the glass to send to the laboratory of Anchor Hocking for analysis. This is what the analysis report said: Anchor Hocking is not accepting liability because the product was over six years old and showed signs of scouring (cleaning) scratches, which can cause breakage. The adjuster from Specialty Risk Services said Anchor Hocking will not give me a copy of the report but would return the broken glass to me.

I think all consumers need to know how unsafe this product is. I had a property damage claim where the broken glass shards went into the seal of my smooth cooktop and damage to my vinyl floor where the large hot pieces of broken glass caused bubbling of the vinyl because I had to walk away from the stove to rinse the tiny shards off the tops of my feet, but it could have been much worse if I had not been wearing shoes. Shame on Anchor Hocking. Someone needs to make them be accountable.

I placed a 13X9" glass pan (room temperature) in an oven and baked chicken breast. I opened the oven door and slid the rack out a few inches. I turned to get a knife to cut into the chicken, and there was a large explosion. It blew up with small pieces of glass everywhere. Thank goodness I was turned away from the oven. This created a huge mess in the oven, and also a cut on my foot and my daughter's.

I was holding a one cup measuring cup made by Anchor Hocking Monday night March 22, 2010. It was new and purchased at Walmart or Target. It exploded as I held it. It was very frightening and the glass went everywhere. My soup had to be thrown out. It was empty when it exploded. I have 8 new Anchor Hocking measuring cups and will not use any of them again.

Getting ready for a nice St Patrick's Day feast of corned beef and cabbage, we started taking the food out of the pots of boiling water and putting it in a glass Anchor Hocking baking dish to serve from. After about 5 minutes or so of the food sitting in the bake ware (on the counter, away from the stove), it just exploded like an IED. Glass shot out in hundreds of shards, as far as 3 feet, and in every direction.

You could hear the explosion from the other side of the house. It sounded like a miniature car wreck. My mother and a guest at my house were standing just over 3 feet away from the dish when it exploded. It ruined our evening's meal, but it could have been worse. Especially if either of them were holding one of the 2 infants in the house.

In a disgusting article printed by Pyrex and World Kitchen, they attacked some perceived flaws in a Consumer Affairs article about this dangerous possibility. The bottom line is there is a significant flaw in glass bake ware that needs to be addressed. It is extremely dangerous. Made for baking--all we did was put hot corned beef and cabbage in a room temp anchor hocking baking dish and it exploded. Dinner and the dinner party were ruined. Glass went everywhere. I'm going to throw away a hundred dollars' worth of glass cookware. Most of all, my buddy had a PTSD reaction to the explosion 4 feet away from him.

I had a fairly new Anchor Hocking glass baking dish (bought in November 2009) that I had used maybe twice before. I was baking lasagna in it today. After 45 minutes I opened the door of the oven and removed the aluminum foil from the top of the pan (I didn't remove the pan from the oven, just took the foil off the top). Not even 1 minute after I closed the oven door, I heard a loud bang inside of the oven, and steam/smoke started coming out from the oven door.

When I looked inside I could see that the glass dish had exploded and shattered all over the oven. I have pictures if you'd like to see them. Economically, I am out the cost of the ingredients and about 3 hours of my time that it took to make lasagna from scratch (ingredients were at least $15). Add to that, my family then had to go out for dinner, which cost about $80. And it was a nasty mess to have to clean all of that glass out of the oven.

Consequences for Anchor Hocking: I will never use their glass bakeware again, I will only use ceramic or stainless steel. I have posted pictures of my exploded lasagna dish and my experience on Facebook, as I don't want anyone else to get hurt from an exploding glass dish (if I had been lifting the dish at the time that it exploded, I know I would have been badly injured). What does it take for these companies to fix their problems?

I purchased an 11 x 8" Anchor Hocking glass baking dish at Publix. I placed the baking dish with 4 pieces of Chicken Parmesan in a 300 degree oven to melt the cheese on top. After approximately 4-5 minutes, the dish exploded, leaving the 4 pieces of chicken on the oven rack. The glass covered the entire oven surface. There were glass shards on top of the chicken. It was a horrible mess. I am thankful that it happened inside the oven and no one was seriously injured.

I think all of these products should be recalled and they should be required to discontinue manufacturing them. These products are extremely dangerous and unsafe. I have pictures. I have told everyone I know to discontinue using these products in the oven or microwave. I am getting rid of mine and will not purchase or use anything like that again.

If that had happened when I was opening the oven door to check on the melting cheese or to cover the dish with foil to keep it warm, I could have been seriously injured. These dishes are a horrible threat to consumers! This incident left the dish, the food, the mess, the clean-up time, the ruined meal, pieces of glass continually found around the oven area and floor. I have photographs.

I was cooking a luncheon for a potential business client in my home. I was making a German meatloaf in a 9x12 loaf pan, purchased on 1/20/10 (the day before) at our local Publix grocery store along with the other ingredients for German potato salad that was in the oven baking. At about 55 minutes at 350 degrees, I heard an explosion in the kitchen. I ran in the kitchen and opened the oven to find that my German meatloaf was left sitting on the oven rack with no pan around it and shreds of glass all over my German potato salad and oven. I was glad that I had made a nice salad or my business meeting would have been ruined since my client was to arrive in 15 minutes to work on the business plan. Publix did refund my expenses for the food and pan. It is now March 1, 2010 and I am still unable to use my oven because of falling tiny pieces of glass. Any one have any idea how to remedy this? Cleaning hasn't worked!

I was baking pork chops, like I have a thousand times. I was using Anchor Hocking Bakeware 9x12 in my oven at 400 degrees. It was in there for 20 minutes. I went to take it out to flip the pork chops and when I pulled it out the oven, the dish exploded into a thousand pieces. I have pictures, glass went into my leg and the wall/cabinets. Our dinner is ruined, what a waste of money and it's taking forever to find all the glass to make sure the kitchen is safe again.

I was cooking and pulled the glassware out of the oven to set on the counter and it completely shattered all over the stove, cook top, floor, carpet, and into the rest of the dinner that was cooking - my entire meal was destroyed.

I purchased a new 9x5 Anchor Hockingloaf dish at Walmart on 2/21/10. The next day, I used that dish to make a meatloaf. It was in the oven approx 35 minutes at 350 degrees. At the half way point of cooking, there was a loud crash, and yes, like many others I have read about, the dish exploded in the oven. Our dinner was ruined and it took hours to clean up. The dish label read that it was oven safe up to 475 degrees. I will never by glass oven dishes again and I will advise everyone I know to avoid this product. This seems to be a regular occurrence from what I'm reading online. I feel that something should be done to stop the production of these inferior products before someone is seriously injured.

I purchased a set of six glass cookware from Wal-Mart with the Anchor Hocking logo on most of the items. I admit that I did not see it on the casserole pans but it was a boxed set sold through Wal-Mart. I was using one of the casserole pans to cook my dinner and the pan literally exploded in the oven. I lost my dinner and it took hours to clean up the mess. Wal-Mart refunded the cost of the item but not the cost of my dinner or my time directly related to this incident.

I will never buy from Wal-Mart again nor will I buy any product made by Anchor Hocking, and, I will tell anyone I know to beware of this product. I and my wife received cuts and burns due to this incident. We lost our dinner and were not compensated for this. Not to mention, the time it took to clean up and go back to the store to try to find justice.

I was baking pork ribs with potatoes in a 9X12 pan I had used for years. The oven was set at 375 and had been baking for about 45 minutes. We heard a crash like glass breaking. The only place this could have happened was in the oven. The oven is relatively new, just before Thanksgiving. But I had baked with this pan and oven combination before. Fortunately, neither of us was hurt, and the meal was not a complete loss. But it was frightening and messy. Glass shards got all over the stove inside and out. The clean-up is not yet over. I am a barefoot person and have 2 dogs and 2 cats. Any one of us could still get glass in our feet from this disaster.

I bought a 1-1/2 qt. glass casserole with cover 2 months ago. It was used about 3 or 4 times. Two nights ago, I placed broccoli pieces in the casserole with 1/4 cup water and set the microwave for 8 minutes. Just after 4 minutes, I heard an explosion and the casserole had burst in the microwave. I had recently read an article about exploding Pyrex in the AARP magazine and figured I was safe with Anchor Hocking. It is not so.

Tonight, I was cooking cornbread in brand new Anchor Hocking ovenware, a dish 8" by 11", I believe. The oven was at 400 degrees. At 20 minutes, I heard what sounded like an ice storm crash coming from the oven and asked my boyfriend to please check it. We heard a second crackle, waited a minute and then slowly opened the oven door. The baking dish was shattered and the oven filled with shards of glass. Thank God we didn't check the dish when it exploded.

