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Sylvia of Chagrin Falls OH (07/04/08)
I made baked beans in this cassarole at 300 degrees and when I took a spoonful I found glass in it. Luckily, I didn't swallow it. I threw it all away. When I checked the lid, I found the inner part had shattered. I have been using Pyrex for years and have always been satisfied. This must have been a defect. # 1 8 Pyrex F14C A
Diane of Wilmington, Ma MA (07/03/08)
Upon removing my chicken dinner from the oven, I placed the 13 x 9 Pyrex dish on the stove top. Fortunately, my daughter and I had turned away from the dish when we heard this very loud crash. When I turned around and saw the Pyrex dish had literally EXLODED, I could not believe my eyes! There was glass everywhere. It was, indeed, fortunate that my daughter had also turned away from the dish or she would have had glass in her eyes, and God knows what it would have done to her beautiful face. My daughter had just been through a terrible ordeal with her eyes that lasted almost a year.
I had a similar experience many years ago. (I have been using Pyrex products for more than 50 years.) My dinner was in the oven, and I heard a horrible noise. Upon opening the oven door, I could not believe my eyes. The dish had EXPLODED, and needless to say, my dinner and the dish were all over the oven!
The loss of one Pyrex dish - which at this point may not be replaced! Of course, I also lost my chicken dinner.
Jamie of Corpus Christi TX (06/22/08)
i was cooking fajitas and i put them in my 13x9 in pyrex glass cake pan and put them in the oven on 225 to keep them warm while i finished cooking everything else. i took it out of the oven and sat it on my glass cook top and i fliped the meat in it and turned around to see where my son had went cause he was right there buy the stove and it exploded every were sending glass flying. there was glass every were it flew far probably about atlest 2 feet cause it was in the hall to my livingroom. we cleaned up the best we could but there is still little pieaces of glass all over my stove. it was really scarry i cook for a living and i had never had that happen befor. i don't even want to use the other pyrex dishes i have and i have the hole set.
Sarah of Soquel CA (06/18/08)
I was baking some chicken in my 13X9 Pyrex casserols dish at 350 degrees in the oven when I heard a LOUD bang. I went running in the kitchen not knowing what had happened when I discovered my pyrex dish had exploded all over the inside of my oven leaving behind about 600 tiny pieces of glass, and destroying our dinner.
Well, it cost me about $10. worth of chicken and the price of the casserole dish.
Barbara of Sycamore IL (06/16/08)
we were camping i made a casserole in a pyrex dish put it in the oven at 375 degrees baked it took it out of the oven sat it on top of stove and it exploded right in my face
Joel of Florham Park NJ (06/16/08)
Just to follow up: I did receive a response from the company that now owns Pyrex. They said I was supposed to have liquid in the bottom of the pan when cooking meats, which I don't remember being told before. She said it would weaken the pan if I didn't use water in that type of situation. They are sending out a new pan. I have to decide whether we want to use it or not. But maybe I didn't use it properly.
Joel of Florham Park NJ (06/13/08)
I was making spare ribs in the oven with my 9x13 pan at 325 degrees and was just going to check on them when I heard this explosion in the oven. The pan had shattered into a million pieces. Thank God, I had not opened the oven door or it could have shattered in my face.
We're still not sure about how operational our oven is. We lost the baking pan, of course, but also are concerned about the tiny shards of glass that may still be around. We cleaned up as best we could. This was a very unnerving event considering pyrex baking dishes are supposed to be oven safe. We do not feel safe anymore using this product.
Melodee of San Pedro CA (06/11/08)
I bought two 4 piece sets of your Pryex at Wal-mart. Yesterday after spending an hour making enchiladas in the 9 X 13 pan it broke and shattered will baking in the oven (o350). I have never seen any thing like that before. It was a big mess! My meal was a disaster. I have use Pryex for 29 years and I have never had anything like this happen before! Now I am out about $15.00 for the ingredients for the enchiladas and $23.00 for the 2 sets. Thank God my daughter hasn't used her set yet. I don't understand why these sets are still being sold when Pryex knows that they shatter.
Kimberly of Scappoose OR (06/09/08)
I have 2 children, of 5, that have Celiac's Disease so I have to bake thier bread weekly. I've used pyrex dishes for as long as I can remember and have NEVER had an issue, until last night.
I was baking the bread at 375 degrees as I usually do and when I took it out of the oven and placed it on the stove top to cool it literally EXPLODED on contact with the stove. Glass went shooting every where. All I can say is thank GOD my kids were in bed and safe from the glass shooting around my kitchen. I was not hurt thankfully but I'll never forget the sound.
I don't think I'll be using the product again for baking just for fear of my family sustaning injury from explosing glass.
Thankfully there were no injuries. Just a little cut from cleaning up glass on my thumb. With 5 children in my home and 5 pets as well, we were VERY lucky.
Bill of West River MD (06/04/08)
I placed a glass Pyrex baking dish on a front burner but noticed immediately that the burner had been turned on by accident when it started heating up. I turned it off and took a pair of kitchen mittens and moved the baking dish to another burner from the one that was heating. As soon as I placed it gently on the unheated burner it exploded and sent glass shards through three rooms, burning my kitchen tiles with numerous scorch marks. I was not injured, although I was standing directly in front of the stove. When I set the dish down, I was watching closely. It exploded first from the center and with extraordinary force sent hot glass shards (not safety glass pebbles) everywhere.
My kitchen floor is ruined, but this product should be recalled or taken off the market. I would like to be compensated but, even more important, I want to make sure that others are not injured or disfigured by believing that Pyrex products are engineered to be heated safely. No warning labels were attached to the dish or the packaging.
My tiling for a large country kitchen, which matches the tiling in an adjacent adjacent hallway and mudroom, was ruined and needs to be replaced. I do not yet have an estimate of the cost to replace it, but I would expect it to cost several thousand dollars. If I recover damages I will be pleased, but I am more interested in stopping this dangerous product from being marketed.
Vannessa of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (06/04/08)
This afternoon my sister and I were making lunch for a toddler we care for.We preheated our oven at 325 and placed two chicken breasts in one of our many pyrex baking pans (8x8 inch) then placed it in the oven. we checked on it 20min later flipped the chicken.In total it cooked for 45min. Just as our lunch was ready we placed the dish on the top of our stove(not hot)and it shattered all around the rims of the dish as she was still holding it.We had glass chunks all the way to our front room with a toddler and two babies roaming around.
Mitzi of Orlando FL (06/03/08)
Thursday evening I had just washed and was rinsing a Pyrex dish when it just broke in two and cut my middle index finger very, very bad, and cut my thumb on both sides and two other fingers on my other hand.
I had used the Pyrex dish a few hours earlier in the over. It had soaked in dish water for two hours. I then put fresh dish water in, washed the Pyrex dish, was rinsing it, and it just broke in two in my hand. Luckily, my husband was home and helped me. I will never use Pyrex again, and will be getting rid of all my other Pyrex dishes.
Severely cut fingers.
Julie of Berne, IN (05/27/08)
I was washing dishes and asked my son to emty out the remains of my granola bars from my pyrex baking dish. I use this dish to make my bars every week. They are only cooked 15-20 minutes at 325.
I didnt wash the pan after i made the bars so it was about 1 and a half days since it had been baked in. My 14 son took the pan to the trash to emty out the remains and it broke in 2 peices as he reached the trash can , severing his thumb. He was seen in the E.R. and required stitches, several shots and is required to return to the E.R. for the removal of stitches in 7-10 days.
I then did a search and found many many issues with pyrex. I am upset my son got cut although very thankfull this didnt explode as i usually am unable to keep the kids out of the kitchen when i cook. This dish wasnt mistreated nor was it subject to extreme tempetures...it just broke. It wasnt hot or cold but room temp and had been room temp for days.
Shirley of Hardy, VA (05/25/08)
My two cup pyrex measuring cup just exploded tonight. It was sitting on the counter where I always keep it and suddeny it exploded shattering pieces about a foot over the counter.
I have used pyrex for yeas and never had a problem befor. It was dry and it was a nice day and I wasn't cooking anything at the time in the kitchen. Just after the air conditioner kicked on I heard the sound. What would cause such a thing? It is scary.
Christie of Valley Center CA (05/20/08)
Removed a clean pyrex bowl from cupboard and proceeded to clean and mash avocados (room temperature) on my Corian countertop during 100 degree weather (75 degrees in house). Turned away (luckily) to open the (refrigerated) fresh salsa to add and before I even added it or touched the bowl of avocados, it exploded about 12-14 feet in distance throughout my kitchen and dining area.
By a miracle, I missed getting cut by about 5 inches. I have used Pyrex since I was a newlywed in 1969 and since. I have quite a large collection, but I am afraid to use any of them any longer. You've lot an almost 40 year customer.
Karen of Fairview Park OH (05/20/08)
Yesterday morning I baked a batch of brownies in a 13 x 9 pyrex dish. We ate approximately 1/3 of the brownies and I packed some for lunch. The dish was sitting on my countertop. At 5:15 am, we woke to a loud pop. I went into the kitchen to discover tiny glass shards all over my kitchen. The remaining brownies were still sitting in the dish, but the surrounding pyrex was shattered. It was a very surreal experience.
Sb of Walhalla SC (05/19/08)
During holiday, I was cooking breakfast for the whole family at my neice's house, using her pyrex. I put bacon in a pyrex in the oven while finishing pancakes and eggs. I took the bacon out of the oven and placed in on top of the stove. Suddenly, there was an explosion, like a very loud firecracker and small pieces of glass flew all over the kitchen, all over me and all over our breakfast food. Everything was ruined and it took a couple of hours to clean the glass from the kitchen.
Lost breakfast for 14 people, lost pyrex dish, lost two hours of cleanup, and I am now shell shocked when I work in the kitchen. The family is laughing a little when I jump if a pan falls or something makes a sudden noise.
Melisande of Birmingham AL (05/18/08)
You're not supposed to bake with glass cookware over 325F because it can break.
Lisa of Paradise CA (05/18/08)
I was cooking something in a brand new clear glass Pyrex dish with a lid. I was using a normal temperature, and the dish exploded on my stovetop. It was shocked b'c I've used this brand of cookware for years w/o any problems. It has a reputation of being excellent for cooking and for being safe.
