Pyrex Cookware

I was preparing dinner, a fillet of S'wai baked in the oven. I wrapped the fillet in tin foil and set it down in a Pyrex casserole dish. I cooked it for about 22 minutes on 400 degrees. When I pulled out the dish and set it on the top of the stove, the dish exploded! Maybe exploded is a bit drastic sounding, but let's just say it blew itself apart into shards all over the kitchen; otherwise, a small explosion of the materials.

As a result, the bottom of my foot got burned and I got a couple of cuts on my legs. I wasn't wearing shoes since I was fairly certain that I wouldn't have anything to worry about cooking in my own kitchen. Why the hell hasn't someone said that there should be some kind of warning label put onto these dishes bearing the Pyrex trademark? It's utterly ridiculous that people are risking being maimed by their cookware in this day and age just because someone wants to save a few dollars on a cook pan.

Someone needs to bring a class action lawsuit against the makers of these damned things until they finally agree to put a big bright label on the cartons that reads, "The use of this product may lead to random explosions during food preparation. Thanks, have a good day."

Admittedly, I got off easy but the burn on the bottom of my foot could have been a burn on my face, a burn on any other part of my body, or a shard of 400 degree glass in my eye. Someone should sift through the thousands of anecdotal accounts on the web and bring a class action lawsuit against these people who are still producing this volatile cookware. Geez, it sounds like such a joke! But it happens. I can attest to it! I can show you the photos of the injuries if necessary!

It's like a terrorist attack from the manufacturing industry every time that someone heats something made of this stuff up in the microwave. I know that there are some differences in the materials, borosilicate glass vs. soda lime glass; well, someone needs to make sure that there are different trademarks for these products so people aren't putting their lives in their hands when they are baking lasagna!

My name is Balbina ** and I have a Pyrex dish that split into two whilst having hot water in it. It was brand new as well. It was quite dangerous as there was hot water inside the dish which could have burnt me.

I was using my 9 x 13 pan in a 375 degree preheated oven. I opened the oven after about 1/2 hour to turn my ribs over and as soon as I opened the oven door, the pan exploded. Glass went everywhere. I was able to close the door before the shards of glass got me. What a mess in my oven, needless to say, and my ribs. I would really appreciate a replacement pan. I don't expect them to replace the ribs, but if they want to, that would be great. I'm looking forward to receiving my new pan.

I have been doing research on BPA and PC in plastic. I was excited to buy the Pyrex set of BPA free glass bowls with plastic lids. I just realized that the lids contain PC. I am very concerned that this harmful toxin is in the lids of the set I just purchased. I feel betrayed.

I purchased a set of new Pyrex dishes with plastic lids. I used the 9x13 pan for the first time. A few weeks after the purchase, on the first use, we made a boxed cake mix, poured it in the pan, and placed it in the oven at 350 degrees. A couple of minutes later, we heard a loud noise, opened the oven, and the dish has exploded into thousands of little pieces, and the unbaked cake mix was spread all over the racks, and the bottom of the oven. I do have a photo.

My round Pyrex baking dish exploded in the oven. I was cooking Au Gratin Potatoes at 375 degrees in the oven. It had been cooking for about 15 minutes then all of a sudden I hear a loud bang and steam started blazing out of the oven door edges. When I opened the oven, my round baking dish was in pieces all over and the food was splattered everywhere inside and on the heating element. I will never use their baking dishes again. Someone could have been seriously hurt.

I was cooking chicken breasts with a Pyrex dish I've had for over a year in a 325 oven for just 10 minutes with my grandson. Upon opening the oven to add another dish to it, the Pyrex pan exploded sending glass and chicken grease all over the place. After reading all of these other complaints, this is the last Pyrex pan/bowl/dish I'll ever use or give as a gift. I hope Pyrex is paying attention.

My husband just pulled a Pyrex casserole dish from the oven, set at 350 degrees and in for 25 minutes. He walked away to set the table and it exploded all over our kitchen. I was standing next to him and our son was in the living room. It was extremely loud and dangerous. No one was hit by glass, but it could have been a trip to the emergency room. It's terrifying. We took pictures.

Last night I made macaroni and cheese. I used a 2-month-old Pyrex 9x12 baking pan that was at room temperature, added the warm ingredients to it, and put it into a preheated (375 degree) oven to finish cooking. About 20 minutes after putting it in the oven, I heard a loud boom and opened my oven door to find that the pan had shattered into hundreds of pieces and the entirety of my oven was covered in pasta, cheese, and tiny shards of glass.

Other than my tried and true vintage Pyrex, I am done with this brand. I am less than impressed with Pyrex's statements regarding the safety of their products and as an experienced cook who knows what I am doing, I resent the manufacturer's claim that the problems with their glassware are 100% user-related.

I was cooking a meatloaf in a glass Pyrex dish @ 350 degrees. After one hour, I opened the oven door and added a little tap water (have done this a thousand times) and the dish exploded. What a mess! Thankfully no one was hurt. I am finished with Pyrex!

I spent the morning cooking. I had ginger bread, a curry, homemade pierogies and two pitchers of iced tea on the counter when a Pyrex dish (totally cooled and recently put away from the dishwasher) exploded all over my kitchen and into all the food I made. Fortunately, my one-year old was on the other side of a baby gate with me standing with my back to the kitchen (my body blocking him from the spray of glass shards) talking to him or we both could have been seriously injured. This is ridiculous!

I bought 2 Pyrex casserole dishes at Wal-Mart recently. Today, I used the 8 x 8 to heat ravioli with spaghetti sauce in a 350 degree oven. After about 5 minutes, the dish exploded in the oven. Glass everywhere, I was cut twice by tiny shards of glass. The casserole was on the bottom of the oven. My husband had to do the clean up. It took forever and was dangerous. I will never use Pyrex again and I want to take my larger Pyrex dish back to Wal-Mart. How come nothing is being done?

I finished baking a batch of brownies in your glass baking tray, as I removed it from the oven, I heard a loud pop, and the entire pan exploded in my hands. My hands were wearing oven mitts, but some glass shards hit my arms and face. I used to only use your products, but I will never use or purchase any again until you fix the problems. It is very unsafe.

I baked chicken at 400F for 40 minutes. Upon removing and placing on top of the stove (grill not heated), the 8x13 glass baking dish exploded in hundreds of small and a few larger pieces. My wife was hit by hot flying glass. What is going on here? The dish was brand new, used once last week for a similar meal at similar temperature. Someone is going to get seriously hurt here.

I was just about to remove a potato casserole from a 350 oven when I heard an odd crackling sound coming from the oven. My brand new Pyrex 9" x 12" baking dish had exploded into thousands of tiny shards all over the inside of the oven. I had just purchased the two piece baking set in December. My family could have been seriously injured. How dare they allow this product to continue on the market!

I cooked a meatloaf in a 9x13 pryex baking disk at a temperature of four hundred degrees for one hour. When I took the dish out of the oven and placed it on the counter, the dish exploded and shattered into lots of little pieces, one hitting my daughter's ankle causing a burn to her ankle.

We've had a couple thick glass casserole dishes for a while. We've used our bigger one, many, many times, and never had any issues with baking, cooling down, or refrigerating. We made a dessert last night that needed to be refrigerated, and we used our smaller one (which we had used in the fridge before). The ingredients were at room temperature, when we layered them in the dish, we put it in the fridge to cool, and we took it out an hour or so later with no issues. After we'd eaten some, we put it back in the fridge and left it overnight. This morning, we found that the glass had completely shattered. Thankfully we did not get hit with the "exploding glass", that other people are experiencing, but we still had to clean up glass shards from all over our fridge. I'm shocked that so many people are getting injured by this, and nothing has been done about it!

I was using 4 cup measuring cup with the handle on it. I put it in microwave on 1 minute on normal setting. I heard a noise towards the microwave, opened the door, and went to take the bowl out of the oven with a pot holder and the handle came apart. It was shattered along with stringy parts of glass hanging onto the little piece of handle that was left on cup. Thank God I had pot holder covering my hands.

Cooking fish in Pyrex 13x9 pan at 350 F. After 10 minutes I heard a pop. Found the pan had exploded.

I had a cooled dish from the night before on the counter. I went to wash it in warm soapy water. It exploded. I was lucky because my hands were out of the sink at the time, but that could have been a disaster. And the temperature shift was so minor that it makes no sense. This product needs to be tempered.

I had a bad experience using your cookware. I was using the 9x13 baking pan dishes baking a peach cobbler at 350 degrees. When I took the peach cobbler from the oven I heard cracking noises as I sat it on the top of the stove it exploded into thousands of little pieces. The glass from the cookware cut my face and now I have scars from the glass sticking in my face. I have read many articles from your product and I was wondering why the product is still on the shelves of many stores. This product is very dangerous and its needs to be address as soon as possible with your ceo and company Pyrex.

This is going to cause someone to be seriously to get injury by getting glass in their eyes. My face is scared and would like to see something done about it now before I have to see and a lawyer. I have talked to the Wal-Mart manager face to face and explain the situation to them and showed them a picture of the pan and my face in person. My main question is why this dangerous cookware still on shelves is and still hasn't been removed from stores. This pan exploded on me Jan. 8th 2012.

I was baking cornbread in my shallow round Pyrex, and I heard a loud pop noise, I opened my oven to find hundreds of little pieces of glass from my Pyrex, it had shattered. What a mess to clean up. Not to mention the fear of using my other Pyrex cookware. What a waste of money.

We have a Pyrex, 6 cup, 8x8x2 container, with a plastic lid. With the Pyrex container at room temperature, I placed some just boiled sausages into the container to cool. About a minute later, the container shattered sending glass fragments across the counter and onto the floor.

I purchased the 4 qt oblong thing or something looking very much like it. I only used it three times around 350 degrees prior but took it up to 425 today. It blew up in my stove. Luckily dinner was in a bag. I can only fear what might have happened if it blew up when my daughter checked her brownies or something. Exploding glass ovenware, eh? Nice product. Hope you made money pinching corners last quarter on quality. My 20-year old pieces are bulletproof.

I purchased an 8"x8" glass Pyrex baking dish on December 31, 2011. On January 3, 2012, my son used it for the first time, baking a Meal-in-a-Bag. After 20 minutes in the oven, the dish exploded all over the inside of the oven. During the cleanup process, he was cut by glass and required a trip to the emergency room for stitches. I have other Pyrex dishes bought over the years that have been fine; however, it appears their new products are of very poor and dangerous quality. I am shocked at what I have read on this site. I will continue to share with friends and others about our experience to prevent this from happening to someone else.

Pyrex 4.8 quart pan (cake pan). Just bought this pan after Christmas 2011. Used it for the first time Jan. 6, 2012. Preheated the oven to 375 degree. Put the pan of chicken in the oven. 15 minutes later, heard a pop, then another pop. Opened oven door to find the new Pyrex pan in hundreds of pieces. Had the bottom of the pan and the food covered with foil.

I got my son a 14 piece Pyrex dish set for Christmas. Today, he used the large bowl for the first time. It came out of the fridge, he ate what he had in it, then placed it in the sink with warm water. When he came down he found it had exploded into three or four pieces. It looks like he's not alone in this. I am shocked to see all the complaints.

I used a Pyrex square (clear) baking dish to bake a small ham wrapped in foil with glaze on it on Christmas eve. When I got it out of the oven and set it on top of my stove, I heard a pop. Since there was glaze all over the bottom of my dish and an alum wrapped ham, I didn't see any obvious cracks, but when I put the dish in the sink water, It must have come apart and my son cut his thumb pretty bad. I had to take him to the urgent care for stitches. I think there must have been a hairline crack in the dish (from the pop noise it had made) because it just came apart when it got into the dishwater.

A glass Pyrex dish exploded in my oven seconds before I would've removed it. It shattered into hundreds of pieces. This caused me ruined meal, destroyed dish, and created a major mess.

The dish was bought on Nov 12th. On Dec 24th, I cooked a potato casserole at 350 for 45min. The casserole was out of the oven for 30 min when it shattered sending glass all over the kitchen and even into the living room. It was amazing that no one was injured.

I baked two french toast strata for a New Year's Day party on Jan 1, 2012. I have had both 9x13 Pyrex dishes for a year or two. The strata were baked at 375 and then placed on the counter to cool in the kitchen, which was also warm (the counter was definitely not cold). After approximately 20 min, we heard a loud explosion; one of the Pyrex dishes had exploded, throwing glass shards into the other french toast dish, as well as a quiche and all the other food on the counter. Everything had to be thrown out. This is unacceptable. I will never purchase another Pyrex product again.

I was preparing a roaster chicken in my oven at 350 for two hours. After and hour and 20 minutes, there was an explosion and my dish shattered in a million pieces. This is the second time this happened to a Pyrex. This perplexes me that this would happen to a dish that I have had for over 15 years! Dinner was salvageable but looking at the complaints, it seems the temperature is very similar (350-375). Is this a consequence? Is there research out there that you should only use it at a higher temperature?

I put some snacks on a brand new Pyrex pie plate and it exploded in the oven. I have an old Pyrex pie plate that I have used in the same manner for years and have never had a problem until using this new one. No injuries except the mess to clean up in the oven itself.

I used a Pyrex to make caramel for a flan and the Pyrex exploded in my hands when I was moving the sugar. The melted sugar covered the top of my stove causing a fire. The hot pieces of glass burned my feet.

My Pyrex dish exploded in the convection oven at 375 degrees, when I was using it to reheat a meal, the day after Christmas. I just bought the dish about a month ago and have used it a bunch of times prior. It was in the oven about 20 minutes, when I heard a load pop, and looked over, and the dish had shattered into a million pieces. Fortunately, it was all contained in the oven, but what a mess to clean up. I have never heard of this before, but it apparently is more common than I thought.

Yesterday, December 27, I was roasting half an acorn squash in a square Pyrex dish at 375 degrees, with about a quarter-inch of water in the bottom. After about 25-30 minutes, I noticed the water had evaporated, and went to add more to the pan. The water was lukewarm, but no matter. It exploded with a huge bang, sending glasses flying through my kitchen and of course all over the oven.

It had shattered in hundreds of pieces. I feel lucky that it missed my eye, considering I was bending with my head at level with the pan and that I was wearing a puffy coat. This could have been very, very bad. The force of the explosion was shocking. I cannot believe that there are so many documented cases of this and nothing has been done. This cookware clearly should not be used at even moderately high temperatures. In other words, this cookware should not be used for cooking. I also have a two year old, who, thankfully was not in the room.

We preheated the oven like the instructions said for new Pyrex glass cookware to cook some enchiladas. As soon as I grabbed each end and lifted it about a foot out of the stove, it exploded in my hands throwing glass and food everywhere. I got cuts on both hands and burns as well from reacting trying to catch the mess. The impact busted the front of the stove which is one large glass face into a thousand pieces. That alone cost me $80 to replace. What a piece of *** they are selling to the public.

On Christmas Day 2011, I placed a vegetable casserole in a 9x13 Pyrex dish in my oven set at 375 degrees. After approximately 25 minutes, we saw smoke coming out of the oven, so we opened the door of the oven and found that the Pyrex dish had exploded all over the oven walls, floor and ceiling as well as the other food in the oven.

Needless to say, dinner was a bit slim! We are very fortunate that the explosion did not happen when we were opening the door to check the food. It took two of us a couple of hours to clean out the oven of food and glass shards of all sizes. Some were so small they looked like glitter on the roof of the oven. I will not use my oven without covering the food with foil for a long long time! We will be contacting Pyrex for reimbursement of the dish, food and inconvenience.

My Pyrex 3 quart Easy Grab oblong container shattered into a million pieces after I took it out of a 375 degree oven and set it on the (cool) stove top. Hot glass shards were everywhere. I had to not only throw away the food that was inside the dish, but all of the food on the stove and countertop around it for fear of dangerous glass contamination. I am so glad this happened to me and not to one of the clients that I personal chef for, because I rely on Pyrex for my business and often pack clients' meals in these exact containers.

Christmas day 2011, 30 minutes into baking two pans of lasagna just when family was arriving for dinner, we heard a loud crashing sound that came from the kitchen. My husband opened the oven and discovered one pan had shattered completely throwing glass and lasagna all over the oven.

We ran to the only open place in town, a Quik Trip, and bought hot dogs and beans. That was our Christmas dinner. After family left and I was cleaning up the mess, I then discovered that my oven no longer works. I will be discarding all of my glass bakeware this week. I do not know if this was a pyrex or anchor hocking product. The pans had belonged to my parents.

Okay, this is my third time trying to complete a post on here and it is getting a little aggravating. On Christmas day I was baking a highly anticipated cornbread dressing in my new Pyrex glass baking dish. The oven was set to 350 degrees and the dressing baked for about 45 minutes. My son removed the dish and placed it on a well ventilated trivet. About ten minutes later he heard a loud pop and turned around to see the pan had shattered into a thousand tiny pieces all over the kitchen. My grandchildren had left the kitchen just moments before! I have never had a pan do this before and was in total shock. There were no drastic temperature changes either. When I purchased this pan it was part of a combo pack (two oblong pans). You can be darn sure I won't be using the other one for baking. I've owned many Pyrex pans over the years and this has never happened.

I will be contacting Pyrex and hopefully they will reimburse me rather than sending me another pan, because I cannot trust their brand anymore. Judging by all the similar complaints I've read, this is a lawsuit just fixing to happen with perhaps dire consequences. I am just thankful that no one was seriously injured. My daughter cut her hand while helping to clean up, but no stitches were required. I haven't contacted Pyrex yet, but will be doing so tomorrow.

12/23/11 my wife had been making Christmas cookies about 4 days earlier with the intention of making more latter. Since she was unable to resume the baking I cleaned up the kitchen island of all the baking tools and dishes. I hand washed a large 4 cup Pyrex measuring cup in lukewarm water and set it in the strainer down in the sink upside down to dry. There was nothing piled on it, in fact only 3 other small items were in the sink. I then made a few batches of cookies from a store bought bag mix so we would have enough, not using the measuring cup. About an hour to hour and a half later the last batch was on the counter and I had my back turned working away from the sink luckily.

I heard a huge bang like pop. I thought a mason jar fell of a shelf above but it was the measuring cup. It exploded in the sink luckily sending only a small amount of pieces out of the sink. I threw out the batches of cookies that were in the open near the area and swept the floor, the handle is amazingly shattered. What a mess and disappointment. To make matters worse, on Christmas day my wife was going through the kitchen and found a small shared of glass I missed and is now in the heel of her foot. Pyrex is out of my house! I guess the strangest part of this is that there was no change in temperatures the measuring cup went through. It was just washed and sitting in the strainer untouched then Bam!

I put chicken wings in the Pyrex glass 9x13 dish in a 400 degree oven as I have in the past with this dish. This Xmas eve, I heard an explosion and my gosh, there was glass and sauce everywhere! It didn't just explode, it shattered into thousands of pieces! I have a double oven and it blew in every crack. Thank goodness, no one was walking by when it happened! What a mess, I think I will find glass for weeks with this mess. It ruined my appetizers for our holiday but it could have ended up a lot worse. I don't understand, what is happening all of a sudden.

Last week, my elderly mother used one in her microwave, it blew and it actually caused a fire in it. She had to buy a new microwave. Then my girlfriend said hers blew when she went to stir something in her dish and what a mess it caused. It's scary, and now I look at my other Pyrex in a different light. There should be a warning about this put out, I was surprised to see so many complaints here!

The 9X13 glass Pyrex baking dish absolutely ruined our Christmas dinner. I had baked cinnamon apples in my Pyrex baking dish (I have used Pyrex for many years). Company had arrived and I opened the oven door to check the apples and just as I bent over the dish to stick a fork in the top of the apple to see if they were ready, the dish exploded into a million pieces throwing glass everywhere (ruining all my other dishes that were in the oven). I screamed as it scared me, my son ran in to see what had happened. A guest who seen this remarked how they had never seen anything like it before.

Bottom line, these dishes are unsafe. Had this glass blew up in my face, it could have left me injured for life or possibly blind. Imagine hot glass pieces piercing into your body or eyes. It completely ruined my holiday meal for me and my guest and left me with a huge mess to clean up (inside & outside of my oven). Pyrex needs to be held accountable for there unsafe bake-ware before someone does get seriously hurt. They should also be made to reimburse people with these issues for their lost food and time . We put a lot of time into preparing our meals especially our family traditions at the holidays. From what I have read, Pyrex has been at fault for many meals being thrown away. I will be contacting Pyrex headquarters as well to give them a piece of my mind.

My husband just bought me a 9x13 for Christmas. I went to wash it in lukewarm water this morning (1st time) and it exploded into millions of pieces. The force was so bad that glass shards stuck in my hands and I have 5 nice cuts between both hands! There was glass everywhere in the sink, all over the counter, on the floor, and all over my clothes. There must have been thousands of pieces. I am thankful that it didn't hit my eye or my 2-year-old daughter that had been standing beside me about 30 seconds earlier!

I will be contacting Pyrex and forward on the photos. This dish was brand new, never used, 1st time being washed. It was purchased 4 days ago at Sears Canada.

I had a Pyrex 9x13 dish explode after I baked corn bread in it. It had set out about 15 minutes on the table when I heard an explosion, glass flew everywhere! Luckily, my children were not in the room or they could have been cut from the glass pieces. I had to throw all of our food out because there were slivers of glass in everything! This was a new dish and I would like to be refunded for it!

It just happened. I took out layer bars baked in Pyrex 9 x 13 glass bake pan. I was sitting on counter cooling and heard a large explosion. Glass all over kitchen. Luckily no one was hurt. Glass was everywhere and layer bars in the garbage. I will be contacting Pyrex. This is a fairly new baking dish and only the second time using it.

On Thanksgiving 2011, I decided to use my grandmother's plum color 9x13 casserole to rise the dinner rolls and bake. After 5 hours of rising, I put them in the oven to bake. After taking them out and sitting them on the stove, I buttered the top. They were beautiful. Within 10 seconds I heard an explosion, then a 2nd explosion, and a 3rd. Glass flew everywhere. I emailed Pyrex within 2 days to find out why this happened. I received a response from April to call. The lady who answered tried to make it seem like I did something to cause this. I let her know I've done this numerous times and never had this problem. She apologized and sent me a new casserole dish.

Terrible. I was cooking boneless ribs on 350 in a 9 x 13 dish and after 15 minutes in the oven, I heard a big bang and the Pyrex dish shattered in the oven. Broken glass was everywhere, which ruined our dinner. I had to go and order out to feed my family. What if it would have exploded as I was taking it out of the oven? This is a dangerous product and should be recalled.

I was baking a pork roast in a 13x9 Pyrex dish. I checked the temperature of meat thermometer after about 40 min. Added small amount of water to pan and the thing just exploded. I don't mean cracked - I mean 40-50 pieces of glass went flying everywhere. I was in process of closing the oven door so most stayed inside, but glass did also fly out of oven all over kitchen floor. So lucky I wasn't injured.

Was cooking a meatloaf in the oven in a Pyrex 9x5 loaf pan. After about 50 minutes, I heard a loud explosion from the kitchen. I opened the oven door to see the bottom of the oven covered in glass. I actually had a second meatloaf in the oven and had to through that out too. Will probably be throwing out the rest of my Pyrex pans.

My Pyrex 9x13 exploded in THE oven after maybe 10-15 minutes at 400F. The Pyrex had been taken out of the drawer and had not been in the refrigerator. The contents of the casserole were not cold. I've been cooking in my older Pyrex for twenty years with no problem. This was a new Pyrex.

Pyrex 9x13 exploded while cooking chicken in oven after 30 minutes at 350 degrees. A month ago, a Pyrex 8x11 exploded when taken out of oven 350 degrees cooking sweet potato. Ruined dinner, mess in kitchen, throwing out all my Pyrex dishes and will tell all my friends and family to do the same.

When taking out baked brussel sprouts from the oven, the glass pan exploded in the middle of our kitchen. At no time was the pan ever in contact with anything other than the air. This is the second Pyrex pan that has exploded in the past two months. The last one exploded when the glass pan was heating chicken in the oven. There is a serious quality control issue that could result in serious injury, should exploding glass enter one's body or eye. My family plans to warn our friends of the dangers using this product. I shall also lodge a formal complaint with the appropriate agencies, especially in light of the substantial number of complaints listed about the product.

Pyrex 9 by 13 exploded while in the oven for 15 minutes of cooking turkey meatballs. I used it many times without any problems. Not good! I will no longer use Pyrex.

I purchased two baking pans, and prepared a cake that ended up all over the oven. The pan exploded after six minutes in the oven at 325 degrees. What a mess. I will not use the second pan or buy any more Pyrex cookware in the future. What has happened to this product? I have older cookware, Pyrex cookware, and I am now afraid to use these again.

I was cooking dinner using a 3 quart Pyrex glass baking dish. Dish was in for 25 minutes at 450 degrees. I took the dish out of oven, took out food, and went to put dish in sink. Literally, it sounded like a bomb went off. The dish shattered in my hand. There were pieces of glass in the oven mitt. Sharp hot glass everywhere!! Thank god I was not hurt. Thank god I had an oven mitt on.

Terrible. After 20 minutes in the oven at 375, the Pyrex dish shattered in the oven. Broken glass and ruined our dinner. What if it would have exploded as I was taking it out of the oven? This is a dangerous product and should be recalled.

While baking salmon in my brand new Pyrex 9X13 baking dish, it exploded after 15 minutes at 375 degrees. There was not a drastic change in temperatures. The dish had not been in the fridge beforehand. The glass was a pain to clean up. It could have been a lot worse and could have caused a lot of harm.

I use many Pyrex dishes. I purchased a new rectangular 2 qt baking dish on 11/29/11. On 12/3/11, I used it for the first time to bake lasagna at 350'. Right after I checked progress at 35 minutes, I mean right after I had stuck my face into the oven to look at it, the Pyrex dish exploded in the oven. Sharp glass shards and boiling hot lasagna were everywhere, but thankfully only in the oven! I feel very lucky, but will never, ever use Pyrex dishes again.

I have used Pyrex for more years than I care to mention, but after last nights experience I will not be using again. After baking pork chops at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, the dish exploded as soon as I removed it from the oven.

About 45 minutes into cooking a chicken in a Pyrex dish, we heard a loud explosion from the oven. The dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces. The oven was set at 350 degrees, the normal baking temperature. It was a real mess to clean up the oven. Chicken dinner was wasted. Scary situation for no apparent reason, i.e. no change in temp, pressure, etc.

I was taking the scalloped potatoes out of the stove and it exploded. There were shards all over the kitchen. Luckily, I was the only one close enough and I wear glasses. Several shards from the handles hit my face. Pyrex does not respond to any questions about the safety of their product.

On Thanksgiving, I had just taken my Pyrex casserole filled with stuffing out of the oven, and set it on my cook top in preparation for my guests, to begin the buffet line. All other foods were nicely set up beside and around this Pyrex dish, and everything looked so appetizing. Just as my first guest was about to partake, this dish exploded with glass and pieces flying everywhere, covering the nearby foods. I was devastated. Although, I am thankful nobody got hurt or burned from this ordeal, I am irritated and annoyed that this could happen, after many uses of this product.

Not only did I have to take the time to clean up this horrendous mess, I needed to scrape off a whole layer of food on everything, leaving little for my guests to pick from. After about 15 minutes of groveling to right this wrong, the food was cold, and the mood of this family festivity has lost it's spirit. As we ate and tried to forget, I silently sat there watching everybody gingerly chew their food, feeling as uncomfortable as I was. I will think twice before I replace this casserole dish with another Pyrex.

On Thanksgiving, I was roasting my 15 lb. turkey. After two hours of cooking, there was a very loud bang which came from the oven and steam immediately started spewing out the closed door and the fire alarm began ringing. I opened the door to find the turkey resting on the oven grate and the roaster in a million pieces. I had intended to go outside with my grandsons. Had I done that, there would have been an oven fire because of the fat dripping down onto the gas flame in the broiler. I cannot stress the danger of using any product that can explode "at will." I had the best outcome under the circumstances. There could have been terrible burns had this happened as the turkey was removed from the oven or there could have been a fire in my apartment building. These products should be removed from store shelves. They provide a false sense of security.

I had a Pyrex baking dish explode in my oven tonight. Used exactly as I have a number of times previously. The oven was full of glass shards. Pictures are available if confirmation is required.

I had been baking rolls in my 9x13 Pyrex pan all morning. At one point, it was sitting on my glass cook top, and the burner got turned on. It was on for less than 10. About 4 hours later, I washed all of the pans including that one. I used a steel wool pad to get the burn marks off. I then set it on the Formica counter top face up, while I finished the other dishes. It was there for 15 minutes. Out of nowhere it exploded! No one touched it, nothing fell on it, and obviously it was room temperature. One piece flew over and hit my daughter in the wrist, as she was working on her computer 8 feet away! What the heck! That had a potential of causing very serious injury!

For Thanksgiving, I made a corn casserole in a Pyrex dish and packed it in its Corning portables carrier. I placed it on the floor of the passengers seat, where no one was sitting so I know it did not get hit by anything. When we opened up the carrier to put the casserole on the table, the dish was broken in many pieces. There was no possible way we could eat it. This was a very expensive set ($40-50, as I recall) that I received in the last 2-3 years as a gift. I thought I had somehow done something wrong with the carrier, though I was very careful with it. After reading all these other submissions of broken dishes, I know it was not my fault.

On November 24, 2011 I was baking cornbread for our Thanksgiving meal in my 8 x 8 inch Pyrex dish - one that I had received in a set for Christmas 2010. I removed the finished bread from the oven, set it down on a glass-top JennAire range and it exploded into thousands of pieces within seconds.

I had used this pan literally every week for the entire past year without an issue. Had I not placed it to the left of me, I would have been sprayed with glass shrapnel. I knew exactly what had happened as I had read about the problem a few weeks prior in an online article. I cannot believe that this company is not held responsible for products that are so dangerous to the public. I immediately took pictures of the exploded dish and hope that they will help in making Pyrex held responsible for their dangerous product.

In preparation for Thanksgiving dinner, I had prepared stuffing, and was baking it in my 9X13 casserole dish on 350 degrees. When I removed it from the oven and placed it on top of the stove, it exploded into a million pieces. It burned and cut my arm, but I feel lucky that it was not more extensive than what it was. I am very concerned about the other Pyrex pieces that have. Help!

Today, Thanksgiving Day, I was cooking our capon in a 350 deg. oven. The large Pyrex baking dish exploded with a bang, filling the oven with glass shards. The bird, I assume is ruined. It was sitting in a pile of glass. At age 59, and a good cook, I've been using Pyrex all my life. This particular dish was brand new - my old dish being at a friend's house. I thought when I bought it that it didn't seem the same - weight or feel, as my old Pyrex. Clearly, I am now afraid to ever use Pyrex again. I will certainly let family and friends know this shocking experience, and advise them never to use Pyrex, except as a container - certainly not for cooking. By the way, we couldn't afford to have a $30 holiday bird ruined.