My wife had prepared a beautiful cass. and had instructed me to preheat the oven to 400 degrees, place the cass. in the oven and bake for 30 to 40 min. I dutifully followed her instruction. Ten minutes into the bake, I heard a "pop" and upon investigating found a pile of shattered glass and precooked food clinging to the oven grate and on the oven floor. Typical nasty mess! Now I read, Anchor Hocking disavows any responsibility for their inferior products. Not good PR guys. Anyone for boycotting this great American manufacturer?

Anchor Hocking 20oz casserole dish exploded in a closed dishwasher that was not even turned on. In the past 2 weeks, a second casserole dish lost 1" from its rim as it was being placed in the dishwasher and also a casserole lid lost a chip at an unspecified time in the dishwasher. These items were all purchased in January 2010. Emptied dishwasher is being run to see whether tiny shards caused any damage.

I purchased three Anchor Hocking 8x8 baking pans for Christmas presents. My daughter just called on 2/3/2010. She baked chicken in the dish for dinner and as she was removing the chicken from the dish, the dish exploded. There was a loud noise, and glass and chicken everywhere. Obviously, this is not the first time this has happened. I have called my other daughters and advised them not to use this dish. This is too dangerous!

I made corn bread in an 8 x 8 Anchor glass pan. Later that same day (Jan. 31, 2010), I put the pan with the corn bread in it in the microwave for 1 minute on high to warm it for supper. It had not been refrigerated, no visible cracks or chips were anywhere on it and it was less than two years old. An hour after we ate, I took the rest of the corn bread out using a spatula to get the residue out of the pan to wash it. Not having many dishes, I left it on the counter unwashed.

During the night at 3:00 AM, I was awakened by an explosion in the kitchen. The pan that was sitting on my counter, in a 65 degree room exploded sending glass everywhere. I have saved the pieces and I took pictures.

Last night I was preparing dinner for my husband and two guests. I was baking chicken enchiladas in the oven at 350 for 35 minutes. The recipe calls for you to remove the foil and add cheese at this time and return to oven for 5 minutes to melt and brown. My husband changed the control knob from bake to broil and raised the temp to 500 to brown. As soon as he returned the dish to the oven, it exploded in a million pieces. Thankfully no one was injured, but my dinner plans were shattered also.

My room mate was roasting some onions in a 13x9in pan at 400 degrees for about a half hour. Her phone alarm for them had gone off. After ignoring the alarm for thirty seconds, she heard a crash in the kitchen. Thinking one of our wooden kitchen shelves had fallen, she went into the kitchen, but all was fine. She walked through the house before checking the oven; the casserole glassware had exploded in there. Thankfully she hadn't gone in the kitchen right away, or she would have been burned, or worse. We're going to take the shards of glass back to Target for a refund, and we're never buying from Anchor Hocking again. The stove was a mess, but at least it was contained and no one was hurt.

I used this 9 x 12 (approximate measurement) baking dish in my oven. The temperature was set at 325. It had a chicken and dressing dish in it. It had been in the oven for over an hour when I heard what sounded like shattering glass. Curious, I opened my oven to see it had just spilled all over my oven. Glass splinters were everywhere. It was such a mess! Why did this burst and why after over an hour at a temp of only 325?

Anchor Hocking glass pan exploded in oven in millions of pieces. Stove is less than one year old. I'm concerned about cleaning the mess up. Glass is in carpet and floor. I will be contacting.

On 1/11/10, I was cooking a ham for dinner. The oven was set on 350. After about 30 minutes into it cooking, I started hearing strange sound coming from the oven. So I opened the door and at that point the glass broke and thousands of hot pieces were everywhere. The hot glass hit my face and my shirt. It was all over my new floor which now has burn marks in it. The glass was all over my ham and oven. Ham juices were all over the oven. There was chunks of glass in the ham as well as splinter of glass in it. My $35 ham was trashed. To top it all off, I have a family of six to feed and dinner was shot. Thank God my children were not around. There could have been more serious injuries. I am trying to find a phone number to contact them but I am not having any luck.

I got a 3-piece set of Anchor baking and ovenware as a house warming gift last year. Well, I was making a pork loin last night for my family and when I place my thermometer in to check the meat temperature, it exploded. It covered my oven, wood floors and my pants. It was really sticky and hot because my pork was covered in Aso sauce. I had to leave my oven open because of the heat and the fact that it was in every crack and crevice that my oven had. While I was cleaning my floor my 2 dogs got into my oven and ate the pork. I am still waiting to see if they ate any of the glass pieces. Well, it was a $20.00 pork loin, I have had to buy 3 cans of easy off oven cleaner and have still not been able to use my oven. I am not sure if I will incur any more cost because I am not sure if my dogs ate any glass at this time.

I was cooking chicken nuggets and french fries for my niece. After about 15 minutes, I heard a loud crashing sound. Thinking it was my niece falling off the chair from doing dishes, I flew in there to find that my 13x9 glass baking dish exploded in my oven. I'm grateful that it didn't hurt her. I was upset because it could have been a lot worse! I just got two sets of these baking dishes for my wedding, are all of them going to do this unexpectedly? What is the company going to do about this?

My daughter was making dinner and her baby was in the kitchen, in her bouncer. She just pulled her dinner out of the oven and set it on the stove top, she was using the 8x8 baking dish, and the thing exploded. A piece went flying over the head of my granddaughter and hit my digital camera. Hitting the screen your suppose to see what the picture looks like. Needless to say you cannot see it any more. And there is melted glass everywhere. Does she use the other two for the three piece set or what?

This is about our 13X9 baking dish. My daughter was making her dad brownies for his 58th birthday. She took the brownies out of the oven and placed them on the counter. With her 3-year old son and 8-year old daughter standing by, watching the dish shattered in hundreds of pieces, glass flying everywhere, this could have been very serious causing body and eye damage. But luckily, no one was hurt. I think that with all these complaints, this should be recalled before some one is seriously hurt. We also have pictures of what happened.

I bought my daughter-in-law a set of Anchor Hocking bakeware for Christmas 2009. She just texted me saying that as her husband was loading the dishwasher, he had hot water running in the measuring cup to rinse it out, and when he put it in the dishwasher, it literally exploded into a million pieces, and cut his foot as he was barefoot. I have emailed their Consumer affairs and will see what they do/say about it.

Same story as a lot of the other complaints. I was cooking potatoes in my oven with an Anchor Hocking glass dish when it exploded just as I was opening up the oven. Fortunately I only suffered minor cuts on my arms, it could have been much worse. This was given to me as a Christmas gift just 5 days ago. They must stop selling this product, it clearly states that it is oven safe. My arms were cut and my oven was a mess. I'm still waiting to see if my oven will work after I have this mess completely cleaned up. What a waste of my time.

On December 31, 2009 we were taking some homemade soup to our pastor, who had been sick. I made a pan of cornbread in an Anchor Hocking 8" square baking dish. Many times I opened the door of the oven to look at the cornbread with my face very close to the oven opening. Once the cornbread was done, I removed the dish from the oven and sat it on top of the stove top, when it exploded in my hands the very second it touched the surface, which was warm from the oven. Not only did the glass hit me in the face, chest and arms, but it was so hot it melted itself to my rugs and countertop. It was a serious mess to clean up. I had glass scattered over 15 feet from the explosion. Now here I sit with approximately 10 other baking dishes just like it that I am scared to use. I'm very lucky; I could have very quickly been blinded for no reason.

It was new years eve 2009 we were having company for supper we were preparing the meal the last thing to cook was the homemade chocolate cake,my husband opened the oven door to check on the cake{which i might add was in the anchor hocking company bake wear 30Qt glass dish} when it exploded everywhere burning his arm,i have taken pictures of the incident never have i seen bake wear explode as this did.

Cooked a breakfast estrata, cooled it down and set on dining room table for Christmas breakfast. I was cutting the portions, gently with a large knife, when the dish exploded, sending shards in a 360 degree pattern out to about 7 feet. It was a mess to clean up. About an hour of cleaning with 8 of us. Anchor Hocking is now on my do not buy list.

An Anchor Hocking oval glass baking dish(approx 7" x 11") exploded in the oven on Christmas day 2009 within a few minutes of opening the oven door to inspect the vegetable casserole. It was cooking at 350F. There was a popping sound from the oven and upon inspection we found the baking dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces. The dish is approximately two years old and rarely used.