It was a mess to clean up, not to mention what all went into making a planned meal.
What irked me most was there was no warning label or other information on the dish or with the product packaging when I purchased it. The store that I purchased it from graciously gave me a refund when I brought in pieces of the glass to show them. I will never buy pyrex again. The company is irresponsible. One of these days they should be looking at a class action law suit - if they don't start warning consumers about the product limitations. A child, adult, or pet could be seriously harmed from the explosion or the aftermath of the broken glass.
Lauren of Reno NV (05/17/08)
Last Sunday I was baking bacon in my Pyrex pan. It was at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. I pick it up and put it on a bamboo cutting board and it shattered into hundreds of pieces. Not really shattered but exploded. This is the 3rd time that my Pyrex has done this. I went out and bought a baking pan from All-Clad that is stainless steel and the Pyrex is getting out of my house.
I had a terrible mess in my kitchen but luckily was not hurt.
Nolan of Lillington NC (05/15/08)
well nothing happend to me but ive been rooting around the web researching borosilicate glass. Pyrex is the brand name for borosilicate. but as it turns out since 1998 Pyrex kitchen brand is no longer made of borosilicate but of soda-lime glass.
there for you get these Exploding dish ware. because borosilicate glass is chemically constructed to have a lower coeficient expansion rate of soda-lime glass making it a better candidate for cook ware. borosilicate due to its chemical structure(the way the crystals and every thing alighns when it cools)does not shatter mearly snaps into big chunks not little slivers. Little slivers are a sign of Soda-lime glass and i am appalled that Pyrex is claiming that there are no defects in their products. The defect is that the product they are selling as Pyrex(borosilicate glass) is actually Soda-lime glass. When ever soda-lime glass or ordinary glasses are heated too quickly or unevenly then they are apt to shatter or explode into millions of little slivers(or cooled too quickly for that matter. i dont think Pyrex cooking ware that is made of soda-lime should not beable to be sold under the brand name of pyrex because it does not hold all of the same qualities that borosilicate(pyrex)contains.
Stella of Chicago IL (05/14/08)
Last evening as I was making supper a horrific thing happened. I had a roast in the oven which had another five or ten minutes to cook. When I opened the oven door to check on it...the pyrex baking dish suddenly exploded sending hundreds of shards of glass throughout the oven and shooting out into the kitchen. I is a miracle that I wasn't hurt. We are still cleaning the glass mess.
What happened? I have been using pyrex baking dishes for 52 years and never had any trouble with them...but after this terrible experience I will get rid of all other pyrex dishes and replace them with metal ones. I wasn't injured. The cleanup was difficult. I just want the company to know what happened.
Angela of Westminster CO (05/13/08)
13x9 Pyrex blue casserole dish.. 10 years old. Making a pasta casserole, 10 minutes after being placed into a 450 degree pre-heated oven, heard a loud pop from the oven. Dish had shattered into many pieces, huge mess! Thankfully we were able to attend to it immediately, no fire or other damage, except one lost dinner and a whole lot of mess to clean up.
Lost dish, lost respect for pyrex. After reading the MANY complaints about this very thing, we are tossing our pyrex and will use cast iron dutch ovens or something else. Why is anyone here asking for a replacement? After all the people with this very dangerous occurrence, who would WANT another one?
Sarah of Waterloo, Canada (05/11/08)
I was cooking chicken in my blue casserole pyrex dish when after about 20 mins of it cooking I opened the door and all of a sudden the dish exploded into a million pieces that went flying everywhere. I spent good money on that dish and I used it pretty often I was wondering if there is a replacement going to be sent to me or some how reimberst for this dish.
No one in my family got physically hurt but when it exploded my young children came running into the kitchen and I had to try and keep them out of the kitchen or one of them would of seriously gotten hurt
Paul of Louisville KY (05/10/08)
My wife was baking a chocolate cake in the oven in a 13X9 inch Pyrex baking dish. She removed the dish and placed it on top of the stove to cool and the dish exploded, sending shards of hot glass all over the kitchen. Luckily she had her glasses on and it kept her from getting any glass in her eyes.
Ruby of Greenfield IN (05/04/08)
Cooking a turkey at 350 degrees and was in the oven for about 2hrs and we heard a big explosion. The dish shattered into a million pieces I cut my finger trying to get it out of the oven
I wanna know if there is a way to get a replacement have had these dishes for 15 yrs?
cut my fingers.
Carol of Littleton CO (05/04/08)
I have had 3 of the pyrex baking dishes explode after taking them out of the oven and one that exploded in the oven. Last night my son in New York called me and told me that while taking out a pyrex dish full of lasagna exploded cutting him in the chest and groin. When one of mine exploded on me it received a large cut on my hand.
My son was unable to feed his family last night after his pyrex baking dish esploded. They live on a very fixed income and could not afford to go purchase anything else for their dinner nor did they have anything else they could fix. When one of mine exploded I had to cancel a very important dinner party at the last min do to the fact I also had nothing else to fix or the money to fix it
Caissy of Fairfield CT (05/03/08)
We were devastated tonight when our home made Sheppard's pie fell into the bottom of the oven. we have never seen nor ever heard of a Pyrex dish breaking but earlier this evening we did. At least we had some frozen turkey soup left over from Thanksgiving to warm and eat. The cracked dish was a present last year for Christmas and I would like to know if these dishes are now being made in China or somewhere without the same quality standards we always believed Pyrex was made with. We have two dishes remaining from the set and are not sure if we should continue to use them and are hesitant to purchase a replacement set.
we were not hurt - but carefully removed the dish parts from the oven and then had to clean the oven. Lost: the dish and the dinner and an hour of cleaning.
Alice of Bayside NY (05/02/08)
i was cooking some fish in my pyrex pan that i have had for several years. mostly i used it in the microwave, but lastnight i needed it in the oven. after about ten minutes in a 450 degree over, there was a flash fire in my oven, and then the glass exploded all over the oven. it scared me to death, and of course, messed up my oven and ruined the fish. i shall never use pyrex again in the oven.
we had to sweep and vacuujm out the oven with all the glass all around. it was a horrible mess.
S of Jackson MS (04/12/08)
You might want to note in your column on breaking pyrex the change in the type of glass used to make Pyrex by World Kitchens (soda-lime glass) since it bought the product line and licensed the Pyrex name from Corning Inc ( which used thermal shock resistant borosilicate glass. Check the Wikipedia entry for Pyrex.
Jennifer of Watertown MA (04/08/08)
Tonight while cooking dinner an empty pyrex dish was sitting on our stove top, I heard it crack and within seconds it fully exploded sending both large chunks and thousands of small glass slivers all over my kitchen. The explosion scared my dog so much he spent 15 minutes straight barking and now won't come into the kitchen. Thank god no one got any in their eyes. I am throwing all my pyrex away and warning everyone I know to do the same!
My dog has PTSD now, ruined dinner.
Kathy of Troy NY (04/07/08)
in january 08 I bought a 3pc set of clear pyrex oven-proof pans.......rarely used. yesterday on 4-6 i placed them in my oven at 350 degrees to bake chicken.....within 15 minutes we heard what sounded like a tree falling, a collapse, upon opening the oven we found the pan broken in piecs of shard glass, not just big cracks or chunks but tiny bits that made it to the floor, embedded in the chicken, some stuck to the heating iron and of course the racks, what a mess, thankfully nobody was hurt , execpt of course our beloved dinner.Please urge consumer's to be extremely careful when using this product and to be safe.
Tina of Ringgold GA (04/05/08)
I baked a peach cobbler for my family. Several hours later we heard an explosion from the kitchen. My brand new pyrex 13x9 or so oven bake dish exploded into a million pieces. I have always been a user of pyrex and have never seen anything like this before. The dish was sitting on a wooded chop block and was cold to the touch.
Needless to say my dinner was ruined. Everything had to be thrown away b/c glass shards were in everything that I had cooked. Having nothing else ready to prepare for my family's dinner, I had to go to the extra expense of buying dinner for the 2nd time in one night. Plus, I'm out of a brand new baking dish that was the perfect size for my family.
Lori of Mcallister MT (03/31/08)
We just read your articles about exploding Pyrex. Most of them were pre 2006 and had to do with dishes that were already out of the oven. I just made some brownies this evening and put them in a 8x8 Pyrex baking dish. I put it in a preheated, 350 degree oven for 28 minutes. With one minute left to cook, I heard a noise and looked in the oven to find shards of Pyrex all over the oven. This seems to indicate an explosion not just a fracture. I have never had this happen before. I had just purchased a set a couple months ago. The other pieces have performed great so far but, I'm a little hesitant to use them now!
Ruined brownies, time lost in making them, and a very disappointed husband.
Laura of Horicon WI (03/30/08)
The 4 cup glass measure cup had been washed and set out on the counter to dry the night before. In the morning, my husband was putting the dishes away, he had just set the glass measure cup in the cupboard and as he was closing the door, it exploded. There was nothing left but shard of glass. Even the handle was shards of glass. There was no change in temperature, nothing was bumped. Luckily he was just closing the cupboard, which kept him from getting serious injury to his face and/or eyes.
Liz of Hastings OTHER (03/26/08)
While cooking an Easter ham in a Pyrex baking dish in the oven, the dish split. The juices ran out of the dish into the bottom of the oven and caught on fire.
Luckily the kitchen was occupied at the time and the fire was quickly under control and put out.
Angela of Roseville CA (03/23/08)
I was baking a ham, added a little water and it exploded in my oven. Not the easter dinner I had planned.
Donna of Garrison NY (03/17/08)
This is no new phenomenon with pyrex bakeware especially the 13x 9 clear glass pans. My grandmother cooked with them from the 1940s through the 1970s. Many such pans shattered along the way. They dislike touching wet surfaces including dishtowels, having cooler liquids added - we always added hot water to a hot pan - cool surfaces including the top of your stove - we lucked out we had a gas stove with a pilot light which was always warm, etc. As a teenage cook in the 60s, I was forewarned about watching out for the Pyrex. Yeah, they even ruined meals back in the day.
Consequences - we knew what you could and couldn't do with pyrex.