I have used Pyrex dishes in the oven for years. Today (on Thanksgiving no less), I was baking an apple crisp in an 8x8 Pyrex dish which I bought recently. I had used it last week to cook the same apple crisp with no problem. The oven door was closed and we heard a crash in the oven, the dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces. I was baking at 350 degrees. Beware and be careful when using Pyrex. I don't know if I'll be using glass baking dishes again.

My Pyrex baking dish exploded and the glasses were everywhere. I had a warm Mac-n-cheese dish, did not expose to any extreme temps, just put on counter in friend's house for Thanksgiving. About 10 min. later, it just popped and shattered, the glasses were everywhere. Very strange! No apparent reason! I looked at the warnings when I got back home since I had bought the dish the day before and we followed all consumer directions. It could have been horrible if someone was close, especially our children! I had to put one star to post this at all but obviously I would indicate a "0" if I could.

I made a squash dish for Thanksgiving dinner. The oven was pre-heated to 325 degrees. The squash had been steamed previously and mixed with olive oil and spices. It was warm when placed in the Pyrex glass 9 x 13 dish. It then sat at room temperature for an hour or so before being placed in the oven.

After 1/2 an hour or so, I opened the oven to take out the dish and discovered that the pyrex had cracked and broken apart. Initially, I thought it had broken in one place and then realized that the whole dish had broken apart, almost as if I had dropped the dish from standing. Needless to say, the squash was ruined. Fortunately, the other dishes in the oven were not impacted.

I was baking cheese stuffed manicotti in the oven at 350 degree F when I heard a loud bang from the oven. I opened the oven door to find glass and sauce scattered throughout. The meal was one minute from completion after cooking for 29 minutes. I have used Pyrex baking dishes for at least 15 years and never had a problem, until now. This particular baking dish (13X9) was my favorite and most used. The dish was at room temperature, as well as the sauce and manicotti, when placed in the oven. The dish was not exposed to any heat source other than being placed in the oven.

The meal was ruined, my oven was a total mess, and my family was very disappointed. Had I opened the oven door just prior to the desired cooking time, it may have resulted in serious injury. This wasn't just a small failure of the baking dish, but a catastrophic, explosive, failure of the container. I never heard of this happening before and have serious doubts as to whether I will ever bake with Pyrex again. I am out the cost of the baking dish, the ingredients for the meal, and all the time it took to clean up the mess.

My Pyrex 8x8 casserole exploded in my hands and all over me. It shattered into hundreds of pieces and could have severely injured me. I just took it out of the oven.

My 3-year old Pyrex baking pan exploded while I was turning steaks. I have taken excellent care of all of my bakeware and did not go against any of the misuse criteria. Fortunately, I was unhurt. The clean up was extensive and this was a very dangerous situation. I did a Google search and saw that many people have had this problem. One is too many. This product must be fixed or the manufacturer must be forced to no longer say it is oven-safe. It is not.

My cousin and I prepared cabbage rolls, mac and cheese, a favorite for her German husband who was just home from heart surgery and anxiously awaiting this dinner. An amber square Pyrex was used for the cabbage rolls and a Pyrex pie plate for the mac and cheese. Three hundred fifty for 40 minutes and at 39 minutes the oven exploded!

The amber pan blew out it's front and back sides, throwing hot juices and shards of glass all over the oven and into the mac and cheese. By the grace of God, we weren't all burned. As we opened the oven to see what happened, the timer went off. One more minute and it would have been in our hands and face! Not to mention the loss of the dish and the expense of the foods, we then had to go to the store to replace our main meal. Today is being spent continuing to clean the horrific mess.

We went to Fred Meyer to purchase steak to grill, couldn't use the oven, and the butcher said he has been hearing about Pyrex exploding the last couple of years! We hadn't heard and won't risk using Pyrex, out of fear, again. I own a business and I will surely tell everyone our story. I am 58 and used Pyrex all my life, what's up?

I was roasting a pork loin in the oven. When I opened the door the whole thing exploded all over the kitchen. This is the second time and both were Pyrex dishes. I thought I had done something wrong the first time. The second time after reading the internet, I see I did nothing wrong. I will never buy another Pyrex brand.

I was cooking boneless chicken breasts in a mushroom cream sauce in the oven.

My wife tried to remove a 9 by 13 inch dish from the oven and it exploded everywhere. Luckily, the children were not around. My wife got mild burns on her arms. And we have to clean the glasses up from everywhere.

I purchased two pie plates from Sam's on 11-10-2011. I made a potato pie with temperature at 325 degrees. The pie was suppose to cook for 40 minutes. At 30 minutes, I heard a loud explosion and the plate had shattered into bits and pieces. I have always used Pyrex dishes for baking and never had this problem. I am 61 years old and can't believe this product would ever be like this.

I attempted to bake a 13 x 9 dish with bazed ziti in the oven at a temp of 375. After about 10 minutes in the oven, the dish blew up and glass was everywhere. I cooked for my entire family, there was glass everywhere. My oven is destroyed which I spent hours cleaning. It destroyed my entire meal. Glass shattered and went in another dish that was cooking (sausage/peppers/onions). However, this was cooked in corning-ware that did not explode like the Pyrex.

I cut my arm cleaning up the mess. It was absolutely ridiculous. Pyrex should reimburse me for #1- all the pyrex dishes I purchased as I would never cook with them again and #2- for all the lost food items that were due to the explosion of the Pyrex casserole pan. Groceries are quite expensive these days. I am a struggling mother who works full time in order to put food on the table. I am absolutely disgusted. I am a nurse. If I used faulty products such as Pyrex in my field of practice, my patients would die. I have pictures of the Pyrex dish if you would like to see it.

I was cooking Thanksgiving dinner in my dorm kitchen and baked cornbread stuffing in a 9x13 glass Pyrex pan. The oven was at 300 degrees for about 1.5 hours. I took the pan out and set it on the stove. None of the burners were on, or had been on recently, and the top of the stove was slightly warm because the oven had been on, but still okay to the touch. I set the pan down, walked into another room, and then heard this loud pop(!) crack(!) noise. I ran back to the kitchen and the pan had exploded into hundreds of pieces! There were hot glass shards absolutely everywhere. Thankfully nobody was in the kitchen when it happened, but I suspect I would have been badly injured if I had been.

I was roasting a pork loin at 375 degrees with a brandy/apricot glaze. I opened the oven door to check on the roast and the 9x13 teal colored Pyrex baking dish exploded into hundreds of sharp pieces. I was lucky and was not hit, but what a huge mess! The dish was maybe 7-10 years old and we used it several times each week.

I was cooking a pizza on a Pyrex pizza plate and heard a loud pop. The plate had exploded, filling my oven with glass shards and pizza bits. It could have been a real tragedy if the oven door had been open.

I was heating some lasagna, in a 1qt. Pyrex bowl 7201 05, in a microwave and about 1 1/2 minutes into it the bowl, it exploded.

I have had a 9X13 inch pan explode when I took it out of the oven and also a measuring cup explode in the microwave. My daughter had a 9X13 inch pan explode in her kitchen and it melted her carpet and her linoleum. I wrote a blog post about this http://***.html and 50 people commented having similar experiences. How can you trust cooking in a product like this?

I bought a Pyrex name brand glass oven pan about 2 years ago. I have been using it regularly. Tonight, I was baking chicken at 350F and heard a crashing sound. The pan exploded. Now there is glass all over my oven. I'm glad I wasn't handling the thing when it exploded, I would be on the way to the hospital right now.

I hadn't realized that Pyrex quality had gone the way of Black & Decker (in other words, a manufacturer of inferior products sold at a premium), but I will definitely not be recommending this brand anymore. Shame, it had the best reputation, but today's Pyrex is definitely not the same as dear old mom had.

I have 2 Pyrex glass 2-cup measuring cups and 1 Anchor Hocking 4-cup measuring cup on the tile behind my cook top. Just now I was ladling jelly into jars (on the front right burner farthest away from the measuring cups) when one of the Pyrex 2 cup measuring cups just exploded. It was not near the burner nor near a pilot flame. Nothing fell on it. It was resting in the 4-cup AH measuring cup.

I was baking chicken breasts in a Pyrex baking pan (2qt cake-type pan). This particular piece was 8-10 years old and used on a regular basis. It was my favorite baking dish. I opened the oven to check the chicken and closed the door. When I went to check on it 15-20 minutes later, the pan was in pieces all over the oven. It initially broke into large pieces but as it cooled, it broke into smaller pieces. Luckily, no one was hurt. The oven was a mess though, with chicken juices and tiny pieces of glass all through the inside.

A 9x11 Pyrex baking dish shattered after being taken from the oven, imbedding pieces of glass into the carpet as far away as 8 feet. The slivers of glass melted into the nylon carpet, totally destroying it. Thankfully no one was injured. The damages are $1500.00. I wish reimbursement.

Pyrex jug was being used in microwave no longer than four minutes. Just as my husband took it out to place it on the bench top, it exploded. There was no sudden change in temperature. The jug is only around six months old. Luckily, my husband wasn't hurt. It could have hurt one of my grandchildren as the glass flew over the whole kitchen.

Pyrex changed hands years ago and stopped using borosillicate glass (the good stuff) in favor of soda lime glass (the cheap stuff). I would recommend finding another supplier and abandon Pyrex completely if heat/microwaves/cold is going to be involved.

I used a large Pyrex 15x10x2 pan. I baked 2 winter squash halves in 300 degree oven for 1 hour, then I poured 1/4 c warm water on squash while pan still on the oven rack. . The pan gave off 2 separate explosions, 20 sec. apart, sending sharp glass shards throughout kitchen, making a huge mess in oven and the kitchen.

I purchased a Pyrex glass dish and it shattered on my countertop with water in it. It was not hot and had been sitting in water soaking. My purchase price was $9.99. I would like to be refunded. I brag on these dishes so much, and I couldn't believe it happened.

Last night, I was baking salmon and when I opened the oven door to remove the 8x8 Pyrex baking dish, it exploded into hundreds of pieces. Thankfully, I had opened the oven door only five or six inches. The dinner was ruined, I had a mess to clean up, and the whole experience shocked me numb. I have used this dish three or four times previously with no problem - what happened this time? I'm buying a metal baking dish.

I was cooking chicken in a Pyrex pan. I opened the oven to check if it was done. When I pressed the knife against the chicken to check it, the pan exploded, sending glass 3 or 4 feet out into my kitchen and covering the inside of the oven with it. How I didn't get cut, I'm not sure, but this was a regular use of an extremely common product. I worry about this being on the market without warnings about this potential.

I had finished cooking a chicken in the oven using my glass Pyrex oven dish. I set it on top of the stove to cool and it just exploded. Luckily, none of my grandchildren were in the kitchen at the time. Had anyone been hurt, I would not have hesitated taking this company for a very long and expensive legal ride! They need to recall all of their oven glassware before someone loses an eye, or worse!

My girlfriend was roasting a chicken in the oven. She opened the oven door to check on the chicken and the Pyrex cookware exploded with glass going everywhere. Our 2 year old son was nearby. Fortunately mother and son were unhurt, yet it took a couple of hours to thoroughly clean the oven and surrounding area for broken glass.

My husband purchased a new Pyrex 13x9 pan for me from our local Kroger about two weeks ago. I used the pan about three times so far.

Tonight 10/09/11, shortly after I pulled my pork chops from the oven and let them cool for about five minutes, the pan exploded. I have cuts on the top of both of my feet. It's a good thing none of my four children were in the kitchen at the time.

If Pyrex refuses to recall their products, stores like Kroger, Walmart, and K-mart should refuse to sell them to their customers.

Over the years, I have bought Pyrex glass dishes for personal use as well as gifts for family and friends. That being said, I will never buy another piece of Pyrex.

I have had 2 different instances of Pyrex glassware exploding. The first time was several months ago. I was baking a roast with potatoes, carrots, etc. I opened the oven door to check the liquid levels in the dish, and as I did so, the 9 x 13 glassware exploded, sending glass shards everywhere. I thought, at that time, I did something to cause it to explode so did not let anyone know about it.

This morning, I was making homemade banana pudding and using a Pyrex glass bowl as the top part of a double boiler. The water in the bottom of the double boiler was not touching the glass bowl. I turned away to put the eggs and milk back into my fridge when the bowl exploded, sending shards of glass everywhere, imbedding some in my arm. The dish was not on direct heat!

Today 10/7/11, I was baking some chicken patties in the oven. When my husband took the dish out and sat it on the stove. It exploded into many pieces. Glasses went flying all over the kitchen. I'm just glad no one got hurt and our children weren't in the kitchen at the time.

Tonight, I was reheating baby back spare ribs in the oven at 325 for 40 minutes. I took the pan out of the oven and set it on the kitchen counter and as soon as I set it down it exploded. The glasses went flying 10 feet in every direction. My pan was destroyed but worse yet the rack of ribs had to be thrown out and the salad sitting on the kitchen counter also had to be thrown out as glass shards were everywhere.

No one was seriously hurt; however, it was a huge inconvenience cleaning up the glass everywhere and throwing away our entire dinner. Dinner wasted and Pyrex pan gone. Surprised and inconvenienced to say the least.

I was baking brownies at 300 degrees when my 9X13 Pyrex pan exploded in the oven.

I received a set of Pyrex bowls as I like them so much better then plastic containers. I was disappointed to see that the lids for the very small bowls did not fit. At first, I thought maybe it was just hard to put on. I had my daughter also try to no avail. The lids for the larger bowls went on with no problem. I am unable to store anything in the 6 small bowls that I have due to this problem, but I will still continue to purchase more Pyrex as I love them.

My 9x13 glass dish exploded in the oven with 6 chicken breasts on it. It blew the chicken all over the oven and the glass was in so many pieces. It scared me with the noise it made and I was thankful I wasn't opening the oven door at the time. Very dangerous. I'm not sure if I want to use Pyrex anymore. I've used Pyrex for 30 years and never have seen anything like it.

I purchased a three-piece set of Pyrex baking dishes with plastic covers for each piece perhaps one and a half years ago at a Target store. I do believe it was the only set there, as all shelves were low in stock at the time. There was another company name on similar dishes. But I will only buy Pyrex after having used it for so many years with great satisfaction. The problem is in the care and thorough attention in the kitchen or a terrifying accident will occur.

On Monday, I created a whole dinner in the 9 x 13 inch dish. I cooked the food at 375 degrees for approximately 40-45 minutes. In taking it out of the oven, I placed it on the stove burners next to the wall oven. Turning on a burner to cook something else, I answered the phone. I realized something was cracking. I looked and pulled the large dish onto another burner and it exploded. Yes, it exploded so loud that my husband heard it in another room. He did not have his hearing aids on. The whole kitchen, counters, floor, and carpet into the next room was full of large and small pieces (shards) of glass. I was fortunately not injured at all. But I know the horrible act of placing the dish on the stove and then sliding it across the burners caused it to explode loudly.

I wasn't going to file a complaint but since I saw that practically the exact thing happened to someone else only two weeks ago, here goes.

I was cooking a pork roast last night on my oven at 375 degrees. I had water at the bottom of the dish. I opened the oven door to baste the roast and the Pyrex glass pan burst into pieces, blowing the hinge right off the left arm of the oven door. Glass went everywhere. My oven cannot be used now. I will never use a Pyrex product again. I have used them for 21 years but I will not again. Thankfully, my husband was home and we were not injured.

We had out of town guests so had prepared spareribs on the grill. My son put the spareribs in a Pyrex baking dish and brought them inside. I started cutting them in pieces when the dish shattered all over the counter, in the sink and on the floor. Some of the small shattered pieces cut my toe, not to the point of any emergency treatment, but I was very disappointed because this was a new baking dish and I never could have imagined that a Pyrex dish would break or explode.

My family and guest were unable to enjoy those delicious spareribs because of this shattered dish. The meat and dish were discarded and we had to make other plans for our dinner. I am looking for a response to this incident with compensation for my dish plus our meal.

I baked a Runza Casserole in a 9 x 13 Pyrex dish at 350 for 40 minutes. After approximately 20 minutes, I discovered smoke billowing from the oven and upon opening the oven door, had flames in bottom of oven.

After letting everything cool down, I discovered the Pyrex dish had broken into pieces and had literally burned into the bottom of the oven. I attempted to clean the oven but it proved to be futile.

I had some chicken drumsticks baking in a 9"x13" glass Pyrex baking pan (approximately five years old). The pan came out of my cupboard so the room temperature and the drumsticks were not frozen. They had been baking for approximately 40 minutes when there was a loud bang. I was standing right beside the oven, so I also felt the explosion. I opened the oven to find that the pan had blown into hundreds of tiny pieces.

Needless to say, the chicken was inedible and the mess was huge. I am now very concerned about baking in any of my other glass baking pans. I tried to find an email address to contact them directly as I do not think that this should have happened. I could understand if the pan had been frozen or cold, and been put directly into a hot oven, but this had been in the oven for a while when it happened. Please pass this on to other consumers and, if possible, to the company directly. Fortunately, no one was opening the oven when it happened.

I cooked rice in a "Pyrex" glass pan. The heat was turned off and suddenly, the pan cracked and shattered. Glass was all over the dinner and et cetera. It was pretty scary. I brought the pan back to the T.J. Maxx store that I bought it from, and I shared the incident with the manager, so he could notify the manufacturer.

Last night, I was cooking a Cornish hen at 350 degrees in the oven in Pyrex 9x13 baking dish and was just adding the basting liquid when the Pyrex baking dish exploded. Luckily, I didn't get hurt but had a huge mess to clean! It was very scary and I am definitely refraining from purchasing any more Pyrex glassware.

I was cooking breakfast for my family in a brand new Pyrex cook ware. This was the second time I used the 9x13 pan. I pulled the pan out of the oven after I was done baking. I set it on top of the stove to cool before I cut the pieces. I then walked to the sink and the whole thing exploded everywhere. Our breakfast was lost and we spent the next half hour cleaning up all of the glass which had also melted to the flooring. I am now afraid to use the second pan that came in the set. Thank God I wasn't hanging onto this pan when it exploded.

My rating is 0 stars for your Pyrex baking ware products. This is the second time it has happened in the last three years. I will never purchase another product from Pyrex. It exploded into a million pieces just sitting on my stove top waiting to go into the oven with some melted butter in the bottom. Nothing out of the ordinary. How can Pyrex still be in business? Luckily, in both times, there were no injuries. But it sounds like a gunshot going off and I have been picking glass out of every conceivable crevices in the kitchen and adjoining dining room. What do you have to say?

I had baked a pie with a glass Pyrex dish and took out of oven. The glass exploded and the glasses' shrapnels went everywhere. Sounded like a sonic boom and very frightening. This was not a new Pyrex glassware. Public needs to be made aware of this.

My mom just recently bought Pyrex glass cookware. On the 22nd of September of 2011, she was using one of the 1/4 inch thick baking dishes to make cheddar and Bacon scalloped potatoes. She heard a crash, like glass was dropped, and she opened our oven (which is gas by the way) and the scalloped potatoes were all over. We will never use this product again! We could have lost our house because of the open flame in our oven. They are lucky because we would have sued.

I was cooking a pork roast last night in the oven at 375 degrees and had water in the bottom of the dish. I went to baste it with the water at the bottom of the pan and the whole dish exploded causing an awful mess. I am lucky I didn't get all cut-up. This was a 9 x 12 baking dish. I would like a refund of the amount of what these cost, plus the cost of the dinner that was ruined which was approximately $15.00, and for the 2 hour labor it took my husband to clean it all up. I will never use one of these dishes again.

I had a square, 8"x8" baking dish. I was cooking in my oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit and I heard a loud pop about 10 minutes after putting the pan in the oven. I opened the oven as my smoke detector started going off, and my dish has shattered all over the oven. I can't finish cooking my meal because the glass was everywhere. I thought Pyrex was supposed to be unbreakable. I guess I am replacing the two other Pyrex dishes I have with metal, as much as I dislike baking in metal pans, they are a lot safer.

I have had the same Pyrex cookware pan for 15 years or more. Last week I prepared scalloped potatoes in the 9x11-deep dish pan as normal, and put it in a preheated oven to allow it to cook. I would like to note that the pan was at room temperature so it was not a case of an extreme change.

After approximately 10 minutes of cooking, I was standing next to the oven when I was startled by a huge explosion. The force was so great that the door was forced open about an inch or so, and slammed closed again. I was completely stun to see that my Pyrex pan have shattered into a million tiny shards. I was thankful no one was seriously injured because it very well could have been much worse than the few small cuts from pieces of the shattered glass. I was so surprised, that I took photographs of the wasted potato mess. I want to be compensated for the pan as well as its contents, and having to deal with my dinner being a flop.

I put my 13x18 Pyrex dish in the preheated oven at 350 degrees, containing a basic chicken casserole. It had been in the oven for about 20 minutes and we heard a horrible noise. The whole dish just exploded covering the (new) oven in shattered glasses (I have pictures). It was horrible! Black smoke poured out of the oven. I am letting it sit overnight and we'll clean up this awful mess tomorrow. I had never heard of anything like this happening before, until I read through the other comments. This was terrible! Our family dinner was ruined (hopefully, my new oven is not damaged). I have had this dish for about 8 years and have used it many times for casseroles, lasagna, roast chicken, cakes, etc. I don't think I will be purchasing any Pyrex item anymore!

I was heating Green Giant vegetables in a brown 2 or 3 qt glass casserole dish with matching brown glass lid. Both items were Pyrex brand. I was using the microwave. I was following the directions on the frozen vegetable package heat level and time as directed. About three quarters of the time given, the entire bowl exploded into about 6 pcs. It broke into strangely shaped pieces. There was a loud noise and I could not believe my eyes. After it cooled, I removed the shards. I have saved them if anyone is interested in examining it all. No one got hurt and the microwave is not damaged. I would like it very much to have it replaced and would be glad to mail the product for you to examine. Please send a mailing box and prepaid label if you do want to see what happened. I do not think I should spend a cent sending it back. I am very glad no one got hurt by this. But I will forever be wary of Pyrex.

I was broiling a piece of salmon in my oven using a Pyrex casserole dish - not sure what size it is. I opened the oven door, pulled out the rack, flipped the salmon over then shut the door. About 3 minutes later, I heard a loud bang - when I opened the door I discovered the dish had shattered all over the oven - pretty big pieces actually. I have had this casserole dish for about 5 years and have used it this way many times before. Needless to say, I deemed the salmon inedible.

I did not report to Pyrex but after hearing about other breakage, I thought I should add my experience. I have an old Pyrex that I've had for years. So 2 months ago, I bought a glass casserole with blue plastic lid and used properly. After I used it and it was cool, I set it in the sink on a rack and when I got up in the morning, it had shattered. During the night, I heard a noise I could not identify until finding broken glass pan in the kitchen sink.

A Pyrex bowl exploded on the stovetop. The burner might have exploded too, in a minute. The Pyrex bowl had been used days earlier on the stovetop without incident. I had put the bowl in the refrigerator for a couple of days. I did not know or even imagine that this bowl would explode when it contacted heat again. Glass pieces shot all around. I did not get hurt, but could have been injured very easily. I was lucky.

I had chicken in the oven cooking in my Pyrex dish (9x13). Dinner was almost finished when, all of a sudden, a loud explosion was heard through the house. My Pyrex dish exploded into thousands of pieces. What a mess I had, not to mention no dinner!

I had never heard of this happening before. I actually posted this incident on my social network page to find that a friend of mine had the same problem with her Pyrex dish as well! I am now terrified to use Pyrex and really feel that this product should be recalled!

On 06 September 2011, I was baking some ribs in a 9x13 glass Pyrex dish at 300 degrees. I went in to check on them and the pan exploded! Oh my God! My face could have been cut. But by the grace of God, I wasn't injured. However, it took me over an hour to clean up the mess in the oven and the floor of my kitchen. I thought these dishes were even safe. I guess not! There was no injury as a result of this. Thank God. However, I will never use another dish by your company. This could have been very bad. I am thanking God for protecting me.

After removing my pork tenderloins out of a 350 degree oven in the 13 x 9 inch Pyrex dish, I began adding a small amount of warm water to the bottom when the dish exploded! I am certainly glad I was wearing my glasses!

I've been using Pyrex baking dishes for more years than I want to remember. I purchased an 8x12 baking dish in 2006 to replace the one that was lost in the custody divide. One of my regular uses is to warm the baking dish to 225 degrees, fill it with boiling water, place it low in the oven, and then bake French bread at 425 degrees. I did this for years with the old one.

The new one shattered. I figured it was my own doing until I saw this site. It broke into hundreds of 1/4" to 1/2" pieces. I never contacted Pyrex because I figured it was my problem.

Twice, in just the last week, I have had Pyrex glass pot tops literally explode in my hand. The first time, I was cooking on the stove, lifted the lid to stir, and boof, the whole top exploded into a bazillion pieces flying all around the kitchen and embedding in my left arm and even up into my neck and chin. That's never happened to me before, but my thought was that maybe the top got too hot and when I picked it up off the pan, it cooled quickly and burst. But then, just now, it happened again! Only this time, I wasn't even cooking yet. I just reached down into my cupboard to pull out a pan and lid, and when I picked up the glass top, it spontaneously burst in my hand again, spraying hundreds of tiny shards of glass all over the kitchen. Absolutely unreal!

I cannot find a source to purchase just the plastic lids to the glass storage containers. The containers are rendered semi useless without the lids. The lids wear out much sooner than the Pyrex glass container. Please help.

I was using a lasagna size Pyrex to bake chicken legs in the oven, when it exploded and shattered in the oven. The smoke that came from the oven was so scary, not knowing what happened, I thought the whole oven was about to explode. Not only did I lost the meal, it also ended up with a huge burnt mess, which was because the oven was hot, I had to wait for it to cool before I cleaned.

I can honestly say that I'm afraid now and I don't think I will ever use Pyrex again. It took hours of spraying and scrubbing to clean the mess, which was the last thing I needed to add to my already busy life. I think more out of anger than anything else, that is why I will never, never use Pyrex again.

We took the 9x13 glass Pyrex out of the oven and it just exploded as we put the spatula in to scoop out the food. All of a sudden it exploded, not shattered. My fianc got cut on his chest area, hands and feet.

I took my lunch in a glass Pyrex container to work. It exploded in a million pieces. It was just sitting on the counter. I'm just thankful I wasn't eating out of it at the time!

Scary! Why is this product still being sold?

Pyrex baking dish exploded as I was taking it out of the cupboard. No temperature change was involved except possibly the difference between my skin temperature and the temperature of the glass. At the time of the explosion the dish was in mid-air being held by my hands. The dish was in normal use for several years before this happened.

I was finished making soup. I dried the pot down after hand washing. And then, I dried the Pyrex lid. I put it on bowl and it shattered into shrapnel. It was so dangerous. I simply couldn't believe it. It was not as ordinary glass breaks. It simply exploded. The pieces were so tiny, that you did not know they were in your skin until you put some sort of pressure on the spot, then it cut you.

My wife got one of their pans for her birthday last weekend from her parents. Friday evening, right after cooking fish in it (the first time being used), it blew apart. It was sitting on top of the stove cooling to be taken to the table. We are in our 50's and have used Pyrex for many years. I have not heard of this until the last couple of years. There seems to be an issue with quality and safety.

My 13X9" Pyrex baking dish disintegrated into tiny pieces in my oven while baking chicken. I followed the directions (preheated oven, etc.) and it had been cooking for 20 minutes when it happened. There were glass shards all over my oven.

On January 12, 2008, my son Sam ** who was in the 7th grade at the time, was hand washing dishes in the kitchen sink after dinner. A Pyrex casserole dish slipped out of his hand; it hit the edge of the sink, and exploded. A large chunk of Pyrex came down and sliced open the inside of his right forearm. He was screaming in excruciating pain; blood was spurting upward, and even hitting the 10 foot ceiling. I applied pressure with kitchen towels while 911 was called.

I was removing a Pyrex 13x9 glass roasting pan with a 7 pound chicken on it from the oven when it exploded.

I was cooking dinner in a 9x13 clear Pyrex dish. I took the pan out of the oven and was carrying it to the sink when the pan exploded, sending glass everywhere including into my hand!

I've had 2 Pyrex baking dishes explode in my oven while baking eggplant in one and apple crisp in the other. The temperature was set at 350 for both items. Needless to say our dinner and dessert were both ruined. I will never purchase Pyrex again, as it is dangerous when it explodes in the oven. I can see lawsuits coming in the future if it continues. I also have photos of our oven and the mess it made.

Not once, but twice now I have had a Pyrex dish exploded in the oven. The first time, I didn't thought about it much. But when it happened for the second time, I knew there has to be something wrong with their dishes. Fortunately, no one was hurt. It could have been much worse than what it was since I was just about to pull it out of the oven.

I had a set of 2 Pyrex Glass baking dishes for about 3years. Both exploded within a month of each other. One when my husband set it in the sink and the other exploded in the oven when I went to check the fish I was cooking in it. Glass bearly missed my face and spoiled an expensive piece of fish. Of course we had to through out other items on the stove as they were in such close proximity of the flying glass.

I was cooking a 4-lb. chicken in the oven in a blue glass Pyrex dish. I started it at 425 for 15 minutes then reduced heat to 350. I went to add chicken broth to baste the chicken and the dish exploded in my oven. I have a picture.

I was cooking dinner tonight; got the Pyrex glass 9 x 13 inches out of the oven, and before I could even put it on the counter top to see if the food was done, it exploded in my hand. It sent glass in my face and eyes, and all over the kitchen.

I had one Pyrex measuring cup, and had it with me for over ten years. I melted butter in it (for 25 seconds on high fire), and I put it in the dishwasher. Twenty minutes later, it exploded. It did not "shatter" - it only exploded loudly. It scared the heck out of me, and I had a lot of cleaning up of glass to do.

I have used Pyrex measuring cups and baking wares for over 50 years. On June 13, 2011, I purchased additional pieces in a set, including a 9 x 13 baking dish. I may have used it once (for baking) before that piece exploded. I had placed metal and Pyrex bake ware in the bottom oven drawer where I've always kept older Pyrex pieces. The oven had not been on that day. I reached down to close the drawer when I heard the "explosion." I was shocked! The new Pyrex had shattered in pieces from 1/4" to 4" shards.

I spent 30-40 minutes cleaning up, and then called Pyrex (800-999-3436) to explain what happened. "Daniele", ran through a list of what NOT to do with Pyrex dishes, including not putting it in the oven drawer because of the possibility that it could be warm. I had been keeping my Pyrex there for years without a problem. I mentioned that I could tell the new Pyrex from the old because the glass had a blue tint along the rims. I was told this was for esthetic reasons. Customer Service said they would send me a new set; however, after seeing all the complaints, I will call to ask for a refund instead.

I cooked apple slices in cider in a 13x9 Pyrex dish for 20 minutes in my oven at 350 degrees. I removed the dish and as I walked toward my counter, it made a popping noise and "exploded" glass all around my kitchen. The force of the "explosion" sent glass pieces the size of marbles into my dining room and mud room (about 12 feet). It also left glass dust and shards all over my kitchen floor and counters.