Tonight I was baking a pie crust in a new Anchor Hocking glass pie pan I had purchased at Big Lots. After it had been in the oven at 375 degrees for about 5 minutes, I heard what sounded like beads being exploding in the oven. A moment later I heard a second loud explosion of glass. It took us awhile to figure out what it was at first.

We opened the oven to find glass shattered in the oven in hundreds of pieces with dough torn to shreds. Wow. I am still kind of stunned. I took pictures and am boxing the glass. Someone could have been hurt.

I purchased two that day. I have used the other once and it did not explode. I am not using it again. What a loss of money, time and faith in a company I thought was pretty reputable.

It was around Dec.10,2009 when my mother bought the casserole dishes for me. I was making dinner for my two year old son and husband using these dishes. I put diced chicken into it and rice on 350. After 10mins my husband hread a popping sound coming from the oven. By the time he opened it the glass was in a ton of little pieces. I was so upset for the fact my mother wasted money. I lost a great meal that my family wasnt able to enjoy. So I please say to this company that your casserole cookware off the shelfs of stores before someone gets hurt.

Lucky i had set the dish down before it did this or i would have been in the ER anchor ware should really take care of this issue before something bad happens i plan to seek help in fighting this due to the possible trouble it could cause and the clean up was awful chicken is greasy and it ran into every crack it could find

It was a real mess! The glass baking dish was ruined, the oven was a mess, and all the food that had been in the baking dish had to be thrown away. This happened the night before Thanksgiving so I had to delay any cooking for three hours to use the self-cleaning function on my oven.

My wife prepared a shepherds pie in a 23cm round Anchor Hocking glass baking dish last night (purchased at Publix and being used for the first time). All the ingredients and the bakeware were at room temperature or warmer. The dish was placed in an oven preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. After 30 to 35 minutes we heard a loud crashing noise. Looking in the oven we discovered that the dish had shattered into hundreds of razor sharp pieces all over the bottom of the oven.

I know if this had happened a few minutes later, and the oven door was opened, I can't even imagine what damage might have accured to myself. I took pictures of the oven and saved all the glass, which I thought you might want to inspect to prevent this from happening to someone else. It was a frightening experience and to be honest with you, I will never put anything glass in my oven again.Thank you for wanting to know my experience, maybe it will prevent it's happening again.

I was baking chicken in the oven at 325. It had been in there approx 30 min when I heard 2 loud booms. I had smoke rolling out of my oven and when I opened the oven door the glass dish had exploded and chicken and juice was burning. The dish was in tiny pieces. Nothing left to it. I do have pictures of the mess.

I filed a complaint with the company and was contacted by miss Lauro and initiated claim YLB 88034 LP. I insisted on an adjuster visiting my home before initiatiating the cleanup process. Approximately one week later the Insurance adjuster came to my home and helped me clean up the oven and took photos of all pertinent evidentiary matter and collected glassware for lab analysis.

On 12/01/09, I received the following: "You have asserted a claim against Anchor Hocking for property damage based on an incident purportedly involving an Anchor Hocking product. The product you provided has been carefully examined and analyzed in response to your claim. The results of this examination confirm that there were no manufacturing defects or deviations found. The testing revealed that there was heavy scouring damage in the glassware that was manufactured in 1986. The scouring damage led to the stress of the glassware which in turn led to the breakage. Scouring of the glassware is warned against in the care and use instructions of the product. Therefore, responsibility for your claim against Anchor Hocking was not established. Although we are sorry to hear about the reported incident, our obligation is to pay damages on claims for which our insured is responsible. In this case, our insured is not responsible because there were no manufacturing defects or deviations in the product that you reportedly used."

1. One oven roast destroyed. 2. One women's sweater destroyed. 3. Hundreds of pieces of glassware in oven and kitchen. 4. If not for eye glasses my wife could have incurred serious eye damage. 5. Damage to oven's interior 6. Subsequent damage to oven 7. Loss of oven use for more than one week.

On Thanksgiving day,while removing a loaf pan from my oven, it literally exploded in my hands,shattering into hundreds of tiny chards of glass. Fortunately it exploded in a forward direction and did not cause any injury. Since the oven door was still open it did send pieces of glass back into the oven and onto an uncovered casserole. Since it was only by a miracle that someone wasn't seriously hurt I have already disposed of all my other Anchor glass pans. I'm concerned that these glass pans are still being sold.

Used a new Anchor Hocking oven dish 8 x 11 to make steak and guiness pie this evening after two days preparation and the dish EXPLODED in the oven. The temperature wad set to 350 and the dish was at room temperature when placed in the oven. It had only been cooking for 20 minutes when the explosion took place, sending shards of glass and splatters of pie everywhere. These dishes urgently need to be recalled. It's a disgrace they are still on sale - I bought mine from target just 3 days ago. Do not buy Anchor products.

Consequences? I had to clean out my oven before I could cook any more food for Thanksgiving. The cost of the ingredients of the lost pie. And then I had to make another pie --- fortunately I did have the ingredients to do so.

Thanksgiving Day I was reaching into the oven to retrieve the 13 X 10 casserole dish filled with hot food when it literally exploded inside the oven and splattered me with hot glass and some hot liquid on my clothes and hands. I received minor cuts on my hands, from tiny shards, fortunately no serious burns. It ruined my Thanksgiving meal in which I had many guests. The tiny shards and large shards of glass contaminated all the food in the oven. Not only was my day ruined with glass filled food but the mess I had to clean up inside and outside the oven, the floor, my clothes and discard perfectly good food filled with glass. My guests helped with the great clean up instead of enjoying the day.

My cookware, to be exact, my pie pan exploded into tiny shards in my oven under normal use and normal temperatures. Lost of my food that I was baking, and the time and money put into prep of these items. I was hosting a Thanksgiving dinner and this really put a damper into the day's plans as well as ruining at least one dish on the menu. I also had to clean up all the contents of the sticky pecan pie out of the oven as well as all the glass shards.

Was baking meatloaf in my 9x13 glass pan at 350. After about 20 minutes I heard a loud bang. Looked in my oven and the pan shattered in a 1000's pieces. I recieved this pan set for a shower gift in Aug.2009. This happened the first time I used the product just a few days ago. Has there been a recall? Should I throw my other Pans away?

I baked some salmon in a 13x9 inch glass Anchor Hocking pan. When I took it out of the oven, it shattered in my hand, sending Hot glass, and fish everywhere! I suffered minor cuts, thank God my grandkids were not here!

I had just taken my 13 x 9 dish (about 5 years old) of potatoes out of the oven (400 Degrees) and set it on the lukewarm stovetop. A second or two later the little bomb went off. Glass seemed to explode in an area 8 feet wide. I'm very thankful that I had cold weather clothing and shoes on (I'm pregnant and a lot of the glass flew on my abdomen and legs, but nothing penetrated as I had on a couple layers of clothing). I'm also very glad that my 2 and 4 year old were napping. This could have been MUCH more than a spoiled dinner!!!

I had owned this dish about 5 years and it had no visible cracks or breaks in it. My oven is a little over 1 year old and has always regulated temperature properly.

On November 1, 2009, I used a 10 by 13 anchor hocking glass bakeware pan to cook dinner. I placed it in the oven at 400 and 30 minutes later I hear a loud bang in my oven. When i opened the door my dinner and glass were all over the inside of the oven. This is the second one that has exploded within the year. If the oven was open at the time of the explosion I could have been seriously hurt.

I just purchased a new 10x13 glass baking dish. I had prepared lasagna and put it in a timed oven to have supper when we returned from church. When we arrived home the house was filled with smoke. The baking dish had exploded in the oven and the sauce, cheese and shards of glass were everywhere. Hopefully, when I can get into the oven to clean up the mess, my stove will not be ruined. The pieces of glass have fallen down into the lower parts of the oven. Why is Anchor Hocking allow to continue making glass baking dishes when they are obviously an inferior product?

I was cooking a meatloaf in a Anchor Hocking glass loaf at 350 degree's and 36 minutes later I heard a loud noise like something exploded. I thought somebody had thrown a rock through one of the house windows only to find the explosion had taken place in my oven. Glass pieces everywhere in the oven. Dinner ruined for company and had to wait for oven to cool to try to clean out all the glass shattered pieces.

I cannot believe the amount of people this is happening to. These glass cookwhere was from my brother and brand new. It was the first piece in set of 5 I used and I am afraid to use the others and don't plan to now after reading all these complaints. This company needs to do something to resolve this issue and reimburse for defective product! This is really sad to see how far back this has been going on with nothing being done to stop the explosions that could seriously hurt or kill somebody.