Dorothy of Linden, NJ (03/10/08)
I was cooking a pot roast at 350 degrees. I kept checking it and after 2 hours I thought it was done so I added a little warm water to baste it and it exploded all over my stove, face, floor and I'm still finding pieces. My son is a doctor so he checked my eye and took out the glass.
My oven door doesn't close tight because of tiny pieces of glass and today I stepped on one.
Sheila of Peru IL (03/06/08)
My 13x9 and oval Pyrex baking dish did explode in my oven. There were no visual defects in dishes. They were examined prior to use. Shattered glass was everywhere.
It was a big mess to clean up. I had to let the oven cool and everything sticks; if I don't let it cool I'd get burned. Unfortunately, the oven glove can let a person get burned and even cut. I will not use or cook with Pyrex again and will pass this information on to others.
Tammy of Schertz TX (03/04/08)
I used two 9x13 glass Pyrex pans in the oven to cook homemade stuffing and rolls for our Christmas dinner. When I bent down to take the pans out of the oven, they exploded in my hands/face. I am just lucky that all the flying glass did not fly into my face. It did cut my foot and ruined our dinner. Glass landed in two other dishes, so unless we wanted to swallow pieces of glass, they had to be thrown away along with the stuffing and rolls. I refuse to purchase another Pyrex product and threw away my remaining 6 glass Pyrex products. This was the second time I had a Pyrex glass 9x13 dish explode, and it isn't worth it to me to use their defective products.
Both times the dishes exploded; it ruined our dinner--not to mention the sound of the pans exploding scared me half to death. Other than the cut foot and finding pieces of glass everywhere, there wasn't much physical damage. I was very fortunate that the glass did not fly in my face/eyes. No amount of monetary compensation could replace someone losing one's eyesight or disfiguring one's face.
Pam of Gresham` OR (03/02/08)
I was using my new blue Pyrex glass 9x13 1/2 pan and took it out of my oven to set it on a heat pad. It shattered all over me and my kitchen. It ruined my garbage disposal and went everywhere, burning my arm a little. I would like the money reimbursed to me and my garbage disposal fixed. I would also like to know why this would happen. Thank you.
Judy of Fox Lake IL (02/27/08)
I was baking a pork roast in my 350 degree oven in a Pyrex 13 x 9 baking dish. I heard a strange crashing noise in my oven. I thought that perhaps a rack fell inside the oven. When I opened the door, I saw that the noise was from my Pyrex dish shattering in hundreds of pieces inside my oven. There was glass all over inside and throughout the heating elements in the bottom of my oven. It was impossible to clean it without it falling all over the floor in my kitchen. Needless to say, my dinner was ruined, not to mention the endless cleanup that pursued. I was so thankful that it did not happen in my hands when handling the dish.
My dinner was ruined. My GE Oven that is only a year old would no longer beep when the assigned temperature was reached. This is an ongoing operational problem ever since this happened.
Leah of Groveland CA (02/27/08)
For healthier cooking, I had been replacing all of my aluminum cookware with Pyrex. My mother-in-law gave to me many of her older, unused pieces. The handle on top of a round, casserole lid that I had used with its round body, broke off in splintering layers in my oven mitt when I removed it after cooking in the microwave with it. The kitchen temp was maybe 65-67 degrees at the time so there was no sudden change in temperature. I had not bumped the lid on anything. But given how I received the item, I cannot vouch for its past storage or use. After reading of other s' experiences, I deem my self lucky. But I question the product too. The lid has a number imprinted on the lip of the lid: PYREX 624C B-19. Maybe that can assist unravel the mystery.
No consequences except for lost consumer loyalty to the product. My search will continue for a healthy and safer cookware.
Brenda of Austin TX (02/27/08)
I bought my mother a 9x13 Pyrex glass dish in a carrier for Christmas two years ago. The dish has been used maybe 2-3 times. In the meantime, my mother keeps the dish in the cabinet under her stove top. The dish sits flat on top of the carrier with the lid loosely sitting on top of the dish. Nothing is placed on top of the dish and again, it is stored sitting flat. My mother called a couple of weeks ago, horrified that the dish exploded in the cabinet. The stove top was not on, there was certainly no change in temperature since my mother had not been cooking and had not even used the dish in months. The temperature in the house is kept at 76 degrees so there was no temperature drop in the house.
My parents were watching TV in their living area when they heard a loud crash and discovered that the Pyrex dish had exploded in the cabinet. Large and small shards of glass were everywhere. They finally got all of the glass cleaned up and remain confused as to what may have happened. I am most concerned because I have two of the Pyrex 9x13 glass dishes in carriers that I have had for years. Now, I no longer have confidence in using them. I am not sure who to contact at Pyrex or what they would tell me or what they would do. Therefore, I am reporting this to Consumer Affairs for information and review. Thank You!
Judy of Arbuckle CA (02/26/08)
I was using a Pyrex Pie Plate (one I had had for probably 20 years or more), I placed a London Broil in my Convection Oven on Broil. During the cooking process, I opened the door a few times to check for doneness. On about the third peek, the plate exploded all over the oven. Until I read these forums warning us about this problem with Pyrex, I thought maybe the cause was my recently installed Convection Oven. I'm glad I Googled this so I won't be leery of my new oven! Also, very pleased and Blessed nothing horrible happened like eyes being damaged, skin lacerations, children injured, etc. I'm saddened by the loss of my old friend...The Pie Plate.
Cost of a new 9 inch, scalloped edge pie plate. No cuts, no eye damage.
Mary of Carpentersville IL (02/25/08)
Placed my 9 x 13 baking Pyrex dish in the top tray of my dishwasher. 10 minutes later the explosion was so loud I thought someone had broken into the house. Went to the kitchen and opened the dishwasher and there was glass everywhere. All sizes and shapes of slivers. We removed all that we could see safely, this took an hour. The dishwasher was removed from the house and the water that drained from it was full of glass. The new dishwasher will be delivered Tuesday.
Had to replace the dishwasher and I will have to have our kitchen carpet shampooed because all the water that leaked out of the dishwasher was full of glass. I'm thankful that I don't have small children or pets.
Jonathan of New York NY (02/25/08)
I thought my dish rack had fallen this morning. I went into the kitchen to discover that the Pyrex bowl that I had on my sink had exploded sending jagged pieces of glass everywhere. The Pyrex bowl had been left to cool since last night, at least 12 hours earlier. It was a blessing of sorts that no one was cooking when the glass exploded. I am however very freaked out by the whole incident.
Kathy of Downers Grove IL (02/24/08)
I was washing a pyrex baking dish and all of a sudden I heard a noise and realized the dish was split; in half, from corner to corner. I had used it to prepare and bake dinner. It had cooled and the water temperature was warm. It had soaked for about 20 minutes before I washed it, in the warm water. It was in 2 pieces. I didn't drop it, I was just washing it, nothing else was in the sink with it. I was shocked! I had NEVER had anything pyrex break..it always seems like very sturdy glass. I'm just glad it didn't crack while I was cooking with it, in the oven.
Cheryl of Galt CA (02/24/08)
I was baking a betty crocker potato cassarole per the box instructions and while it was cooking we heard a loud pop. When I opened the oven I found that our pyrex dish had broken spilling the contents all over the oven.
Obviously had to throw away the dish.
Charles of Culpeper VA (02/24/08)
I was cooking a chuck roast in the oven at 325. I took the dish out in order to pour a sauce over and then to continue cooking in the oven for 2 more hours. The sauce was hot as I had just made in a separate pan on the stove. I poured the sauce over the roast in the Pyrex pan and it exploded and shattered, sending glass and liquid all over me, all over the top of our gas stove. I received minor burns from the spewing liquid on my shirt and pants. It took over an hour and a half to clean up the mess and pick up all the glass. The gas stove top had liquid inside all the burners and was very difficult to clean out. The liquid ran down the front of the stove into the oven vent, so that we now have a streak of gravy inside the glass door on the oven with no way to clean it. I will never use or buy this product again. Obviously it remains defective since the first reporting and the executives at Pyrex have just ignored the exploding dishes until someone is burned very badley or worse yet dies from these exploding dishes. Please warn consumers not to use this product at all if they have small children in their household. It is very dangerous and should be taken off the market.
Dale of Wendell NC (02/24/08)
I had baked a roast in the oven (350 degrees), was taking it out when the areas around both handles of the Pyrex dish broke, sending hot grease all over the wall, floor, inside of the oven & oven door and me, with large pieces of glass everywhere. Of course, I couldn't be sure there wasn't glass on the meat or in the essence, so I couldn't serve it...ruined my dinner party...I still have the pieces, but no receipt. I have been using these dishes or ones like them for 40 years, just like my Mom and Grandmother. What happened? Without a receipt can I get my dish replaced? Do I need to send the pieces to anyone? Thanks for being here!
Craig of Tuscaloosa AL (02/17/08)
I learned not to use Pyrex baking ware under a broiler. I was cooking eggplant in a year old Pyrex 9x13 clear glass baking dish. I removed the dish from the oven, after a brief period under a broiler. While holding the Pyrex baking dish, visually checking the doneness of the eggplant that I was cooking for dinner, the baking dish exploded. Shards of glass went everywhere. This just happened an hour ago. I expect that I'll be finding shards for the next several months.
The dish was lost, my linoleum floor might need to be replaced, and I will need a professional oven cleaning. Also, small cuts in my hands and feet from the shards.
Bonnie of Columbia NJ (02/11/08)
Just another alert on the Corningware French White cookware. I have a set that is at least 10 years old and have used it religiously. Last weekend, I took a casserole out of the oven, put it on a trivet in my dining room, served from it, then brought it into the kitchen, back on a trivet to cool further before putting into fridge. It exploded. I had glass in 3 rooms of my home. I know that there are warnings about safe use. I know for certain that this dish hasn't been dropped, dinged, chipped. I know what the temperatures were in all phases. There is no reason for this to have happened. Now that I have a small baby in the house, I am giving second thought to the continued use of this product.
No economic, other than loss of the cookware. No physical, other than spending 2+ hours cleaning glass shards up in my home.
Julia of Lyme CT (02/08/08)
My Pyrex pan exploded when taken out of the oven. It broke into hundreds of little dagger shaped pieces with a force that caused it to hit the wall ten feet away. The pieces were so hot after being on 375 for 45 minutes that they melted to my landlord's linoleum floor causing approx. quarter sized burn marks all over it. Luckily no one was injured during the explosion but my husband did cut himself very badly trying to pry the hot shards off of the melted linoleum floor, leaving a gash just short of needing to go to the hospital. I would suggest metal pans.This is not to be taken lightly.