Pyrex Dish exploded.Dish was in oven for 45 minutes at 200 degrees Centigrade. I removed the dish with dry mitt and placed on counter top. Then the dish exploded into hundreds of shards on the worktop.

I am typing this with one finger. I was washing a Pyrex baking pan that had been completely cooled, and had been soaking in warm water for cleaning just as they ask. The pan had been soaking for at least 20 minutes. The pan was in near-mint condition, with no chips or cracks. I washed the pan with no problems; but when I was putting it up to dry, it shattered in my hands and cut them both. There was glass everywhere, some large chunks and many splinters. My wife even found glass in the windowsill. There was a lot of blood; my wife and roommates were there.

My Pyrex story involves baking fish in foil packets -- the same thing as all the stories I am reading here. We heard it shatter as we were standing in the kitchen talking. I got potholders and opened the oven, unsuspecting that it would continue to pop and shatter, on my hand! Yes, I also sustained small cuts from the shattering glass -- nothing as major as some have endured. Still, I will never trust Pyrex again. It is a shame that making a shareholder profit is more sacred than safety and quality in our fascist society. I hope the injured people sue the company until they start making a safe product again.

The stuffed portobellos were in the oven at 375 for about 15 minutes when we suddenly heard an explosion. The Pyrex 8x8" pan had broken into about 20-30 pieces. The mushrooms were sitting atop a glass, "ice flows" on the middle rack.

The pan was fairly new (less than a year) and used more in the microwave than the conventional oven. I was astounded to read so many episodes of Pyrex explosions!

I'm warning my friends as well as the stores about this episode! Could have been much worse!

I was cooking ribs in the oven in this pyrex dish and opened the oven door to add sour kraut and it exploded all over into many little pieces into my curtains windo under the fridge etc. Cleaning up soukraut from evrywhere and the little glass piece was hard enough but then I looked down and saw my leg was bleeding and I had received a gash in my leg from flying glass. I took a picture of it and have it saved so i could at least maybe get a replacement of some kind but the bag of pieces outside my door was taken by a kind neighbor to the dumpster.

My dog's Pyrex water dish blew up for no reason. Nobody was near it, and there was no fluctuation in temperature. There wasn't much water in it, and it was just sitting on the floor when suddenly, it just blew up. At first, I thought it was a light bulb falling out of the socket, as it just happened immediately for no apparent reason.

i was cooking a chicken and rice dish for my family of 5 0n 350 degrees when the whole pyrex dish cracked into numerous pieces. Very upsetting since i've never experienced this with pyrex before.I had to get take out since this happened.Should i be afraid to use your pyrex dishes again?

i was cooking chicken in a pyrex pan last night when after 30 minutes in the oven the pyrex pan blew up in a million pieces. dinner was ruined i never seen that happen b4 in my life . these pans are dangerous i googled it and come to find out this happens a lot

My husband took our 9 X 13 glass Pyrex bake ware out of the cabinet, placed all of the contents in the dish and put in an already pre-heated oven as the directions state. Ten minutes later the dish exploded in the oven. Luckily no one was hurt by this event. We turned off the oven and let everything cool. I then took a spoon and garbage bags and cleaned out our "dinner" from the bottom of the oven. The explosion was so powerful, glass and food was in the drawer under the oven.

This draw had to be cleaned out and all the pots and pans in it washed as well. After 2 hours of cleaning the oven we wanted to test it to see if it was damaged by the explosion. It preheated fine, but we havent had to cook anything in it yet. If that Pyrex dish had exploded in someones face it could have been life altering!

Pyrex (and Anchor Hocking) products manufactured since the 1980s seem more inferior to those manufactured before the 80s. Pyrex bakeware was originally made from borosilicate glass and is now made from tempered soda-lime glass, a significantly less expensive glass (lime glass used for drinking glasses). The price at the store still reflects the higher priced borosilicate glass and the reputation of the brand Pyrex, established under Corning.

If you had a problem with Pyrex, file a complaint with the government agency charged with consumer protection. Discontinue using Pyrex products and encourage others to discontinue use as well. If companies want our business, let them earn it with safe, quality products offered at reasonable prices.

We were cooking dinner as usual. The steak was on the grill with the husband and potatoes, cooking in the oven in our Pyrex dish. Family members and a guest were sitting around chit-chatting. Our 4 year old son was standing nearby, within a foot or so from the stove. All of a sudden, there was an explosion in the oven. The noise was unbelievable. We all went to grab my son who was screaming and crying. We didn't know if he was injured or not. At this time, smoke began to billow out of the oven. My dad turned off the oven and our guest began to open windows as I tried to comfort my son and check for injuries.

My husband, who had abandoned the steaks, was then present at the scene. He looked through the viewing window of our oven. The Pyrex dish had exploded. Quite honestly, I was a bit afraid to even have the oven door opened at this time for fear of further explosions. Furthermore, I certainly didn't want our guests to injure themselves, accidentally. When we were certain that the oven had cooled and the popping noises had subsided, we opened the oven to find the Pyrex dish had exploded into various sizes from 1 inch to tiny shards and had baked onto all surfaces of our oven.

Thankfully, the oven window sustained the explosion, and thus, prevented my son, our family, and guest from being impaled by the pieces of Pyrex. This could have been a tragic and a physically life-altering incident. As it is, my son has still not recovered fully and is afraid to stand close to the oven.

I cooked a roast at 350 d. in my oven in a Pyrex dish. I removed the dish and took out the roast. About three hours later, I picked up the dish to put it into the dishwasher and it exploded in my hand. A very sharp shard of glass cut my finger and sent me to the emergency room! I got sutures and a splint. The shard of glass nicked a tendon and cut a nerve in my finger.

My Pyrex baking dish exploded in the oven, and glass fragments are everywhere. I had no idea this would happen. Fortunately, no injuries occurred.

I was baking a room-temp lasagna at 350 degrees and my 13 by 9 Pyrex dish shattered and broke to pieces in my oven after about 25 minutes! There were small pieces and large pieces. I had no idea that Pyrex could fall apart in this manner!

I bought two Pyrex baking dishing in November 2010 in Spokane, WA at Wal-Mart. The first time I used the 9 x 13 was in April 2011. I placed seasoned fresh chicken in the pan, covered with foil and inserted into the oven at 350 degrees. About 15 minutes later, the whole thing exploded into thousands of pieces, ranging from two inches to tiny chips of glass. My old Pyrex dishes were wedding gifts in 1971 and still are fine. Obviously, no one should buy the current Pyrex being manufactured. What a shame!

For the 2nd time, I have had a Pyrex dish explode. The first time, the company explained that pans can't go from cold to hot or they might explode. This time I was cooking at 350. I took the pan out of the oven and it exploded. The pans are 2 years old. It ruined not only the dinner in the pan that exploded, but also the other pan because glass flew into it. I will never use Pyrex again. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

I lost the money for the food I prepared and had to pay for takeout for dinner.

I had used my Pyrex baking dishes (9x13) for years but had apparently left them at church. Since I had to take a dish to church and did not have a baking dish, I went to the store and bought a new Pyrex dish (9x13). I got up at 3:30am and put my chicken enchilada casserole together for Easter Sunday potluck as I have every Easter for the past 8 years.

I put the completed casserole in the refrigerator and at 6:30 heated the oven and then put the dish in the oven. (350 degrees). About 20 minutes into baking, there was a loud pop in my oven. I opened the oven door and the dish had blown up, glass was everywhere, big hunks, little hunks. My casserole was everywhere and dripping down the oven shelf and burning on the bottom of the oven. I cant even imagine If I had been taking it out of the oven when it blew up. King Soopers refunded my money but I was really upset about the price of my casserole that was then in the trash. 3 large cans of chicken $2.79 each. 1 large bag of cheese $3.79. Corn tortillas $1.99. 2 cans of soup $1.29 each and an onion. I had come to trust Pyrex, having used it for more than 30 years. What is the world coming to?

I purchased a 3 piece set of glass bakeware and one of them exploded in my oven while cooking Easter dinner. I am so shocked to see how many complaints there have been online and nothing has been done. This is extremely dangerous and there are needs to be a recall on these items. What does it take to begin a recall?

Today, while baking, my Pyrex dish shattered. The sides of the dish separated from the bottom and broke into large shards. The dish was at room temperature when I put it into the oven and I was cooking at a reasonable 375 degrees. Glass shards are strewn throughout my oven and into my food.

I bought a brand new Pyrex loaf glassware, and decided to use it for the first time today. I dried it off really well and put my food in it, and it shattered five minutes into baking, sending food and glass all over my oven. It's not old and worn (brand new, never used before today), and I took all the precautions it said to take, and it shattered.

The Pyrex bowl that I have been using for the cats' water bowl for at least seven years spontaneously exploded, sending shards everywhere. The bowl was not subjected to any change in temperature--it was just sitting on the floor. Nothing had fallen on to it and was too heavy (especially when filled with water) for the cats to knock it over. I was shocked to find out after checking on the Net that this is not a new problem with Pyrex. I will be throwing out any other dishes I have made by Pyrex since I don't want to have one explode in the oven when I am cooking a lasagna or something!

Last night 4/18/2011, I used a Pyrex dish to bake chicken in the oven. When I removed the dish from the stove and placed it on the oven top, it blew up like a grenade. Glass shattered into a thousand pieces and it made a huge pop sound! One piece of glass cut my foot and burned it. Thanks God it did not blow up in my face! There was a small amount of water about a teaspoon drop size on the stove top, which may have caused the temperature change to cause the blow up. I know there are warning labels that come with the product, however, they need to be actually engraved in the dish. We have warning tags on blow dryers and on flammable pillows, etc. Why is there not a huge warning actually on the product.

Many homeowners and cooks share cooking gadgets or they pass them down, as a result the product warning label does not travel with the product. This is a very common problem, that I am seeing now that I am researching it, and the company needs to take it very seriously. Is it going to take someone losing an eye for this company to realize it needs to help make the consumer more aware of the dangers of the product? They simply do not care and want to make as much money as possible by typing the warning info very small and putting it on a cardboard paper that gets thrown away and no one looks at it! Maybe someone needs to sue this company. Hey, if McDonalds can get sued for hot coffee (which by the way, not putting between your legs is common sense), then how is this company getting away with such irresponsible tactics!

I have used Pyrex since I was a kid in the 1970s; never an issue. I bought a new replacement 2-cup measuring cup, and realized last week that shards of glass had at some point broken off the upper rim, randomly. I never even heat the cups, nor microwave, just use it to measure dry and wet ingredients. I can only guess that it was caused by stacking the cup with the old ones I own; very dangerous. I have stacked the old Pyrex cups in the same way for literally 30 years. Their web site claims they are fine to stack; even has pictures of doing so as a selling point. I will never buy Pyrex brand again. Another great brand running into the ground by corporations.

My Pyrex measuring jug just exploded and shattered in my kitchen cupboard. It is room temp and has left shards of glass everywhere!

I purchased a Pyrex pie plate in December 2010 and I used it once for Christmas pie. On April 11, 2011, my 18-year old daughter cooked cornbread in a 400 oven. She took it out of the oven, set it on the warm stove, turned to look at me to ask if I thought it was done and the pie plate exploded. No burners had been on all day. If she had been looking at it, her face would have been hit with glass.

I have used Pyrex for years without something like this happening. This was the first new piece I have bought in years and is not the Pyrex that once was trusted for its bake ware. I was shocked to see the amount of complaints. How many complaints does there need to be to do something to protect the public? Will it take the loss of a teenager's eye? Hello, this situation needs to be fixed. I have called everyone I know and told them to spread the word not to buy any Pyrex product. I will continue to search a contact of someone in power to look into doing something to stop the selling of this product.

I had baked some brownies in a Pyrex dish for about 45 minutes. I then took the brownies out to cool. After sitting them on the counter for about an hour, I heard an explosion. My Pyrex dish had exploded sending pieces of glass 3 to 4 feet from where the dish was actually sitting. Thank God no one was hurt. However, 10 minutes prior to the explosion, my 10-year-old was sitting at the kitchen table and would have been hit by the flying glass.

My Pyrex casserole exploded in my refrigerator. It had been in there for over 24 hours. When I opened the door, it exploded, sending glass flying. I have read about this happening with a change of temperature from oven or freezer, but this happened to me by opening the refrigerator door!

Less than one minute before I was going to remove stuffed chicken breasts that had been baking in a Pyrex rectangular baking dish, it exploded/shattered. I was within seconds of having my hands and arms and face in the oven removing dinner. I could have easily been blinded or maimed but for some ** luck reason had added an extra minute to the timer.

The emotional shock, fear and anxiety has left me afraid to use any of my Pyrex and I do not want to handle the shards in the oven either. I do not yet know if the oven has been damaged as I am too afraid to touch the glass shards after reading warnings for disposing broken Pyrex.

My Pyrex 13 x 9 x 2 glass casserole dish exploded in the conventional oven. The dish had been used several times before. I was baking meat at 425 degrees for approximately 15 minutes when dish exploded (meat did not blow up). Because of this dish explosion, there are extremely small pieces of glass all over the oven. When the oven door was opened, glass fell into the broiler and onto the kitchen floor. It was a two-hour clean-up. Meat was discarded. Still finding glass in oven/broiler/on floor after sweeping, wiping, mopping, vacuuming, and dust-busting. I need a new casserole.

1) I was cooking bread in the oven. I set it down and let it sit on room temperature stove top to cool down. Boom! It exploded and it went around within a 20 feet radius. Most broken pieces of the cookware are safe, like glass cubes but there where many sharp shards as well.I had many cuts on my chest and hands. 2) I flipped over the steak I was broiling when the same thing happened. The cookware exploded, and hands were cut. I have several scars on my hands & chest and numbness in the pointer left finger.

Being unable to eat that night was humiliating & degrading, as it was a meal for friends as well. I had no other food to serve that night, as we are in the working class. In both instances, I was using anchor pans and I have cooked in this manner for over 20 years on Pyrex and never had a problem before.

I used a Pyrex 8x13 glass baking dish to bake meatballs for a wonderful meatballs in cream sauce recipe I have. The oven temp was 400. About 30 seconds after I took the dish out of the oven, it exploded into hundreds of pieces. Thank God that I had walked away from the oven to place some dishes in the sink or I might have had a face full of glass. This is the second time this has happened. The first time, the Pyrex dish exploded in the oven while I was baking fish. Needless to say, I won't be purchasing Pyrex products anymore.

Last Thanksgiving (2010), a brand new Pyrex dish exploded in my sister's hands. It was a brand new dish; she had just received it as a wedding present and had not used it yet. There was temperature and there was no food in it at the time of the explosion either. She had just taken it out of the cabinet and set it down on the counter and as it touched the counter, it shattered into a thousand pieces. Some of them very, very tiny and sharp. Almost ruined Thanksgiving completely since it exploded pretty close to the cooling turkey. No one was hurt, thank goodness, but nobody in my family will ever buy or use Pyrex dishes again.

Last evening, my granddaughter brought lasagna to our house partially cooked to finish in our oven. We preheated to 400 degrees and placed the food in. About 15 minutes later, we heard a loud noise and upon opening the oven door, discovered that the Pyrex dish had broken in multiple pieces. This dish was brand new out of the box. Since then, we have discovered two other people that have had Pyrex explode.

For the second time today, March 5th 2011, my Pyrex baking dish broke while I was cooking. The first time, I thought it's just a fluke. It was broken on top of the stove and I took it out to cool. The second was when I was taking it from the oven. The bottom of the dish separated from the sides, with a loud pop. I've kept the broken pieces. I lost two roasts along with the inconvenience of having to make a second meal twice and of course, a large baking dish, 7x11" baking pan. I'd like to see this issue addressed by their company. It scares me.

I am in Guanajuato, Mexico. I put a room temperature 9 X 13 Pyrex filled with a room temperature casserole in a gas oven at 190 Centigrade (about 350 F). After about 40 minutes in the oven, the dish exploded and the sides fell off and the bottom cracked. Fortunately no one was hurt but it was not much fun cleaning glass and a few quarts of food out of the oven. I thought you should know about this. Incidentally, I am a professional chef and I used to work with engineers and understand thermodynamics completely. I did not violate any of the quick temperature change and moisture on the surface issues that the more recent Pyrex dishes include. Thank you for your time.

On February 15, 2011, I was cooking a roast in a 9x13 Clear Glass Pyrex Dish. I took it from a hot oven, walked across the kitchen to put it down but before I could, it exploded in my hand. Shards of glass went all over the place and even cut my hand. Good thing, my grandkids were not in the kitchen at the time. I not only had to clean up the mess but had to throw out $60.00 in meat

I had baked some Italian bread in the glass dish and it had been sitting on top of the cold oven for hours, and then all of a sudden, I heard a loud explosion. When I ran into the kitchen, there was glass everywhere. I have a 7 month old and I thank God she was not in her walker following me like she normally does. This is very dangerous, and the product should be recalled. I am surprised that there have not been lawsuits filed against this company!

I have used my 9" x 9" square glass Pyrex brand baking dish for about eight years. I baked potatoes at 400 degrees and it was fine. Two to three hours after dinner, I placed the dish in the sink to soak with cool water. In the morning, I found the dish totally shattered into dozens of large and tiny shards in the sink. There was absolutely no down shock of temperature. Luckily, no physical damage; the damage was only to the dish itself.

I was cooking a pork roast in the oven in a Pyrex pan for my birthday. The roast was only in the oven for approximately 15 minutes--put the pan in at room temperature, not from the refrigerated, because I am not that stupid. I opened the oven door to look at it and when I was closing the door, it looked as though I saw the pan starting to melt. I didn't have time to finish closing the oven door when there was a loud explosion and glass came flying out all over my kitchen and oven. It also appeared to be a bright red flash which appeared to be a flame. I quickly turned the oven off for fear of a fire. I was in total shock over what happened. I am not a rich person who can just run out and by more meat--this was a special dinner. I certainly feel that Pyrex owes myself and my family some type of reimbursement for this disaster.

I reached into the cupboard to remove my clear glass 9 x 13 Pyrex pan. The pan exploded as soon as I picked it up, cutting my finger and sending glass pieces everywhere--inside the cupboard and on the floor of my kitchen. The pan had been in the cupboard for several days. It wasn't hot or cold, just clean and ready for it's next use.

I have a small cut on my finger, and it was a real hassle to clean up all this broken glass. This is my second experience with an exploding Pyrex.... The first happened several years ago, when a 9 x 13 pan exploded when I removed a baked cake from the oven. I also reported this instance to Consumer Affairs and World Kitchen.

My hot 8x8 Pyrex baking dish exploded when I set it down on the tile kitchen counter. It exploded in shards and with such force that there were pieces 10 to 15 feet away in a different room! I received minor cuts on my hands and arm from the flying shards, but this could have been much, much worse!

My 9" x 13" Pyrex dish exploded after being taken out of the oven. It had been cooking at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes, and I set it on the warm/hot stove top to check my meal. The glass popped and cracked, creating shards and completely splitting the rim from the bottom of the dish. I'm concerned about this, as I've been careful to not put hot dishes on cold surfaces, but this was not the case with this Pyrex dish. The advertisement is not only misleading, it's also dangerous. A replacement cost about $60. No physical damage, though.

We bought two new Pyrex mixing bowls a few weeks ago from Kohls. The wife used one for a few times with no problems. (it replaced one we had for about 40 years). The other night, we were sitting, watching TV, and suddenly, we heard a loud bang in the kitchen cabinets. We found that the bowl had exploded into about a million pieces. Luckily, the mess was largely confined to the cabinet. The company has never bothered to return my phone calls or emails so far.

While baking brownies in a 9in by 13in Pyrex baking dish it exploded, (loud noise and shattered glass). Lost all ingredients and hours cleaning the stove very stressful during the holidays.

My husband cooked a potato casserole in the oven, then set the dish on the stove top (no burners on). He made my son a plate, then went outside. Within 5 minutes, my son ran outside, saying there had been an explosion. Sure enough, the dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces, and there was glass and food everywhere. Fortunately, there was no one in the kitchen at the time, or there would have been serious injury. We were blessed with only a huge mess, and no dinner.

My wife was baking fish with vegetables in a Pyrex baking dish when we both heard a bang like a crash of glass coming from inside the oven. We opened it and saw that the glass dish had literally exploded, with about 15 large pieces and countless smaller pieces of glass of all sizes inside the oven. Luckily, it hadn't exploded after having taken the pan out; otherwise we both could have been seriously hurt. It was time-consuming and frustrating to carefully remove all the glass from inside the oven, not to mention the fish and food particles from the oven as well. It is truly infuriating to know that this product is so unsafe and still on the market. This is especially true considering that my wife had carefully followed all the safety guidelines and instructions for use.

I baked pecan pie for Thanksgiving in a 9 inch clear glass Pyrex pie plate. During the baking process in a 375 degree oven, the dish cracked completely into three pieces releasing small glass shards into the pie and oven. All was discarded.

On Christmas day while roasting a filet mignon roast in a 9x13 clear glass Pyrex pan in a hot oven, the dish cleanly split directly across the center into two pieces. Fortunately, the meat had been placed on a metal rack in the dish so we felt it not necessary to discard the $69 roast. These were both Pyrex cookware that I have used frequently over the past 25 years or so.

On December 24, 2010, I took an 8 x 8 Pyrex pan off the burner wherein I had melted some butter to put in the oven and it exploded in my hands. Glass was all over the floor, stove, oven door, and counter. The kitchen floor is burnt in five places and will have to be replaced. I have to get an estimate, but the vinyl floor will need to be replaced. I am guessing a cost of about $350 for materials and installation.

I put a 12 pound ham from the refrigerator to the counter. I spiced the ham, and put it into a cold over. I turned the oven on to 300 degrees. In less than 20 minutes, I heard a huge crash. I looked into the oven, and saw that my 9x13 pan had exploded. There was glass all over! Glass was all over the oven. There was even glass on top of my my ham. When I opened the door, glass fell through the crack of the door and got stuck. The glass scratched that area.

I had to remove the door to clean out the glass. I had to remove the bottom panel of my oven that covers the heating elements. I could not get all of the glass out of that area. I cleaned up all of the fragments from the oven. When I went to put the oven door back on, I bent the bracket that the door connects to. I had to call someone to come help me. My door is not shutting correctly now.

While baking bread at 400F, we placed a small pyrex dish in the oven with water. Almost immediately after closing the oven door, the dish exploded into pieces. This is the second pyrex dish to do this. Luckily, no one got hurt but if this happened outside the oven, there would have been injury.

This morning at 5:10am I was startled awake to the sound of shattering glass. Instead of a home invasion I found out my large Pyrex baking dish had shattered into million pieces spontaneously. It was just sitting in the cupboard. A light aluminum baking tray rested on-top of it but neither was hot or cold, just room temp. It, and the tray sitting on-top of it, has not been used recently. I have not cleaned-up the glass entirely; will take photo in the morning.

I went online to see if this had happened to anyone else and I found another nearly identical case in consumer reports, "5:20 in the morning startled awake to shattering glass. Pyrex was sitting in a cupboard (did not go from one extreme temperature to another). It had only been used 3-4 times and has never dropped it. " I purchased mine about 13 months ago.

Last fall, I was baking a lasagna for dinner. Halfway through the baking process, the pan broke into four pieces. No one was hurt but what a mess I had in my oven! The lasagna was made fresh and had not been frozen before baking. This was a newer pan (probably purchased within the last five years). I have had an older pan for 20 years now with no problems.

After over 15 years of suffering... I just want to thank you for exposing this problem. It changed my life forever. all you have to do is look at me. I was beautiful, young, successful Talent Manager in Los Angeles with 2 young children who only remember me mostly as having scars and yearly infections that 3 or 4 times almost cost me my life. This is actually the first year that I haven't had one.

The consequences have been devastating. Finacially it destroyed my confidence as an Entreprenuer so now I just work in an office in the back if I can. I did see an Attorney finally as it was so costly and I just wanted help but the Statue had run up or something like that and because it had never been exposed, I guess he felt that it would be hard to prove. I've been hospitalized numerous times from the explosion (and yes, it imploded - glass flew everywhere - I was in shock. I was so happy to be alive that I thought I was ok. For years I would bleed out glass and some of the shards were so tiny that everytime I would smile, it would dig into the tissue of my face. I am so proud that you have taken a lot of time to bring this to truth as I knew that day what had happened but who would have believed me. All my friends have been calling. I guess I feel a little vindicated even though I am not that type of person.

This happened in the summer of 93. Sometimes I bleed for hours and I know that this challenge will be forever.

Since your exposing this, I saw it on Good Morning America. I was wondering that even though the statues have run up, can I now revisit an Attorney? A million a year wouldn't even cover it as the "pain" alone has been intolerable at times. I was making my favorite dish at the time, Ham & Scallop potatoes. 450 degrees. It had been in the oven for over an hour and I took it out to season and stir. I put it back in the oven and realized before I closed the door that I forgot the Pepper so I turned around to get the pepper and when I turned back, it blew up. That's why the left side of my face got it the most. The scars are from the continual cutting inside the skin. I had to have 9 teeth removed and on and on. Thanks again for being a Champion.

After cooking chicken in the oven, I pulled out the Pyrex dish and placed it on the stove top (the stove top was not on) and it shattered, sending glass everywhere. My boyfriend cut his foot as he was standing next to me when the Pyrex exploded

I had an 8x12 Pyrex brand baking dish exploded in my oven. The pan was room temperature, the meat was raw and cool, the sauce room temperature. All placed in a 350 degree oven. The dish disintegrated during baking. Dinner (3 chicken breasts, water, honey and sauce mix) was ruined. The oven was a mess. Large glass shards mostly remained, though there were fine glass particles everywhere too. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but I took the trash out immediately as the shards were very pointed and sharp and I have 2 kids at home.

Yet another exploding Pyrex dish. This one did not come out of the refrigerator into the oven, but from room temperature into a 350 degree oven. It had been in there for about 15 minutes with chicken breasts in it when I heard an enormous bang. I opened the oven and saw shards of glass filling the entire space. The oven is broken and now non-functional. I am an aeronautical engineering student, and so am quite familiar with materials and their appropriate applications. There is clearly something seriously wrong with the material used to make this bake ware. And I have a destroyed and unusable $1200 oven to prove it.

I placed two pyrex dishes in a 450* oven. One was a 13X9 dish which I've had for 30 years. The other was an 8x8 which I've had one year. I was making Finnish Pancakes (an egg dish). All of a sudden there was a loud blast in the oven. I opened the door to see shards of glass from the 8x8 pan all over the oven. The 13x9 pan was fine except for glass in the dish. I've made this dish several times with my old pyrex and never had a problem. It was a huge mess!!!!!! !

I was baking a potato casserole at 350 degrees and the dish exploded in the oven. This happened approximately 10 minutes ago. I'm waiting for the oven to cool, to clean.

Thanksgiving day 13X9 Pyrex pan exploded when it was taken out of the oven and set down. Dish shattered into many small sharp pieces at 400 degrees.

I was warming up a rotisserie Chicken in my 9 x 13 Pyrex Glass Casserole Dish that I have used for 20 years. I set the oven at 350 degrees and 10 minutes. After I put it in the oven, the glass casserole exploded! The chicken landed on the wire rack of my oven. Thankfully, the oven door was tightly closed! I am now scared to use glass dishes in the oven.

I was drying a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup after washing it. I thought I noticed a stain on the lip. I rubbed it with my thumb. The cup exploded, spewing glass all over the kitchen. I stress that the cup had not been heated. I had washed it in hot water, placed it on the dish rack, and was attempting to towel dry it when the explosion occurred.

I spent all day yesterday making a very complicated recipe for shepherd's pie in my brand new 13x9 Pyrex baking pan. I had finished layering the room temperature items in the pan and placed the pan in a preheated oven at 450 degrees. It had been in the oven for no more than 5 minutes when I heard a huge bang.

I opened the oven to find that the pan had exploded and there were hundreds of pieces of glass and the contents of the pan all over the oven. I immediately shut the oven off; however, my dog ate a piece of the glass and died from complications. My husband cut his hand cleaning out the oven, which took several hours and a lot of work to take apart the entire oven to get all the glass shards out.

The entire day of my time was wasted making a $50 meal we couldn't eat. I spent $13 on the Pyrex baking pan. I had to deal with the emotional damaged to my children because our 3-pound dog, a dog that cost us $150 from a rescue, died. I spent $25 on pizza since we no longer had a dinner to eat or enough time to make a new meal, and my husband now has a giant cut on his had from cleaning up the glass.

I roasted/baked chicken drumsticks in a 16x8 inch clear glass Pyrex dish. I removed the dish from the oven and placed it on the stove top. When I was removing the chicken, the dish suddenly exploded sending glass and hot liquid shooting across the kitchen. As I jumped back, I stepped on broken glass causing a few cuts on my foot. 3 of my toes were cut and I had a very deep cut on the ball of my foot under my pinky toe that goes right into the bone. I also received a cut on my calf from flying glass. I have been unable to walk on my foot for a few days due to the pain and I missed a few days off work.

While taking a glass Pyrex mixing bowl out of an overhead cabinet, I dropped it onto a countertop in front of me. As "tempered" glass, it should have shattered into very small pieces, instead a 5-inch long, 1-inch wide piece became imbedded into my forearm. I had to have surgery to remove the glass and to repair the damage to my tendon and muscle that it cut. I completely severed my FPL tendon and cut the FDS muscle (tendon to my thumb and muscle that connects the tendons to all other fingers). I also had minor nerve damage that has caused minor sensory deficits in 2 fingers. I had 3 months of hand therapy and spent 2 months on light duty at work. If I hadn't had insurance, the total cost of the accident would have been nearly $30,000, but luckily my insurance covered all but $3000.

I used a Pyrex baking dish to cook fish. As I was about to take the dish out, it exploded. I quickly closed the broiler and glass went all over the bottom and flames shot up for a moment. Some glass ended up on the kitchen floor as well. I could have easily been burned. I have a previous burn (from a Pyrex dish) on my leg. I didn't think to relate the two incidents previously. My daughter had just stepped out of the kitchen right before the dish exploded.

Baking scalloped potatoes at 400 degrees F and the glass Pyrex baking dish exploded in my oven. There are pieces of glass everywhere but worse yet I have to take the oven apart to get all of the scalloped potatoes, sauce and whatever else out from in every crevice of my oven. How disappointing is that. Wow, I never would have imagined that a Pyrex baking dish would explode in the oven.

When I got married 48 years ago, my mother gave me quite a few of her Pyrex dishes. I still have every one of them. They have served me well and I fully expect them to keep doing so. Perhaps the old Pyrex is safe because it wasn't made in China. When American manufacturers moved their factories to China, they cut their own throats as far as I'm concerned. Product quality went down the toilet. Chinese standards of safety are bad. What they use to make products with is inferior. After reading about exploding Pyrex, I wouldn't dare purchase anything Pyrex. I am a happy Pyrex owner because my dishes are prior to the new garbage from China.