Meatloaf was a total waste and oven took hours to clean and try to vacume up all of the tiny tiny pieces of glass. I've spent days trying to get all the glass particles out of the oven. I am so scared of this happening out of the oven let alone in the oven as it did. How can this keep happening and nothing from the company being done to stop it?

I was frantic because my 2 children, ages 7 and 4, were in the room at the time, as well as my husband. Fortunately no one was injured, but it took quite some time to clean up all of the glass from the kitchen and inside the stove. Lost dinner and spent hours cleaning up glass pieces, but no injuries this time.

Yesterday evening while in the process of cooking a large family meal, my Anchor Hocking 8x8 glass casserole/baking dish EXPLODED! I was making a belated Thanksgiving dinner and was using the dish to bake a small ham. Oven temp was 350 degrees and the dish had been in the oven about 90 min. I have used this dish at least once a week for 5 years. There wasn't any chips, cracks or scratches as i take VERY good care of my cookware. I removed the dish from the oven and placed the dish on my range for just a moment. I then removed the ham from the dish and transfered it to a platter. Picked the baking dish up and sat it with the other soiled dishes on the counter next to the sink.Not in water or on water, everything was room temp and dry!

The moment i sat the dish down it EXPLODED into hundreds of glass pieces. There was still hot ham glaze in the pan. Fortunatly for myself not 1 pc of glass hit me and none of the molten sugar came in contact with my skin. I GOT VERY LUCKY. My husband and his aunt came running when they heard the explosion, with my husband then checking me for injuries as i was in a state of shock. We have a 3 1/2 year old and a 18 month old that usually play somewhere in the kitchen(not near the stove we have a large kitchen) while i cook. They are always where Momma can physically see them.They happened to be playing in the family room with their Aunt when this occured. What if one had been in the kitchen at that moment? Would he have been cut, burned from the molten liquid or worse Blinded? Is that what its going to take before the products are pulled from the shelves and consumers advised to discard any they may have!!?? We discarded our other dish with reasonable fear for our safety.

While we were cleaning up the mess, the glass was still popping and cracking. I took pictures of it because I could not believe that this had happened and had never even heard of it happening. I received these baking dishes 2 months ago as a wedding present and will probably be throwing the other out because I don't want to risk hurting myself or someone else if this were to happen again.

I purchased a Bake n Keep glass caserole pan. The same day, I tried to cook some bell peppers in the microwave. As I opened the door, it exploded into a million pieces. sounded like a gun shot. I was so forceful that glass is embedded in the coating of the inside of my microwave. I feel this product should be recalled.

Smoke was coming out of the oven I ran and opened the door glass all over the oven in small splinters. HOW AM I EVER GOING TO COOK IN THERE AGAIN SO IT WILL BE SAFE I WILL NEVER USE THIS GLASS AGAIN ITS TOO BAD THE DEAL WAS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE. I never tasted my lovely apples and my faith in cooking with galss has been shatterd never again. I am so lucky my little grandson was not here to witness this...What a shame, I guesss I am one of the lucky ones

I was filling a one cup glass pyrex type measuring cup made by Anchor Hocking with hot water from the water faucet and the cup exploded in my hand. I've been using this cup for 4-6 months. It was not chipped or damaged in any way and had never even been run through the dish washer. You're supposed to be able to put boiling water into this but this was just hot tap water. This product should be recalled immediately before someone gets hurt. I believe this product was made in China - what does that tell you??? I work with glass and for this cup to explode this was tells me the glass was not tempered properly. Very dangerous!!

I was baking a cake in my anchor hocking 9 x 13 glass dish, on 350, & as soon as I removed it & set it down & walked away it exploded into a thousand tiny pieces all over the kitchen. After reading all the complaints on line on this, their should be a recall immediately.

I recently purchased an anchor cookware casarole dish. I placed it in the oven @ 350 and baked my dinner. As I was eating dinner there was a piece of glass in my mouth. The glass cam off of the anchor cookware. Please have someone contact me ASAP. You can clearly see where the glass broke off of the anchor ware.

I was warming my dinner last night in my Anchor Cookware,and when I took it out it shattered everywhere. My daughter was there with me. Thank God it did not get on her nor myself but this is very dangerous. Something needs to be done about this. I thought I had swept all the glass but a little piece cut me on my foot when I went in for a glass of water later. I now have to purchase some more cookware. Which I cant afford that right now.

I got on this website to see if there have ever been any other listed complaints about Anchor Hocking Cookware that have been posted and sure enough 12 pages describing exactly what happened to me last night. I was cooking Chicken Parmesan in the largest Anchor pan I have @ 400 degrees for 25 min. I pulled the glass out of the oven nice and easy and when I set it atop my stove it exploded into 500 million large and tiny pieces in my oven, on top of my oven, clear into my dining room, living room, what a mess!

Thank goodness I only have one mark on my arm and not all over my face and in my eyes. This was not old cookware and I have used it before with no problems. Never again will I use this brand of cookware and I will make sure to let everyone know that I see.

Thank goodness none of my family or family dog were nearby when this pan exploded! Very scary! I now have divits on my kitchen floor, cupboards, and walls from the glass exploding. I now have to buy all new cookware and continue to clean up tiny slivers I find.

I had company so we all went out to dinner. I was angry and embarssed about this!

I will throw out all of my anchor hocking products, I have a total of 9. I will also tell all of my friends how dangerous this is! I took pictures of the mess....

This is unacceptible. Now I must go out and buy all new casserole, baking and serving dishes. Not good ! I am so angry. I have read all of the complaints I cant beleive it! Something must be done!!!

i was baking chicken in the real big glass pan i have used so many times before. when i slide the oven rake forward it exsploied in my face. i am chip up and really scared. how this happen is so wrong. please call me. it ruined all my dinner for my faimly. i lost my ten chicken breast and stuffing and corn. cut my face and my oven is gas so i have to get the very bottom cleaned out before i can use it, i have several cuts on my face and arms and legs, nothing that will require stickes thank God.

I have a 3 pan set of Anchor Hocking baking pans. I cooked 15 Totinos Pizzarolls in the medium pan, took the pan out of the oven and set it on my stove (only 2 months old) and it exploded right in my face. Glass went all over the kitchen, all over the inside and outside of my stove and oven, and all over the front of me.

Approximately 6 weeks at 2:30 in the morning, my girlfriend and I awoke to a loud explosion. We sat straight up in bed and said "did you hear that"? We both thought it sounded like a brick being thrown through our 8' by 8' patio door. We checked all the windows in the house,glass doors,mirrors and made sure all glass pictures were still hung on the wall. After about 15 minutes of searching we discoverd millions of glass pieces on the kitchen floor and in the cupboard.

What we found was our Anchor-Hocking caserole dish had exploded in the cupboard, blowing the cupboard door open sending shattered glass everywhere. The dish had only been used once, 4 months prior to this happening. The dish was sitting in room temp on the bottom shelf in the lower cupboard with nothing sitting on top of it except for a tupperware container used for lettuce head storage. Literaly oz's of weight. It took hours to clean up and I was cut a few times cleaning up all the glass. Remember this is at 2:30 am. Way to much fun!

After reading the posts we are very fortunate it did not explode while handeling and in the company of others. Anchor-Hockings attempt to replace the exploding items and say they are not responsible for damage or injury is rediculous! Anchor- Hocking glassware is defective and can explode at any given moment. Not only when used with heat.

The oven took many hours to clean of the glass. I have to contact GE regarding how to get the glass out of the bottom unreachable part of the oven, and to see if the glass has done any unrepairable damage. I have several cuts on my hands. I am very afraid of this cookware now and would not recommend it to anyone.

I will never use Anchor cookware again. I put a marinated Pork Tenderloin in the oven and after about 15-20 minutes in the oven I heard a funny noise and opened the oven to shattered glass all over.

I bought a 13x9 Anchor baking dish yesterday at Target which I used this morning to bake a casserole. The dish had only been in the oven an hour when I heard a strange noise and opened the oven door to find the dish had exploded and shattered into hundreds of pieces.

I had chicken marinating in a plastic bag in the fridge. I took it out, turned on the broiler, and put my chicken in a square Anchor Hocking pan. I let it broil for ten minutes, opened the broiler to flip the chicken over, and the pan exploded.

I am very, very lucky that I was not cut or burned by the shards. My head was very close to the chicken as I turned it. It's just a broken dish and two pounds of ruined chicken breasts, but it freaked me and my daughter out! I will never bake with Anchor Hocking again, and I'm throwing all the rest of my non-metal pans away.