Larry of Sebastopol CA (02/01/08)
I was cleaning a large Pyrex baking dish which was one of the kind that had an embossed design in the glass on the outside. Because of the embossing it was a very difficult dish to clean and I was using a soft brass brush and
Soft Scrub cleaning paste. I had the dish upside down in the sink when while scrubbing it, with a very loud pop it disintigrated. A few pieces of glass flew into a garden window behind the sink and a few pieces landed on the floor, but the bulk of the fragments just dropped into the water in the sink. The glass fragments looked pretty much like what I have seen when tempered window glass is broken (rock salt).
Loss of baking pan.
Tammy of Huber Heights OH (01/28/08)
I was cooking pork chops and scalloped potatoes in the oven for dinner. The pork chops were on the lower rack on baking pans, and the scalloped potatoes were in my 9x13 Pyrex clear glass pan on the top rack. I was playing cards at the dining room table by the kitchen with my nephew and daughter, when we heard this loud explosion. I have a gas stove and it started smoking really bad. We jumped up and turned the stove off and yelled for my husband. He came in, and the inside of the stove was on fire. He put it out quickly and we surveyed the damage. My Pyrex pan had exploded in the oven, and glass was everywhere! The juices of the scalloped potatoes were all over the inside and draining out the bottom of the oven onto my oak laminate flooring. Needless to say, dinner was ruined and we had to order out that night. I am very disappointed and disturbed that glassware made FOR the oven would do such a thing. What is even more disturbing is that the company making these glass products has no contact number for these types of situations. Makes you wonder why huh? I will be looking for another brand to use in the future. This needs to be made public so others will be forewarned as to what can happen. Thanks!
The clean up was a nightmare, the dinner was ruined; food is NOT cheap anymore! With my stove catching on fire, this could have turned out A LOT worse, I could have lost alot more. This company needs to be held responsible and stand behind its product.
Pamela of Lake City FL (01/25/08)
pyrex dish exploded like shrapnel in our stove and the glass ejected so far it was measured to be eight feet into our living room. If pam had not had on three shirts and very thick jeans she would have been cut up and burned severely and we thatnk God this did not happen because she has been burned very seriously in the past. This was like a bomb going off in our kitchen and i expect no demand compensation for this immediately. We have saved all of the glass and will be able to prove that it was pyrex oven ware. There should be something done about this to keep this from happening to anyone else.
Scared to death should be an understatement and now we are afraid to use our own stove. Pain and suffering because of past severe burns to face and upper body
Elinor of Birmingham AL (01/23/08)
My 4-cup Pyrex measuring cup turned yellow and exploded 10 minutes after I removed it from an electric hotplate. I use the measuring cup to make lotions and creams. I was conducting a demonstration for a health seminar. Usually, I place the cup in a water bath on the stove or put it in the microwave to melt beeswax and warm oils for the lotion. Like so many, I trusted Pyrex. Not having a stove in the classroom, used an electric eye. Is an electric eye too hot? The cup didn't explode until it was removed from the eye and had been sitting several minutes. Five people were present when it blew up.
I wasn't able to give my class the samples I had intended since oil ran every where on the table and congealed. I cut my thumb while cleaning up but am glad it didn't shatter and penetrate someone's eye. I think I'm going back to using a lab beaker when I do a lotion demonstration so I don't get sued.
Bo of Cannon Afb NM (01/21/08)
I just bought my Prex cookware pan at out Base Exchange. I cooked some chicken breasts for 1 hour @ 350. While it was cooling near the sink, it hear some louding popping noises. The pan exploded. I have shrapnel now all over the place, despite 30 minutes of cleaning. The worst part was that I has to throw the chicken away. The was the first time that I ever used the pan.
Marie of Alden NY (01/19/08)
Pyrex 13x9 Baking Dish cracked in the dishwasher... it broke clear through. I had to carefully remove it in 2 pieces. I have several pieces of Pyrex and Corning pieces that I faithfully, and frequently use, and this had never happened. This particular piece was a blue glass. I wondered if this type was prone to breakage? I am so forunate that I did not have the explosions that other consumers have complained about, nor did I have the disappointment of a ruined meal. This occurence, however, has lessened my faith in the Pyrex name. Does Pyrex replace products that crack?
Lori of Oswego NY (01/19/08)
Wow-I too had a 9x13 rectangular glass pan explode in the oven. I had just taken out a cake and moved the pan back to center of oven. It had been on 350 and it is about a year old. I started to shut door to oven and heard a noise, opened the door and the thing really did explode-It was like watching the candy POP ROCKS. The handles fell to the sides and the bottom under the roast stayed under it but the sides were ricocheting all around the oven and out the door. It looked like some sort of wacked out cartoon. Luckily no one was hurt, but I've got a mess to clean up in the bottom of the oven! I think there should be a recall of these dishes. I have blue ones and now am afraid to use them.
Nothing major but a mess and DISBELIEF!!!
Richard of Bend OR (01/19/08)
Cooking chicken at 450 degrees F for 25 minutes The chicken was in aluminum foil. Using a hot pad I was removing the glassware from the oven. Just before I got it to the countertop it shattered instantly sending glass shards all over the counter and floor.
Luckily only a shattered dish, no glass in the body or imbedded in the floor or counter. Very scary though and has 'shattered' my faith in Pyrex cookware
Alison of Tolland CT (01/17/08)
I am writing to let you know how upset I am about a situation that occurred last
evening at my home. I am the mother of three small children, 4, 2 and 1. My
husband works late, which often leaves us on our own for dinner, so I make extra
for him to eat when he arrives home, and to pack for his lunch the next day. I
am and have always been a huge fan of Pyrex, so when preparing our Chicken Parm,
it was just natural for me to grab our large pan and fill it up and put it in
the oven for dinner.
Once the meal was ready, I served my children and myself and placed the Pyrex on
top of the stove to cool, so I could put it in the fridge for my husband. About
three minutes into dinner (in the dining room), my children and I heard a loud
clatter and glass smashing. My oldest and I ran into the kitchen to see what
had happened. To my dismay, there was red sauce, cheese and broken glass everywhere. At first glance, I thought the pan had
fallen off of the stove top, but in fact, it had exploded all over the top off
the stove, and only the outside edge of the Pyrex was on the floor. The rest
was in a million pieces on the stove. I was left with three children to calm
down, a huge mess to clean up, red sauce and cheese all over my stove and white
floor, no dinner for my husband, and short one of my favorite glass baking
dishes.
Janet of London OTHER (01/14/08)
On Sunday, January 13, 2008, I had prepared a chocolate cake pudding with sauce in a square pyrex glass cake dish, purchased as recently as October of 2007. I placed the dish in a 400 degree oven where it proceeding to bake. About 15 minutes into baking, my husband and my dinner guests heard this pfft noise come from the oven. I immediately got up from the table and went to the oven where I could hear explosive type noises. Thinking my cake was overflowing and hitting the burner elements, I cautiously opened the oven door. Thank goodness I did it cautiously as the dish had literally self-destructed and the cake batter and sauce were on fire on the bottom element. I quickly turned the oven off and got a metal cookie sheet and proceeded to scrape the mess of glass and batter off of the oven rack with the assistance of my husband. The glass continued to shatter whereupon we closed the door in the hope that upon cooling we would be better able to attempt a cleanup.
Some time later that evening, I attempted to clean up the mess and get rid of the glass all over my oven whereupon I inflicted a couple of small cuts to my fingers and had to stop. My husband plans to vacuum the oven today as some of the pieces literally turned to such small particles you cannot pick them up. Suffice to say my oven will have to be cleaned and hopefully there is no damage long term. I have several pyrex cake and pie dishes and have trusted their good use for 32 years of marriage and before. Needless to say, I will only be using clay in the future.
Rick of Harrisburg PA (01/06/08)
My Pyrex dish exploded after removing from oven to cool.
We have damage to kitchen floor, counter top and area rug on floor in kitchen.
Valerie of New City NY (01/05/08)
On January 3, 2008, I was cooking chicken in a 400 degree oven in my 11 3/4 by 7 1/2 x 1 1/2 Pyrex baking dish. After 45 minutes, I opened the oven to check it, and upon pushing the oven rack back into the oven, (I never touched the Pyrex dish, only the oven rack), the entire baking dish exploded into approximately twenty pieces, with smaller glass shards hitting my hand and arm. As if that weren't frightening enough, the juices from the now shattered baking dish leaked all over the oven, and seeped down to the oven flame, thereby starting an oven fire. I immediately turned off the oven, and with smoke alarms blaring, I was able to extinguish the oven fire rather quickly with damp towels... but it was quite a scary experience, to say the least.
Small cuts on my hand and fingers. Thankfully, no damage to the oven or the floor underneath, except for major cleanup inside the oven.
Mary of Aberdeen WA (12/29/07)
On Christmas day, with guests over for dinner, I prepared Au Gratin potatoes, and preheated the oven to 450 degrees. I set the Pyrex baking dish in the oven. Approximately ten minutes later, the baking dish exploded into many small pieces. Naturally the potatoes, having not been cooked at all, dripped and oozed out of the oven, along with very unpleasant smoke and a river of shattered glass.
My guests helped clean up the mess, and we had no potatoes for Christmas dinner. Luckily, no one was cut by these small shards of glass, and it was only by the graciousness of my guests that dinner was saved. No thanks goes to Pyrex, a company in which I once had faith. There is nothing wrong with my oven. There appears to be something wrong with Pyrex baking dishes. I will no longer use Pyrex.
Kerry of Yakima WA (12/28/07)
My questions: 1. When did World Kitchen buy the Pyrex brand and its manufacturing elements? Have most of the complaints come after this date? Is it likely WK had actually changed the product specs or components? Are their ex-employees who can testify to this?