I took my Pyrex dish out of the oven and set it on the stove and it exploded, sending glass everywhere and tiny pieces of glass into my hands.

1/2 of a bullet popsicle was put into a small round Pyrex bowl. After a few minutes, the popsicle was broken into small bite size pieces and eaten. The fork that was used to eat it was left in the bowl and in a short time the bowl shattered into hundreds of pieces. BS what is the cause of this action?

On Thanksgiving day, we were preparing our meal. Just as we were putting everything out on the counter for a buffet, I reached in the oven and pulled out a Pyrex dish full of homemade rolls. I set the dish on the granite counter and it exploded in my hand. Thank God I had a hot pad or it could have cut my hand. There was a huge boom noise and glass everywhere! I had to carefully go through all of the food and make sure there was no glass in the rest of it. We threw away a bunch of food because we weren't sure if it had glass or not. It ruined our Thanksgiving!

My brother-in-law was preparing a Brazilian Meat Dish for Thanksgiving at just 300 degrees when the Pyrex he was using exploded in the oven. We had only used the dish once before. There were shards of glass all over the oven and the dish was ruined.

Visiting children in Colorado (elevation about 5500 feet) for Thanksgiving. Cooked four sweet potatoes in a Pyrex dish in the oven at 400 degrees for one hour. Took the dish from the oven and placed it on a granite counter (kitchen at warm room temperature (70 deg. ), counter perhaps cooler than ambient temperature). It immediately exploded: "exploded" is not an exaggeration. There were 100's - 1000's of pieces. One minor injury, thankfully.

My Thanksgiving was ruined! I had 12 guests coming to eat at 1:30. I had cooked many things the previous day, thank goodness. I still had 4 dishes I had prepared that morning to bake. My corn pudding was in a 9x13 Pyrex baking dish, and after about 40 minutes of baking at 350, the dish exploded in the oven. Glass was in hundreds of pieces, corn pudding everywhere in the oven and standing deep in the bottom of oven. I was so upset, I cried, not knowing where to begin to get up this mess and knowing I still had baking to do! Although it was a mess, thank God it exploded then and not when I took it out of the oven. I could have been injured! I will send e-mails and post on my Facebook a warning against the use of Pyrex! Never in my 50 years of cooking has anything like this happened!

My Pyrex pie plate that I have had for quite a few years exploded on my kitchen table tonight. I was using it just to hold some meat I had just cooked. It was in the cabinet at room temp. before I used it. After less than 5 min. of the meat being placed in the plate, we heard a popping sound. The glass shattered all over my table, onto our plates and some on the floor. I had to throw out the entire dinner. We are lucky a piece of glass didn't go into one of my children's eyes since we were all sitting right there! I'm afraid and won't use Pyrex tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

After about thirty minutes of baking pasta and chicken in a 9x13 Pyrex dish, I opened the oven to find the glass dish was falling apart while in the oven. I'm lucky I caught the problem where the damage was minimal within the kitchen. Wasted food and an extreme mess in the oven and kitchen.

My husband put some cold leftover food into our Pyrex baking dish, set it in the oven, and set it to 350 degrees. Approximately five minutes later, we heard a loud crash. We opened the oven door to find our Pyrex dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces.

Very fortunately, there were no injuries to anyone, but there very well could have been. We have not yet checked for damage to the oven as this just happened in the last hour and we are still quite shaken by the event.

This morning at 5:20 am, I was startled awake to the sound of shattering glass. I found out my oval Pyrex baking dish had shattered into thousands of little pieces. I went online today to check and see if this had happened to others. I see it is not uncommon. But in my case, the Pyrex was sitting in a cupboard (did not go from one extreme temperature to another). It had only been used 3-4 times. I only purchased it a few months ago, and have never dropped it. I have never put it in the dishwasher either, as it is a fairly large dish. It was just very bizarre. I am writing to let you know, in case there are other random situations of Pyrex exploding when not in use. Thank you.

I had a small pork roast in the oven in a Pyrex baking dish. I opened the oven to add about 1 half cup broth, not frozen. Before I could completely close the door, the dish exploded sending shards of glass everywhere. Thankfully there were no injuries, but what a mess and ruined roast. I lost $15 roast, pan, and had lots of cleanup to do. I hope the oven is OK, since I haven't used it again yet. The main issue is the potential for injuries if this happens to others.

I had my 9x13 glass Pyrex sitting on top of my stove. The oven was on as I was baking. The Pyrex, not being used, but just sitting on top of the stove, exploded when I picked it up! It sounded like a bomb went off. My husband and daughter were in the other room and came running in to see what happened. Glass was everywhere--flew across my kitchen. Luckily, it didn't explode in my face!

I made a hair rinse of 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar and 2/3 cup water in a Pyrex 1 cup measuring cup. I took it into the shower. I used all the vinegar solution about 5 minutes after I entered and placed the cup on the corner of the tub. While I was still rinsing my hair clean I heard the cup shatter. It broke into 3 pieces and just fell into the tub. Luckily, it wasn't an exploding case or I could have had glass shards all over my body.

I baked a sweet potato pie in a Pyrex pie pan. It was sitting on the stove top cooling. I was in another room when I heard a very loud noise from the kitchen. It sounded like a loud crash. Found out the Pyrex pie pan had spontaneously exploded. Glass everywhere! Was thankful that no one was in the room when this happened. Glass could have really hurt any of us, especially me since I was the one cooking at the time. I was not happy about this as I spent a lot time baking this pie from scratch. Lost money on ingredients and pie plate, but the serious consequence of this occurrence was that someone could have been badly injured.

I was baking the chicken at 350 when my 13x9 Pyrex baking dish exploded after 1 hour.

11/11/10. 18:30pm. Earlier tonight I used one of our Pyrex Dishes to marinade some Steaks for Dinner. About two hours later as the dish was sitting in the sink and we were sitting at dinner, we heard a shatter and our Pyrex dish was in pieces both large and small. We had glass everywhere all over the Kitchen. Thankfully no one was hurt besides my cut thumb while cleaning the mess. This could have been a disaster for myself or my children.

The Dish never entered the oven, microwave or refrigerator. No sudden change in temperature occurred. How can this happen? To my surprise as I googled "Pyrex dish exploding," I found plenty more complaints. Most of my Kitchen is outfitted with Pyrex what now? We had another Dish break last year but we chalked it off to one of the Kids. This time we all witnessed it from another room. This is dangerous and I am outraged and someone should do something.

Tonight, I removed a 13"x9" glass Pyrex baking pan from my oven which was set at 4500 to roast squash and set the glass pan on my stovetop where it shattered. Luckily, I was not hurt but if it had shattered several seconds earlier, I'm sure I would have had large shards of Pyrex glass embedded in my feet as well as a 13"x9" pan of hot roasted squash all over me. I am very disappointed and will not be buying Pyrex pans in the future.

I was roasting tomatoes and garlic to be used in a pasta recipe at 400 for 50 minutes. At approximately 30 minutes, the 13 x 9 Pyrex dish exploded in the oven. It ruined 5 lbs. of homegrown tomatoes and 2 lbs. of spicy sausage (in another Pyrex dish). This took over an hour to take apart the oven and clean up glass shards, etc. Both Pyrex dishes and their lids have gone in to the garbage and I will not waste my money on another Pyrex dish. What a waste of my time and money on the homegrown tomatoes that took over an hour to core and slice! Needless to say, the wasted meat.

I placed the pan in my sink (no water involved, just placed it in my dry Corian sink) and it exploded into a million pieces. Luckily, there was no injuries, just a scary situation and a big clean up - and I'm out my favorite baking dish.

I have had a Pyrex portable for about 6 years. For the first time, I decided to use the thermal pad that you heat in microwave (my MC oven is small, less than 700 degrees.) Directions say, full heat for 4 and 1/2 to 5 minutes. The pad inflated and blew up in 2 and 1/2 min. I was relieved that it didn't splat all over. Don't want another one.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010, I was using my Pyrex bake dish to hold my fried chicken after I had taken it from the fry pan. The Pyrex dish was sitting on my kitchen counter; I put paper towels in the bottom of the dish and my chicken on top. When I turned my back to place the last of the chicken in the fry pan, I heard an explosion.

When I turned around the Pyrex dish had exploded on my kitchen counter top. All the sides were laying flat down and cracked in many pieces; there was glass all over the floor. The dish was not even used in the oven, it just exploded. Luckily, I was having a potluck and my friends were able to clean it up as I have a bad back.

They could not believe it was a Pyrex dish until I shown them the matching dish. This was definitely a freak accident. This was a clear glass bakeware, so they do explode. How is this handled?

I have not spoken to anyone about this. My home was 73 degrees inside and 65 degrees outside. I set Pyrex mixing bowl on the counter (not marble, just regular counter top). I poured in boiling water and Jell-O mix. It had been stirring about 30 seconds when the bowl suddenly broke into 3 large pieces and a number of small chips. There was no draft or anything cold. I had the bowl for 20 years. It was not chipped or cracked, only scuffed inside as they get from mixing. I have made Jell-O in this bowl many times without incident. If anyone has conclusive answers about why this happens with no impact or thermal shock, I'd sure like to know.

I was baking a cake in Pyrex glass dish and it exploded. There were glass shards with cake stuck to them all over my oven. During clean up, the dog ate a glass shard while I was sweeping them into a dust pan. It cost me a $300 vet bill. I have never heard of Pyrex dishes doing such a thing. I bought these last year at Wal-Mart and expected the same high quality of Pyrex that I had always had in the past. Forget it. After internet research, I am finding out that this stuff is dangerous!

I have had a Pyrex 9x13 baking dish for years. Last night, I used it to bake a fish at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. I took it out of the oven, went to set it on the counter, and it burst in my hands. Glass went everywhere. Thank God my two-year-old daughter had just walked away, because if she were standing where she had been just a moment earlier, she would have received flying glass to her face and head.

The glass broke into many sharp shards, and I received a cut to my foot from the glass as I was trying to clean it up. I used the dish in exactly the way it was intended to be used--I preheated the oven, did not use excessive temperatures, and did not place it on anything cold or in water after I took it out. This is extremely, extremely dangerous, suffice it to say. I am now scared to use any of the other Pyrex products that I currently own and will likely have to simply throw them away.

I was using this dish to bake a small roast and after baking it and pulling it out to cool, the pan exploded like a bomb. It went off sending pieces of hot sharp glass all over my kitchen and I had pieces of glass in my hands and my legs.

12x9 dish pan exploded when removed from the oven and was set on a unheated stove top. Glass shrapnel everywhere included imbedded in carpet and on a baby highchair. Burned hardwood floor.

Was baking chicken nuggets for dinner. I took Pyrex out to the oven and before I could put the dish down on a cooling surface, the Pyrex dish exploded into 10 pieces.

Do not buy Pyrex! I recently purchased a dozen or so assorted Pyrex bowls so I could throw out the plastic. We have all heard, it is not safe to microwave in plastic. Well, it's not safe to microwave in Pyrex either. I placed cooked white rice in the new 1 quart bowl to reheat in the microwave. Before even one minute, it exploded into a hundred sharp pieces. This product is very dangerous. I will throw the rest out.

I took the dish out of the oven and set the hot top on the sink. It fell apart in 3 pieces. Pyrex A7C. Do you know where I can purchase another one?

I bought a Pyrex rectangular dish in the last 12 months here in the USA. It was used to contain ice cubes which was set on a separate level in the oven while baking bread. I just took out the water-filled dish out of the oven 20 minutes after the start of the baking. It made a loud noise, and the top end cracked and a large piece fell off.

I did not sustain injury as I was holding it over the sink when it disintegrated. Is it safe to continue to use two dishes that I purchased in France and Belgium about 7 years ago? I will not purchase USA-manufactured glass bake products again. We will send a warning to friends and will inform our 11 close family households and encourage them to do the same for friends. If the agency responsible for protecting the consumer won't do its job, voting with the pocketbook will do the job to get rid of an inferior and dangerous product.

My mom just bought a new Pyrex Casserole and baked a meat dish at 350 deg. She opened the door to see how it was doing after 1 hr. 20 minutes. She turned away for a moment and she heard crackling. The casserole started to crack apart. The whole dish broke into about 100 pieces large and small. I took pictures of the mess. No one was hurt fortunately. Was quite surprised to see other complaints about Pyrex.

Obviously the casserole and Pyrex all had to be thrown out. She does have the receipt for the Pyrex and will try to get a refund from Walmart.

I was baking bread and trying to warm water on a gas stove with my Pyrex Glass measuring cup. Luckily, I had turned around to pour flour into a bowl when I heard a loud boom and felt glass hitting my backs and saw a piece bounce of the cabinet I was facing. The glass exploded and fractured in a way like onion layers outward as well as in chunks. The glass flew everywhere and stuck to the walls, cabinets and me since it was wet.

My Pyrex exploded and my wife's feet got cut up a little by the glass. What can we do about this before someone really gets hurt?

My 9" X 13" glass baking dish exploded. This is frightening and will be considered in the future when purchasing a bakeware. There's not many details needed as you see the numerous similar complaints. I now have an oven scattered with broken glass and a wasted turkey loin. I'm left hungry now.

Yes, I was baking eggplant in the oven when I also heard a huge "boom". Glass shattered everywhere in my oven. Luckily, the door was closed and no one was hurt. This is unconscionable for a company to market themselves as 'oven safe' and have these many incidents. They should be held accountable for any injuries that people incur!

Tonight, I was cooking salmon for my family on bake at 350 degrees in my Pyrex 13x9 which I have only used once before. I heard an explosion that came from my oven so I opened it and I was shocked. My dinner was ruined because the glass pan exploded all over the inside of my oven. I feel betrayed. This is Pyrex, the brand we have come to trust all these years. Let's get it together people!

My baby was sitting in his chair in the kitchen while I was cooking sausages via the oven in my Pyrex dish. I reached in and take the pan out, sat it on the counter and the dish exploded! Hot glass went flying everywhere, burning my 11 month old in both of his arms. This is ridiculous! My house was warm so there wasn't a big temp change and my oven was set to 350. I have shards of glass in my fingers and my feet. Something needs to be done about this immediately.

I bought a Pyrex dish yesterday. Put it in the dishwasher and set it on the counter. It exploded like a bomb all over my kitchen!

Instantly, the Pyrex blew into thousands of pieces, which went everywhere. The glass pieces were very hot. My feet were cut as I was barefoot. I am certain I will continue to find shards for awhile. Luckily, I was not standing right by the sink, which I typically do when I am cutting the chicken up. I didn't realize that this same event is happening to many others.

I am writing to file a huge complaint the Pyrex Cobalt blue 2 qt oblong baking dish. I have been using this dish for a few years and today the dish exploded as I was checking on a meal I was baking. As I opened my oven to check on a fish meal, the baking dish exploded in my face! The glass shattered into a thousand pieces. Luckily for me, the pieces missed my eyes.

I cannot believe they have a product that says it's oven safe but then shatters when you use it! I am thrilled that nothing major happened to me or my family, but it could have. I will be letting everyone know this dish is very unsafe! I will never use glass in the oven, even if it says "oven safe" because obviously that is not true! Do not use this product! Very dangerous.

I exploded like a bomb. All I did was still my gratin potatoes and boom! My daughter was in her room with the radio on and heard it. It was in a million small pieces all over my kitchen. It cut and burned me, too. I'm scared to ever use this product again. I'm so glad I didn't ask my daughter to stir the potatoes. It could have been a lot worse. We had to take the door off the oven and we had to clean the whole kitchen and oven. I got burns from the hot potatoes on my feet and cuts to my knee and feet. It was a huge mess.

Took Pyrex dish out of the oven with ribs in it that had cooked at 375, set it on the counter top on a hot pad and when my friend walked away from it the dish exploded! It cut her foot and burnt the entire kitchen floor and counter top! The linoleum in the kitchen will have to be replaced as it burnt it leaving shards of glass melted into it. The counter top will need replaced. We just moved into this house and are renting so we are obligated to replace it!

I set my gas oven to 400F and placed a previously prepared frozen two chicken breasts, asparagus wrapped inside. The chicken was wrapped in a tinfoil. I placed this wrapped in tinfoil chicken dish in the lid of my pyrex dish. I was by the kitchen sink when I heard what sounded like a crash. I looked around, then opened the oven to find the Pyrex dish had shattered. I am happy to report that I had not opened the stove door when this happened.

My stove was a mess, with the pieces of glass falling down the bottom panel. I cleaned up with a brush and dust pan. Some pieces could not be reached as I have to take the stove door off to take the bottom panel out. I was able to rescue my chicken dish as it was wrapped in foil and not perforated. When I did put my chicken dish back in the oven on a metal cookie sheet, the pieces I could not reach broke again making a popping crash noise. I have been using my pyrex dishes many years as they were probably given or purchased as shower or wedding gifts almost 30-40 years ago. My question is if I should be using these pyrex dishes. I could have been injured.

Economically, I am afraid to use the pyrex dishes, and will need to purchase something different. A few months ago, I did purchased two new casserole dishes so I could prepare meals to freeze, then cook. I will need to purchase a more reliable cooking vessel.

I had one of your 9x13 glass cake pan explode in my oven. The pan shattered in a million pieces within minutes of being placed in the oven. It contained brownie mix so needless to say it was extremely messy and dangerous to clean. I have had the bakeware for a couple of years and have other bakeware made by Pyrex but am now hesitant to use them.

I was melting butter on the stovetop in a Pyrex measuring cup. I have done this many times before with my older Pyrex measuring cup. The butter was almost fully melted when I heard a loud pop and the Pyrex measuring cup exploded into small tiny pieces all over the cook top, floor and counters. Fortunately, I was not standing close to the stove. Otherwise, I could have been seriously injured by the glass as well as hot liquid. I recently purchased the measuring cup since my original one, bought in 1983, had very faded measurement markings. Too bad I gave it away.

I purchased my Pyrex dish about 10 months ago. I used it twice for Jello salads. On Thursday night, I used my Pyrex dish for the third time. It was on my counter next to the stove. The chicken I had boiled was finished. I pulled the pieces out of the pot one by one and put them in the Pyrex dish. The Pyrex dish was not on the stove top and it was not touching the pot where I had boiled the chicken. The Pyrex was on the counter and close to the pot. The Pyrex dish was at room temperature and had been on the counter while the chicken was boiling in the pot on the stove.

After the chicken pieces were in the dish, I turned around to get something from the sink. In a matter of seconds, I heard a loud pop behind me. When I turned around, there was glass everywhere. The Pyrex dish had shattered. There were pieces of glass all over the floor, the counter, & some pieces had even popped up into the pot where I had cooked the chicken. If I had not turned around to grab something, I would have been standing in front of the Pyrex dish & been hurt as glass went flying everywhere.

I was making a homemade mac and cheese dish last night in my 9X13 Pyrex dish that I have had for 15 years. After melting butter in the dish, I set it on top of my stove and as I was adding the 4th cup of milk, I heard this loud pop/exploding sound and glass flew everywhere. The pieces were so tiny, almost like it disintegrated the entire pan before my eyes. I have cuts all over my hands and feet from the glass splinters. I am still cleaning the microscopic glass shards from my kitchen. The pieces flew as far as the patio door (about 13 ft) from the stove.

I am just shocked. I have been able to take this dish from my freezer with lasagna and place it in my oven no problem. It didn't have any cracks, chips or defects. When explaining to a friend what happened, she referred me to the internet where I am reading thousands of stories just like this. I am appalled that I didn't know this could happen. I could have been hurt a lot worse than the cuts on my hands, feet and the small splinter of glass still lodged in my leg.

I was using a brand new Pyrex glass pie dish to make dessert for my mom's birthday. After the dessert was done baking, I removed it from the oven and as I was putting it on the stove top, the glass exploded, sending glass all over my kitchen. Broken glass pieces were all over my kitchen and even in my oven since I hadn't shut the door yet. My hand was cut; thankfully none of my kids were injured. The dessert I had spent over an hour making from scratch was ruined as was other food nearby as it too had glass in it.

I took a square glass baking dish out of the cabinet and poured a coffee cake mix into the dish. I then put it into a 350 degree oven for 38 minutes. At 36 minutes, the dish exploded in the oven. I have the dish and pictures of it in the oven. I have used this dish several times to make potatoes au gratin and cakes. Other than the dish, thank God no one was hurt and I do not see any damage to my oven.

My 12 year old Pyrex glass 9x13 baking dish exploded in my oven while roasting a split turkey breast the other night. I have used this pan with no issues since I got married. As far as I know, there was no damage to the glass prior to using it that night. Only half way through cooking the meat, I heard a loud "pop"/exploding sound coming from the kitchen. The meat (completely thawed prior to cooking) had been roasting (with a foil cover) for 15 minutes at 425, then the oven was turned down to 350.

After about 15-20 minutes at 350 is when I heard this noise, my meat was only half cooked. I opened my oven to find that the Pyrex glass baking dish had completely exploded & broken into many shards, large and small, all over my oven. The turkey grease then dripped onto the bottom of my oven, where it caught fire on the heating elements. I turned the oven off & kept the door closed until the flames went out. I waited for everything to cool completely before removing glass from oven.

When I married in 1985, I bought several pieces of corning and Pyrex glass bakeware. Over the years, I bought additional or replaced pieces that were misplaced at potluck meals or broken when dropped. In the last 2 or 3 years, I have had a 9x13 pan explode in the oven and ruin a beef roast (nothing was done to it, it had been in the oven over an hour already, no liquid added, nothing touched, just boom!) and another round casserole I picked off the oven shelf to find that bottom had cracked around the circular edge. The body of the casserole picked up but the bottom of the dish stayed on the shelf, pouring out the contents on my oven bottom. I have had several of their newer custard cups crack also, but my older ones (size is slightly different so I can tell) have not cracked even though 25 yrs old.

I will not buy Pyrex again. I know several women who have had the same experience. Perhaps in the rush to manufacture everything cheaper or in China, maybe they have subcontracted out the manufacture. If they have not changed from borosilicate to soda ash glass recently, then they have changed the process, subbed it out or hired a bunch of idiots in their factory. I know many people who won't buy Pyrex anymore. World Kitchen can protest all they want to, but they have changed Pfaltzgraff, made the wall construction thinner, some parts smaller so old lids no longer fit new dishes or vice versa, mixed place settings no longer match and cheapened the Revere pans. I know because I have the old series also. I think they have done the same thing to Pyrex.

Baked potatoes were cooking in my blue glass Pyrex baking dish and it exploded in the oven. This is a dish I had been using for two years.

In 1968, I was given a full set of brown and white Pyrex bowls and baking dishes of all sizes, many with lids. I have used them since then! A couple weeks ago, I took a 1 1/2 qt rectangle baking dish with lid from the oven, removed the lid and turned to place the dish onto our table and heard a loud pop! I turned around to see the lid exploded into shards of glass, big and small on the counter and onto the floor. There was no injury to anyone but I cannot find a replacement. I am very sad this occurred. Can you tell me where to get a replacement? It was a clear lid that fit up or down on or into the dish and had ribs in the glass. Please advise at your earliest convenience.

I took a Pyrex bowl with mac and cheese out of oven and while cooling, it simply exploded sending shrapnel all over the kitchen and guests. There were no injuries but just an unmitigated mess.

On September 3, 2010, a clear glass Pyrex (R) lid (labeled Pyrex on the side) for an oval 2.5 quart white Corning ware (R) dish shattered with a "bang" sound into many glass shards resulting in about 5 cuts to the skin. This was purchased new, roughly 5 years ago. My concern is how it broke into many sharp shards of various sizes and shapes, from several inches long to tiny pieces.

I do not recall "Pyrex" glass ever breaking this way before, or the loud "bang" sound of shattering into so many sharp irregular sized pieces. I believe the glass cookware is unsafe if it can shatter this way. Has "Pyrex" glass cookware always been this hazardous? Somehow, I perceived "Pyrex" as a safer type of glass designed for kitchen use. Is there a technology for making safer glass cookware? I had cuts to the skin, and difficult clean-up. I was lucky to be a few feet away when it broke. Glass flew everywhere from an apparent fall of only about a foot. My curiosity as to how glass could travel so far and into so many shards from only a small drop led to my discovering others talking of "exploding" Pyrex glassware sold in USA.

I made homemade meatballs for dinner this evening and used two pans, both Pyrex. The meatballs cooked in the oven for just about an hour. I went to take out the first pan, a pan I have used on a regular basis for the past 5 years since getting the pan, and before I could even set it down on the counter, it exploded in my face. I had bent down to pull out the pan from the oven and did not have a chance to avert my face or set the pan down before it shattered, spraying glass shards six feet across the room.

My daughters were in the kitchen and were missed from being hit by the flying shrapnel but I had two cuts on my arm and got hit (but not cut) underneath my left eye. The glass exploded in and out of the oven, ruining the other pan of meatballs as well. Because the glass flew, we ended up having to throw out the entire meal. I will have to vacuum out my oven just to make sure that all the shards are out of the oven before I cook again.

My kids were traumatized by the explosion and the blood and it was very frustrating to have an entire meal ruined. I have lost my faith in Pyrex. I did not misuse the pan nor set it on a burner nor expose it to extreme temperature changes, yet the pan exploded! I have two cuts on my right arm that are about an inch to an inch and a half long. I got hit in the bottom of my left eye but did not get cut. I did not feed my kids dinner until 8pm as I had to go to town (20 minutes each way) to order out as I could not use the oven until it had cooled completely and been vacuumed out. I have glass shards all over my kitchen and dining room and despite cleaning thoroughly have already found a few tiny shards that were missed. With three young kids, I only hope none of them step on a piece.

Baking pork chops in a 9 X 13 Pyrex casserole dish (it was one that came with my insulated carrying case and had kind of a wavy look to the sides of the casserole bought in the last 10 years or so). Had baked pork chops in the 9 x 13 Pyrex glass casserole dish for 1 hr at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Took the cooked pork chops out of the oven and sat the the glass casserole dish on my room temperature granite countertop. Not right away but within minutes heard a cracking kind of noise and then an explosion. The 9 x 13 Pyrex casserole dish exploded into many different sized pieces of glass as far as 5 feet from it's location. I received a decent cut on the front of my left ankle and had to dig a small glass shard out with a pair of Tweezerman splinter tweezers.

I am a nurse so knew the proper methods to clean the wound and used butterfly strips to hold the cut together. I felt lucky not to have any further injuries. I am 45 years of age and have been baking and cooking for 25+ years and have never experienced anything like this before. I am now afraid to use my Pyrex for baking. Minor cut to left ankle requiring me to use butterfly strips. Obviously a shattered Pyrex 9 x 13 casserole dish, a ruined pork chops for four people and a waste of several hours of my time preparing the pork chops and the time spent after the explosion making sure I had cleaned up all the glass so that my family (husband and 2 daughters) and I would not get hurt and the pork chop mess.

My small square Pyrex baking dish exploded. The unusual thing about the circumstance was that unlike the multitude of stories with the same outcome, my dish did not explode due to extreme or quick temperature change. The morning after baking in it, I had simply hand washed the piece and set it upside down (on a towel) on the counter top to dry. The water was only as hot as what would be comfortable for me to wash by hand in. I used the typical green back sponge and liquid dish soap to help remove the baked on food. Approximately 1/2 hour later, I heard a short crackle sound that caused me to turn my head and look, but I thought nothing of it. Five minutes after that the dish popped into pieces. The pieces were both large and small and all very sharp (unlike what tempered glass should be).

Apparently, these dishes need to be handled with kit gloves. Maybe I will just use our remaining Pyrex dish as a fruit bowl. I myself have witnessed Pyrex dishes explode twice before. So this makes three times for me alone! Geeze! Clearly these occurrences happen astonishingly more than what is reported. How can World Kitchen be getting away with this? By no way shape or form do I feel the dishes are living up to World Kitchens' claims, with or without the fine print. World Kitchen is piggy-backing off of a reputation that was established by Corning and this is totally irresponsible. Change the labeling or stop producing them. That's what I say.

I was baking. I turned it off and it blew up. Glass went all over my kitchen and me.

I washed this Pyrex baking dish and let in over my laminate counter for 2 days. There were no thermal shocks of any magnitude. And still, the dish exploded when I wasn't even near the kitchen (thank God). There are very large pieces of glass and they're extremely sharp. Tempered glass shouldn't do that. I'm starting to think that all these people that had their dishes exploding and got hurt with hot food and sharp glass weren't misusing their products after all. I wasn't physically hurt, but it is clear that these products are not safe anymore. Their quality level decreased substantially. I lost one dish only, but now I'll have to buy substitutes for all my Pyrex bake ware since I can't trust this products anymore.

I recently purchased 4 Pyrex glass storage containers of various sizes to add to my existing collection, which I have had for several years, problem free. Two weeks ago, I prepared a frittata for a picnic dinner. I poured the frittata into a 6 cup rectangular container and placed the Pyrex container into the 350 degree pre-heated oven. About 10 minutes into the baking, I heard a loud bang from the kitchen. I went to check and the Pyrex dish had exploded in the oven, making quite a mess. Tonight I was reheating some shredded pork in the microwave. It was in a 2 cup round Pyrex container. I cooked it on high for 1 minute.

I was surprised to open the microwave and find that the bowl had exploded! Another dinner ruined! The first incident, I considered a fluke. After the second incident, I was ready to blame it on the new batch of Pyrex. After reading the stories and complaints, I see that this is a bigger issue than I had imagined. I too thought that Pyrex was supposed to be safe. Thankfully, no one was injured. After seeing some of the pictures posted, I feel lucky that the mess was contained in the oven. I see it could have been much worse!

I was cooking dinner with my 9x13 glass dish that I have cooked with for years. When I opened the oven to take it out, it exploded all over the inside of the oven and glass is everywhere. If the company had come over, they would see the whole thing that happened and I had to throw away $20.00 worth the meat in the garbage. There was no dinner and an awful mess to clean up.

2001, I used a Pyrex loaf dish and made a meatloaf as I had done 100 times before. Took dish out of oven and set on top of stove, turned around the the dish exploded into 1000 pieces. Did not think anything but a fluke and maybe an old dish. But last Thursday, I baked a tenderloin in a Pyrex baking dish, opened the oven, turned around to grab a knife to cut into it and the dish exploded in the oven, not once but twice leaving only the tenderloin standing on the rack. Luckily no injuries either time.

I just had a Pyrex loaf pan shatter in my oven, while baking four zucchini loaves (all of which are now ruined with glass). It blew with a horrendous blast and glass shards all over the place. All 4 of these Pyrex pans went from the cupboard to the oven - not freezer or even fridge to oven. I could have been severely burned if this had happened while taking the pan out of the oven or just looking into the oven. I thought Pyrex was the safest product, all my baking, lasagna, loaf pans and mixing bowls are Pyrex.

I was cooking some steaks in the oven and they were in there for about 30 minutes. I went to stick my potholder in there and grab the Pyrex pan and it exploded. It cut my arm in three different places and my foot. My son stood up from the table and it cut his foot. The glass shot out like a bomb that went off. This is horrible. This was a 9x13 dish and the biggest piece of glass left was 1 inch. Thank God it didn't get in my eye. I have cooked with this dish a zillion times.