I had chicken marinating in a plastic bag in the fridge. I took it out, turned on the broiler, and put my chicken in a square Anchor Hocking pan. I let it broil for ten minutes, opened the broiler to flip the chicken over, and the pan exploded.

I am very, very lucky that I was not cut or burned by the shards. My head was very close to the chicken as I turned it. It's just a broken dish and two pounds of ruined chicken breasts, but it freaked me and my daughter out! I will never bake with Anchor Hocking again, and I'm throwing all the rest of my non-metal pans away.

I have both the Pyrex brand and Anchor glass dishes with lids.The Anchor Brand lids keep cracking making them useless for storage of food.

While cooking chiken in our oven, the dish exploded. It broke out the front glass of our oven, and cause other damage to the inside of the oven. What a mess to clean up.

The blue lids on the storage bowls split on the sides. No longer do they seal tightly and I cant put anything with liquid in them.

Several weeks ago I purchased a 9 x 13 glass baking dish. I preheated my oven 350 degrees, put in my chicken and within 10 minutes the dish explored into a million pieces. I purchased another one over this weekend, and the same thing happened, only this time my granddaughter was standing next to the oven and when the pan explored it sounded like a gun shot. She ran to me crying thinking someone was shooting as us. These dishes appear to be very dangerous.

I was cooking chicken fingers in the oven ,they were done and I brought the 9x13 glass pan out of the oven set it on top of stove,turned to get a plate and explored all over the place, large pieces down to sliver pieces and my 2 grandsons were right there and my daughter. They ran because of the big bang and I luckily turned away but the glass hit me in the back and not my face and chest. I am totally appauled by the workmenship of this company and I want something done immediately.My daughter is still cleaning up glass pieces 5 days later because they are so small and she can not see many all.

I cooked chips for about 8 minutes at 425 degrees, and had it out of the oven for about 5 minutes - eating it while the dish, resting on a ceramic plate, was in my lap - and it exploded.

My foot was burned all over. A small burn on my leg. A couple small lacerations. If my dog was lying in his place next to me on the couch, he would have been blinded or killed. I am still finding glass shards in the carpet, etc, three days later.

Had a nice casserole/pan I used on low heat on stovetop (I have used on stovetop prior without incident) - heard "gunshot" and found the contents slumped on the burner with glass on stove, floor, across Kitchen.

Had to corral dog, clean kitchen, waqit for morning until stove burner cooled off, so far have at least one cut

Purpose of going glass was to avoid metal leaching from priuor cancer; but am going today to search for older stainless steel. I WILL not deal with this kind of problem again!!

Used a Anchor Hocking glass baking dish with lid. Used to cook dinner. Noticed when washed dishes the rim on the lid was chipped. Don't know if glass was ingested or not. Did not handle lid in a rough manner.

I have a set of 3 clear glass baking dishes in graduating sizes. I've used them all at one time or another. Last week, I preheated my oven, placed some frozen tarts into the dish, turned the oven down and placed the dish in. After appx ten minutes I heard an explosion. The baking dish had shattered into millions of tiny shards of glass. It has taken hours, literally to clean up the mess. My highest level of distress is this: the baking ware belongs to my daughter, who has 2 young children. She recently moved oout of state so I have much of her things that she was unable to take with her,

Thank the powers that be that I had not yet sent her those baking pans. With a 2 year old in the house(and under foot as they often are) this could have been a tragedy rather than just a major irritation. I broke the other two pans and threw them away(I broke them so no one else would be tempted to use them.I would seriously like to know how Anchor Hocking is handling this problem. I looked on line at other glassware manufacturers and found only a handfull of similar complaints with other companies. Anchor hocking had pages of like complaints.

I bakes some scalloped potatoes in the oven for 35 min. in a 13x9 classware pan. Took them out of the oven and served supper. About 5 minutes into supper, the glassware exploded and sent shards of glass into all three of our plates as well as the kitchen and dining area. The entire meal was ruined, and I was cut on my hand, as was my fianc (he was cut a bit worse). Needless to say, the entire meal had to be scrapped and the kitchen and dining room thoroughly cleaned before we could try to prepare another meal. The pan is about 8 months old. I have used Anchor Hocking for years. Not sure if I will continue to do so. Might switch to metal (even tho it cooks differently)

I bought a set of 2 cup Anchor Hocking Company glass containers with red lids at Mervyn's before the store went bankrupt. The lids do not fit onto the containers. They pop up.

On 4/18/09 I heated macaroni and cheese in a blue Anchorware dish (9x9) at 325F. After 20 minutes, it sounded like a car ran into our china cabinet. The dish exploded into countless pieces and shards. The macaroni was dripping onto the oven coils waiting to become a hazard. If we were opening the door at the time, we would surely have suffered significant injury. The obliteration of the dish was amazing. The oven floor was lined with glass fragments.

I lost my dish and my macaroni. Fortunately I didn't lose an eye or endure any other injury.

We purchased coffee cups from Walmart. These cups are Anchor Hocking #32. The problem with the cups is that the mold casting edge is so sharp the its real hard to hold the cups by the handles. We have checked the other cups at Walmart for replacement [same cup, same problems. We like the cups very much. We intend to keep them, but may have to use our old ones. Thank you

We have no damage to complain about [just hard to hold the cups] we just want someone to correct the problem with the cups

I was preparing 20 Sausages in two seperate glass cooking dishes for my bosses mobile food service when I heard a sound as if the rack in my oven fell. I opened the oven to find the cookware had shattered. I had to extinguish the fire made from the grease and ruined all the sausage.

My boss is now out the money for the dish, the sausage and the profit. I will never use this product again so you can say the money is lost for the other dish even though it didnt explode yet.

I prepared a casserole in my new Anchor Hocking Company 5 piece expressions Deluxe casserole dish, I put it in the oven @ 400 degrees not even 5 minutes later i hear a loud popping noise I walked over to the oven opened it and to my suprise the dish had exploded in the oven with my casserole everywhere.I'm very upset with what happened not only were my children in the kitchen coloring when the glass shattered all through the oven it scared them and also its the money issue you pay extra money for glassware that is suppose to be durable and it blows up in the oven as soon as you put it in.

I now have glass all through the inside of my oven food everywhere and im not sure of the damage done to my oven. Im very upset with this situation an dexpect to have some sort of action taken

When roasting vegetables with liquid in the dish we heard a loud pop sounding like the oven rack had fallen. Seeing the smoke and steam coming out from around the door (The door was closed)we opened the door and were quite surprised at the mess we found in our oven. The Anchor Hocking dish had shattered. The food was on the bottom of the oven as was quite a bit of the glass. There was nothing that we were able to salvage plus we got to clean this pile of vegetables and shards of glass up. Have used Pyrex and Anchor Hocking for years and this has never happened before. The dish was About 20 Years old as are the rest that I use almost daily. Is it time to find other bakeware beside the 2 I have been using? The dish that broke was 14x10 inch cake type of dish. Actually the dish I use the least because of its size.

Time to start looking for new bakeware. Not so sure I trust the rest not to do the same thing. Only one of us got cut and very minor. I'm glad that my grandchildren were not using this dish when this happened.

i purchased a glass cooking dish to fix supper in for my family. after preparing it i put it in the oven on 400 degrees. after cooking for about 20 minutes i heard an explosion. i ran to the kitchen and opened the oven door. i saw my supper was ruined because the glass dish i was cooking in exploded.i called the store where i just bought it and they did refund my money. but my concern after looking up this item on the internet was shocking that this has happened so frequently. i know that i will never buy this brand again. i was kinda freaked out because i usually go to the oven about halfway through the cooking time to check on my meal, i am glad i had been distracted because it could have exploded when i opened the oven door. it is a shame they have not recalled this product or posted warnings.

I had recently purchased two Anchor Hocking glass pie/casserole dishes from Walmart. It was a Sunday and I prepared two zucchini casseroles and placed them into the anchor hocking dishes. About twenty minutes into the baking process my husband and I heard a tremendous crash along with the sound of ringing glass. We opened the oven door to find that the entire casserole dish on the top rack exploded into hundreds of pieces all over my oven and the bottom dish. All my hard work gone down the drain. The amount of time it took me to make sure all the pieces of glass were cleaned up seemed forever. How can a manufacturer sell such a product? How can a retailer in good faith sell such an item knowing it could harm someone?