Elizabeth of Yakima, Washington WA (12/28/07)
My mother and mother-in-law have been cooking with Pyrex for over 50 years - there has NEVER been an exploding Pyrex pan incident in our family until 2007. I have had 2 13x9 inch Pyrex Pans blow-up on me - sending huge shards of glass in my kitchen and then searing into my living room carpet. I am terrified to cook with an old family favorite because of this. Both incidents occurred during NORMAL cooking/cleaning operations: the first, taking pan out of oven and placing on counter...; the other was taking cooled Pyrex pan and placing it under faucet to clean.
I had tremendous kitchen/living room damage. Our apartment living room carpet was damaged 15ft. from where the dish exploded. We literally had 100's of small shards, which very quickly melted whatever portions of carpet it touched.
Nicole of North Andover MA (12/28/07)
I had a baby on Dec 17, and my mother was hosting Christmas morning. I agreed to make baked French toast because it can be prepared the night before. I was trying to show that I could still be a helpful, participating member of a family function even with a 1-week old. I made the French Toast in two 10x15 pyrex pans. I have used those pans several times each, so I was not expecting any differences. The pans were removed from the fridge, driven 45 minutes to my mother's, left on the counter-top for a little over an hour while the grandchildren opened their gifts. The oven was preheated for most of this time as well, so we followed the 'user guidelines' exactly.
The 2 pans were placed in the oven, and about 15 minutes into the cooking they were checked on. One pan had exploded; shards of glass were everywhere. They were covering all the food in both pans so the entire Christmas breakfast had to be thrown away. I, of course, was devastated and thought I had done something wrong. I felt like a failure until I found all the websites which show everyone else's experiences with exploding Pyrex.
Brandi of Paradise CA (12/27/07)
This Christmas I was baking in 3 Pyrex dishes in my oven. One of the three dishes EXPLODED after being in the oven for 45 minutes. It was not chipped, cracked or exposed to a variance in temperature. I had no explanation as to the cause until I came to this website.
We were all very fortunate that the only damage that was done was to our food and our oven. I am so grateful the oven door was closed when the dish exploded. At this point our oven will not work properly. I hope after some cleaning and replacement of the bottom pan (if we can find one) that it will work again.
Pat of Hillsborough NC (12/27/07)
My 21 year old daughter placed a 13x9 baking dish, which she had just washed, onto the counter in preparation for filling it with spaghetti sauce. She turned to walk out of the kitchen for a moment, and just as she turned, she heard a loud explosive sound. Her kitchen was filled with glass shards! The baking dish exploded into tiny glass shards which might have blinded her if she had been standing over the dish. She is small in stature and would have been very near the dish. Thank God she turned away in time and was not injured. I couldn't believe this happened until I did some research and see that many others have had this terrible experience. Needless to say, all of my pyrex will go into the trash.
Glass shards all over her kitchen; causing a chip in her oven. She rents her apartment and will probably have to repair this damage.
Karl of Elkhart IN (12/27/07)
Our one year old 9x13 clear Pyrex oven dish exploded last night. My wife was baking chicken and took it out of the oven and set it on the counter. It immediately broke into many, many pieces sending tiny pieces of glass all over the kitchen - as far as 4 to 5 feet away. The broken glass was extremely unstable and continued to fall apart as I cleaned up the mess.
Luckily, no one was injured. My wife had turned her back just as it happened. The supper was a total loss.
Gail of Woburn MA (12/26/07)
I prepared baked lasagna in a Pyrex rectangular dish as I have done for the past 20 years, but this time it exploded in my oven rendering my Christmas dinner useless.
This was a brand new dish which I purchased at Linens N Things on 12/23/07, so one can't say it is old or worn out.
Kelley of Hastings NY (12/25/07)
I was cooking the Christmas turkey in anticipation of 12 family members for Christmas Dinner. I have a regular gas oven; the temperature was set to 375 degrees. The turkey had cooked for about an hour when I opened the oven door to baste the turkey. I drew off the pan drippings and basted the top. As I was getting ready to slide the oven back into the oven, the glass dish literally exploded sending shards of glass all over the oven and the kitchen. The laminate wood floor was damaged, and there was glass several feet away. Thank goodness none of hit me as it exploded out and down, not up toward my face.
Needless to say, Christmas Dinner was ruined. It took hours to take the oven apart and remove glass from the burning unit underneath and the bottom drawer. I could not even finish cooking dinner, no pies, no rolls, no baked stuffing or sweet potatoes. It was a big, sad disappointment. I am throwing away all my Pyrex dishes and will NEVER use them again. I am also telling everyone I know so that they get rid of this dangerous product as well.
Laminate wood floor burned. Fifteen people with no Christmas Dinner (my 12 family members, my husband, and our 12 year old daughter).
Susan of Howell NJ (12/25/07)
On 12/25/07, while preparing Christmas dinner I was cooking a turkey in a Pyrex Glass Bakeware. Halfway through the baking process, I put in the oven a Precooked Spiral Ham in a duplicate Pyrex Glass Bakeware. About 10 minutes later we heard a loud explosion and there was smoke everywhere. The Pyrex holding the Ham had shattered into thousands of pieces. Needless to say, the dinner was completely ruined. The Turkey and the Ham were imbedded with shards of glass. We were lucky we were able to heat the previous night's Lasagna with the microwave. The range is ruined. Glass is everywhere. But one good thing came out of this-- our smoke detectors work fine.
Need a new Gas Range.
Barbara of Sierra Vista AZ (12/23/07)
I placed a meatloaf into a newly purchased Pyrex container. I placed a sheet of aluminum foil on top and poked holes into the foil. The oven was turned on to 350 degrees. About 40 minutes into the baking period a loud noise was heard. When I opened the oven, the glass was falling onto the bottom of the oven. Needless to say, the meatloaf was thrown out. I have used Pyrex for a number of years and have never encountered anything like this before. I have taken pictures of the shattered glass.
Katie of Conshohocken, PA (12/20/07)
On two separate occasions my Pyrex baking dishes have exploded. The second time was this week. I took the hot dish out of the oven and it just shattered. HOT glass was everywhere - in the oven and all over my hardwood floors in the kitchen.
The hot glass that landed on the floor burned an imprint into the wood. I rent, so I am guessing I won't be getting my security deposit back once my landlord sees the burns on the floor. I will NEVER use Pyrex again.
Kent of Palm Bay FL (12/17/07)
I've used Pyrex for some time now and haven't had but two other incidents with there product breaking, but they were clean breaks maybe three or four pieces. I chalked it up to the age of the dishes. Otherwise they were unexplainable. However this time was a total and extremely dangerous Pyrex failure.
About five weeks ago while moving my baking dish from the oven to the toweled oven top, the dish broke while not touching anything (I was in motion)with such a violent action that the shards were shot about 12 feet across the kitchen in all directions. The biggest piece was about 1 inch in size.
Since I live in Florida I rarely wear shoes in the house which caused the problem of me still picking shards out of my feet and hands. My hands were cut bad enough that I still have festering because there is still glass under the skin. Since glass can't be x-rayed I didn't bother going to the hospital
Im so happy my two kitties where not in the kitchen as they always are when Im cooking. Im afraid that this has made me gun shy of the product and I threw out all my Pyrex products.
Most has been cleaned up but I still have to wait for my hands to heal properly to remove the oven and clean out under that.
I hadn't thought of going on the net to see if anyone else had this problem until today and I'm glad I found this site. Now others can be educated because of some one else's misfortune.
The accident caused me pain for about three weeks afterwards because of the festering. The accident ruined my shop vac and my Hover floormate in the process of cleaning. My rug is ruined because of the blood from my feet.
It's affected me greatly as I don't want to be around any glassware products in restaurants, so now I'm not eating out as most is served on hot glassware or plates.
Sandy of Portland OR (12/17/07)
I was cooking dinner, lasagna, and had slow cooked the sauce for over 24 hours and had it all together in the baking dish when the dish exploded, literally. This was a 3 qt baking dish. We were so shocked and did not know what happened. I have had 5 heart attacks and am a diabetic. The little pug puppy went running to eat the food that landed on the floor. Thank goodness no one was cut and I did not have another heart attack, but the noise was just as if a bomb had exploded next to us. The food was all wasted, of course, as was everything sitting on the counters, shattered glass everywhere and we can not trust any of it now.
I would like to think that this company will compensate us for the loss, or make this right in some way. For me I will not be cooking for some time. Then I spoke to a friend and found this had happened to her as well some time back and they thought someone was shooting at them. Thought they needed to know that their glassware is doing this to people before you get sued by someone, or someone is seriously hurt by an exploding glass pan. I will be waiting to hear back from them as to how they intend to make this right. I am still in shock over this.
Megan of Allen TX (12/11/07)
Last night 12/10/07 my husband and I were cooking dinner. We placed 1 fish fillet in our 8x8 Pyrex pan and placed it into the oven once it was pre-heated to 425 degrees. The fish was supposed to cook for 14-16 mins. After about 10 min we heard a large BANG and thought it had come from the oven. We turned the oven light on and noticed the pan had exploded and glass was everywhere. We immediately turned the oven off and waited for it to cool before removing the shards of glass. We could not believe what had happened. I had never even heard such a thing until doing a little reseach on the internet today. Luckily it happened in our oven so no one was injured but it gave us quite a scare. We still have glass embedded in our oven and who knows how long it will take to get it out. It ruined the fish and we ended up eating salad for dinner.
Our oven has been damaged, do not know extenet we have to work on removing the glass. Thank goodness so one was injured. Hopefully the oven will be fine and then all we really lost was the fish for our dinner.
Gina of Aiea HI (12/10/07)
Used purple colored 13 X 9 baking glass pan to make brownies and as I lifted it from the oven rack it popped and shsttered hot glass and scalding brownies all over me.
I didn't have health insurance at the time so I did not go to the hospital. I tended to my wounds and burns myself at home. Several scars and bumps remain on my legs and arms.
Martin of Richmond VA (12/04/07)
Our 8x8 Pyrex baking dish EXPLODED last night. My pregnant wife removed the dish from the oven and placed it on the range. While her hand was still on the dish, the dish EXPLODED. We are extremely lucky that she wasn't hurt, as the glass shattered into fine particles and shards and blew 10 feet outwards on both sides.
We'll be replacing all Pyrex in the next few days, and from others' experiences that I've read on this site, I'd encourage others to do the same.
Luckily no physical damage. We'll certainly lose the cost of the Pyrex dish set, as we'll be throwing the entire set in the trash.