The Pyrex glass pan exploded inside oven and made a huge mess inside the oven and ruined dinner.

I had used my 9x13 Pyrex dish many times before this incident. Tonight I placed a pork loin into my Pyrex dish and put it in a 425 degree oven. Eight minutes into cooking I hear an explosion. I open my oven to find tiny pieces of glass everywhere and my pork loin lying on the oven rack. So glad nobody was around and the oven door was closed tightly when it happened. Beware!

I would like to withdraw my complaint. I was able to speak with a representative at Pyrex who explained that Pyrex bakeware cannot be preheated empty because of the heat distribution. Pyrex is sending me a replacement bowl free of charge and I am very satisfied with this outcome.

Yesterday, I went to bake bread as usual. I prepared the dough, and after it had risen, I preheated my 4qt Pyrex bowl in a 450F oven. It had been sitting at room temperature prior to being preheated. Once the dough had risen a second time, I placed it in the bowl. A second later, the bowl exploded. That sounds dramatic, but I can't think of a better word to describe it. Hundreds of glass shards littered the inside of the oven and the entire kitchen, and I still don't know how I didn't get hurt.

I'm still furious. The bowl wasn't scratched, cracked or flawed, it had come to temperature slowly and hadn't even been close to cold before preheating. I've made bread this way half a dozen times with no issue. Now I'm nervous to use any of my Pyrex bakeware, since I have no idea whether that will explode too. Granted, I've used it for years without issue, but when I can't even point to something I could have done wrong to warrant such an accident, how can I trust it?

I baked brownies in my 8 inch square pan Thursday night without an incident. Then Friday, my boyfriend was boiling water in a pot, with the brownies on an adjacent burner, and the pan exploded into large and tiny glass shards! How is a pan that should be fine in the oven going to explode when near heat? It wasn't even directly exposed! He, thank God, was fine.

I had a 9" by 13" baking dish. We have used Pyrex in my family for generations. My mom always told me never take it from the freezer to the stove. I was making a roast. I took the Pyrex baking dish straight from the cupboard and covered with tinfoil and placed the roast in the center. I let it cook for a half hour and went to check on it. It wasn't finished so I closed the door. My son who was hungry went to peek in the oven and a loud bang came from the kitchen. Never in my life have I been more scared when I found him standing in the kitchen with the oven door open and glass every where. The roast sat in the stove with its tinfoil still around it. Glass was every where inside the stove as well as all over my floor.

What scared me the most was the large center of the pan that was 5" in diameter sitting inches from my son. It still clearly said Pyrex in the center. I can only imagine if a piece that size had hit my son. It worries me to read the report that so many others have complained and still nothing. If a car has a defect the car company must recall the defective cars and replace or repair without question or cost to consumer. Will it take the death of a child to wake America up? Is the profit of a company and the bottom dollar worth more then our children or the mothers of children? I myself think my child is more valuable then saving a dollar. My fingers were cut and burnt trying to clean up the glass even after an hour of letting them cool.

I bought a brand new glass pie dish, made by Pyrex. I made a pie in it, and put it into a 375 degree oven. 30 seconds after closing the door, I heard a loud pop. The pie dish had exploded all over the oven, large pointed shards. I'm lucky the door was closed! It's ridiculous to make a pie plate, which is supposed to go from counter top to oven, that explodes when exposed to heat. Pies bake, for crying out loud! It has a warranty, but I don't want a replacement. Way too dangerous.

I brought some veggies in the clear 2-cup storage dish with a blue plastic lid. I put it in the microwave for 1.5 minutes and took it out. The food was warm, but the dish was blazing hot. I put the dish on my desk to cool off a bit. Then in approximately 1-2 minutes, it exploded, sending sharp shattered glass all over my desk, my lap, and the floor.

I thought these items were oven-proof, microwave-proof, and dishwasher-safe, like it is imprinted on the package. I received a cut on my left arm which was nearest the cup when it broke. I treated it myself.

Our families have been pleased with your products for generations! Not so today! After washing in the dishwasher twice, the printing of measurement is disappearing. What use is it now? We are senior citizens, does that explain our financial status? Our daughters have complained to me after replacing plastic measuring cup, we all dislike using plastic! How can we all count the economic consequences?

I preheated my oven to 450 degrees. Put small frozen fish fillet in a 9" square Pyrex dish to cook for 20 mins. Checked it at 20 mins. I never removed it from the oven rack. It wasn't cooked so I separated the 2 pieces, still not removing it from the oven rack. Within 30 seconds, the glass dish exploded! Luckily, most of the glass ended up in the oven. This was 15 minutes ago so I don't know if there is any damage to the oven yet. I'm OK. Wow! Scary! I will not use Pyrex ever again!

I recently purchased a set of three glass baking dishes from Wal-mart. I have used the smaller ones without incident (so far). Today I put the largest one in the oven to bake some chicken breasts. The breasts were not unusually cold, the pan was room temperature, and the oven was set at an accurate 350 degrees. After about 30 minutes, I heard a pop from the oven, and open the door to find the pan had shattered into hundreds of pieces. I Googled this and found an article on snopes.com basically blaming the consumer for these incidents. I have been cooking for 40 years and have never had this happen before. I was really scared by the incident and will not use any of these pans anymore, and I am offended that I am being blamed for something that is clearly not my fault.

My wife was pouring hot juice. I'm not the cook here so don't ask me what kind. She was pouring it over some marinated tofu that she had been broiling in the oven in a Pyrex dish. It exploded with a loud pop into a thousand pieces. The glass landed pretty far, about 3 1/2 feet. The floor linoleum was burned by a piece of superheated glass about 5 inches by one inch. My wife got a burn on her hand though she was wearing a mitt. We think she is lucky the glass exploded laterally and downward. No more Pyrex in the oven for us!

I made expensive bread. I suddenly heard an explosion in oven. My Pyrex bread baking dish had exploded with Shards of glass all over oven, door and floor when we tried to clean up. $15 worth of food lost. Hand cut through Playtex glove when cleaning up, dents in floor. Total mess and loss.

My fiance had olive oil and butter in a glass Pyrex pan on low heat on the stove preparing it to bake Talapia fish fillets in. The entire pan suddenly exploded into pieces, ranging from approximately an inch in diameter to the size of a grain of sand.

I reached down to pull a green 9"x 3" piece of Pyrex out of the cabinet (at room temperature) so I could marinate some meat in it and later remove the meat and cook on grill. The minute I grabbed the end of the dish and began to pull it out of the cabinet, the dish shattered into a hundred pieces with a tremendous force. Some of the pieces were large, but some of the pieces were almost sand like. The glass was literally shot 3 feet away from where it shattered. I have owned and used Pyrex for 42 years and have never had any bad experiences with this product until now. I feel like I have been betrayed by an old friend! I had small cuts on my hand and some on my feet, where I stepped on tiny shards.

My mother and grandmother have sworn by Pyrex for as long as I can remember. As a former culinary student, I know the Do's and Don'ts of cooking and baking. I love my Pyrex Bakeware and have never had any problems with them up until last Thursday (July 15th, 2010). I was preparing a special dinner for mine and my fiance's anniversary. My chickens were trussed, seasoned and in my 9 X 13 Pyrex pan, waiting for the oven to preheat. About half way thru the cooking time, my fiance left to pick up a few last minute's at the store.

I went to the kitchen to baste our dinner. I opened the oven and pulled the rack with the Pyrex out about half way and basted the chicken with the drippings. I had just finished and was about to push the rack back into the oven when the glass pan exploded, sending shards of glass everywhere. The sizes varied, the bottom was intact for the most part, the sides were in smaller pieces about 1" or so and tinier, finer (almost powder-like) glass all over the floor, my clothes, hands, etc. My fiance came home to a huge mess in the kitchen and found me in the bathroom cleaning my cuts.

My left cheek and neck had a couple of minor cuts, as well as a slightly bigger one on my foot (The glass exploding startled me and I jumped back, only to find a chunk of glass on the floor with my bare foot). My hand was burned slightly from a piece of glass and my left eye was also burned when some liquid sprayed into it. After decades of use and the trust of 3 family generations in Pyrex, it's all come to this. I hope that World Kitchen LLC looks at these 134 pages (and counting) of complaints and starts taking responsibility for their products.

I thought Pyrex was ** near indestructible, but I found out differently tonight. I placed 2 thawed, seasoned steaks in a 9x9" dish and left it sitting on the stove top for about an hour while I baked potatoes at 400 degrees. I then put the dish in the oven. Ten minutes later, I heard a crash coming from the oven. I opened the oven door to find that two sides of the baking dish had blown off, a third side had shattered into pieces - ranging from a couple of inches to practically dust - while the third side and bottom of the dish was mostly intact.

My wife was making meatloaf for dinner using a Pyrex baking pan. She turned the oven on and put dinner in the oven in the Pyrex pan. Half an hour later, she opened the oven to check on dinner. She turned her back for a minute leaving the oven door opened. When suddenly, there was an explosion. The pan blew apart. The pieces of glass that flew out of the oven burned our linoleum floor. Now our floor needs to be replaced. I feel Pyrex should be the ones to pay for our floor and ruined dinner.

My parents have had a set of Pyrex bakeware longer than I've been alive. Their set has stood up to outrageous abuse and is seemingly indestructible. As you can probably guess, I was excited to get my own set now that I'm moving out. I bought a 5 piece set on May 30th, 2010 and in the last month, I have only used the 8x8 pan once. Last night, July 5, my 8x8 pan shattered, the second time it had ever been used. I can't find any error on my part that would have caused the breakage. I put together a chicken dinner and stuck it in a 350 degree oven. After half an hour, I pulled the pan out to see if the food was done. It wasn't, so I set it back in the oven. As I was leaning to close the oven door, the pan shattered.

I'm familiar with the laws of physics. I would never put a cold pan, especially a glass one, into a hot oven, and would not be surprised at breakage if I had set the pan into a pool of water on the counter. This is not what happened. I put a room temperature pan into a preheated oven and the food was also room temperature. It sat in the oven for almost 30 minutes, so both the pan and the food were nice and hot when I removed them. I have a thermometer in the oven because I'm still learning its quirks. The temperature was a steady 350 degrees throughout the cooking process and didn't fluctuate any more than would be expected from opening and closing the door.

Using dry pot holders (they were brand new and had never come in contact with water), I took the pan out of the oven. I set it on top of one of the potholders on the bone dry counter top. It was out for about 30 seconds while I cut into the food, and then went straight back into the oven. I set the pan down on the rack, tossed the pot holders on the counter, started to lean down, and heard a loud bang. It was my pan flying apart. One complete side blew off and landed on the oven door about eight inches from my leg, and there were dozens of smaller pieces in the oven. I was fortunate in that the broken pieces stayed mainly in the oven and none of it ended up embedded in my skin. Vacuuming my oven was not an experience I ever expected to have, though.

I let everything cool off for a couple hours before I started cleaning up the mess. As far as I can tell, the places where the pan cracked don't originate in the same place the way I would expect them to if a portion of the pan was put through a thermal shock. Initially, the pan was in about 5 big pieces, but as I picked it up and put it into a box so I could take it back to the store and get a refund, the big pieces fell apart. I've read all Pyrex's usage directions since this happened, and I had followed all the instructions they lay out. I can't find any explanation for why this happened in user error. If it were old and abused I would consider accepting that scratches in the glass could cause cracks or breakage, but the pan was essentially brand new and completely scratch-free. I'm left assuming that a defect in manufacturing caused the pan to split. I won't be buying anything from Pyrex until pans have stopped exploding - I'm sorry, breaking at random. I took a couple pictures of the broken pan pre-cleanup, if they would be of any use. I hope Pyrex does something to address this issue soon. I want bakeware I can trust again.

I purchased a set of Pyrex baking dishes for uses in casseroles, macaroni and cheese, etc. about a year ago from my local Walmart. Last night, I made chicken cordon bleu. As I got ready to take it out of the oven, I put a little bit of water in the dish so the chicken wouldn't dry out, and the dish just exploded. I am just grateful that nothing shattered in my eyes. I guess because everything is made in China now, the quality isn't there anymore. Guess what? I will never purchase anything made in China. My dinner was ruined! I am still seeing glass pieces in the cracks of the oven door. This is just terrible. Why are they not recalled? No physical damage (thank God) but my dinner was ruined.

Making chicken & dumplings in my stainless steel pot on top of the stove for my family seemed almost therapeutic after a hard day. The chicken had been simmering in the home made broth i had prepared. Chicken done, I simply took a sq. brown pyrex baking dish out of the cupboard, placed it on the counter and placed my finished chicken pieces inside the dish to cool so I could debone it. Luckily, I walked away to the refrigerator (behind an island) and heard an explosion. Sounded as though a huge chandelier fell from a high ceiling onto a cement floor. In shock, I ducked (not realizing what had occured), looked around my kitchen and couldnt believe all the glass that was in a million pieces in shapes of arrows, slivers and chunks. Glass was inbedded into the chicken, my rugs, in the broth.........etc.

I am going to throw every piece of pyrex I own out of my house. Had I known about this - I would have never purchase anything from this company. I especially am disgusted reading about their attempts to cover up this huge problem. My dish was at room temp. on a room temp. counter and the chicken was simply at a simmer - as I was merely simmering broth.

After cooking a casserole dish and letting it sit for an hour I was setting the table and set the Pyrex dish down on the table cloth as we began to eat the bowl exploded all over the table including our plates we were eating off of and my 2 year old sons legs. This is a very dangerous product and I highly recommend that it be banned from the shelves. Luckily we had no physical damage to our bodies but we lost nearly a entire meal from shards of glass that landed in it from the explosion.

I had just put the Pyrex dish in the oven @ 350 degrees and in twenty minutes while watching TV the wife and I heard an explosion from the oven. Glass everywhere. That was the end of the banana bread and probably the end of ever using Pyrex again. I've used pyrex for years and never had this happen before. I would hate to think that could have happened when handling the dish. Not good!

While watching TV last night, my husband and I heard a loud noise that sounded like exploding ice. He got up and checked the ice maker and nothing was out of order. This morning while putting dishes away, I opened a cupboard and found that one of my Pyrex baking dishes had virtually exploded. I don't think I've used this dish more than 5 times since I got it. This really could have been bad had I been using it. This dish just sits in a larger Pyrex dish while not in use. I've never had this happen before with a Pyrex dish.

I was cooking pork tenderloin 9" x 13" glass Pyrex dish. I took the dish out of the 450 degree oven and placed it on the stovetop. As soon as I did, the dish exploded. All 4 sides were completely blown off the dish. We were lucky - just a ruined dinner and a big mess of glass in the kitchen. There was glass all over the stovetop, in the oven (I hadn't shut the door after removing the dish), all over the counter and kitchen floor. Fortunately, the oven mitt protected my hand.

I was cooking a rack of baby back ribs in my 9x12 pyrex glass pan, the cooking items we placed in the pan and all were at room temperature. Within 10 min of me setting the oven temp to 300 degrees for a slow cook, i heard a loud explosion. I looked around the kitchen and was lead in the direction of the oven. I opened the oven door to find my food laying on the bare rack and the glass all over the oven, on med size piece and a mess of little pieces that is going to take forever to clean up.

For the second time my pyrex cooking dish exploded. The first time we had taken it out of the oven and placed it on top of the stove. This time I was cooking chicken in the oven at 350 degrees and the pan exploded in a million pieces. Just a lot of clean up but I will no longer use this product as it appears as if it could be extremely dangerous if you were in the middle of opening the oven and this happened you could get badly hurt.

I was baking chicken Mornay in a 9" X 13" Pyrex glass baking dish. The oven was set for 325 degrees. I have used this same baking dish for a couple years with no problem. I took the pan out of the oven and placed it on a trivet to cool while I put some rolls in the oven to bake. The pan with the chicken had been sitting and cooling on the counter on the trivet for about 10 minutes. I removed the trivet to make serving easier and placed the pan on the stone tile counter top. Just as I was about to remove a piece of chicken to serve, the baking dish exploded without being touched.

One half of the baking dish broke off in one big piece. The other half shattered in millions of pieces and shot across my stove, counter top and into the next room. I am very lucky the glass shot to my left and not into my face. This, of course ruined the food and made a terrible mess all over the kitchen. This wasn't a cheap dinner either and had a lot of ingredients and prep time. It took about an hour to clean up the mess and I'm still very shaken by the exploding dish. Even though we cleaned up everything very carefully, I'm worried that glass shards are still on the floor and counter and will get into our food or be stepped on. This was a very frightening experience.

We had a similar experience with a Pyrex dish about 10 years ago, but that time I was cooking duck and the dish exploded in the oven.

ok, so I have never even heard of exploding pyrex until today after it happend to me. I was cooking some squash in the oven, @375 it had been in for about 15 min. I had stepped away and gone to another room when I heard a loud explosion with the sound of shattering glass..I had no clue what happend, my two small children were still asleep in their rooms (thankfully) I looked in the oven, there were thousands of small pieces of glass scattered inside. I can only imagine what this would have been like if it were not contained in the oven. I am ditching all of the pyrex in this house, I would recomend you do too.

I'm not about to call and get some lame excuse from Pyrex, but I have to say the clean up and waste of product makes me not want to buy another one. Unfortunately there aren't many other companies out there that make this type of product. The consequences were glass all over the countertops and floor, and product that was salvaged, but only because it was all wrapped up. I have heard of these dishes shattering due to extreme heat change in recent years, but shattering because it was too cold?

Baking Dish Exploded into many small shards and big pieces. Electric oven, used dish in the past, dish had warm precooked food in it and than placed in oven for baking. Exploded 10 minutes later

I have been using Pyrex glassware for many years...and have never had a problem until today. I was melting butter in a 9 x 13 inch pan at 325 degrees. I was just about to open the oven door when there was a huge explosion...and now I have burned butter and thousands of pieces of glass to clean out of my oven. Fortunately, no one was injured, and when I complained to the company rep. about it...he said that I probably used the pan wrong. I have been baking for 45 years. I hardly think that I used the pan wrong. Needless to say...I will be telling all my friends about this, and encouraging them not to buy or use their Pyrex baking dishes...without the knowledge that it could and probably will, at some point...explode.

On Tuesday June 1st, 2010 I was baking fish in my pyrex pan. I took it out to drain the juices off of the fish when it exploded all over my kitchen into a million pieces. One piece sliced my foot open, it hit a vein an caused me a lot of bleeding. This is not the first pyrex pan I have had to explode. I warn others to not use pyrex pans!!!!

I was using a clear Pyrex glass baking dish - that was only 5 months old. After about 30 minutes in the oven it exploded. The explosion was so big the sauce I was baking steaks in came up through the burners on the stove top and put out the flames. This explosion left shards of glass in the oven of all sizes.

Because it was pyrex i assume i can purchase it and place it in the oven, as instructed. I bought the product place some t bone steaks in the place them in the oven, heard a noise, went back in the kitchen the whole pan spattered all over the oven and my pack of tbone steaks, first time using the pan, very disappointed, with this product. I could not beleive it. I was told to take it back, but i wrote you instead.

I have been cooking with Pyrex glassware since the 60's and never had any problems. About 2-3 months ago, I decided it was time to buy a new rectangular baking dish because I liked the new feature of handles being incorporated. About 30 minutes into baking a pot roast in a baking bag, I heard an explosion. I opened the oven and found the dish had exploded into glass shards and hundreds of little pieces of glass. I was shocked to say the least and glad it had not happened while I was holding it. There was absolutely no reason for that to have happened. I followed all precautions. I guess I will go back to using my old bakeware. Based on what I have read on this site, it is obvious to me something has changed in Pyrex's manufacturing process and this particular product is not safe.

During cooking I placed a PYREX dish in the oven which had a temperature of 450 degrees. I have done this on many occasions before.

From another room I heard an explosion type sound coming from the kitchen. Upon inspection, the pyrex dish had exploded into very large fragments combined with a multitude of small fragments.

2 weeks ago my son (16) was baking with a pyrex product. He took it out of the oven sat it on to cooling pads. He had turned around to grab something else, and to our shock we heard an explosion in the kitchen. Of course we went running only to find the Pyrex had blown up into shattered pieces. From one end of the kitchen to the other end. Just yesterday (Tues.May18th), my son using the same pyrex glass cooking product, pulled it out of the oven and low and behold we heard another explosion. Same thing sliver /shattered pieces EVERY where.

I am so thankful my son had turned away both times other wise we would of seen the E.R. I am extremely upset over this matter as there are injuries waiting to happened from this product. As for a result, lets just say my son was scared, very emotionally after this. My son has experienced two explosion in his life now by cooking this is NOT a good. Now he is terrified to cook. I am so angry and upset that this is being allowed on the market.

I was baking chicken in a 9x13 pyrex dish and after cooking for 30 min. I heard a loud bang and the dish exploded in the oven.

Our family has used Pyrex for years, as has my mom. I've always known it to be "oven-proof and freezer-proof". We've never had any problems until last week. I was using a Pyrex pie dish as a lid for steaming some vegetables. I lightly steamed the veggies and removed the Pyrex, placing it gently on the counter. I turned around (thank goodness!) to reach for something and I heard a loud explosion. Then I saw the glass all over the stove and floor. The pyrex had split in half and a chunk of it had broken off in small pieces and shot across the stove and kitchen. If I hadn't have turned around the moment I did, I most likely would have been seriously injured.

i was baking chicken, went to pull out the dish and it exploded in my face. thank god I wasnt hurt. This things should not be sold. EVER!!!

I was using a Pyrex bowl to melt white chocolate chips. The bowl was brand new. I set the microwave for a minute and after 10 seconds I saw a bright white light so I turned off the microwave and pulled the bowl out. The bottom fell out and shattered into pieces leaving glass and chocolate everywhere.

Used Pyrex pan to heat Texas Toast garlic bread. Temp 350 for about 10 mins. Removed toast from pan, turned oven off and put pan back inside oven to cool. Several moments later, while eating dinner in dining room I heard a loud bang. Opened oven and found pyrex pan had exploded into thousands of peices.

I was roasting some cornish game hens in a glassware 13x9 pan. They were defrosted, and there was no liquid in the pan. I had the oven on 350 degrees, and after 5 minutes, heard a loud crash. I opened the oven to investigate, and the rest of the glass popped again. Glass of course went everywhere, and smoke began poring out of the oven. I closed the oven door to stop the smoke, and then stepped on a piece of the glass that shot out. I haven't even been able to clean my oven yet, as I'm afraid to open it.

I was baking stuffed peppers in the oven, I went to take out the glass Pyrex pan to set on the oven to cool and it exploded everywhere. I just want people to be aware of the problem with Pyrex and that is all. Little pieces went in my foot but managed to get them out without harm. Also pieces everywhere in the oven.

Twice now I've had a pyrex baking dish explode on me. Once in the oven @ 375 and now the SECOND time it was sitting on the counter. It was completely untouched and had recently been removed from only 10 minutes in 350 oven. The dish com busted and sent chunks and shards of glass all the way to the other side of my dining room, many pieces hitting me on the way. This is a dangerous product. I thought the first time was a fluke but the second warrants complaint.

I placed individual custard cups in my 7x11 2qt. pyrex dish and filled the pyrex half-way with water. I then placed the pyrex dish with the custard cups in a 350 degree oven on the middle shelf. After about 45 minutes I heard an explosion and found the dish shattered. Everything...including the pyrex dish...went into the oven at room temp. I have been using pyrex most of my life (I am 61) and the only difference is this was a newer dish. I have never had trouble with my old ones. Needless to say, I have lost confidence in Pyrex and will never use it to bake in again.

We had to rush him to the emergency room where he required 27 sutures to close the wound. We had to pay a $100.00 co-pay for this visit, $15.00 for a follow-up visit and were told that he would probably require several more follow-up visits. My husband is right handed and we are self-employed. He will be unable to write or use his right hand for at least 2-3 weeks. This has already had a major impact on our business. We do not wish to take any legal action but would like to lodge a complaint about this item.

Two-cup Pyrex measuring cup filled with cool water and about to put in microwave. I dropped it from about an inch or two off the counter onto the Corian countertop. It shattered everywhere. Little, tiny shards of glass all over the kitchen. We've had this for about 8-10 years. I thought Pyrex was not supposed to shatter! That's why we bought it in the first place! It was pain to clean up, couple of glass bits stuck in my hand, but I think I got them out.

I took Pyrex square glassware out of the cupboard. Put two pork chops into the glassware and covered the chops with aluminum foil. Next, I placed glassware into oven and turned oven on to 350 degrees. About 10 minutes later, I heard glass shattering. Upon looking in oven, the Pyrex glassware had shattered into many pieces in the oven. I had to throw the glassware and pork chops away and clean up the glass in the oven. Next, I will be cleaning the oven to remove the grease that had begun to ooze from the chops. I'm getting rid of all my Pyrex.

This morning, I popped some biscuits in the oven at 450 for a while after finishing some stove top cooking. 20 minutes or more later, I took them out (they were giant). I touched the oven surface to make sure it wasn't still hot. It was slightly warm from the cooking in the oven, not from the burners being on, that had entirely dissipated. I touched it with my hand.

No extreme temperature. I balanced the dish on the edge, checked them, then slid it back on the stove top. It shattered into several pieces. Fortunately, the biscuits were huge and stuck to the bottom. They actually held some of the dish together. Some small shards flew all over the place, some giant shards popped around.

I was in shock. I put my dogs up who were in the room. Fortunately, none of us were harmed. I don't know how. A few years ago, I accidentally turned on a back burner where a Pyrex dish was resting full of cornbread. I understand why that one exploded, but this dish had no faults, no defects, no temperature extremes, I didn't slam it around. No explanation other than faulty, crummy product. I lost another baking dish, will be picking glass shards out of my kitchen for days at minimum.

I had put my glass baking dish in the oven with shish kabobs in it to finishing baking them. When my daughter took it out of the oven, it exploded all over in all our food so there went our dinner. A piece of hot glass stuck to my finger and it blistered. I did not realize that it was only to bake cakes in. I am probably getting rid of all of it and I have a lot of Pyrex dishes. I never had this incident happen before. It really sucked. I am still finding tiny pieces of glass in our kitchen.

A Pyrex dish exploded in my oven. There are shards of glass all over the place. The oven was only at 350 degrees.

Last night our 10 by 15 inch Pyrex baking dish exploded in our oven. Goodbye, chicken and cornbread; hello mess! We were thankful we were nearby when it happened and that any melted fat from the chicken didn't start a fire in the oven. Can't imagine what it would have been like if it happened outside of the oven. I had another Pyrex dish of cornbread in the same oven. That dish was fine. The dish completely shattered into tiny to about 1-inch pieces.

We only lost the one Pyrex dish and the contents of both dishes in the oven. The oven itself seems to be okay since we were there and could turn it off and clean up immediately. And no one was hurt. I just have to wonder what would have happened if it had occurred out of the oven. It's preventing this from happening to someone else who might not be so fortunate to have it happen in a contained space that motivates me to send in this complaint.

I took my Pyrex dish out of the oven and it exploded. I have a small cut to my wrist. What if my granddaughter was there? I hate to think what could have happened.

On March 20, 2010, I was making two cakes for a social function using a 13 x 9 Pyrex baking dish. I had finished one, washed out the baking dish and rinsed it out. The butter had been melted earlier in the microwave for the first cake, so I poured it into the clean Pyrex baking dish, which was sitting on top of my stove. I then turned to the sink to stir the butter for the second cake when I heard a loud explosion.

Glass shot all over my kitchen and dining room floors, and was all over the top of the stove. One large shard of glass shot into my left ankle and severed my Achilles tendon. I was operated on three days later, then spent two and a half weeks in the rehab center. I am now with a "boot" which I have to wear all the time. I will not be able to put pressure on my injured leg until sometime in July. I feel that the public should be made aware of this problem in order to avoid serious injury. Hopefully, I will be able to walk again.

On April 11, 2010, I was browning a pork roast at 350 degrees as I have done so many times. After browning, I began to pour a small amount of room temperature water into the 13x9 baking dish as I have in the past. Then, the pan exploded into shards everywhere. It was a frightening experience to say the least and I thank my lucky stars I was not bent over the dish as I usually am or I would have been injured. What are they making Pyrex out of these days that this type of accident should happen?

I have had 2 experiences when I was cooking something (one a piece of baked fish and the other time potatoes) in the oven when the Pyrex pan broke inside if my oven. All as you heard was a loud pop and when I looked into my oven there was glass and food all over my oven and of course I couldn't just leave it there. I had to handle hot glass in a hot oven.

Consequently I had a mess one the bottom of my oven. I had to try and clean the bottom of my oven and get hot glass out of the oven. My dinner was ruined and that just makes me very upset. I always thought that Pyrex was such a good name brand but I now have to wonder.

I do not trust Pyrex products at all. I think that the public should know that this is a dangerous product. I have pictures of the shattered mess.

I was putting my clean dishes away in the cupboard when one exploded right in my hand. I had just taken my dishes out of the dishwasher which was cool and was putting them away when the lid exploded into thousands of pieces and flew into the living room and laundry room and all over the kitchen. My grandchildren were sitting just a few feet away watching TV luckily, they didn't get hit.

Some of the pieces landed right next to them maybe a foot away. The kids are little so they came to see what happened and I had to try to stop them as I'm covered in glass and glass is everywhere. My oldest grandson is two and he was asking if I was okay because he seen blood and I told him yes to go sit down so he wouldn't get hurt.

Luckily, the only thing that happened is that I only got a few minor cuts and we had to clean up glass. I'm just glad no one got hurt especially my grandkids. I have little cuts on my arms and hands. My vinyl got small cuts so now if it gets wet it's going to bubble.

I was baking buttered rice in chicken broth and the dish exploded while stirring mixture midway through cooking. The glass dish exploded into small pieces along with sending the rice, etc. all over the oven, door and kitchen floor. I'm very blessed that I didn't get glass in my eyes. I was not injured but could have damaged my eyes with the flying glass and hot mixture.

Wow! Who will pay for the burn marks all over my new wood floor when the Pyrex glass 9x13 pan shattered into thousands of hot pieces and landed on the floor? Or what about the huge scratch marks across my glass stovetop? The pan was sitting next to a burner that was on, perhaps a little too close. Even so, this is inexcusable. Just a matter of time until those jagged glass pieces takes someone's eye out. Seriously, this should be illegal, banned, not sold. I cannot believe no one has taken it off the market. It was terrifying and if I had been ten feet closer to it, I would be in the emergency room right now.

Tonight, as I removed a Pyrex bowl from the refrigerator, it spontaneously split in several pieces in my hands, sending glass flying across the kitchen. Unfortunately, we learned this later, by accident, with blood. It is early Spring in CT, the house is not exceptionally warm and the dish had not been used but a few times.