Aside from my efforts and the cost to prepare dinner, I had to take apart the oven to clean it. I lost the money put into making the dinner and had to throw away other components of the oven that were ruined due to shattered glass. I cut myself in the process of cleaning up the mess. Glass fell into the oven bottom into draws below, causing me to futher clean up. Just what I needed after a long hard weekend. Horrible, horrible, horrible! Slivers of glass everywhere.

While baking a multi-berry pie in your 9 inch pie dish it exploded in the oven after 20 minutes at 350 degrees. It broke into dozens of pieces & spread the pie filling all over the oven. I paid $5.00 for a package of two pie plates at a Target store in Seattle. I request reimbursement for the full amount of $5.00 & $2.00 for the berries that I lost. I don't want another of your pie dishes & will never use the 2nd plate for any baking.

I would really like to see Anchor reimburse me for not only the cost of the dish but for my ingredients for this peach cobbler. I was so upset once I got on the internet and saw that this has happen before but I was glad that someone is willing to allow me to complain because I feel NO NO NO person should buy this product it is extremely dangerous. Also I do not see a site to anchor where I can even call them.

The glass ware exploded into the air and got all over my counter,carpet,husband and myself. I lost the cost of the dish and my ingredients for my peach cobbler. This matter took us about 30 mins to clean it up good and made us late for my dads birthday party and disappointed him this really made me angry and no way to contact Anchor. Please every store should remove this from their shelves!

I had use the 13x9 glass dish once before. i was baking ribs at 350 and it had only been about 20 mins just as my husband closed the oven door there was an explosion. i thought the rack had fell down so i told him to check it out. as soon as he opened the oven he yelled for me to look my food and the dish was completly shattered everywhere!!

at first i figured it was the fault of my oven or somthing. then i typed the product in the search engine on google and this was the first thing i saw. i was shocked. And i am highly furious. THIS COMPANY SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS!!!! HOW DARE THEY OR WALMART MAKE A PROFIT OFF A PRODUCT THAT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!!! if my husband would have closed that oven any later than he did he would have been seriously injured!!! HE COULD HAVE WENT BLIND OR EVEN BEEN KILLED BY THE GLASS WHEN IT EXPLODED!!! and what would the company do then reimburse me with five new dishes!! who wants to be reimbursed with another dish that will explode? NOBODY!!! this company needs to be put out of business!!

my oven is now all dented and scraped on the inside i am paying for the appliances in my apartment with the 1000 dollar monthly rent now what am i supposed to do when i report it to my landlord that her oven is damaged? i am completly dumbfounded how this company cannot get their products recalled but other companies can that barely harm the consumer? this is absolutely ridiculous! i hate this company and i will NEVER USE THERE PRODUCTS AGAIN!!!

I picked up a 2 cup Fire King liquid measuring cup in one hand, and a 4 cup liquid measuring cup in the other, to put away after doing dishes. While both were in my hands, the 2 cup half-exploded into pure projectiles of tiny shards and a shower of glass dust that coated my entire kitchen for a 15 foot radius, and micro seconds after, the rest kept exploding into bigger chunks until only the handle was left in my hand, cutting my hand before it fell to the floor. I have used these for years, have never in my life heard of something like this happening.

I was coated with glass from head to foot, have several red spots I discovered after that from my left forehead down to my left abdomen that are slightly raised and itchy and burn upon moving, so I'm assuming I have tiny glass shards embedded in my skin, and it went right through my shirt. The shards exploded so violently right in my hand that I'm still reeling 24 hours later from the thought that what if any of that had hit my throat, and how lucky I was to be wearing glasses.

I am already dealing with having lupus and severe fibro, so having to clean all that up on top of being injured was pretty stressful. I've noticed I'm also developing a bruise now further down on my abdomen, possibly from a bigger shard bouncing off my denim capris at high speed.

Since I was so coated with glass, my husband had to help me strip on the spot and roll my clothes into a bag, and we had to put towels down to walk on for clean up just so we wouldn't drag glass dust all over the house on our shoes. My wool slippers were full of glass, and my husband helped me step out of them into shoes he brought me just so I could move from the spot onto the towels and not get more glass on my feet. We spent hours wiping down counters, sweeping and vacuuming the entire kitchen, and washing two loads of laundry, plus I had to shower right away to get the glass dust off me before I could put on more clothing.

I am a high risk long term chronic patient, have monthly follow ups with my doctor and a neurologist, just had an MRI last week. If I wind up having to go to urgent care for this, and they put me through more imaging tests, this is easily going to run into the thousands. Since I was at ground zero during this high speed explosion, and since I have glass in my skin, I'm hoping this doesn't further develop into lupus flareup, which will result in ER intervention, and consequential rheumatology visits. I am already pending for legal disability and am a well documented individual, so I'm sure showing these red spots to a doctor and describing this incident will be taken very seriously.

Today is Saturday, February 21, 2009. I am cooking sausages at 350 degree as I normally do, but today decided to use my Achor glassware 13 X 9 pan that is suppose to be safe for oven use. After about 15 minutes I checked the sausages and closed the oven door bake. Approximately 10 seconds later, there was a loud bang and I thought the oven rack had fell or something. Open the oven door and the dang glass pan had shattered all over the oven. I was in total shock. I had used this dish before and this had never happened. I decided to get on this site and file a report, only to find that this had happened to many many other people before. This product most definitely need to be taken off the market.

Thanking God that the glass shattered in the oven after I closed the door instead of in my face. Glass was all over my food and oven. A absolute total mess. I took a picture, because Anchor authorities need to see this mess. There need to be a consumer alert warning and this product need to be recalled and taken off the market, before someone get seriously hurt. I am keeping the glass in a safe secure place because I want to be reimbursed for this item and my wasted food.

I purchased 2 Anchor Hocking Premium 1.5 qt glass loaf dishes from Walmart three weeks ago. This was the second time I used them. There were the two Anchor loafs, one Pyrex (had for 20 years), one metal loaf and muffin pan in an electric oven. They had been in the oven for 30 minutes on 350 degrees when I heard a shot ring out in the kitchen. Then another shot. I was afraid to go in the kitchen..... There was a noise coming from the oven, so I went up to the glass oven door and saw that one of my new Anchor dishes was in millions of pieces and the partially baked bread was oozing out in the oven and down on the element. The glass had exploded with such force, that glass had landed in all the other pans in the oven.

Everything was ruined and I had a mess. To make this worse, I was baking Amish Friendship Bread, so now I have to wait another 10 days for the starter to be ready to make the bread again. I was getting ready to go and take the muffin pan out. If I had, it may have exploded while I had the door open. I was not physically hurt, but lost the batch of bread that I had prepared. The cost was around $25 and 10 days of preparing.

Until I started searching the web, I was not aware of the frequency of this happening. I called the number on the Anchor Hocking website and left a message. My call was returned and the lady was nice, but stated that this happens. She said she would send me another dish and set of glasses for my trouble. She said the heat didn't cause it, it happens some times and there is a warning on the label. Well, if this happens, I will not be using my other one or the items they are sending. I was told it didn't matter if it was hot or cold, it could still happen. I was amazed to see all the complaints on this site. I agree, they are dangerous and should fix their exploding glassware or stop making it.

I had prepared a corn casserole for company at my home. I opened the oven, my daughter put the casserole into the oven. Just as she shut the oven door the glass dish exploded in the oven, the casserole covering my gas oven. We immediately shut the oven off. After the oven cooled we cleaned out the glass and most of the casserole, before having to use the self cleaner on the oven to clean up the mess. Everyone was extremely devastated at the explosion and the disruption of my dinner party. This was my first purchase of an Anchor Ware product. I will never purchase one again. I will stick with Pyrex which I have used for years with no incident.

Total mess in oven, with broken glass and splattered food. Daughter stepped on a tiny piece of glass not caught in the swipe up after trying to clean oven out of glass.

I was using (2) 13 x 9 glass Anchor Hocking baking dishes to cook ribs for Sunday dinner. I preheated the oven to 450*F and put the ribs in the oven to brown. After 15 minutes, I turned the oven to 325*F and opened the oven door to cover the ribs with foil. When I did, one of the dishes exploded, sending shards and fragments of glass flying. I took a couple of small pieces to my shin, drawing blood, and several more melted into the vinyl flooring. Of course, it was a huge mess and $20 in ribs had to be tossed out. These dishes have been well cared for and in use for about 10 years with no visible chips or cracks.

We bought an Anchor-Hocking 13x9 glass bakeware dish from WalMart on Saturday to bake a brownie recipe in. After the dish was in the oven for about 35 minutes on 350 the entire dish shattered into millions of pieces and everything fell into the bottom of the oven.