Debbie of Cleveland MS (12/03/07)
I was cooking tow racks of ribs in my oven last night. My oven was preheated and my ribs had been cooking for 30 minutes. I heard an explosion and looked in the oven to see my blue pyrex casserole dish had exploded, not only ruining that one rack of ribs but also the second rack had small glass particles all over it. I have cleaned the big glass particles out of my oven but not the smaller ones. The force was so great form the explosion that I had glass stuck on the very top of the oven. Not only did this ruin my supper but now it will probally take at least a week to get all the glass out.
Dan of Flower Mound TX (12/02/07)
My wife had heated the dish in preparation for making cornbread. She had just removed the empty dish from the oven and placed it on the cutting board. She was closing the oven door when the dish just exploded and sprayed glass around the kitchen. If I had not seen it happen I would not have believed that it just blew up with no warning. Fortunately the only injury was a shard of glass nicking her toe. One observation, the explosion seemed to be directional. Most of the glass was forced down and to her left. I was on the right side and not touched. But to the left glass shot as far as 10 feet out. Again the dish was flat on a cutting board.
She received a minor cut on a toe from falling glass.
Erma of Taylors SC (12/01/07)
I had not heated the small round brownish PYREX glass container but I was mixing baby yogurt with baby rice cereal and had struck the bottom of the container with the stainless steel baby spoon to remove any dry cereal that wasn't mixed. The whole bottom of the container dropped to the floor with the contents that had been provided by the mother. We were keeping our grandson (10 months old) while our daughter worked. Later we repositioned the broken bottom piece to discover that the container held water! I have always relied on PYREX. This container had 00-30 on the bottom. I was surprised to read the consumer experiences with this trusted product and I will be wary of it from now on.
I had to replace the food and clean up the floor at a most inconvenient time of hunger for the baby. I wasn't looking for compensation but I was surprised that others had much worse experiences than I.
Laurie of Hebron KY (11/29/07)
Last night my husband made baked pork chops in the oven. He had the Pyrex baking dish on the bottom rack. When the timer went off he removed the dish and set it on top of the stove. My husband turned to the sink to rinse off the meat thermometer and suddenly there was a loud crashing sound. He looked over at the stove and the baking dish had shattered. There was glass everywhere. Thank heavens he had already taken it out of the oven. Most of the glass shot to the floor or stayed on top of the stove. It was a good thing he had turned to the sink or he could have been horribly injured!
Nothing major - the pork chops were ruined.
Jannice of Marion IL (11/28/07)
On 11/21/07 we were preparing our Thanksgiving eve dinner. I had cooked the dressing per instructions in casserole form. I took it out of the oven and sat it on the stove top. My grandchildren (7 months and 6 years old) were here but not in the kitchen. My husband came into the kitchen and started to make gravy when we heard the loudest explosion noise and flying glass as the pyrex 13inch glass casserole dish blew up! The mess is hard to relay, but we had to throw out rolls, flour, celery, etc. and clean, clean, clean. The glass flew 1/2 way across the kitchen and we have a huge kitchen. My husband didn't get any glass in his face, but it is a miracle! Of course our 6 o'clock dinner was at 7:45 and it was not the same. Of course it could of been worse, if the grandsons would of been in the room--I too will not use pyrex again for baking. If a product breaks, is one problem, but to blow up should be a crime. I hope someone will be looking into this before someone is seriously hurt.
Tori of Bend OR (11/24/07)
We had a pyrex dish explode after taking it out of the oven to cool. I am very concerned about the safety of using the dished. If our daughter (or anyone) had been in the room, she could have been very seriously injured considering that she is level with the counter top. It exploded into thousands of tiny shards. Pieces were even found in the next room. Thank goodness no one was in the room at the time.
Nanya of Charleston WV (11/23/07)
I was preparing Thanksgiving Dinner. I had taken the turkey out of the 350-degee oven and placed four side dishes inside -- the dressing and potato casserole on the upper rack. On the lower rack I put a metal pan containing a small ham and a large Pyrex pan containing a yam casserole.
These four dishes had been in the oven about 10 minutes when we heard a loud noise and saw thick smoke begin to pour out of bottom and sides of the oven. Smoke quickly filled the kitchen and began to spread through the house.
We immediately turned off the oven and carefully opened the door. The large Pyrex baking dish containing the yam casserole had disintegrated. Glass was all over the oven, and the yams and other ingredients were burning and smoking.
Luckily, I had men around -- my husband, brother, son and son-in-law. The four of them worked steadily for half an hour to clean up the mess, handling the hot goo and many, many shards of glass with extreme caution. They took parts out of the bottom of the oven and used a shop vac to get as much of the glass as possible.
The yam casserole was a lost cause, obviously. The ham was in one neat hunk so I was able to rinse it off and salvage it. The two casseroles on the upper rack were spared.
I wiped as much of the muck as I could so I could continue heating our food for the holiday meal. I still face a major oven cleaning.
We quickly purchased a couple of large cans of yams that we heated for our dinner. Minor expense.
But today, the day after Thanksgiving, I will rid my house of all other glass baking dishes. That will include four pie pans, a loaf pan, two large casserole dishes, two smaller casserole dishes and who knows what else. After reading other stories on your site about incidents that have happened to other people, I am not willing to take a chance with these items. I'm even wondering about my Pyrex measuring cups (I have several) and my blender. It will be expensive to replace all this stuff.
I will certainly encourage my daughter, other relatives and friends to get rid of their Pyrex or other glass baking dishes. If they heed my advice, they, too, will have to buy replacement items.
Tyra of Rolling Meadows IL (11/22/07)
I was making Thanksgiving dinner earlier today, and cooking an 8lb turkey breast in a Pyrex 9x13 baking dish. I opened the door about 15 minutes before it was to be done to baste it (for the 4th time). I basted it, and just as I stood up, it shattered. There was flying glass everywhere. Including a large piece stuck in my kitchen curtains, aprox 10 feet behind me, and 7 feet from the floor. If I spent literally one second longer basting, that glass would have been in my face. I didn't introduce any other liquids, I was basting with the turkey's own juices. I didn't do anything to cause an extreme change in temperature. This is just rediculious. Thankfully I had my husband take my 2 year old out of the kitchen since I was going to open the oven door. Otherwise this accident could have resulted in a trip to the emergency room.
Joann of Springfield PA (11/21/07)
I had put my vegetables in my pyrex dish, as I always do, inside my oven. It had only been in there 12 minutes when my husband walked in and found flames shooting from our (gas) range. I am new to gas cooking, but had never heard of pyrex exploding inside an oven before. I have used pyrex for over 25 years and this was my first (and now, last) issue with their bakeware. It was a very scary experience since I had always thought pyrex to be an exceptionally safe product. NEVER leave a kitchen with anything cooking, no matter how long you've been cooking!!
My oven is a mess - it took quite a while to clean up the glass - and longer to clean the mess out of the oven (the remnants of what had been cooking).
Deeanna of Camp Lejeune NC (11/20/07)
On two occasions our Pyrex bakeware has exploded in our oven. I say exploded because when glass flies up onto countertops and the refridgerator from the oven that is the only way it could have gotten there, I know the Vice President of Pyrex says they do not explode they break. On both occasions our food was done and was being taken out of the oven, the rack had been moved out and my husband was getting ready to take our food out and bang and shatter. So, our dinner was ruined and our kitchen was a mess, not to mention my husbands feet had glass in them and they were burned by the food that exploded out of the pan. The first incident was in May 2000 and now again November 17th 2007! We will not be using Pyrex anymore for anything.
My husband suffered injuries to his feet burns and glass cut him. Our kitchen was a mess from oven to top of counters and refridgerator. Lanoleum melted from the heat of the glass and food.
Lonna of Salem WI (11/16/07)
I was using a Pyrex cassarole dish to make a box of Herb potatoes. It was almost time to take out the dish when I heard a terrible sound and found that the casarole literally blew up in my oven. I preheated the oven and as I said this was at the end of the cooking time. When I opened and saw the mess I couldn't believe it. There was glass everywhere in my oven along with the contents. I am just thankful I didn't open the door and have this happen.
I would like to make sure this is something that is brought to others attention. There should be a recall or warnings that this happens. I read that this has happened before but it sounds like Pyrex doesn't stand behind there products.
My husband took pictures for us to use if they do not contact us with some type of answer.
Barry of Virgina Beach VA (11/16/07)
I have read all of these complaints about exploding pyrex and wonder why there is nothing on the government site for consumer protection about this.
(Editor's note: Good question.)
Karen of Virginia Beach VA (11/11/07)
I baked some spoon bread at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. When the bread was ready to take out of oven, I took the pyrex dish out and sat it on the top of the stove. My friend was in the kitchen with me. I had just stepped away and my friend had just walked by the stove to go to the kitchen table. The pyrex dish just exploded like a gun shot. Glass was everywhere. Luckily we had just moved out of the way. We are still finding glass. I will not be using any more pyrex baking dishes needless to say. It was quite a shocking experience.
Kathy of Grand Rapids MI (11/09/07)
I was preparing to take hot food in my 9X13 Pyrex portable to a potluck. I put the microwave Hot pack in the Microwave to heat it. I have a 900 Watt Oven. It said to microwave from 4-4-1/2 minutes. I set it on 4-1/2. When it got to four minutes it blew up!
Shelly of Woodland CA (11/09/07)
Pyrex 9x13 pan shattered (exploded) in oven.
I preheated the oven to 350, pulled the 9x13 purple Pyrex baking dish from the cabinet and placed a seasoned pork roast in the middle of the pan. I then placed the pan in the middle of the oven rack which was about 6 to 8 inches from the bottom of the oven.
After about 15min, there was a very loud exploding noise. My husband was standing in the kitchen with his back to the oven and I was across the room. We opened the oven door to find that our Pyrex dish had shattered and glass fragments were everywhere.
Obviously dinner was ruined and the extent of oven damage has not yet been determined. Fortunately, thank God, the oven contained all the glass fragments and no injury occured from the explosion.
Annette of Virginia Beach VA (11/06/07)
I took my dinner out of the oven and placed it on a pot holder, dishing out the food out og the pyrex dish and after one serving was out, the dish just exploding. Glass everywhere, endangering my dog, I was shocked and dinner was ruined. Glass was everywhere
I was shook up very badly and found out that this has happened to MANY people. This is a potentially dangerous situation and could have blinded me or hurt my family. It certianly ruined dinner and I am still shaking.