I have had 2 experiences now with exploding Pyrex dishes. The first I just blamed myself for the mistake. Last Thanksgiving, I had prepared a corn casserole in a 9 x 13 inch Pyrex baking dish. After it was done, I placed it on top of the stove, on one of the back burners. When my youngest daughter came in, we had to heat up her dish on top of the stove, and I accidentally turned on the wrong stove eye. I realized it after only a few minutes, and it was only on a medium setting, I immediately turned the wrong burner off, and turned on the correct burner. All of the children were outside and I was standing right beside the stove, carving the turkey, when I heard a loud bang. All of the kids came rushing in to see what had happened. I still had no idea what had happened until I looked around and saw the shards of glass and corn casserole everywhere. There were shards of glass up to 12 feet away from where the explosion took place.

Half of our Thanksgiving dinner was ruined because of the glass, but at least no one was hurt. (Only my feelings, and the fact that I'm no longer allowed to cook at family gatherings). I continued to find shards every morning for months where they had imbedded into the ceiling from the impact. The second experience happened about 2 weeks ago. I bought a set of Pyrex baking dishes in November, a set of 3. My boyfriend was using the middle sized dish and was preparing hamburger steaks. I was creating a salad. The hamburger steaks had been cooking in the dish, in the oven, for about 30 minutes on 325F when he pulled the rack out to check on them, and pushed the rack back into the oven. It was no more than 2 minutes later, when we heard this horrible sound come from the oven.

When we opened the oven door, the bake ware had exploded and the mess in my oven was unbelievable. It took at least an hour to clean up the mess and I still have the pan full of the exploded glass sitting in my kitchen to remind me to never use Pyrex again. I truly am afraid at this point to use it for anything. Once, I can take the blame, but twice, it's time for the company to own up to their faulty product. I truly am blessed to have not been hurt either time. I have already warned all of my friends and family to be careful and/or just to not use their products any more.

While cooking an Easter dinner, my wife pulled the ham out of the oven which was in a glass Pyrex dish. She took the ham out and proceeded to make some gravy. The burner on the cooktop was on a medium setting as she began to make the gravy. A couple minutes later, while she was stirring the gravy and talking to me, the Pyrex dish exploded and sent glass and gravy flying everywhere. There was nothing left of the dish and we had to throw away the ham because glass was in it. Luckily, she did not get hurt. This is the second time a Pyrex dish has exploded on the stove. The last being while cooking Thanksgiving dinner. At least, we had a turkey to entertain our 14 guests. The gravy dripped in between the glass on the oven door which has to be removed in order to clean, if we can do that.

I have emailed a complaint twice to Pyrex using their complaints form online but no response. I am unable to find a way of putting my complaint across to your company, thus using this method. Sunday evening I used my Pyrex measuring jug to make gravy for our roast dinner. I used it in the same way I have done for the 3 years I owned the jug. I used it for gravy, I washed it up and left it on the drainer.

Approximately 30 minutes later, I heard a loud bang came from the kitchen. I found bubbles of glass all over the drainer/work top/floor. It took me a while to work out it was the Pryex jug that had exploded. I googled 'exploding Pyrex' to find this is a common product fault. I am in shock! What if I had been in the kitchen at the time it exploded, what if it exploded whilst I was washing it up, what if it had exploded whilst I was pouring hot water into the jug?

I thought the whole point of Pryrex that it was a trustworthy brand of product designed to withstand hot temperatures. I have since disposed of every item of Pyrex that I own and have advised family and friends to do the same! I still have the 100s of pieces of bubbles of glass if you would like the proof! I would be grateful for a response by email. Thank you. No damage but I hate to think what damage would have happened, had I been in the kitchen when it exploded!

I have had a set of Pyrex baking ware since I got married in 2001. On Sunday, March 28th, my husband and I were prepping some food for a party we were hosting that afternoon. I took an 8x8" pan of brownies out of the oven and set them on top of the stove. I did not know that my husband had just used that burner to cook some beans, and had shut it off only a few minutes before.

I left the kitchen, leaving my husband to finish his work. A few minutes later he noticed the smell of burning chocolate, and took the brownies off the burner. He removed the brownies from the pan, and set the pan on the counter top next to the sink. He turned away to do something else, and heard a bang. It was upstairs in our house vacuuming, and heard the same bang. I came downstairs to see if he was alright, and found him standing in a kitchen full of glass shards.

There was glass in the bowls of food and in our food processor 5 feet away, and there were glass shards on top of our refrigerator, 8 feet away. Pyrex's claims that there glass baking pans do not explode are false. I work in a restaurant and have seen glasses break due to down shock. They pop and crack in one or two places. There were no pieces of this pan left that were bigger than an inch long piece of pencil. We had to throw out all the food we were prepping, and run to the store to buy emergency backup snacks for our party guests. My husband was not hurt, though he did feel pieces hit his shirt when it blew.

A friend brought over a lasagna for us, it wasn't cold. We put it in the oven on 350 for about 1/2 hour, and then heard a huge explosion and found the dish had exploded in our oven. Glass and lasagna are everywhere.

I was making a pasta bake. I had pasta in the Pyrex baking dish on top of a timber chopping board on the bench top. I had the sauce with chicken on top of pasta and was adding the cheese, when the glass baking dish exploded everywhere. There is no reason really for this to happen.

Today I put a Mac and Cheese casserole in the oven. It was in an 8-by-8 square Pyrex casserole dish. After about 10 minutes on 350, I heard a loud crash, looked in the oven and I had broken glass and mac and cheese all over the bottom of the oven. It was like the dish just exploded! I don't think I'll ever use Pyrex in the oven again. Too dangerous, especially if I had been getting it out of the oven and it would have exploded on me! I was not injured in this incident, but I did take pictures that I will send all of my friends telling them what happened and to be very careful if they continue to use Pyrex in the oven.

I was baking chicken on a roasting pan and scalloped potatoes in a Pyrex dish. They were cooking for about a half an hour at 400 degrees when I heard something in the oven. It sounded like the shelf broke in the oven. When I opened the oven, the Pyrex dish was in pieces. The milk and potato mixture were all over the bottom of the oven. The chicken had shards of glass on top.

I used to love Pyrex, but I will never buy another dish again. I am thankful that I didn't check on the chicken when this exploded. Who knew that a kitchen dish could be dangerous or even deadly. Bits of glass were everywhere in the oven. Dinner was ruined. My house stinks from the stuff burning on the bottom of my oven. I will be spending time and money trying to make my oven usable again.

I was making enchiladas and had the baking dish sitting on the top of my stove preparing to put the ingredients into dish. When I turned away briefly, I heard a loud pop. The dish exploded into hundreds of shards of glass. It popped onto my linoleum and rugs, melting both. I was fortunate in that I had on long sleeves and pants or I am sure I would have also been burned. I have used Pyrex for 25 years and never had anything like this happen. I will say this was a new baking dish with the plastic lid I had received as a gift. I had used it several times previously though without incidence.

I blamed the dogs! A few months ago, I heated some soup in a Pyrex bowl which is the smallest one in the set of three I had just purchased. After eating the soup and knowing the bowl had cooled enough so it wouldn't burn their tongues, I let the two dogs lick it out. I went to the kitchen and a few minutes later, I went back to pick up the bowl and found it in pieces, some large, some so small that they were just glittering dusts on the carpet. I emailed the Pyrex people and asked how this could happen since it had not been dropped or banged against anything. Their reply was a cookie cutter email to tell me how great their product is and where to purchase it.

Until today, I've kept trying to figure how to get a replacement since it is one of a set. I can't find the smallest one anywhere as a single purchase item. The Pyrex people just kept trying to sell me the complete set so I pretty much forgot about it until I found your site today and went "Wow!" Now, I'm going through my kitchen and pulling out everything new from the Pyrex company and it's all going directly into my recycling bin. I don't want to take the chance on me or anyone else, including the four-legged residents, getting hurt. Thank you so much for posting all this information. If it hasn't saved a life yet, I believe it will.

I have a number of Pyrex containers with plastic lids. 2 of them exploded on different occasions into literally hundreds of pieces. Lucky for me, one was sitting on a bench and the other in a work bag. I would have been cut severely if I had been holding onto them. Why is this happening? I like glass to put food in as I don't like the health risks associated with plastics. Very concerned. Thank you.

I removed a Pyrex bowl out of the dishwasher and was attempting to put it away. It was completely cool and at room temperature. But when I slid it up on the shelf, it exploded in my hands. I have tiny shards of glass embedded in both hands and am extremely lucky none got in my eyes, as I was looking up at the time it broke. The bowl broke into thousands of pieces, from very large to almost powder-like. We found shards all the way across the kitchen and dining room, 12+ feet away from where it actually broke.

I was making baked potato for tea, and the dish just exploded. This has now happened three times (it was in like, a million pieces). The oven was no higher than 180 degrees. I am wondering whether you are using a different component in you making of the glassware, as my older Pyrex dishes have never let me down. Luckily, there was no physical damage. The economic damage is that we lost our tea, and casserole dishes on three occasions, and having to clean the oven.

Pyrex glass baking dish shattered while in the oven. Ruined the food, took 1 hour to clean. Only slight cut during clean-up, glad I was not carrying the dish.

I was broiling mahi-mahi in my oven in a Pyrex 13x9 baking dish for 6-7 minutes. The next step was to pour this honey lemon sauce (also hot) over the fish and let stand for 5 min. I pulled the dish out of the oven and sat it on top of my range, the area that had not been used for preparing the sauce. I proceeded to pour the sauce over the fish and Bam, the pan blew to smithereens all over the stove top, down the front of the stove, and luckily onto the throw rug. The glass actually melted to the rug on the floor in front of the stove. There were shards of glass all over my kitchen. I am not kidding.

I have cooked/baked with Pyrex all of my adult life, as has my Mom. I just stood there in the middle of this mess thinking what in the ** just happened. My dinner was ruined and I spent the rest of my evening trying to clean up a sticky, gooey, almost impossible mess. I say impossible because the shards were so small you just couldn't see them until they stuck you. I cannot tell you how disappointed I was in the cookware.

Then, I was really upset when I read how many complaints about the same ** thing are on this website. What hasn't anything been done about this problem? It appears it is nothing new. As far as I am concerned, there was no substantial change in temperature to the dish. I took it out, put it on the stove top, and poured hot liquid in it. I didn't put it on a wet towel. I didn't put it on a cold stove top. It was warm from the oven use. There was nothing wet on the stove top either. Where is the drastic temperature change the "experts" warn about? I have vacuumed and scrubbed several times since and I am still finding shards in my kitchen.

Nobody was hurt. My throw rug was ruined, but I am happy it was there because if that mess had landed on my linoleum, it would have ruined it. Then, I would really have been mad. I don't want an attorney, I want you to do your job.

On March 14 2010, I had preheated the oven with a Pyrex dish in it to bake some bread. The Pyrex dish was there to hold some boiling water to create steam in the oven. I put the bread into the oven and then added the near boiling water to the Pyrex dish and the dish exploded into many pieces, raining water and glass onto the bread.

I was cooking 2 nights worth of dinner that had to go in a baking dish in the oven at 350 for 40 minutes, 25 minutes covered with foil and the last 15 uncovered. I had taken off the foil and about 5 minutes later, I hear a big hiss from my oven and turn to see steam pouring out of the front of my oven. I opened it to find my sauce all over the bottom of the oven and my baking dish in shards, fortunately contained in the oven. The baking dish had exploded, not just cracked. I took many pictures, especially the shard with the word Pyrex on it! Luckily no one was injured, until a very sharp piece cut my hand during the clean up, but that was likely my fault for not being more careful.

On February 1, 2010, I was washing a cooled 11x13 glass Pyrex dish in my kitchen sink when it exploded. My left thumb was cut to the bone, severing my tendon. This resulted in surgery and I'm now going through 12 weeks of occupational therapy. This caused me physical-pain, time, and recovery from this, including economic-out of pocket medical bills to pay.

I am writing you today because of the Pyrex glass bake-ware. I was given a set of the 9x13 casserole dish, 8x11 dish, and 8"x8" dishes. I think there was another dish in the set, but I no longer have it in my possession. This was a Christmas present I received a few years back. I never sent a comment in before because I assumed it was something I had caused. The first two dishes burst and shards of glass went flying in my kitchen when I removed one from the oven and set it in the empty kitchen sink. It was horrible and glass went everywhere! It was an awful explosion that caused everyone in the house to come running to see what had happened. Dinner was ruined, but a couple of band-aids and no major injures were all I received.

The second casserole dish burst in my ovenagain with a loud explosion! Both were a horrible mess to clean up, but my children we no where around and I only received a couple of slices to my fingers cleaning the messes up. The third time was last Saturday. It was my 11-year old son in the kitchen. I was out for groceries and the kids were staying with my dad at my house. The 8"x8" pan was setting on the stove on the back burner and Caleb accidentally turned the eye on that the dish was setting on. He is in major trouble as he should not have been attempting to cook at all while I was out of the kitchen.

He mistakenly turned the wrong eye on and was standing directly in front of the burner stirring the mac and cheese while he thought it was heating up. By that time my Dad had noticed the mac and cheese sound as Caleb poured it out of the box and was headed into the kitchen to see what was going on. He then told him to quit cooking and turn everything off until I was home to oversee it. Caleb turned it off, grabbed a sandwich instead and headed to his room. Thank God! Dad had not even made it back into the living room when he heard an explosion. The 8x8 dish had exploded not one minute after my son and father had gotten out of the kitchen.

If he had been standing where he was moments earlier, he would have been blindedI'm sure. Not only that, he could have been killed! There were 4 other children running in and out of the house that day going to the backyard to play on the sunny day. They happened to be in one of the bedrooms playing when this happened and they were not injured either. Thank the Lord again as the backyard is fenced in and the kids are told to go through the kitchen to go out thru the backdoor, so they are in the fenced in area away from the front yard. The only damage done was to my son's feelings, my father's stress, and my linoleum floor which the glass cut up and even burnt several holes in!

I realize this was a mistake on my child's part and my father's for not catching him earlier. But this made the 3rd time this happened with my Pyrex glass dishes. Again, it's funny to be saying that about a product designed and manufactured to be used in a 500-degree oven, and on their website they have had enough complaints that there is a special page written by the VP of World Kitchen on how safe their product is even though people are obviously having this happen all the time. Thank God Caleb had walked away from the stove where he had been standing moments before as he was boiling mac and cheese in a separate container on the front eye while the dish remained on the back eye. However, the 8x8 exploded and I am still finding the glass 3 days later. This happened this past Saturday. If he had not walked off, he would have been hurt extremely bad and more than likely would have had glass explode in his eyes. The dish was not 2 feet away from his face.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I was to go on the Consumer Affairs website and see comment after comment of this exact same thing happening all over the country and the company website has a page up calling these events false and misleading. I was 100% honest in my post! I do not want a replacement or any complimentary discount from the company as I will never use a gift or purchase another glass cook ware dish again. Shame on them for continuing to make a product that is for use in a family home.

I have been blessed to have only sustained a few scrapes and knicks during my years of stupidity continuing to use their product, but it will never happen again and you can bet that everyone I know will know about the cheap and dangerous products they sell for families to use in the most popular room in a house!

I had a Pyrex container in the refrigerator on the lowest shelf filled with cut broccoli. When I opened the door, it fell about 2 to 3 feet to the floor and it just exploded throwing shards of sharp glass everywhere, all across the room over, shards flying over 8 feet away. It was truly frightening and beyond unexpected, the entire reason for choosing Pyrex is its supposed durability, and here it didn't even fall far (nor was it heated or cooled to the extreme).

Now I don't know what to do about the Pyrex I have, clearly it is dangerous, but I don't want to use plastic and it is not right to have to simply throw all of those containers away. Appalling that they are allowed to sell something so obviously defective and not the durable product it purports to be. Some cuts, loss of a bunch of broccoli along with the bowl, now to needs to replace all of the Pyrex containers. Worst of all, it was really frightening to have that explode right at my feet and go everywhere.

My square Pyrex baking dish shattered after I had removed it from the oven and placed it on the stove top.

I was baking potatoes au gratin in the oven in a 9x9 square Pyrex dish. After about 10 minutes, I heard an explosion and the glass blew up all over the oven and shards were everywhere.

I was broiling a steak in the oven, heard a noise, checked the food, closed oven then this loud pop. Pyrex pie pan cracked everywhere and cracked the glass in my oven. I am a renter if this is defective. Pyrex should have to pay for the repair on this oven!

I use my Pyrex pie plates frequently to heat up foods in the microwave. Until today, I have not had a problem. This morning, I placed some food on the dish and put it in the microwave. I left the kitchen and heard a noise. I found that the pie plate exploded and nearly came completely out of the front glass window. The entire microwave (relatively new) was totally destroyed by the glass shards. It blew out the circuit panel and I will be having the electrician come tomorrow to assess the damages. I am still traumatized by this event as I would have been seriously injured if I had stayed in the kitchen.

I am very upset by this. I have been using Corningware products for 45 years and my mom used them since they were marketed. A few months ago, I learned about the takeover company changing one ingredient making the production costs lower but the glass unstable. I went to many stores with this information and asked that they discontinue selling Pyrex products.

Financial damages will be determined tomorrow by the appliance store, the electrician and the installer. Since the microwave is less than 5 years old, I can estimate costs to be about $700.00 to $900.00. (This was the cost of the machine and the installation only, 5 years ago). It will cost to have it removed and taken to a special dump for such machines. I am very concerned about residual damage to my circuit breakers. Again, the contractor will check that out tomorrow evening.

We measured yogurt and mayonnaise together in a 4 cup Pyrex measuring cup to make a curry dip. After completing the measures and pouring the two ingredients into another container, my wife placed the dirty container into our dishwasher. Almost an hour later, we were sitting in the living room with company and heard an explosion. We couldn't figure out what it was until our company left. After they left, we began placing other dirty dishes into the dishwasher, and noticed that the 4-Cup Pyrex measuring container had shattered! I have no idea what prompted the container to explode.

The dishwasher was not running and the Pyrex had been sitting undisturbed for about an hour on the top shelf of the dishwasher with nothing else touching it. It had been a day since we used the dishwasher, and it was not hot. The mayonnaise was taken from the refrigerator, and the yogurt had just been purchased at the store and measured after bringing it home. The temperatures of both were mildly cool and could hardly be called "extreme. " The measuring cup wasn't touching anything else in the dishwasher. It wasn't merely "broken." It was shattered into hundreds of pieces, many of which were slivers small enough to fall through the dishwasher to the bottom.

Again, the measuring cup was not exposed to any sort of extreme temperatures. The refrigerated yogurt had actually been in the car for more than 20 minutes en route from the grocery to the house, and the mayo taken directly from the shelf without being refrigerated (the seal hadn't been broken on the new container). The Pyrex had been sitting on the tray of the dishwasher several inches from any other item, and nothing near it was large enough to fall onto the Pyrex to cause breakage. Considering the loud noise, it truly seems to be a "spontaneous" explosion. This is a recipe I have used many hundreds of times without a reaction of the Pyrex!

I was making meatloaf and in the middle of cooking, it exploded. For about half an hour, the pan was out, but the pieces where still popping inside the oven. The inside of the oven was damaged and both of our meatloaves were ruined.

I put a 9x13 chicken pie in oven and in a few minutes, I heard a loud noise. The pan exploded in the oven. I had several dollars of ingredients lost and have a huge mess to clean up, glass and food everywhere.

The pan came out of the oven and was set down on the counter top, about 6 seconds later we heard a cracking noise and it blew into a million pieces. Luckily no one was hurt. This product is horrific and should be ruled unsafe for the oven.

I prepared a recipe of filo dough and spinach at room temperature, in a clean, room-temperature 8x8 Pyrex glass baking dish. I baked the dish for about 45-minutes in a 375-degree oven, on the middle rack. I removed the dish using a dry, cloth oven mitt, placed the dish on a dry, room-temperature surface, and lay a dry, cloth napkin loosely over the dish. Immediately I heard several loud popping noises, and the dish cracked in half, and 4 or 5 large, sharp splinters flew off at the same time.

Dinner was ruined. Dish was destroyed. Googling was performed: I discovered that Pyrex is no longer owned or manufactured by Corning, but is just a run-of-the-mill sell-out. I won't bother buying Pyrex anymore. I'd rather pay more for a high-quality, European product.

I washed a Pyrex dish and set it on the counter. After several minutes, my husband filled it with vegetables he had cooked on the stove. A few minutes later, the dish shattered. Bizarre.

I was cooking a beautiful dinner for my self and my husband. I made roasted vegetables on a cookie sheet. I also made stuffed mushrooms and placed them in a 13by9-inch Pyrex glass baking dish. I put in about a quarter stick of butter and placed them in a 375 degree oven. The vegetables were done, so I took them out of the oven and added a cookie sheet with haddock to bake. The mushrooms were almost finished cooking, so I took them out of the oven and set the dish on top of the stove to place some cheese on the tops of the mushrooms.

As I was about to put the glass dish with the mushrooms in it back into the oven to melt the cheese, the dish exploded. Glass and food went everywhere. The hot glass and food got on the inside of my wrist and burnt that, and the shattering glass left cuts on my left arm. I was in shock and couldn't believe what had just happened. It took me over 2 hours to clean the glass and mess out of every crack in my stove. The grease from the mushrooms left grease marks all over my wood cabinets.

Last night, I baked Shake & Bake chicken breasts in a Pyrex dish at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. I took the dish from the oven and placed it on my glass cooktop, removed the chicken to a serving plate and returned to the dining area for dinner. There was a loud bang, resulting from the Pyrex dish exploding all over my countertop and the floor about 3 feet out from the cooktop. There was glass and grease everywhere! My 3-year old grandson was here for supper and if he had been in the kitchen at the time of the explosion, he would have been badly burned and cut. The damage to my vinyl floor is clearly evident and must be replaced. I proceeded to clean up the mess (which took about an hour) but did not think to take pictures.

I baked 5 chicken breasts on a 9X13 pan last night for dinner. I have done this numerous times over the years. I took the chicken out and set it on the stove to set for a few minutes. And it just exploded into a million pieces all over my kitchen! Some were in the wall, some under the washer, some in the pantry, all under my burners and into the top part of the stove. Luckily, I was unharmed except for my emotions. It scared me so badly I just started to cry. We have a few holes in the walls and scratches on the fridge and stove. We are getting married in 2-1/2 months. We are removing all Pyrex products off our wedding registry.

It was an unbelievably upsetting incident tonight, Wednesday, February 24, 2010. After preparing fresh vegetables with sauteed mushroom soup put into a pre-baked pie crust, 350 degree oven I was almost finished cooking my homemade vegetable pot pie then suddenly the ovenproof 9x13x2 Pyrex ovenproof casserole dish shattered all over in inside of my oven. I have never experienced this in using this cookware for over 40 years of baking without incident with this product.

After looking inside the oven to confirm what I heard was indeed the Pyrex dish shattered and sprayed all over inside my Hotpoint oven, it left my beautiful ingredients dripping and burning onto the lower electrical element and the glass dish was crumbling and sprayed all over the inside of the oven.

Initially, my reaction was shock and disgust at the waste. Then I immediately went onto the internet to read that many others were experiencing this sort of dangerous event. I now feel not only woefully disappointed in a product that has for over four decades of home cooking never failed me until tonight. After reading some of the other recent personal accounts of severe injury and damage from similar and varied accounts of this type of problem, I feel horrified to realize that my daughter and cat were within a few feet of the oven with me and could have suffered terribly had I removed this dish from the oven just as it unexpectedly shattered into a million tiny pieces, showering glass shards of shrapnel over the kitchen and all of us.

I will never use a Pyrex dish again and will now replace all glass baking dished with a safer metal cookware. I am deeply disappointed that a dangerous formula change in producing this product could potentially be endangering others with no liability to the producers of this product and will advise all of my friends of this problem in hopes of avoiding future risk relating to this product.

On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, I baked my lasagna using my favorite recipe, but with a far different result than I ever expected. The Pyrex baking dish exploded in the oven, with 5 minutes baking time remaining. I was speechless, and could only stare in total disbelief at the unbelievable mess in the oven, with pieces of glass everywhere.

The next day, after I read online the experiences of others who sustained injuries with their exploding Pyrex bake-ware, I felt lucky that I "only" had a big mess to clean up. Why isn't this company being held accountable for selling an unsafe product? I was emotionally upset the rest of the evening by this shocking experience, not to mention the waste of time and money putting my dinner together.

I was at work and put my dinner in the microwave in a round Pyrex bowl for 45 seconds. About 30 seconds later, we heard a smashing sound. We opened up the microwave, and the bowl had utterly shattered. Glass pieces everywhere. I left to starve for the rest of the night shift at the hospital. This could have really injured me or a co-worker. I can't believe we weren't injured.

I used a 9X13 glass baking dish and put pork tenderloin in the oven at 350 degrees. The dish had been sitting in the dish drainer for a couple days so it was at room temp. When I put it in the oven, all of the sudden, it just exploded. I have pictures, glass shards everywhere. Thank God, it happened in the oven and not out on the counter where my 1 yr old could have gotten hurt.

Whipping eggs to warm them in a Pyrex bowl over simmering water and the entire thing exploded all over the kitchen. It took me 45 minutes to clean everything up.

A 1 quart Pyrex measuring container exploded when removing it from a microwave oven filled with scolding milk. Fortunately no physical injuries. Meal ruined by thousands of glass shards being sprayed around kitchen.

I have used Pyrex cookware for many many years and really like it. Imagine my surprise when I'm taking a 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking dish out of the oven and it explodes before I can even take it out. Throw out the dinner and have to take my guest out to a restaurant. The very next week, I take a pie out of the oven and the dish explodes.

I washed a 9x13 Pyrex dish that had soaked in soapy water overnight. It was washed in tepid water as I know better than to expose glass to extremes in temperature. As I was rinsing the dish, it shattered, cutting my right hand and my left wrist which required a trip to the emergency room and 16 stitches to close the laceration.

I cooked the casserole in a 350 degree oven and when it was done, I placed it on a dry oven pad on top of the stove (not on a burner, though). After dinner, when the food and the dish itself were "cool" (I could pick up the Pyrex dish, so it wasn't too hot to handle). I emptied the left-overs and put the Pyrex dish in the sink with soap and tepid water to soak overnight. The very next morning, as I was rinsing the Pyrex dish, again, with tepid water, it shattered and cut me. I did not drop the Pyrex dish nor did anything fall into it, it just shattered. This piece of Pyrex could be anywhere between 10 to 20 years old.

I put a 1 qt. clear class Pyrex bowl in the microwave with my oatmeal in it for 1 1/2 minute. I took it out and set it down. My dog wanted to go outside so I went to the door to let him out and heard an explosion with shattering glass in the kitchen. I came in to find shards of glass everywhere. Thank goodness I wasn't standing right there when it exploded. Now, I'm nervous about using the rest of my Pyrex.

Over the past 6 months, I have had two of my Pyrex dishes shatter after coming out of the oven. The first dish shattered and the hot shards of glace ruined my kitchen floor by burning holes through the linoleum. The rice pudding was garbage letting down the whole family. This was on a warm day and the food in the dish was sent straight to the trash. Then again just this past week, I took my 9x13 pan out from the oven with chicken in it and it shattered and the meal landed all over the glass covered floor, leaving us to just eat the vegetables I had cooked on the stove for dinner. I have decided that I will no longer be using their product and have mentioned it to my coworkers what has happened. The temp of the oven was 350 and the house has always been warm. I am not sure what is causing this problem. Do you have any suggestions? I am very unsatisfied!

I took a Pyrex baking dish out of a 350 degree oven. I then set it on the counter top. Suddenly, the dish exploded into a thousand pieces or more, for no reasons. This dish was only about 6 months old. It was frightening! The consequence includes just the cost of the pan.

My husband roasted a chicken in the oven in a Pyrex dish. He took it out when the chicken was done, and the dish exploded when he put it on the counter. The glass shattered everywhere and ruined the whole dinner. We are afraid to ever use Pyrex again.

My "oven safe" Pyrex baking dish exploded in the oven while baking at 425. There was no dramatic change in temperature, no thermal shock, just plain old baking. Luckily, nobody was hurt and we simply threw it away, but it appears as if this is a pretty common occurrence based on the number of complaints. You really shouldn't be able to put "oven safe" on something that explodes in the oven.

I was baking with my Pyrex 9 x 13 glass bakeware, and it exploded in the oven.

I was using my Pyrex Glass Baking Dish 9x13 cooking a roast, went to open the oven to check on it and it exploded right in my face. The noise was so loud my husband came rushing in to see what happened. It was such a huge mess on my hardwood floor and in my oven. This product should not be sold anymore. This product will cause injuries.

I was making an angel food cake in the oven in an 8.5 x 11 Pyrex pan and when I took it out and placed it on the counter next to my uncooked meatballs, it exploded. Glass went everywhere in my kitchen. It went all over my meatballs as well. My dinner was screwed.

I was baking brownies and heard a pop followed by a crash in the kitchen. I went in to see what all the fuss was about and there it was in the oven, an exploded 8X8 Pyrex baking pan. This occurred about 15 minutes into a 31-minute baking time for what could have been delicious brownies, but delicious brownies they were not! In their place I have sharp glass shards to pick up! I had to buy some brownies. No real damage, but when things like this go, unreported companies might never even know they are a problem.

First of all, I have for many years used their product. Pyrex has always been known to be very safe and oven proof. I was cooking dinner for my family and guests, a roast, and just when I was ready to take it out of the oven, the glass shattered and my roast had to be thrown out. Glass was all over the oven and I was very surprised that their product could do such a thing. I am very hesitant in purchasing another Pyrex dish. What could have happened? I feel that this company should send me a new one with an explanation as to what could have happened to the product! Thank God no one was injured.

Baking pork chops in the oven and the dish just exploded. Broken glass all over the place. I took pictures. I'll send them to the *** lawyers who wrote that flowery "response" in which they ignored all the documented instances of exploding Pyrex. Don't use this stuff!

My husband was baking chicken in the Pyrex dish as he always does, but this time as he was taking it out of the oven it exploded in his hand, cut his arm down to the bone. Glass was everywhere--all of the floor, flew in the air, and covered the oven. My husband has a very deep cut in his left arm and there are still many pieces of glass in our oven and around the house.

My glass 9x13 Pyrex dish was soaking in dishwater after sitting cold on the counter for 3 hours when I heard a loud explosion. The dish had exploded in the water. I have had the dish for a few years now and use it almost everyday; there were no breaks and cracks in the glass, so I am really unsure why it happened. But unfortunately it's not the first one I have had explode. My husband has multiple cuts on his body due to standing by the sink at the time of explosion.

I was almost done cooking a baked pasta in my square glass Pyrex cooking pan. I had just checked it by opening the oven door with my 12-yr old daughter who is always involved with my cooking. We both agreed it was done. I walked away to set the table when I heard a very loud bang. It was our supper. The Pyrex cooking pan and our pasta with a tomato meat sauce topped with cheese, is now a disaster in my oven. I will have to wait for it to cool down before I can begin cleaning. I am going to take pictures. I am extremely grateful that it exploded only a few seconds after we checked on it. I don't even want to think about what could have happened, imagine 400 degree hot glass and pasta exploding in one's face, especially my daughter's pretty little face.