I contacted Anchor Hocking about a refund on the dish and for the ingredients that were ruined because of it. They have requested the ability to inspect the dish and want me to send it all to them, with my receipt. They have offered to send a replacement dish, but I don't plan on using glass in my oven again.

Thankfully there were no injuries, it just set off a very inconvenient chain of events.

While melting 1/4 stick of butter in a 2 cup microwave safe measuring cup, the cup exploded in the microwave oven. There was a bang when it exploded. The microwave had been set for 20 seconds and the butter was only slightly melted.

No damage was done. Just wanted to submit the item for safety notification.

I had to throw away everything (the chicken and the dish) and called for a Pizza, it was getting late and my children were really hungry by then.

I can see, after reading here, that it's not an isolated case and this glassware is really dangerous.

I hope something can be done to warn people who own this brand.

This accident was really strange for me because I used this dish for the same recipe always, and I had had it for ten years now, so I really dont know what happenned but it really scared me and my children.

I purchased a Anchor Hocking glass dish reported for oven cooking. I put a macaroni and cheese mixture in the oven on Christmas at 350 degrees, about 15 minutes later I heard this explosion from my oven, this glass dish literally exploded into a million pieces. I called the company and reported the incident and the comment I got was that this could happen. She also advised me to keep the glass and she gave me a contact person whom I cannot reach. What recourse do I have?

I have not been able to use my oven, this could have been a serious situation if I had opened the oven when this dish exploded.

I have purchased a 2 Quart 8x8 ovenproof glass dish from Walmart about a week ago. I had used it once with absolutely no problem. Today, after cooking a sweet potato casserole at 350 degrees for 35 minutes, I took it out of the oven and set it on my counter. I dished out two servings before the thing exploded into a million shards. It took forever to cook, and I had to discard all my food due to pieces of glass everywhere. This product is DANGEROUS!!! I wish I still had my receipt to bring back to Walmart. Anchor and Walmart should NOT be profiting from this product. It needs to be taken off the market! I will NEVER buy anything from Anchor again!

I was using a 1 cup measuring cup for the first time. It was made by Anchor Hocking Inc. I had put sugar in the cup and added to the pan. Next, I added karo syrup. I was looking to see if I had measured it correctly. All of a sudden their was an explosion as loud as a gun shot . When I opened my eyes I had only the handle left in my hand. There was at least a hundred pieces of glass all around me. The sound was so loud it took my hearing from my left ear for almost a hour.

Everything I used was room temperture there was nothing that should have cause this to happen. I got the measureing cup from a Walmart, in Columbia, Tn. I feel very lucky that I was not hurt. After reading all the comments about Anchor Hocking Cookware : I feel they should do something about it!

My hearing was gone in my left ear for an hour or more. I was really concerned that it was not going to come back. I have lots of anixety from this. I'm scared to put anything in my microwave. I am really nervous about using glass products.

i recently bought 2 anchor fire king 250ml glass measuring cups. on new year eve, i used one to measure some room temperature water. i left it in the sink with the other dishes. all of a sudden it exploded into small piece which went flying in a 3m radius. i was lucky not to be close by the sink at that point.

i will taking the other one back to the shop.

My Anchor glass dish exploded in the oven. Please make others aware. dinner ruined

We switched to glass measuring cups to avoid the use of plastic containers in the microwave. The 4 cup container exhibited chipping on the rim. There were about 3 chips in the glass that appeared after about one month of use.

There was a glass chip that was found in a scallop potatoe dish. The 4 cup container was used to mix ingredients for that potatoe dish and the chip fit into one of the 3 missing sections.

The pie dish shattered in the oven when I baked potatoes in it at 190C. I spent a long time and with great care cleaning every tiny piece of glass inside the oven.

I have thrown out all of baking dishware - I had the full set, so now I have to spend more money to buy more baking dishes. I am very upset with this product. I am just glad that I wasn't cooking for a large party as I often do. If you own this brand of anything throw it out before you have an unfortunate case like I experienced.

I have to purchase new cookware since I am throwing the rest of the products away. Oven still works, but just had to spend A LOT of time cleaning the oven.

On 12268 my husband made a french toast casserole and put it in the oven at 350. It was in the oven for 30 min. We heard a pop and explosion, opened the oven door, glass was everywhere. All over the floor and oven. Fortunately, no one was hurt. This company has had numerous complaints about this. The product is defective. We kept the glass and took pictures for evidence.

Glass is all over the floor and oven. Exploded in small and large pieces. Some are imbeded in the oven.

My wife purchased the Anchor Bakewear dishes. This product is dangerous and needs to be taken off the market ASAP. One of the glass dishes exploded in the oven, glass went everywhere. It took forever to clean.

One month ago we bought a set of small Anchor-Hocking glass containers with plastic lids with the idea of preparing and storing food for our 14-month old daughter. Three days ago I recently took a bowl out of the cupboard and added some cold pumpkin puree from the fridge. I fed my daughter and left the bowl on the dining room table. We returned an hour later to find that the bowl had exploded into hundreds of pieces. The razor-sharp shards were broadcast in a 10 foot radius around the table and the floor. Interestingly, there was no mechanism, heating or cooling acting on the bowl - only random and complete failure.

One month ago we bought a set of small Anchor-Hocking glass containers with plastic lids with the idea of preparing and storing food for our 14-month old daughter. Three days ago I recently took a bowl out of the cupboard and added some cold pumpkin puree from the fridge. I fed my daughter and left the bowl on the dining room table. We returned an hour later to find that the bowl had exploded into hundreds of pieces. The razor-sharp shards were broadcast in a 10 foot radius around the table and the floor. Interestingly, there was no mechanism, heating or cooling acting on the bowl - only random and complete failure.

On November 24,2008 I purchased a fire king 4 cup measuring cup,with anchor hocking co marked on it.I purchased it at superstore on gateway road in winnipeg, manitoba,Canada.Today at lunch time I cooked chicken noodle soup in it in the microwave this is at 12 noon.Everything was fine after lunch I washed it and dryed it and put it away in my cupboard,at 7:30 this evening I was watching tv and I heard what sounded like a violent explosion

I rushed to the kitchen to see what happened,the measuring cup exploded with such force the cupboard door actually blew open enough so the glass not only was everywhere in the cupboard but all over my carpet It is very sharp and the whole cup was completely blown apart what a mess.This was the first time it was used and it was used correctly and when I think of what could have happened it actually scares me.

I'm 64 yrs old and have never had anything like this happen to me and I've done a lot of cooking in my time,this product is dangerous and should be taken off the market.It's a accident waiting to happen.I would never use or recommend this product to anyone again.I sent this letter in to make people aware of this problem with this product.The company must know about this problem but have chosen to take people's money and ignore the problem.Maybe it will take a lawsuit to awaken them to there neglect.

Set of three Anchor Hocking dishes 2 cup size with blue plastic lids. The lids do not fit on the dish. I fight to get them on and they pop off.

$5.97 for the set, plus tax 39 cents = $6.36

I received 3 sets of Anchor Hocking glassware as a wedding gift. I had baked a wonderful casserole, and as my husband came in, I had taken it out of the oven. Just as I was ready to place it on a hot pad, the bake ware explode in my hands. The glass and hot food landed all over including my legs and feet. My husband had to bring me to the porch so he could rinse all the food and debris off of me. He took me to emergency and I was fortunate, I only at 2nd degree burns, which healed very nicely.

I lost about $30.00 in food and 2 hours of cooking time. Also a fear of using this item again. I absolutely will not use this bake ware again and won't buy it for any of my loved ones. Wal-Mart replaced the bake ware with Corning Ware as they had received many complaints about his product.

I bought a set of 2 Anchor Hocking glass cookware that are suposely oven safe on April 2007 at Canadian Tire.Last september(2008)my boyfriend was cooking in one of this plate, 20 min. after he as put the plate in the oven at 350 degree he just open the door to check on it than BOUM!! The plate explode into thousands of pieces all over the oven an the kitchen floor! I'ts a miracle that he didn't receive any glass in his face specialy hes eyes!If you live anywere in Canada, specialy in Quebec and had this kind of problem with the same company product please send an e-mail to cricri65@live.ca because we need your testimonys to take those dangerous plates out of the shelf!

My friend and I were sitting in the living room when we heard a massive boom sound come from the kitchen. We went to see what the source of the sound was and when we opened the oven we found the baking dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces all over the inside of my oven. We researched your site Pyrex goes boom and read about similar accounts using Pyrex. Unlike many of the cases reported, there was NO TEMPERATURE CHANGE. I did not even open the oven until after the explosion. The oven was at the 400 degree temperature and the dish exploded for NO reason. We took a picture as evidence.