Vicki of Wauwatosa WI (11/04/07)
MY PYREX EXPLODED IN MY OVEN!!!!! My in-laws were over for dinner and dinner was ruined!!! I spent $170.00 on food that was not served and another $250.00 at a restaurant to feed my guests! The oven was at 350 and my pyrex bakeware was room temperature. It was in for about 20 minutes, then.......BOOM, like a bomb.
I spent over $400.00 on food! My NEW slide in oven is scratched from glass shards and crusted with pasta sauce. My pot holders and kitchen rug are stained and headed for the trash. My husband got cut by a piece when he was picking it up.
Cyndi of Whitewater, WI (11/04/07)
I was removing a 9x13 inch pyrex baking dish containing several cod fillets from my oven. As I lifted the dish from the oven and began to place it upon the stove top the baking dish exploded with a loud crack. It sent hot burning glass fragments all over my stove top, my kitchen floor and bouncing off me as well. Fortunately my collies and partner were out of the room when the dish exploded.
I am still finding glass fragments over a week later.
Yumi of Fort Lewis WA (11/01/07)
I set a 9x13 glass Pyrex dish on the stove, awaiting filling it and putting it in the oven. It literally EXPLODED. Glass shards went ALL OVER the kitchen, into the living room, the front hall. It was scary. Luckily, both myself and my husband (holding our baby) were standing away from the stove, and it exploded in directions mainly away from us. My husband is in the military so he knows what an explosion is! It is irresponsible for the Pyrex company to not acknowledge this huge defect. I don't think I will be using Pyrex after this incident.
No one wants to pick up glass shards! And it ruined my dinner because shards of glass went into the food I was preparing. And I'm out a baking dish!
Paige of Woodand Hills CA (10/30/07)
I've had two Pyrex dishes explode--not break. They shattered to tiny dust like particles while unused and in my cabinets. Last night our glass Waring blender exploded while on the counter. It had not been used in weeks and was just sitting there unattended.
I've had huge messes because shattered glass is really hard to clean up. And, I had to spend an hour on the Internet this morning instead of working, to get information so I can convince my mother-in-law this isn't the work of a ghost.
Debi of Hudson NY (10/29/07)
On the eve of October 26,2007 I had placed 15 pounds, 4 separate pans, one of which was a 13 X 9 inch Pyrex baking dish in my oven set at 350 degrees. The stove was not on more than 10 minutes when what sounded like an explosion. The pyrex dish had exploded in the stove shattering glass everyhwere. There were splinters of glass that stuck in the sausage everywhere. All four pans had to be thrown out and I had to re-buy sausage for a party I had on the 28th. The glass dish shattered sending glass all over the oven. My husband had to remove the bottom plate of the oven to remove the glass that had made itself way to the bottom through heat openings. It took us four hours to clean, unassemble and reassemble the oven.
Rethi of San Francisco CA (10/23/07)
Pyrex baking dish exploded when taken out of the oven and placed on top of the stove.
I lost the baking dish and have glass shards all over stove top.
Jennifer Kross of Peachtree City GA (10/21/07)
My husband made chicken breasts in a 13x9 Pyrex pan that we have used many times. He placed it on the stove to cool and it exploded--not cracked, exploded into many pieces. It is a miracle that it missed our two children who were sitting at the table in front of the stove.
It will be quite late before my kiddos get dinner. Who knows how long it will take to clean up the glass. Hopefully, no pets or people get glass in their feet.
Jeri of Pottstown PA (10/20/07)
Pyrex baking dish exploded when removed from oven. Shattered the glass pane in oven door. This is the second such incident. Thought once was my fault, but twice? Sounds like a defect to me.... Seeking contact info to request compensation.
Ruined two roasts and damaged oven door.
Julia of Birdsboro PA (10/20/07)
While on vacation, my husband was melting butter in a Pyrex baking dish. He removed it from the oven and when it was placed on the counter top, it exploded. I was in the kitchen as were my parents. My mother is on Cumadin, and there were 3 small boys (ages 2-4) in the house. Being at the beach, my husband and I were barefooted. As we were trying to clean up without stepping in broken glass, my husband noticed a piece of glass in the TOP of his foot. He pulled it out then went to the bathroom to clean and bandage his foot. A few minutes later he returned to the kitchen and said he could not move his great toe. Off we went to the Regional Medical Center in Nags Head.
Yep... the glass severed the tendon on his great toe. Fortunately we were able to finish vacation although he was not allowed in ocean, pool or hot tub. Once home he had surgery to reconnect the tendon. My husband and son own a company that requires wearing steel tip boots which my husband now cannot wear as he will be in his cast for 5 weeks, which means no work for 5 weeks. All this happened because stupid, stupid Pyrex has led everyone to believe their bakeware is safe. Ours is in the trash, as is all of our family's.
Eva of San Francisco CA (10/18/07)
Pyrex baking dish exploded, sending shard all over my kitchen, after being taken out of the oven at 325 F and set to cool on the counter.
Shards everywhere, very difficult to clean them all, so I had to hire a cleaning service for $60. I was preparing medicinal herbs in the Pyrex dish prescribed by my MD specializing in traditional Chinese medicine. The herbs are vital to my health, cost $189 and had to be replaced immediately. I had to go back to the clinic and miss a half day of work. $120. Grand total &369 !
Candy of Pineville NC (10/15/07)
My pyrex 13 x 9" baking dish exploded as I removed it from the oven. I've used this dish for years and never had a problem previous. I won't be replacing it with Pyrex.
The glass exploded all over my kitchen. My family was quarantined from the kitchen for hours.
Mary of Brookings SD (10/14/07)
I've been cooking for better than 43 years - I have pyrex/corning ware products too numerous to mention. I have one year ago moved to SD and most all of my cookware is in storage at this time. Thus one year ago I purchased the 13x9 pyrex pan at the local Wal-Mart. I had roasted a turkey breast in it last evening taken the breast out and had prepared the gravy - it was resting. I turned heard a popping noise and the gravy was all over the stove and the pyrex pan was all shattered. Now I have no pan - plus the pick up of glass all over the stove and floor resulted in several pieces of glass in my feet as well as fingers.
Louise Gurley of Chesapeake VA (10/12/07)
After taking a 13x9 amber colored Pyrex roasting pan out of the oven, it shattered as I was making gravy.
Thankfully no one was hurt, but the mess that had to be cleaned up was phenomenal. We wasted a turkey breast, as well as the vegetables, due to the fear of eating anything that may have had glass shards in it.
Dorothy of Knoxville TN (10/07/07)
I was using my four cup Pyrex measuring cup to strain my tea in, which would make it much easier to get in my tea pitcher. I had let the tea cool for about ten to fifteen minutes before pouring. I had about one and one-half cups of tea in the measuring cup, and it exploded everywhere! The measuring cup was in hundreds of small pieces of glass! Everywhere...on the counter, all over me, on the floor where I was standing. I never had seen anything like it and was in total shock.
My husband suggested contacting Pyrex Company and informing them of this incident, but I couldn't get their address on the Web.
Nicole of Orient OH (10/07/07)
On October 4, 2007 I used my pyrex 13x9 glass baking dish to make a cassorole. I've had this dish for years and never had any problems. The temperature was only reached at 350 degrees for one hour. After the dish was done cooking I placed it on top of the stove to cool. Hours later the dish exploded and millions of little pieces were sent across the kitchen. My husband was standing next to it while this explosion happened but thankfully was not injured! I'm really thanking god that one my kids were not around the kitchen when this happened! The only real damage was the dish and some spots of cuts on the kitchen floor.
Philip of Croydon South, Australia (10/07/07)
I read with interest your article, age unkonwn, on exploding Pyrex dishes.
I live in Australia & have had this problem although I cannot truthfully say it exploded but it did shatter in the gas oven @ 180c whilst roasting a chicken.
I cleaned up the mess, threw the lot in the bin & ordered pizza.
loss of dish & food contents being 1 large chicken, potatos, pumpkin & sweet potatos.
(Editor's note: The date of our article, as clearly stated above the first line, is Dec. 1, 2005).
Joann of Philadelphia PA (10/01/07)
I was making dinner for my TWO YEAR OLD SON....I took the roast dish out of my oven, placed it on the stove to cool off while I set the table....it could not have been out of the oven more then 2 minutes when I heard this EXPLOSION....I was so scared I I dove to the floor thinking it was gun shots or something of that nature.
When I got my barings back I realized what had happened...There was broken glass every where, big, small, shredds, large pieces from one end of my kitchen to the other...In my sink, on my frig, in my trash can, all inside the stove top, in my knife set everywhere......
Me and My SON were both in the kitchen when it happened....Lucky for us I dove to the floor with him under me to protect him.....I received minor cuts from cleaning up the mess for almost two hours.
Diana of Missoula MT (10/01/07)
My 10x15 pyrex baking dish exploded in March, '07. We took pictures of this mess, but due to physical problems were unable to contact World Kitchens until recently. They refuse to refund my money but insist on sending me yet another pyrex baking dish. I'm afraid to use it!
Posted all of this in March: huge mess in stove (we are still pulling out pieces of glass where it lodged within the oven), food ruined, hours of cleaning mess throughout kitchen. We have photos.
Mary of Mauldin SC (10/01/07)
2- 2qt. cassarole dishes ,while cooking exploded into a lot of pieces.
Ginny of Manlius NY (09/27/07)
Similar to the other reports about PYREX bakeware, the other night I roasted a pork loin in a 13x9 clear Pyrex pan. I've never had trouble with this piece of bakeware and never dreamed I would. However, the other night while my husband was washing this pan that had completely cooled, the dish exploded and thick glass pieces shattered all over. Thank goodness he wasn't blinded by these glass shards but he did get glass splinters in his feet. I sat nearbye in our den and heard the explosion. I couldn't believe my eyes when I walked into the kitchen to see glass shards all over the kitchen. I need to use a dish like this for baking casseroles and meats but will search far and wide to avoid buying another Pyrex baking dish. I hope there's an alternative out there. How dare the CEO of this corporation say there's nothing wrong with this product? So many have experienced and spoken up about what is a dangerous flaw in the company's bakeware.