Needless to say, we went out for supper. What do I do? I had once told my daughter that the Pyrex was the safest. I told her to stop microwaving her after-school snacks in plastic. I told her to use the Pyrex. Now I don't want her to use the Pyrex. The thought of something like that exploding in a child's or anyone's face is gut wrenching to think about, not to mention the cheese starting an oven fire. I am so mad and frustrated I could cry. Well, all I hope is that I do not cut myself cleaning this disaster. There is a lot of glass mixed with baked pasta in my oven.

I was making lemon bars at 350 degrees in my 8x8 Pyrex glass dish. They had been in the oven for about 5 minutes when I heard an explosion and the sound of glass shattering. I opened my oven and saw that my Pyrex dish had shattered all over the oven. There was glass and lemon bar fillings everywhere! I even have a picture of it to show the mess. Aside from no longer having an 8x8 Pyrex dish, I was pretty badly trying to clean out the glass and mess from the oven, the racks and the heating coils.

I used my 13 x 9 Pyrex baking dish to complete the cooking process of my chicken dinner. It was placed in a 350 degree oven for only 20 minutes. When I took it out and set it on the stove so the chicken can rest, the pan exploded and shattered into 1000's of pieces. Luckily, I was in a different area of the kitchen, however, a full day later I am still found pieces of glass all over the kitchen.

This baking pan was not new, so I didn't expect this to occur. Unfortunately, there were few cuts on my and my husbands hands, and our dinner was ruined. I am extremely scared to use my other Pyrex products and will throw them out. Thank goodness my 10 year old wasn't in the kitchen at the time, he could have been seriously injured along with the rest of us.

On Sunday Jan 24, 2009, I used my Pyrex dish to make homemade macaroni and cheese in the oven at 350 degrees. Soon after taking the dish out of the oven and placing it aside, it exploded with a loud noise spewing glass shards and macaroni across the kitchen and dining room. I was about to taste my dish but decided to wait and walked out of the kitchen just in time. Cuts to my hands.

Using a 1 cup Pyrex measuring cup, I was heating 3/4 cup of water for 2 minutes in my microwave oven. After about a minute and a half, the measuring cup shattered and blew open the door of my microwave oven spewing shards of glass and hot water all over my kitchen. The glass and water just missed my 3-month-old baby who was sitting in a bouncy seat in the same room.

I'd read reports about exploding Pyrex, but never believed it myself, until tonight. I was roasting butternut squash in an 8x8 Pyrex pan in the oven at 400 degrees with some other vegetables in separate dishes in the oven as well. All of a sudden I hear a "boom" and I thought the squash had exploded. Instead when I opened the oven, there were shards of glass from the busted pan all over the oven. Thank goodness that nothing worse happened, one lost pan (worthless) and a lost squash and some vegetables, but no physical damage. Please help put this company out of business. This is completely unsafe!

I was washing my 4 cup Pyrex measuring cup when it just popped and crumbled. It had been on my counter at room temperature. I had washed my other dishes and I sat it in the sink of dishwater which was not very hot. I held it and went to swirl the dishcloth around the inside of the measuring cup and it just exploded in the water. Part of it was like small broken pieces of a shattered windshield. Other pieces were shards. Luckily, I was not cut bad, just some small thin shards sticking into my fingers. I was surprised that it happened but now I see there are many instances. I just wanted to report it for the record. Thanks for the opportunity to share my experience.

I was cooking stuffed bell peppers in oven and the Pyrex dish exploded in the oven. It ruined my dinner. There's glass all over my oven.

I was cooking my dinner in this Pyrex dish I have used dozens of times, and when I took it out of the oven, it exploded in my hands. Shards of glass flew everywhere. Not only could I not eat my dinner, but the brownies I had just cooked that were on top of the stove had shards of glass in them and I had to throw that away too. It was extremely scary to have something explode in your hands like that without warning.

I was preparing dinner. I put my empty 9X9 Pyrex dish into a 200 degree oven for 10 minutes. I took it out and placed it on top of the stove. I put 4 tablespoons of butter into it to melt. Just as it was melting it exploded. It sent shards of glass across the kitchen 5 feet or more. I was fortunate that I had turned away. Thank goodness no one was injured. It resulted into a messy kitchen and I had to remake dinner.

Exploding Pyrex 13" x 9". I was baking a lasagna @ 400 degrees. I heard a loud noise in the oven. I waited for the steam and smoke to subside and looked inside the oven. The glass Pyrex dish had exploded. To say it "broke" does not give an accurate description. The dish exploded, with emphasis on 'explode'. Glass shards ranging in size from very small to 4" shards were everywhere in the oven. Had this dish been in my hands when it exploded, I would have been seriously hurt.

I, like what appears to be with many other people, had my Pyrex baking dish explode. Not just crack, or break, but explode into thousands of pieces. I've had my baking dish for about a year now. I bought the combo set of the little square baking dish with the 9x13 baking dish and red plastic tops at Walmart. I've had the set for about a year now and used it many times.

On January 9, 2010 I was baking Shepard's pie in the 9x13 pan. You know, ground beef, gravy, green beans, carrots, topped off with mashed potatoes. I was baking it in the oven at 425 degrees for 13 minutes when I heard what sounded like a gun shot in the kitchen. I opened the oven door to find the biggest mess I've ever seen. Meat and potatoes everywhere and thousands of pieces of glass. How do you even begin to clean that up? I will throw away my smaller pan and will also never buy Pyrex again. Luckily nobody was hurt. I have 4 small children. Dinner being ruined was the least of my concerns. What if that exploded with the door open? What if that exploded on the kitchen counter throwing glass and 425 degree food everywhere? What if one of my kids had been injured? Pyrex should be ashamed of itself. I lost $20 worth of food and burned my hands along with various cuts on myself and my wife.

I had marinated a 5 pork roasts to bake in a 13 X 9 Pyrex baking dish. Oven temperature was placed at 375 degrees. After 20 minutes, I open oven door to baste meat and the dish exploded in my hand within the oven! The sound was very loud and smoke began filling the room. I had thought I had burned my thumb and index finger but then realized they were cut quite deep. Glass was everywhere throughout the oven and kitchen floor. Truly a frightening experience. Wounds will heal. Clean up was over 12 hours and still finding glass shards. Digital photos are available if needed to show extent of exploded glass. Meat had to be discarded as it was full of glass pieces.

I was baking chicken at 350F. When I pulled the pan out after 40 minutes and set it on the heating pad, the end of the pan cracked off and about a minute later one of the sides cracked off as well. The pan was an old rectangle blue with white insides from the 50's, but we have used Pyrex from that era innumerable times with no problems before. While I can hardly expect to have the pan replaced at this late date, I don't believe that we have ever mistreated this pan, and I'm fearful of using any of our Pyrex after this experience.

Our Greek Orthodox Christmas dinner could have been deadly, if my grandchildren had been on time. We had a bit of weather that made them 15 minutes late. At 4 PM, I was on the phone with my daughter, as I was opening my oven to remove a roast pork and stuffing, that was ready to serve. I was just opening the oven door, and there was a huge boom. Thank God I was wearing a turtle neck sweater, apron, and oven mitts, and I was slightly turned to the left, away from the oven, because I was holding the phone in my left hand. The Pyrex 9 x 13 pan that the meat was in, exploded down and outwards and back into my oven. The pieces of glass, ranged from tiny shards to four inch chunks, and out through the sides of the open oven door. If my 2 1/2 year old grandson had been by my side (as he would have been, if they were on time), because he is the one that "want to see what you're cooking, grandma", would have been seriously cut, possibly blinded by the force of the explosion and flying glass.

I only received a few minor cuts to the right side of my neck and my ear, because I was wearing a turtle neck, and I have long hair that was tucked behind my right ear. I have used that glass dish at least a dozen times before. What I would like to know is what the **? My own mother thinks I did something wrong. Well, I didn't. The ** pan just blew up in my face. There was glass all over my kitchen, and there are still shards of glass, stuck in the enamel of my oven. My family could have been hurt. I had to keep my dog and two cats out of the kitchen for two days, because I wasn't sure all the broken glass were completely cleaned up. I have vacuumed and wiped out the oven, but I will have to have the fan checked, to see if it is safe to use again. I won't have any scars, but I have to get the oven checked out, because some of the glass might have gotten into the convection fan unit.

I was baking a spiral ham in a 10x15 Pyrex baking dish I have used several times. I had glazed the ham and closed the oven door and returned to other chores when I heard a loud explosion coming from my kitchen. My cat ran into the living room and hid under the couch, terrified. We live in the country so I went into the kitchen and looked out the window thinking my propane tank outside had exploded but nothing, then the oven began to smoke! I opened the oven door to find glass shards covering the entire floor of the oven and the ham sitting on the oven rack. The cat still won't go into the kitchen!

Pyrex pie plate was used to cook a homemade pie. When the plate was set on a stove, it exploded. Glass flew all over kitchen in large and small pieces. Thank God, I did not get injured and my children were out of the room. I will be throwing out all of the Pyrex cookware and warning others. This could have caused a serious injury. I did receive a small cut on my hand. Broken glass embedded in objects and other food in kitchen. I had to throw out remaining food that was prepared.

On November 11, 2009, my wife purchased a 9.5-in Pyrex pie plate. On Saturday, December 26, 2009, the plate was being used as part of our Christmas dinner service. This particular plate, along with another older Pyrex plate, was used under identical conditions simultaneously. They were placed in the oven together and removed at the same time. Both were placed side by side on insulated pads on the table.

After only a few seconds, maybe 2 or 3, the newer plate exploded. I don't mean shattered; it literally exploded! Our dining room table is in the center of a great room. We had 24 guests in the house at the time, including young children and infants. Quarter-sized chunks of jagged glass were found up to 10 feet away from the table. One was found in the baby's high chair. Shards of glass were found around the floor, on counter tops, in the family room furniture. and in the food.

Until it happened to me, I did not realize that there seems to be an "exploding Pyrex dish" epidemic. On Christmas Eve, I was preparing a pork roast for my family in my Pyrex glass baking dish. Following the recipe, after 15 minutes of cooking, I poured some wine on the roast. As it has apparently happened to numerous other people, the dish literally exploded in front of me into what had to be hundreds of pieces. Fortunately, no one was hurt, so we were lucky. But chicken sausages cooked on the grill were a poor substitute for what was in store for us otherwise.

After baking chicken in broth at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, I took the Pyrex dish out of oven, served dinner. About 15 minutes later, the dish exploded in the kitchen with shards of glass everywhere. I had used this dish before with no problem. Luckily, no one was in the kitchen when it happened. It was just sitting on the counter, cooling off and pop-shrapnel all over my kitchen. My wonderful Mozzarella chicken and every other food item near the dish was thrown away. I am still finding pieces of glass a day later.

On January 4, 2010, I was baking beef ribs in my 8x8 glass baking dish. I took it out of the oven to turn the ribs over and the dish exploded all over my kitchen shards went every where, hitting me in the process. It stung but no damage to my body was done, thank God! My husband and daughter heard the loud sound, they thought I was shot by a gun, the noise was very startling to us all. I have honestly never had this experience before. I love my Pyrex dishes but I am seriously disappointed in them as of tonight's experience.

On December 24, I baked brownies in my Pyrex dish for Christmas. The last brownie was eaten on January 3. The brownies had been sitting in my Pyrex dish on the counter the entire time. On Sunday afternoon, January 3, I hand washed my Pyrex dish in lukewarm tap water with dawn dish liquid. I sat my Pyrex dish upside down in my dish drain to air dry. I was awakened by a very disturbing and loud explosion. I thought someone had broke into my home, I was terrified. Around 2:00 am on Monday, January 4, I searched all around my house looking for a robber, well, I didn't find one and instead when I turned on my kitchen light, I saw that my Pyrex dish had exploded into tiny shards of glass everywhere. I have an open floor plan and I ended up cleaning up the glass that had flown all over my kitchen, dining room and living room until 4:00 am. I even cut my finger in the process. I had to be up for work by 5:30 am. What a mess.

I still found tiny shards of glass in the carpet and on the counter this morning. I am sure I will find more for quite some time. This caused me and my son undue stress, and loss of sleep. Not to mention the emotional trauma of being awakened during the night, thinking that someone has broke, into your home! I was completely outraged when I looked online about exploding Pyrex dishes and found multiple complaints. To think Pyrex has done nothing to warn consumers about this, it is a very dangerous dish. I wasn't even cooking in nor was it cold. It was just sitting in my dish drain! At room temperature, I have 3 more Pyrex dishes in my cabinet and as soon as I get home from work, I hope they haven't exploded yet! They are going straight to the garbage. I want a refund!

Tonight my husband was taking a macaroni casserole out of the oven when the 10x15 glass baking pan cracked in a scalloped fashion (curves) in half right in his hands. Why does this seem to happen with Pyrex products?

I baked an egg casserole in my Pyrex dish on Christmas morning, just as I have every year for many years. After about 1/2 hour, we heard a loud rattle, opened the oven, and discovered that the Pyrex pan had completely shattered all over the inside of the oven. After reading all the posts and talking to others (a friend had a similar experience), I realized how lucky I am. I'm getting rid of all my glass bakeware and recommending that others to do likewise.

I was in the process of making our evening meal on New Years Day 2010. Just as my tenderloin was ready I removed it from the oven to retrieve the stock from the pan like I have always done when the Pyrex 9 x 13 glass pan exploded in my hands. This was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced. I have had this same dish for years now and have always used Pyrex for cooking. I did not do anything differently than all the other times I have used this. These glass pans new or old should all be removed from the market. The least of my worries was the food, but I cannot stand by and let someone get terribly scared by this event. Please remove them from the stores and stop production of them also! The meal was totally ruined by shards of glass. This dish exploded into a million pieces large and small.

We just had a Pyrex dish explode. To be fair, I found out that my wife accidentally violated one of the Pyrex rules (as if someone would remember them all after having used the dish for nearly 10 years). What happened was that she left the dish sitting on a cool electric burner from the previous meal (it was originally cooking on the oven, not the stove top). She needed to heat something on another burner, but accidentally turned on the burner that had the Pyrex dish (the burner was set to medium heat). When she realized what happened, she moved the dish over to a cool side of the stove to cool down. As she was walking away--bang--the dish exploded. Most of the pieces stayed within a one foot radius, but at least seven pieces went further than 5 feet and one went into the next room about 7 feet away. One of those flying shards hit her in the eye, it could have caused a rather serious injury.

My wife was just mixing muffin batter in a Pyrex mixing bowl and it exploded without warning all over the kitchen. It did not just break or crack, it exploded sending glass up to 10 feet from the counter she was mixing on. It was not hot or cold. It was straight from the cupboard where we keep the mixing bowls. The glass that was all over the kitchen looked like glass you would see from a car accident. I'm lucky my wife or my kids, who were also in close vicinity of the bowl, weren't harmed in any way.

I used my Pyrex measuring cup to melt chocolate in my microwave with 1 cup of chocolate chips. Everything was fine, as I have always used it for this purpose until I put it into the sink with warm water. When I went to pick it up to wash it, a large piece broke off in my hand. I picked up the rest of the partially broken measuring cup and put it into the trash. The trashcan was full so I laid it on the top. While I emptied the sink to look for more glass, I heard a loud explosion and glass went flying everywhere. The rest of the measuring cup exploded! It's a miracle that it didn't happen when I had it in my hands.

I just had a 9x13 glass pan (with no cracks) explode and disperse, hundreds if not thousands, of shards of glass, grease and food all over my kitchen and into the adjoining room. Luckily, my children were not in either room when it happened. If I had not been wearing long pants, I am sure I would have been cut because I was hit in the leg with some shards. We lost our New Year's Eve meal, but since nobody was hurt, I consider us lucky.

while cooking the family dinner in my new 9x13 pyrex glassware, i opened the oven to flip the chicken and the entire dish exploded, sending shards of glass and food 12 feet in every possible direction. my son stepped on a piece of glass, fortunately i turned my head reflexively and did not get hit in the face with glass.......

I had washed dishes in my dishwasher yesterday 12-29-09. I left my dishes in the dishwasher overnight to cool down before placing them in the cabinet. The next morning I was emptying my dishwasher and pulled out my Pyrex measuring cup. I opened my cabinet door and placed the measuring cup in a bigger Pyrex measuring cup. As soon as I did the measuring cup I placed inside the bigger one exploded. I feel that this is very unsafe glass. It should just crack instead of exploded. I am just thankful that my daughter was not the one emptying the dishwasher. She could of been injured badly by all the glass.

I just wanted to point out to Bryan that my Pyrex clearly states on the bottom that it is not to be used with broiling of any kind.

Took the hot dish out of the oven and set it on the stove. It cracked across the dish but was still intact. When I tried to wash it, it broke in my hand and severed the tendons in my dominant hand. On Christmas Eve, I was treated in the emergency room with sutures but 5 days later required surgery to repair the tendons and am told there will be 12 weeks of rehab and splinting with no use of my dominant hand. I am a nursing instructor and this will definitely restrict my job functions as well as daily activities and driving. My surgeon says it may require further surgery depending on the healing. process as tendon repair in the fingers is complicated. I have used Pyrex dishes for over 30 years and had never heard of explosive accidents or warnings on the product. This will also require major medical bills for follow up treatment.

To the lawyer who criticized the initial article on consumeraffairs.com and World Kitchen,

I understand that you have some consternation with the verb "exploded" as describing the behavior of your dish when being used in a fashion well within the expectations of the product. Let me describe this reaction in more detail in hopes that you will understand why so many of your consumers are using this description.

In our house your dish produced a very loud eruption of sound caused by a once solid form breaking into well over a thousand pieces ranging in size from barely visible shards to 2 inches. These pieces were propelled both vertically and laterally from a stationary resting position having received no external propulsion, influence, or force. These pieces moved laterally approximately 20 feet and vertically to a height of 2 feet as measured by the pieces stuck in my wife's shirt.

I thank God that she was not hurt, and we will not be purchasing any of your products in the future.

I was cooking Christmas Dinner on 12/25/09. My pyrex dish was sitting on my stove (the burners were not on). As I moved it over to the counter to add my stuffing it exploded. Tiny shards of glass flew into some of the food on the stove and cutting my foot in two places. The cuts were not severe and thankfully there was no one else in the kitchen at the time. Not knowing where the glass may have landed, any of the prepared dishes around the area were thrown out. Needless to say, our Christmas Dinner was not what it should have been! I will never buy or use Pyrex again.

I called the store where purchased and reported this accident to the store manager of Marden's in Ellsworth, Me. He told me to come in to the store and he would see that I was reimbursed even though I cannot find my register receipt, and he said he would report this to higher management. I told him that I would hate to see anyone else have this happen to them.

I am using Pyrex 022-1qt covered baking dish Trademark 19 w cover 682-C 26,since my wedding, in 1961-it is so rough looking I was going to beg Corning to put this perfect dish back on the market, but if the quality isnt there,&downright dangerous-Ill pass. I had a Corning top stove-loved it- the replacement tops now pit as nice as the original&cannot use my original Corning cookware on, as leaves spots on the cooktop&mfgr states it is NOT recommended to be used on the new cooktops.Im scared of Pyrex now, have replaced some baking pcs&a 2C. measure. I have the pour-mixing bowl sets(also 1961 wedding gifts-Ive used in microvave-no incidents..something definately has changed!!I have serrated Chicago Cultlery-now warranted bt World Kitchens-had to replace 2 of my paring knives-quality was not as original, very poor quality,cheaply made.

We were cooking a pot roast in the oven, just as we have always done. My mom went to check on the roast and to determine if it was done yet. She opened the oven door, and the pyrex dish began to creak. Suddenly, it exploded, and glass pieces went flying everywhere. Luckily, none of the flying glass hit her or my children. Our dinner was ruined, as there were tiny shards of glass laden in the roast, and it left a huge mess in the kitchen. Juice from the pot roast and glass were everywhere. This was a very dangerous and scary experience.

One of the shards of glass landed on my foot and cut my toe through my sock, it actually cut through the tendon I had to get stitches and I am uninsured. I am just so thankful my 6 year old was not in the kitchen at the time.

Last night (December 26,2009) I made chicken enchiladas. They were in the oven in a 13x9 Pyrex baking dish at 400 degrees. After 20 minutes, I opened the oven door to check on them. Decided they needed a few more minutes. Not more than 2 minutes later, we heard an explosion. I opened the oven to find chunks of glass shattered all over the oven. It was a complete mess.

Yesterday, my husband was warming up our Christmas leftover stuffing in a pyrex dish. He put it in the oven at 250 degrees for 10 minutes. (The oven was not preheated) He removed the pan from the oven and set it on our granite counter. After about 2 minutes, while spooning out the stuffing, the pyrex pan popped and it shattered. A piece hit my husbands hand causing bleeding and other pieces flew all over the floor as well as on all the near by plates full of our left over turkey we were about to eat. We are lucky it didn't fly into his eyes. We are luckey our young children weren't standing near by.

I called Bed Bath & Beyond to where I bought the Pyrex a few years ago and told them what happened. The lady said you can't go from cold to hot. When I asked her for the phone number to Pyrex to complain, she said to go online. Then she put me on hold and gave me the number. When I dialed it, it was a fax number. I will try again later. I want my money back for the pyrex and all our leftover Christmas dinner that was costly. How about taking Pyrex off the market so no one gets seriously injured!!!!

A new Pyrex baking dish purchased at Walmart Dec 2009 shattered in the oven during routine use causing significant mess, but luckily no injuries. Dish went from room temperature to rack in oven set to 400 F. The Pyrex dish shattered within two minutes of placement into oven. My research revealed that exploding Pyrex dishes has happened a number of times to other individuals.

Yesterday I was preparing Christmas Dinner. I placed stuffed mushrooms in a pyrex 8X11 tray in a 275 degree oven. After about 20 minutes I heard a loud explosin and saw the oven door open with glass shattered all over the kitchen. I had the rest of the meal on the top of the stove waiting to place it in the oven. Glass shattered all over a 10 pound rib roast a mashed potato casserole and asparagus. It also hit me and gave me minor cuts. Needless to say I threw the whole dinner away and ordered pizza for my guests (15 people). It was quite emparassing but more importantly we were lucky no one was seriously hurt. Has this problem ever happened before and how can I contact the makers of Pyrex to report this problem and possibly get some compensation for what ruined my Christmas dinner.

I placed a cool 9"x13" Pyrex glass casserole dish onto a burner which was still on at medium heat. After 10 minutes of sitting on the burner, the dish EXPLODED all over the stove, my countertops, and my floor. Most distressing was the thought of how my 5 and 3 year old children had been walking past the stove just before it EXPLODED. The glass breaks into the most dangerous, sharp, pointy, fine glass fragments. The glass shards are evevrywhere, and I want Pyrex to pay for this - their product is completely unsafe and dangerous and should be taken off the shelf immediately until they address the fact that have started using cheaper glass which is truly dangerous. If anyone was around when the dish exploded they could have been blinded by the hundreds of small sharp glass shards flying through the air.

I just recently bought an 8"x8 1/4" Pyrex dish. Having no idea that there were so many complaints and incidents, I used it for the first and only time. Just as other consumers have said, upon taking it out of the oven and setting it on top of the stove, it started snapping and popping. We threw a towel over it to keep it from spewing glass all over the kitchen, but it did indeed shatter all over the stove top. I am grateful that no one was hurt and the mess was minimal. This product is a menace, and should be taken off the shelves immediately. How long does this have to go on, before this company is forced to do something? Evidently, they won't do anything on their own...

I prepared my traditional Chistmas breakfast in a 9"x13" Pyrex casserole dish. It baked in a 350 degree oven for 50 minutes, as directed. My son removed it front the oven with dry mitts and placed it on top of the stove to cool. The stove top had not been used for anything that morning nor were any other dishes on the stove top. We turned to go back to the living room to finish opening presents when the casserole exploded into a million pieces. It was exactly as others have presiously described.

I reduced the au jus to half and was just about to strain it for serving when the pan exploded. This in no way was a break along a fracture. The large roasting pan shattered into pieces no larger than an inch in length with many smaller shards of varying sized. The explosion scattered the shards fairly evenly within a 15 foot radius. The au jus pretty much dropped to the stove top and started burning and fuming.

It was quite surprising to us since we'd successfully followed this procedure at least three times before with no problems.

i had just made christmas dinner for my whole family, i used a pyrex jug for the gravy, i put the jug in the middle of the table and about 2 minutes later it exploded, sending hot gravy and glass all over the 7 people round the table, needless to say that dinner was ruined not to mention the minor cuts and burns that everyone had. thanks pyrex

I have just read a few articles about "exploding" pyrex bakeware because earlier today 12/25/09, I had my 9 x 13 pyrex baking dish explode. There was nothing in it, it was at room temperature and it was on the stovetop at least 5 inches away from a medium low burner where I was cooking bacon. Thank god, I wasn't in the kitchen because it EXPLODED. Had I been in the kitchen, I am 100% sure I would have sustained significant injury. I haven't read too much about this, but I'm sure there has been injuries due to this product

My 8 cup Pyrex measuring cup exploded into a million pieces! Shards of glass everywhere. I had used it at supper to heat a sauce, it was washed and put away. FIVE HOURS LATER, we were in bed and heard an explosion, the large cup had exploded. There were glass shards over every inch of our cupboard. It had actually blown the cupboard door open. It was sitting at room temperature. Thank goodness it was not not sitting on the counter and thankfully no one was around it at the time. It has been used less than 5 months and only occasionally. I have asked Pyrex for a replacement but I do not have a receipt. Bought it at Wal-Mart. No reply yet. Actually may consider a different manufacture.

I was so scared, but luckily, none of the flying glass hit me. It could have caused a lot of damage if the glass'd hit me because the oven was open and I was right next to it! No one was hurt, but we lost a good dinner of homemade french fries and meatloaf, for there was meatloaf in the oven as well.

After baking a cake in a 350 degree oven, removing it to cool, it exploded and shattered in a million pieces! Scared me to death- I was not hurt, but it was a mess and took forever to clean up all the little shards of glass all over my kitchen.

This was a new dish I purchased 1 week ago. I was supposed to use it to prepare Christmas dinner! I am glad I found out its explosive properties prior! Warning to everyone else, be careful when purchasing these, they are dangerous!

I took my glass pyrex cookware out of the oven, took my meat out of the pyrex and as I was walking out of my kitchen, the glassware shattered into pieces. Its like the glassware exploded. I did not set it on a cool surface. There was glass everywhere, thank goodness I was not right there when it happened. The glass was not faulty prior to this experience. Glass was everywhere all over my kitchen, luckily, I did not get hurt.

I had just finished cooking fish in a 13x9 in blue pyrex dish and set it on top of the sink after removing the food from it, I put a little water in the pan, it was just sitting there and all of a sudden it explodes into thousands of pieces. I was standing at the sink but fortunately none cut me. I have photos to prove it.

December 16, 2009. I baked a pecan pie for a pot luck dinner. After it completed cooking, I sat the pie on a wire rack to cool... About 15 mins. after taking it out of the oven, I heard something that sounded like marbles falling in my kitchen. upon checking it out, the pyrex pie pan had broken into shreds of glass, going all over my stove, Counter tops and kitchen floor. Need I say how upset I was and I have a fear of using my other pyrex cooking dishes. The possibility of these dishes exploding is very dangerous and I question why a recall has not been done on these products since it seems to be a problem many people have had. In researching this, there seems to be a problem with the glass in a lot of the cookware. I would think this Company would do everything possible to avoid law suits.

I put sweet and sour pork chops in the oven at 425 degrees. About 20 minutes later, the bakeware blew up. Thank God I didn't open the oven at that moment. How are these products allowed on the market. I have used Pyrex baking dishes for 50 years and have never had one explode.

I was making a pork tenderloin in a Pyrex 9x9 inch baking dish. It baked for 30 minutes at 425 degrees. When it was finished I put a cup of warm water in the pan to make gravy and the pan shattered. I have done this before with other bakeware and this has never happened before. There is glass slivers all inside my oven now and it left quite a mess with glass and gravy everywhere inside my oven.

Used a brand-new Pyrex glass bowl to make microwave peanut brittle. Removed the bowl from the microwave and placed it on the countertop, and it exploded into dozens of glass shards. I've been using Pyrex baking dishes for 35 years and this has never happened to me before.

I was using a pirex pie plate to make a pie and it expolded splatering hot armel on my hand giving me 2nd degree burs.

I baked some oatmeal carmalitas in my 13x9 clear glass baking dish at 350 degrees. (I've had this dish about a year or so.) I left it on the counter to cool overnight. The next morning, I cut the carmelitas up and removed them from the dish. I then moved the dish using the handles to put it in the sink to clean. Before I submerged it in the water, I noticed one handle was sharp to the touch and inspected it closely in disbelief (I thought Pyrex was supposed to be some of the strongest glass.) I then noticed it had sliced my middle finger open. I am glad I noticed it before I put it in the water and sliced myself more. I am still in shock. The glass on the handle had splintered lengthwise.

Three years ago while making Christmas dinner, I pulled my 5x7 Pyrex pan out of a 350 degree oven and placed in on the stove top which was also very warm. The pan cracked from one side to the other and the stuffing was ruined. Yesterday, I pulled my remaining 5x7 Pyrex pan out of a 300 degree oven and again, placed in on top of the warm stove and it shattered.

After baking in the oven at 375' we took out Pyrex dish out of the oven and in mid air it exploded everywhere in our kitchen. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but millions of shards of glass went everywhere. A huge mess and cleanup!

Was using a brand new Pyrex bowl in the microwave to heat some food up and did a 30 second run, followed by opening the microwave and stirring the contents. On the second 30 second run the bowl exploded inside the microwave. Luckily the microwave door was closed so none of the pieces shot out.

I had a 9x12 pyrex pan shatter into thousands of pieces. The pan was room temperature and was soaking in a sink. The water in the pan was warm, not hot. I placed a mixing bowl in the pan and when I did, the 9x12 exploded. Luckily all pieces were contained within the sink.

I had cooked some enchiladas in an 8x11 Pyrex dish at 350 degrees. When the dish was done I took it out of the oven and placed it on top of the stove where the Pyrex dish instantly exploded into tiny glass fragments.

Just had the second 13" X 9" pyrex baking dish blow up in my face in the last 6 months. Followed all the safety instructions and do not misuse the product. These were both new dishes.

I had my injuries treated at the doctor's office where they said I was lucky the glass didn't strike me in the eye or other vital area. I thought I was getting off easy with a deeply cut foot until four weeks after the injury I developed blood poisoning from the cut. This newest twist on the old injury left me unable to walk for an additional week.

I have used Pyrex pans for all of my married life (35 years) but never had a problem until the last five years. I replaced some of my 30-year-old Pyrex pans with new ones. Three of these have exploded either in the oven or when being removed from the oven. The last incident convinced me to never use Pyrex glass pans again but I am concerned about others.