I have thrown out all Anchor and Pyrex bakeware - my dinner was ruined and I am unable to remove all the shards of glass from the internal crevices of my oven. Lots of work - thank God neither me nor my friend were physically injured. I am sending this right after the incident and may be unaware of further internal damage to my oven.

Glass pan exploded in my oven when baking a casserole at 375 degrees.

I am living in low income housing and getting assistance. The oven is a disaster and the only thing that saved me from bodily injury is that I shut the oven door to get a potholder to take the dish out.

Was baking an apple pie for a benifit dinner on Saturday, preheated the oven, prepared the crust, set aside in 9inch pan while I prepared the filling. After all prep was done I put the pie in the oven set at 400 degrees. Started clean-up in the kitchen when about 4 minutes into clean up I heard a loud pop. I ckecked the oven and to my surprise, my beautiful pie was just about everywhere but in the shattered pan. Whom do I contact regarding this problem?

Incident: November 7, 2008 The purpose of this letter is to notify you of an explosion of Anchor Hocking ovenware inside my conventional oven. This particular incident with the glass 9X13 baking pan was nothing different than previous uses of this same glassware in my oven. The temperature was verified by 2 different thermometers as 350 degrees. The pan of meatballs had been at room temperature before being placed in the oven. Less than 10 minutes later, the explosion spattered glass and meatball sauce all over the oven. a second 9X9 Anchor Hocking glass ovenware was beside the exploded 9X13 pan, unscathed except for glass shards inside the dish. Both dishes were less than 5 years old, carefully handled according to instructions.

Although there was a mess of sauce and glass to clean up, there was no personal injury. However, the explosion was clearly powerful enough to send sauce into the crevices between the oven door and the compartment below the oven. I urge you to take these items off the market and responsibly notify consumers of their danger.

I was preparing chicken and rice i put it in the Anchor Hocking 13x9 glass baking dish and then into the oven. 10 minutes at 350 degrees was obviously to much for the pan to handle. It shattered into millions of pieces ruining the pan, food, and causing me to clean up one giant mess

I lost the cost of the pan and the food. Not to meantion an hour of my hard to come by time cleaning this disaster up!

I recently purchased a 1 cup Anchor Hocking measuring cup. When a few recipes did not turn out as expected, I checked the measurements printed on the cup. First of all, the lines indicating the fractions of a cup are not horizontal.

Secondly, I checked with another measuring cup that I have (and trust!), and found that when the Anchor Hocking measuring cup indicates 1 cup, it is in fact 1 cup plus 3 (three) TABLESPOONS! How on Earth will it be possible to use this for anything but putting plants into?

I am not expecting any action on this. I would just like other consumers to be aware of some potential problems.

While baking a cake for my wife's birthday Anchor Hocking Glassware exploded.

On 10/27/08 I opened up a brand new 3 piece set of Anchor Hocking Glassware to back a cake for my wifes birthday. It was to be a surprise when she got home. I read the back of the package to verify that I could use it in the over and the package stated do not exceed 450 degrees. The directions on the cake mix package stated if using glassware bake at 325.

I preheated the over and began prepping the cake mix. I washed the 13 x 9 x 2 1/2 (estimating the size from memory) Anchor Hocking Glassware in warm water and soap, then hand dried it with a towel. I poured the cake mix into the pan. As the oven beeped to notify me that it was ready, I placed the Anchor Hocking Glassware on the self directly in the middle of the oven. Less then 10 minutes in I hear a load pop.

As I opened the oven I found that the Glassware had exploded into pieces. In shock I turned the oven of immediately, angry, I grabbed my camera and took pictures of the mess. As my wife and son arrived home, instead of seeing me decorating her cake she saw me cleaning up the mess. The mess took over 30 minutes to clean up. I even had to sweep and mop the floor just to make sure that even the finest piece of glass were caught. Today 10/28/08 I got a call from my wife my 10 month order cut his foot right by the stove while he was in his walker, Thank Anchor Hocking for a quality American Product.

I had prepared an apple dessert and had baked it at 350 degrees,turned the oven off and left it in the oven, approx. 5 minutes later I heard a pop and unusual sound; I opened the oven door and glass and the dessert fell out on the top of my range. This was in a top oven. I have been cooking for approx. 60 years and have never had anything like this happen before. I'm just thankful I had not opened the oven sooner or tried to take it out of the oven or I could have been cut and burned badly. There was not a piece of glass larger than 1 1/2 by 1/4 and most was very small chards. I had two glass containers in the over one 6X10 and the other 9X13. The one that exploded was the smaller one. As a result, my guest were about to arrive and my dessert was ruined; therefore, I will never buy another piece of your glassware.

Broken glassware and hugh mess to clean up; plus the price of the item.

While baking a chicken in an Anchor Hocking Glass Bakeware dish, the dish exploded in the oven.

The explosion caused glass to go everywhere within the oven, causing damage to the interior, not to mention the chicken was full of glass shards.

Purchased a Anchor Microwavable bowl at the Base Exchange, Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV. have used it often in the Microwave, never in the Oven of the Stove, for making soups, etc. Yesterday after making soup, I put it in the Dishwasher, and when it went thru it's cycles and shut off, I was removing the washed items, and when I picked up the Anchor Bowl, it shattered in my hand,glass inside the dishwasher, the floor what a mess, and still finding shreds of glass. Believe the bowl was approx 6x10. I have put the broken glass in the trash, and will be taken away today by the Trash Company.

About 3 months ago I bought an Anchor 1 cup glass measuring cup. Now I cannot read any of the measurements on the cup because they have all faded. I have had pyrex measuring cups for 15 to 20 years and I can still read them without any problems.

I can no longer use the measuring cup because the numbers and lines are so faded that you can not see them anymore

While preparing dinner for my large family I had used three casserole dishes, to make a tostada cassserole. The largest of them was on the top of the oven. I had the oven set at 350. After I had the casserole in the oven for 16 minutes, I was working on setting the table, I heard a pop come from the oven. When I opened the oven I found that the biggest of the pans had exploded. So not only had it ruined the food that was in the pan, glass had gone into every pan and ruined my whole dinner, that I had spent two hours preparing.

I had also paid 30 dollars for the food that was now all over my oven. I also had to pay another 30 dollars for pizza to replace it in a hurry. Not to mention the time I had to spend cleaning up the huge mess. I have never had anything like this happen before. I also spent 30 minutes fishing peices out of my oven to get the name off of the pan.

30 dollars at the store, 30 dollars for pizza, and two hours of my time.

2nd Anchor pan I have had to explode in oven. Was baking a pumpkin loaf at 350 degrees; had been in oven for 26 minutes when I heard a loud popping noise, turned oven light on to see pan had shattered in oven. Not only a huge mess of glass, but a huge hot mess of pumpkin bread. This was the second of 2 pans. The first time it happened was a pan of enchilada's. Once again; huge mess and waste of food!

Lost monetary value of pan's as well as ingrediants. Not to mention time and cost of cleaning oven.

I have a garden and I made some home made Zucchini Bread this is the 2nd time I have used this dish oven was set at 350 it still had 20 minutes to go so I went to check on it because it smelt good as I slowly opened the oven door not to make it fall it exploded (the glass dish)I turned off the oven and pretty much freeked out I have heart problems now I am affarid to use glass in the onen. The glass came out of the oven door and my puppy went up to see what was wront and found some hot glass on the floor and burnt his tonge.

I had glass all over me thank god it did not get into my eyes as a person opening up a oven door normaly leans over like I did I got small burns on my arms from the hot glass and some scraps's from it. No I did not go to the hospital as I do not have any insurance to cover this. I have a full set of this and I am affarid to use it.

I put a pie crust in one of my 9 Anchor Hocking pie plates and put it in the oven. It had been there for 7 out of the 10 minutes that I had the timer set for. I opened the door and checked on the crust, and then I went back to the other cooking I was preparing to do on the stovetop, when my husband and I heard a huge popping sound from inside the oven. It startled us both. When I looked inside, the pie plate had exploded inside the oven!!!! Not an easy clean-up, but a lot easier than some of the others! I took loads of pictures and saved the piece with the Anchor Hocking emblem on it!

I personally had no physical damage, but will never have another Anchor Hocking in my home and take the risk of someone getting injured by it!! I lost the cost of two pie plates, all other Anchor Hocking that I own, a double pie crust, the work time put into the pie at that point, whatever electricity it took to run the oven for about 17 minutes, and clean-up time.