3 quart round PYREX baking dish in the oven @ 350 degrees. Exploded in the oven after 30 minutes.

It was Thanksgiving Day, 2009, I made homemade stuffing and put it in the oven at 325. Once it was done, I took it out and placed it on the counter, the pyrex just exploded. Glass shards went everywhere and in the food. I had to recook most of my side dishes.

I just reheated pre-cooked BBQ Ribs at 370 for 30 minutes in a 9X13 pyrex dish. After a 5 minute "resting" period, I removed the dish from my oven and set it on a room temperature (70) kitchen counter made out of porcelin tile. As I started to remove the ribs the dish literally exploded hitting me in the face and dropping small and large shards of glass on my boyfriend, not to mention a ruined dinner and major mop up effort. To my surprise after searching the web, I find this is a common experience - at least one a day as noted on this web site alone. Why have we not been warned?

My hand is still bleeding as I type this. I was just washing an 8 x 8 pyrex dish, which I had used to mix up french toast, when the dish just exploded around me. I had not dropped the dish nor was there an extreme temperature change. The dish was at room temperature and the dish water was typical heat and I had washed several dishes prior to the pyrex. There were no other dishes in the sink and the sink was stopped with a rubber stopper. I have had this pyrex dish for over 13 years and there were no cracks or chips in it that I was aware. This dish EXPLODED and flew several feet in front of my sink and all around where I was standing. It was completely shattered.

My left hand took the brunt of the impact because that is the hand that was holding the dish while I was washing it with a typical soft dishcloth. I was not rubbing aggresively as I just needed to clean the egg/milk mixture out so nothing was crusted on at all. The dish had not been in the oven or on the stove only on the counter top while I dipped bread into it to make my childrens breakfast. I am thanking God that my children were not doing the dishes this morning and I am also thankful that it did not shatter into my eyes. Thank you for listening. People need to be warned that these dishes can EXPLODE! This was not just a few "breaks". It was shattered all over. Well I lost my favorite 8 x 8 pan and my left hand has several cuts on it. Fortunately I will heal up in a few days.

My pyrex oven dish exploded when I was cooking Ribs in it. It ruined my dinner and shot glass all over my oven and kitchen. Thank God my child was not hurt nor myself. I spent the next night cleanning glass from my oven.

I was baking pork in the oven at 400 degrees when the dish exploded in my oven, thank god the door was closed and it was not in my hands. The dish did not come from the refrigerator but came from a drawer in my house that was about 74 degress....the dish exploded after about 20 minutes in the oven. There was no real extreme temperature change except for the slowly rising temp. in the oven which was not even pre-heated so the dish did not go directly from 74-400 degrees.

Peeled apples, mixed rest of ingrediants for apple crisp. Put in pyrex baking dish 8"8"X2". Put in oven when ready. After 10 minutes the dish exploited in the oven.

We had cornbread stuffing in an 8 x 8 pan on the stovetop and a burner was turned on briefly and the clear Pyrex exploded, shattering 8 feet in all directions. It took an hour to clean it up. Luckily it seemed to explode horizontally or it would have hit us in our eyes as we were standing right there. My daughter got a piece of glass stuck in her toe which was pretty deep and bled for hours.

I was using a 9x9 Pyrex baking dish that I have had for a few years. I made a meal of marinated chicken baked in the oven. I've made the same meal in the same dish countless times over the years since it is a family favorite. I was taking the dish out of the oven and while I holding the dish it exploded all over me, the floor, the stove, and the rest of dinner. Someone directed me to this site with all these similiar complaints. Needless to say my pyrex dishes are going in the trash!

I put my stuffing in a pyrex pan for Thanksgiving. After the hoiday i was soaking pan on low flame to make it easy to clean and it burst into small pieces all over my kitchen. I landed u with glass in my hand and foot.

I made a pumpkin pie on 2009 Thanksgiving day. Used a newly purchased, clear Pyrex 9" pie plate that is supposed to be oven safe. During the baking time, the rim of the plate cracked away from the bottom half of the pie plate shattering into tiny shards of glass all over the oven. Thanksgiving dinner was a total loss. One of my guest printed an email she recently received explaining the exact same thing. Apparently, this has been a known, on going, and common problem of Pyrex.

I was cooking my vegetables for Thanksgiving dinner when I heard an explosion and realized my pyrex dish had shattered into a million pieces. The glass was all over. My vegetables were distroyed. My stove was a disaster. I am trying to get Pyrex on the phone but the line is always busy.

my medium sized pyrex bowl, which I had used many times broke in my microwave the morning, while cooking my porridge. Nothing serious happened, just messy.

Last night I baked 3 large boneless pork tenderloins in my Pyrex glass baking dish (lasagna pan) at 375 degrees for 15 minutes. Just before I went to take the dish out, I heard a loud sound. The baking dish had exploded into thousands of tiny shards. The food was ruined, we spent hours cleaning out the oven and the drawer below the oven (tiny glasss shards in the pots and pans we store in the drawer) and we probably need to have our oven "serviced" so that we can make sure we got it all. If the dish had exploded when the oven door was open I would have been seriously hurt, not to mention what might have happened to my kid if he was in the kitchen with me at the time.

Tonight I was baking a turkey in the oven. We heard a large boom and when I went to check on the turkey I saw that the clear pyrex cookware had exploded all over my oven and turkey. It was an absolute mess. The bakeware shattered in to both small and medium pieces with glass shreds all over my oven. This is a scary situation and could have really been a mess had the pan shattered when I was opening the oven. The oven was only set to 350 degrees when this happened. There needs to be a recall on this cookware.

We have a brand new oven and the glass exploding blew out the light in the oven and we had glass all over the place. As I would pick the glass up to place it in the trash, it would break more. This product should be taken off the shelves as there is a very big potential for consumer injuries.

It was thanksgiving and we made a turkey in a medal baking pan but the people who were coming were late so i picked the turkey all off the bone and put it in the oven with my sweet potatoes side by side. in about ten minutes we heard a loud bang and the whole dish exploded. there was glass everywhere along with the whole turkey which was ruined. It was a disaster because how do you explain to guest that your pyrex dish just exploded all over your oven and there is no turkey. I will never buy any of these dishes again. there dangerous.

Luckily no one was hurt, but what a mess!

On Thanksgiving 2009 my wife removed a Pyrex dish full of stuffing from our oven. She placed the dish on our flat cook top stove and it instantly exploded. It did not crack, or break, it exploded scattering stuffing, glass shards, and hopes like a claymore mine.

I have used Pyrex dishes for many years without issue. I have never had one fail. This dish had been used several time before without incident.

I am considering sending the rest of my Pyrex dishes to the recycling bin and sticking with my Corning-ware.

This stuff is dangerous!

On Thanksgiving Day, 11-26-09, I had placed a room temp. large Pyrex casserole pan filled with stuffing and the liquid, on top of my very warm oven on the vented side; waiting there to be baked. The pan had sat on top of the oven for about 30 minutes. I had turned to go to the sink, when I heard an explotion. I looked around and the entire casserole pan holding the stuffing and liquid was shattered into hundreds of pieces all over the stove, the counter beside it and the floor. Needless to say, we didn't have stuffing to go with the turkey. But thankfully the baby hadn't crawled in at that time and no one was stirring the pot on the stove then either!

I have recently replaced all my enameled, coated, plasticized, etc. microwave and bakeware with Pyrex due to health concerns of "weird chemicals" possibly seeping into the foods and liquids when heated. Last night when baking broccoli cassarole for Thanksgiving dinner, which was luckily my last dish, I was opening the oven door and BOOM!! My brand new Pyrex dish exploded into tiny razor sharp shards and burning broccoli cassarole has ruined the wonderful smells of Thanksgiving not to mention by the time I cleaned the mess and bandaged my bleeding hand, the feast was now luke-warm for my guests. Very disappointing to say the least. I though Pyrex was a quality & safe product.

When cooking for Thanksgiving on November 26, 2009, my 13x9 pyrex dish exploded into a million pieces. It sounded like a gun shot! I was so scared. There were shards everywhere including some in other food items. I had guests coming and many food items had to be thrown away. I am grateful my Thanksgiving didn't cause anyone harm but it did ruin my Thanksgiving Day. This is NOT an urban legend! When will this item be recalled! I called all my family members to warn them of the dangers of this item. Where is consumer affairs stand on this dangerous item????

I don't always believe what I read, I just read it and go on. Until... it happened to me. I had guests over on Thankgiving (2009). I put a pyrex dish in the oven along with another casserole dish and within ten minutes heard a loud explosion. When we looked the pyrex dish had exploded inside the oven leaving a million tiny shards of glass everywhere ruining both dishes of course. I could hardly believe my eyes. I had cooked in it for years with no problem. This was not a piece that had ever been misused and it was room temperature when the food went into it and then into the oven. There was no sudden temperature change. You should make the public aware that this threat is very real. In my case luckily it happened inside the oven instead of happening while trasnferring it to the counter. I have now completely done away with all my pyrex dishes. I will replace them with something else. Never again will I trust pyrex.

Thanksgiving day 2009 we took our pyrex dish from the oven with stuffing balls in it to add the gravy (which the reciept calls for). We put it on hot pads. When we started pouring in the gravy ,the dish exploded into a thousand pieces it seemed like. Luckily no one was hurt but what a mess and glass everywhere.Thank goodness the grandchildren and families were not in the kitichen at the time or it could have been worse. WE WILL NEVER AGAIN ,AND I MEAN NEVER USE THESE DISHES AGAIN. Please make people aware of this problem. If you ever see one explode you will see why we are concerned.

Thankfully, I and my husband didn't get seriously injured or my unborn child as i'm 4 and a half months pregnant. I have seen hundreds of complaints and this company shouldn't be allowed to sell this garbage to consumers. my hands and feet have minor cuts but could have been a lot worse.

After about 30 minutes we heard a loud bang only to find our baking dish had shattered in the oven leaving a huge mess. This is the second Pyrex baking dish in 2 weeks that has shattered in the oven. We have always loved cooking with Pyrex but we will not be buying any more. No physical damagge resulted but we lost all that good gravy and had a mess to clean up!

Tonight I leaned in my oven to take out a couple Turkey legs that had been baking to make Gravy for tommorows dinner in a Pyrex dish in my oven when it exploded into what seems to be thousands of pieces thank goodness no one was hurt but there was damage to the kitchen and the stove and a major mess to clean up. These dishes are a hazard and dangerous and should not be sold on the market

After removing a pyrex 9x13 dish from the oven it cracked into two pieces. About 30 seconds later, one half completely shattered into about 20 pieces. Thankfully no one was holding it when it did this. I am beyond disappointed in a product I used to love. I won't be buying any more.

Tonight I had a 9x13 Pyrex pan EXPLODE in my oven. I put fresh fish in it and heated for 10 minutes. It EXPLODED a couple seconds before I opened the oven door. Otherwise I would have been injured. What a scary ordeal and what a mess! Shame on Pyrex!

I was shocked!! I had no idea that this could happen and no idea why??

My Pyrex exploded into 5 peices in my oven after 15 minutes of bring placed inside.

A Pyrex baking dish shattered in my oven. I wrote to the company on 10/26/09 to let them know and was disappointed that they did not respond. No one was hurt but the damage to my family could have been severe. Reports are rampant on the web that Pyrex has changed its formula which makes it possible for the glass to shatter. I hope you will investigate this and hold the company accountable if it is indeed true.

I was cooking with two pyrex dishes and they exploded in my oven. Which is crazy. My beef briskit was trashed after that. They werent cheap. I was checking to see how much longer it would be for both of my briskit to be done and while I was bent over looking both dishes blew up and glass went every where and I jump and burnt my hand. I stepped back and got my feet cut.

We were baking scalloped potatoes in a 9x13 Pyrex baking dish and about 30 minutes into the baking, we heard a loud bang and found the pan had exploded in the oven.

Last night, we planned a special dinner party, which included baking two pounds of extra large jumbo shrimp. Upon removing the shrimp from the oven to place on a serving tray, the pyrex baking dish exploded and glass shattered all over the kitchen floor. Needless to say, the dinner party was ruined.

13x9 pyrex dish. When done,I carried the dish to the counter and before putting the dish down it EXPLODED in my hands. Glass and meat went everywhere.We were very lucky no one was seriously hurt. I was knocked off my feet,fell to the floor and hit the open oven door.I had some minor burns and glass cuts.The glass flew everywhere.

A glass baking dish shattered in a 500 degree oven after 17 minutes of cooking time. The baking dish had been removed from a room-temperature cupboard and a pork tenderloin with a spice rub was placed in it. There were no excessive juices.

I was cooking a vegitable bake in my ovel pyrex dish, when it just exploded in the oven, there was glass every where, this was very frustraing as i had guests over for dinner. Smashed glass all through my oven, and the inconvienec and embarresment in front of my guests

My pyrex glass roasting pan was in the oven at 450 degrees baking chicken drumsticks. After 30 minutes the whole pan exploded all over the oven. The food was destroyed and a huge mess to clean up.

I opened the oven door and could not believe my eyes! One of my Pyrex glass pans had exploded in a "million" tiny little pieces all over the place. I just cried. My company was on the way and my meal was ruined. I had to throw out 5 pounds of chicken, and other ingredients, and two new pans. There was glass everywhere. I took pictures. Fortunately no one was hurt! We had to call the local pizza restaurant and get some ziti to serve with our salad and green beans to our guests!

I waited a few days and then called the World Kitchen Company. I began by asking if the glass Pyrex 13X9 pan is made to go from the refrigerator to the oven and she replied, "Yes". I then explained what happened. The lady on the phone was really nice, but explained that I "hadn't followed the directions". She went on to "explain" that since I had put the dish in an oven that had not yet reached it's "stable" temperature, I had compromised the integrity of the glass. She said that when the dish is put into a pre-heating oven, the structure of the glass is broken down by the fluctuating temperature. She said that, over time, this can cause the dish to break.

I asked why one dish has exploded and the other had not. She said that I had probably done this to the broken pan before and that made it "weak". Now how could that be if I had used my other pan for 30 years without anything ever happening like this? The lady took down my information and sent me a new pan. She told me to "read the directions that come with the pan very very carefully and follow them". Guess what? No directions came with the new pan!

I do not think that I can ever again put one of those pans in the oven. I never want to go through that again! I will use it for serving something like cold salad, but I cannot put it in the oven ever again. I had to throw out 2 glass Pyrex 13X9 pans, 5 pounds of chicken, 3 large jar of Ragu, 4 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese (and some other ingredients) PLUS we had to order $25 dollars worth of Ziti to replace the ruined dinner. All told, I guess it was about $50 or more that we spent.

We had to clean our oven and I'll never really know if every little bit of glass was retrieved because the shards were so very very small. It took quite awhile for my husband and myself to clean up the mess. I worry about other people not knowing about this very dangerous situation! I wish someone could do something to warn people about the danger involved in using this pan!

publicized. How many people have been injured?

I was preparing to make scallop potatoes tonight for dinner. I had just put the hot water into my 13x9 pyrex glass pan when it just blow up with a big bang, glass and hot water flew everywhere. It shattered into thousands of pieces. This was a heavy duty glass pan which I've only used maybe 5 or 6 times. So lucky no one was hurt, took over an hour to clean up the mess and I'm still scared there is fine glass around. Too scared to use another glass pan.

One piece hit me in the foot, another on hand and left cheek of face. No breaking of skin, just reddened with a sharp stinging sensation. Dinner of course ruined as well as the dish, and couple hours to clean oven and kitchen floor.

I was heating some meat pies (@375degrees) in a genuine Pyrex baking dish on 11/16/09. When I removed the dish from the oven and was placing it on the top of the stove, it exploded in my hand. Glass was propelled acros the kitchen in all directions for a about 15 feet. I received cuts on my feet, but fortunately nothing worse. It took about three hours to clean, vacuum and throw out any exposed food. This is the second Pyrex dish to do this, no more they are too dangerous.

I was baking a vegetable strudel in my 3 year-old Pyrex casserole bake-ware in the oven at 350F and after 15 minutes, I peaked in the oven window, decided the food was done and reached for the oven mitts. I had my hands on the oven door-handle, about to open it when I heard a loud BANG. I jumped back at the noise! I peaked through the window again and saw my dish was in hundreds of sharp and jagged shards all over the oven. The meal was ruined, the oven is still being cleaned-up and my faith in Pyrex is gone. I will never buy another World Foods product. This is unacceptable!

My Pyrex just exploded! Thank God no one was hurt but it ruined a double batch of banana bread and a turkey breast! Horrible! I will NEVER buy PYREX again -- IT took 2 hrs to clean up not to mention the expense of all the ruined food!

We used a 4 cup pyrex glass measuring cup in a microwave. I mentioned to my husband that it had a knick in the top of it. Afterwards, it was cleaned and put away in the cabinet. The next day I opened the kitchen cabinet where it was kept, only to see a zillion pieces of glass all in our cabinet. Very hazardous to have to clean up the mess without getting cut.

RE:Pyrex cookware---Received a 2 piece set of pyrex as a wedding present in 19649--60 years ago. Have used regularly.Last week one exploded in the oven. I would say "A darned good product"

I have owned many pyrex dishes in the past,but now i will reconsider using this product. My two children or my husband or myself could of been seriously hurt.Not to mention had to throw the ribs out!!!

I bought an 8 x 8 Pyrex dish as a gift for my college-age son. He used it to make brownies. It exploded in the oven the first time he used it. Left a huge mess.

On two separate occasions I've had a Pyrex baking dish explode violently. Both times was after placing the dish on the stovetop after coming from the oven. The stove had NOT been on, but the oven vent was under one of the burners one time which could have heated the stop top coil.

My sister has also had one explode and actually hurt her.

I'd used the glass baking dish for a couple years before suddenly, without warning, it exploded into hundreds of pieces after cooking with it one evening. Luckily no one was injured by the flying shards of glass, which propelled across the kitchen at a high rate of speed.

Selling defective products to consumers is a CRIME. It's corporate crime, and as we all know, this state of affairs is so out-of-control that it's going to be the death of this nation.

Pull these products off the market NOW. People will be seriously injured, if not killed by this IED cookware. I'm disgusted at the lack of concern and disregard for safety. This company should be forced out of business for selling defective products causing harm to consumers.

after having a pot of water on the stove, the whole pot exploded everywhere, including my on my daughter who suffered 2nd degree burns on her face and neck

I had baked a batch of 'from scratch' rolls for a Sunday morning Bible study in our home. I used a Pyrex rectangular, clear glass baking dish. I had just taken them out of the oven, set them on the stove--which had not yet been used that morning--and the dish exploded into thousands of pieces. I'm not sure of the year this happened (my best estimate would be 2004) but the dish itself had been a wedding gift which means it was purchased in 1978.

A few years back I purchased a Pyrex baking dish. I was taking the clear,large (not certain of the inches, I think 11x14)Pyrex dish from the oven and it exploded as I placed it on a room temperature surface. It was full of delicisous dressing for Thanksgiving and it ruined our holliday meal because, of course, it had glass chunks and shards all over and in it. Glass shattered all over the area, on the floor and across the room. I'm surprised my eyes or skin wasn't injured. I had long sleves and pants on and thank goodness we all had our shoes on or someone would have had cuts as they walked from the "accident" area. I will never buy another recently made Pyrex product.

I was broiling deer meat in the oven in a Pyrex baking dish that was in the cuboard. The oven timer went off so I proceeded to flip the steak over when before my fork even penetrated the meat, the dish exploded, narrowly missing me and flying all over the kitchen leaving burn marks on the rug near by.

The pyrex dish exploded in the oven while i was baking chicken at 350 degrees. took a few hours to clean up the oven... just cut myself while picking up the shattered glass

I picked up a 9x13 baking dish and the end of it broke off in my hand. The dish wasn't hot or been in the refrigerator. It had been setting on my counter over night. I had to have stitches in one finger and sterri strips on two of the other fingers.

I had made a lasagne and apple crisp - both in the pyrex dishes and had them in the oven to bake. I had preheated the oven as requested and placed my dishes in the oven to bake. 40 mins later, my lasagne dish shattered, sending glass pieces all over my oven and the dessert! My family's dinner was ruined and my oven rendered out of commission until the dishes, glass and oven had cooled off. As a result, we had to make something that could be made on the stovetop for dinner. Very disappointing!

Pyrex 2 qt bowl shattered into the tiniest of pieces. Yes, my fault. The pieces were minute. Clearly a problem

had a birthday party my sons apartment. was using their new dishes from their wedding aug23,2008. the oblong pan shattered all over the stove in the pot of beans all over me thank goodness i was in front of the birthday cake or the whole party would of had to be rebought.bad enough only half of the people had eaten so we cleaned up the mess. the meat had so much glass in it our hand were covered in slivers of it. so make sure you do not purchase pyrex from china. its not safe

I was baking with the Pyrex 13X9 baking dish a couple weeks ago and without warning it exploded while IN the oven baking! Why is there not a warning on them to say they can explode? I had my oven at 350 and had not even opened it or moved it, no one was in the kitchen when it exploded IN my oven! Please, any information would be appreciated. we had to make something else for the family to eat therefore cutting into our already small food budget!

I read a recent email regarding exploding Pyrex. I was shocked!I didn' realize this was still happening. I read the thought that this may have only been happening as recently as 2005.WRONG! This happened to me in 1991. I Know the year for sure because I was on Maternity leave when this happened. I baked a batch of brownies in the clear square glass pan. It exploded while cooling on top of my stove. I hadn't bought the pan to long before the incident.

I had actually called Pyrex to report the incident at that time because I still had the receipt and wanted my money back. They said they never heard of anything like that happening and said I must have done something to damage it. I left it at that thinking maybe I did. I even remember calling my friend at work to tell her what had happened. Because that same week my washing machine broke down. So I was joking that I best get back to work soon.

I also never did use it as A "Freeze to the oven to the table" dish. I just never trusted that one could do that. Now reading this information I am shocked that this could all have been prevented LONG, LONG AGO! Please call me if you have any questions, I would be happy to testify. or even sign an affidavit. Exploding glass traveled from my stove top across to the counter and sink in my kitchen. I am one of the lucky ones that was not in the kitchen when it happened.

Two times we had our Pyrex dishes break since 2004. One was s Thanksgiving Ham which was destroyed and it took almost half the day to clean the oven. It "shattered" as I was taking it out of the oven(I was lucky no cuts). The other was just sitting on the counter when it "shattered". We no longer purchase anything with the Pyrex name on it. IT IS JUNK!!!!!!!

Just ran across your article about exploding Pyrex. After reading the subsequent response from World Kitchen's lawyers, I felt that I needed to offer a rebuttal to some of their claims, since as a scientist I can tell you that the lawyers are seriously spinning the facts and misdirecting attention so as to avoid the blame that their company rightly deserves.

First off, I AM somewhat of a glass expert. Probably not as good as the experts you consulted from your original article, but I do hold a MS degree in Glass Science, and am currently doing materials research into glass-ceramic materials. With that said, some things you might want to consider. For ease in correlating arguments, I'll refer to the statements put out by World Kitchen's lawyers using their numbering system.

1. "Contrary to what Consumer Affairs Says, World Kitchen Did Not Change the Formulation of Pyrex Glass Bakeware; the Formulation is the Same as that used by Corning."

Response: Granted, I do not personally know when the formulation for pyrex glass was changed from borosilicate (BS) glass to soda-lime-silicate (SLS) glass. I don't work for Corning and don't have access to those records. What I DO know for certain is that after World Kitchen purchased Corning's kitchenware division they DID SIGNIFICANTLY change the formulation of the bakeware under the CorningWare brand label. That change was from a very strong (and extremely thermal-shock resistant) glass-ceramic material to a much weaker (and cheaper) stoneware ceramic. Although the materials changed, the dish appearances and names did not change. Thus, we have a very concrete example of World Kitchens deliberately changing product compositions for financial gain while depending on consumer expectations of the previously superior product to continue driving sales. If we cannot trust this company with the way they adulterated the CorningWare product line, why should we believe that they are telling the truth about Pyrex?

There is a simple way to test their claims. Just purchase several "antique" pyrex dishes from estate/garage/auction sales and send those off to a trusted facility to test their composition and construction. Based on the product stamps and/or packaging you can confirm if they were manufactured prior to 1998. If an independent lab can confirm that an old "beat up" dish still possesses superior composition and tempering than the new products, then your original calims will still stand, despite the lawyers' bluff.

2. "Contrary to what Consumer Affairs Says, Pyrex Glass Bakeware is Properly Tempered."

Response: In point number two, World Kitchen's lawyers posit that the tempered SLS glass is of equal (or superior) quality to that of BS glass. Despite their insistence, the scientific fact still remains that SLS glass -- tempered or not -- will ALWAYS have a thermal coefficient of expansion (COE) which is much greater than that of borosilicate glass. The COE for a glass is a physical property of the material and is a function of glass composition only. It is this thermal expansion that is ultimately responsible for causing bakeware to break in the oven when the Pyrex tempering fails to constrain the thermally-induced stress. Thus, as you and your glass experts initially stated, SLS glass articles are inherently inferior. What you'll notice in the lawyers' carefully worded response is that they claim the tempered glass is "comparably resistant to breakage," not comparably resistant to thermally-induced stress. However, it is only "comparably resistant" because the tempering process adds enough strength to cover the inherent flaw caused by the difference in glass composition. Borosilicate glass does not require the same tempering because the material itself is inherently superior. A tempered borosilicate article would then be vastly superior in not only thermal shock resistance but also mechanical resistance, leaving no advantage at all to the SLS dish.

3. "Consumer Affairs Ignores the Scientific Fact that Pyrex Glass Bakeware is Tempered Differently than Flat Glass."

Response: "Tempered Differently" is NO excuse for TEMPERED POORLY. As a glass expert, I'll agree with World Kitchens than it is very difficult (and probably not worth the time and effort) to temper every square inch of a bakeware dish as evenly as a flat panel of glass. Also, I'll concede that Pyrex bakeware would not be expected to dice when it breaks. I've intentionally broken several antique Pyrex dishes in the course of my research, and they do indeed break into large shards instead of small crumbles. However, knowing how the tempering process works, it would reasonably be expected that two-dimensional regions of similar thickness within an article (such as the centers of the dish bottoms) would exhibit the same degree of tempering, and that the tempering from multiple pieces would be equal. As your experts noted and the lawyers conveniently ignored, the issue is not a question of whether it is tempered the same as plate glass, but whether it is tempered sufficiently to protect the consumer, and the answer that we've seen from the consumer experience is a resounding No. The question thus remains unanswered, how does the quality of tempering in today's dishes compare with those from before World Kitchens took over?

4. "Contrary to what Consumer Affairs Says, Pyrex Glass Bakeware is Durable and Impact Breakage is an Important Safety Consideration."

For the most part, this response from World Kitchens is valid. But, again the validity of their response hinges on the assumption that the articles have been manufactured with sufficient tempering to increase their strength. They also cite NEISS statistics to show that thermal shock accidents are far fewer than incidents caused by dropping. What we do not know from their response, and what should be investigated further, is how the relative incident rate for breakage by dropping has changed pre/post-world Kitchen era, since a decrease in production quality should see an increase in incidents. Also completely ignored by the lawyers is the point of consumer expectations that is, consumers expect a dropped glass dish to break, while they do not expect a stationary one to shatter. In this case, even one to three incidents per year of spontaneous shattering is still too many when those could have been prevented.

5. "Consumer Affairs Misrepresents the Differences between Soda Lime and Borosilicate Glass Manufacturing, and Ignores the Damaging Environmental Implications of Borosilicate Glass Manufacturing."

Response: As a glass scientist, this argument from World Kitchens was the greatest affront, and practically had me laughing in disbelief at their attempt to redirect the argument. Dr Day's statements are solid fact, which is why the lawyers then proceed to set up several straw-man arguments around this point so that we'll try to ignore those facts. As I mentioned earlier, there is a great difference between comparing MATERIALS and comparing PRODUCTS. From a materials perspective, borosilicate glass is immensely superior to soda lime glass. That's why Corning Inc. still retains the right to make BOROSILICATE glassware for laboratory use under the Pyrex label. World Kitchen's "Pyrex" glass is only remotely similar due to their additional processing steps to add strength, and again, if they fail in that secondary process (as they apparently have) it is the consumer that suffers harm. Contrary to the lawyers' claim in this paragraph, the melting point of the glass compositions DOES impact the final product. If a manufacturer doesn't sufficiently melt the glass batch materials at a high enough temperature, it can cause stones and other inhomogeneous defects to end up in the final glass article. These defects then create stress points that induce failure in the consumers' kitchens. Finally, the "environmentally friendly" argument is laughable because the energy efficiency of the manufacturing process has nothing to do with safety of the consumer in their home, except when the company's focus on said energy efficiency (and subsequent cost savings) leads to an inferior product.

6. These arguments made by World Kitchens either involve conversations that I was not part of, or are petty personal attacks on the credibility of Consumer Affairs' website, thus I have no comment.

Bottom line: This issue is all about the MATERIALS first, and the production methods second. A material with very low thermal coefficient of expansion will not explode in a consumer's oven under normal use, regardless of the degree or quality of the tempering that it has undergone. Borosilicate glass is inherently safer because it cannot generate the amount of internal stress that soda-lime glass will. If World Kitchens really cared about the consumers and not just their stockholders, they would make their "Pyrex" bakeware out of the same borosilicate glass that Corning uses for their Pyrex labware -- the same material that the public EXPECTS when they buy a product with the Pyrex label.

I had a "newer" 13*9 inch clear glass baking dish. I was reading your article that you have posted. Most "events" to other people were related to change in temperature -- oven- to room temperature. I was removing my dish from the storage cubbard when it shattered in a "million pieces" onto the floor. I was really taken aback. I own old pyrex that even has a small chip in it and have no problems with it. No change in temperature, no extreme temperature encountered. No oven, no dishwasher involved.

I was washing a 13X9 pyrex dish. It had not been in the fridge or anything, I had only used it to hold vegtables I had chopped. When I went to put it on the dish rack it exploded and I mean EXPLODED. I did have rubber gloves on at the time, so no injuries to my hands/face.

I put an apple pie in my pyrex pie plate and put it in the oven. About 10 minutes into baking I heard a loud noise. I thought maybe the oven rack fell, but when I opened the over door I saw that the Pyrex pie dish was in a lot of pieces, there was apple juice all over the oven and it was a complete mess. After reading some of these other stories I am glad it did not happen as I was taking it out. I had made pies in this dish for the past few years and never did I think anything like this would ever happen.

This Pyrex dish was sitting on top of the toaster oven. The oven was on 350 degrees. I picked up the dish to move it and it exploded in my hand. There are chards of glass all over my kitchen. I don't know where I bought it. I've probably had it for 10 years. I did not know that Pyrex would explode. I have the piece that says Pyrex on it. My fingers had chards of glass in them. This morning after a thorough cleaning I still find glass all over the kitchen.