Elizabeth of Sunnyvale CA (09/20/07)
We use Pyrex baking dishes in a laboratory to heat water. We have done this many times with no problems. The dishes are several years old. Recently one of the pie plates exploded sending pieces of sharp glass at high velocities up to several feet away in all directions. Several pieces hit one of our scientists.
There is clearly a build up of internal stress in these products that can occur as a result of repeated heating and cooling. The stresses can be released without warning making these products very unsafe. We are replacing all of these products with ceramic dishes that will not explode.
Rebecca Seng of Los Gatos CA (09/16/07)
I was cooking a pork roast in a square pyrex baking dish and after being in the oven for 1hr. @350 degress the dish exploded in the oven. I've had the purple pyrex baking dish for about five years and havn't used it much.
The glass shattered all over the oven and made a huge mess, along with the pork roast and drippings. I'm really glad it didn't happen when I was taking it out of the oven. That could have been extremely dangerous!
Hevinlee of Evansville, IN (09/12/07)
Tonight I used my small pyrex measuring cup for the first time. I put it in the sink, poured some hot water in it and left it there. Moments later, we heard an odd very loud sound coming from the kitchen. We we're shocked to find shards of glass all over our kitchen. We looked in the sink at the one piece of what was left of the cup.
It actually exploded! What is going on PYREX manufacturers?
Ben Debruin of Chicago IL (08/25/07)
I was having a dinner party, and I was cooking asparagus in my 13 x 9 Pyrex dish in the oven, and just before I was going to remove the dishses, one of them shattered! That sent glass shards into the other dish cooking the fish, so we couldn't eat that either.
Luckily there was no physical damage as the oven was still closed. But obviously my dish was ruined, and we weren't able to eat any of the food we were cooking, so we not only lost all of that money spent on the food, but then had to order other food to be able to feed our guests.
Tom of Poulsbo WA (08/21/07)
We recently bought a 9 x 13 Pyrex pan at Walmart. Yesterday evening we prepared a chicken dish, preheated the oven to 350, moved the pan from the fridge to the oven, and about two minutes later the pan exploded. Or maybe it cracked with a BANG! I have pictures of the pieces and the mess in the oven. We've used Pyrex cookware for over 40 years without a problem (one of our smaller pans is about that old), and can only suppose that Corning's new owner has changed something in the Pyrex formula. Note that no safety information came with the pan. We're not going to use, or buy, any more Pyrex ware until we're sure of the reason for the exploding/cracking. Maybe if enough instances of this continue to be reported, Corning will give us a break with a truly breakless product.
Natalie of Richmond VA (07/23/07)
I reached for a set of three nestled pyrex measuring cups, 1 cup, 2 cup and 4 cup. Somehow the 2 cup slightly hit the 4 cup and they both exploded in my hands. I received cuts to both hands that required stitches - I was very lucky I did not cut the tendon on my right pinky finger - the doctor said it was very close. All of the measuring cups were at room temperature, I guess they just hit each other in the wrong place. What a mess to come back to and clean up after the trip to the hospital.
Estela of Fort Lauderdale, FL (07/04/07)
Last night when removing a 9 x 13 inch Pyrex dish from my oven containing a flank steak, the dish exploded in my hand. The explosion was as loud as a gun shot, sending pieces of glass flying everywhere, as much as 6 feet away from my oven.
Glass is all over the inside of the oven, all over my kitchen floor, and flew all into my casserole dishes, forcing me to throw away the entire dinner and order a pizza. I also cut my hand and foot on the slivers of glass. I am lucky that nothing got into my eyes or into the eyes of my guest who was standing a couple of feet away.
I will never use Pyrex again.
Charles of Prentiss, MS (07/03/07)
I was cooking supper on my stove top and placed a pyrex baking dish next to the burner, but not on it. My intention was to place cooked food in the dish. Suddenly and without warning the dish exploded with a fury.
My wife came running into the room in a panic. "What was that explosion?", she exclaimed. The dish burst into more than a hundred pieces. Picking it up, I cut my finger. Later at supper I was eating food that had also been prepared on the stovetop. The boiled squash I was eating looked fine, but when I took a bite, I felt something crunchy piercing my lip. It was a fragment of piercing glass from the pyrex explosion.
Someone needs to talk responsibility for a product that is both dangerous and defective.
Ron of Roanoke VA (06/29/07)
I wish that Mr Douglas Arnold, VP of World Kitchen, who has stated that Pyrex dishes do not explode could have been in my kitchen two nights ago. My wife had just completed baking brownies in a 6X6 Pyrex dish that we have had for many years. As always, she placed the dish on top of the stove to cool. I was in the basement at the time when I heard what sounded like a small bore shotgun blast. Arriving in the kitchen about 3 seconds later I found glass fragments covering the stove top and an area of the kitchen floor up to about six feet from the stove. These fragments ranged in size from tiny shards to one inch squares. Fortunately, my wife had stepped out of the kitchen at the time of the non-explosion. Maybe Mr Arnold should check his dictionary on the definition of explode, i.e.to burst or blow up violently and with noise.
Molly of New Haven, CT (06/27/07)
This evening we baked turkey in a 13x9 Pyrex baking dish in the oven at 425 degrees. We have used this dish in this exact same way for years. After the turkey had been baking for about 20 minutes, we opened the oven to add a few drops of soy sauce, again something we have done many times in the past. Then, the glass pan exploded in and without the oven.
Amanda of Barrie, Canada (06/26/07)
i took out my pyrex round dish after cooking my dinner in a 350 degree oven after taking the dish out i placed it on top of the oven and steped back to get the second dish out when the dish exploded glass was all over my kitchen as well as dinning room where my 1 year old daughter and 5 year old son sits for her meals
I was very shaken but experianced no physical injuries all pyrex dishes will be thrown in the garbage and i will be notifing everyone i know about this and encourge them not to use them.
Paula Karam of B ME (06/08/07)
My mother's pyrex exploded! This is the third incident. All the dishes were purchased within the past 4-5 years.
It was just a terrible mess, thankfully no injuries.
Diane of Micco, FL (06/03/07)
My Pyrex dishes are horrible. Last night the 7 x 11 dish fell apart. Today I had two small pyrex bowls fall apart in my hands. I burned and got glass in my hand and in the pot of beans. So two nights in a row, dinner has been thrown out.
These dishes have all been purchased since 2003 when we bought our new home. Looks like I will going back to metal dishes.
Patricia of Deridder, LA (06/03/07)
I had a purple 9X13 Pyrex baking dish explode in my oven after less than 10 minutes in a 400 degree oven.
I thought a window had broken, but the smoke coming from the stove vent alerted me to a burning, scorched mess. The dish had liquid batter and cooked hamburger meat with shredded cheese that was a heck of a mess to clean out of my oven, not to mention the tiny slivers of glass making it difficult to wipe or scrape out the burned parts.
Frances of Nutley NJ (05/29/07)
On May 19, 2007 I was preparing food for my for 6 month old grandsons baptism party.I had put sausage in my pyrex glass 13 x 9 pan and put the oven on 325 degrees. No more than 20-25 minutes later, I heard a VERY loud noise. At first it sounded like something fell and broke in the next room where my daughter was. I continued to clean something in the sink and couldn't figure out where the noise came from. Within minutes I saw smoke coming out of the stove. I opened the stove just a tiny bit and saw flames -- that's when I realized what happened. Within seconds, my entire first floor was filled with smoke. I immediately called the fire dept and they successfully extinguished the fire without any further damage to the kitchen. There was a TON of smoke which the Fire Dept had to use one of their equipment to get rid of all the smoke. The fire was contained to the oven only. The Fire Dept. warned me that they shut off the gas and before I could use my stove/oven again...I would need to call our gas/electric company for them to inspect it to make sure it was safe to use. Upon inspection by the utility company they informed me this appliance was in violation and NOT safe to use.THE PYREX DISH EXPLODED INTO A MILLION PIECES. IT DID NOT BREAK BUT EXPLODED. My oven was full of broken glass, grease from the sausage and the sausage itself .THANK GOD IT DID NOT EXPLODE IN MY FACE. I looked online under consumer affairs and did a search for pyrex and I was SHOCKED about all the claims of similar things happening to soooo many other people. Lastly, because of this I was without a stove for an entire week.
The fire in the oven damaged my gas range and must be replaced and this is an unexpected expense for me as I need to purchase a new stove. My home needs professional cleaning to get rid of the smoke reside on the walls, furniture and floors.
Michael of Hobart Tasmania (05/29/07)
My wife had just gotten a Pryex baking dish out of the cupboard and was rinsing the dish out with lukewarm water prior to placing the meat in. She held the outer edge of the baking dish with her left hand and was just about to dry it with a tea towel in her right hand. she had slight pressure on the outer edge of the dish when a large piece of the dish cracked away. Her hand was in the position of, thumb on left hand inside of top left corner of dish, when the dish cracked her hand went down and into the bottom of the dish causing her to cut tendons in three fingers, ring finger, middle finger and little finger to the bone. After surgery lasting several hours at our local hospital in Hobart, Tasmania, she was told she was very lucky not to have severed nerves and or lost fingers. How can this happen to a cold dish?, fresh out of the cupboard.
Amit of San Francisco CA (05/23/07)
I was using a Pyrex baking dish that I've had for about one year. I placed the dish in the oven as it was preheating and then added some lamb and its marinade into the dish. As soon as the liquid hit the dish, it exploded into several pieces. I was very fortunate to not have been injured but had a very unpleasant cleaning experience with the hot glass which melted the kitchen floor.
Amanda of Ontario Canada (05/14/07)
I was using a pyrex casserole dish with scalloped potato in it. Put it in the oven and about 20 min in I heard this huge Kaboom... I ran to the kitchen and looked around only to discover the pyrex dish had exploded in my oven. What a mess.
Anne of Iowa City IA (05/14/07)
I had a pyrex cake plate (recently purchased from a large chain store) sitting on my kitchen counter. It had been hand washed the previous day. I was working nearby and heard a LOUD explosion. I turned my head to see the glass plate shattered into thousands of pieces. A popping or crackling sound continued for a minute. Tiny shards had traveled about 3 feet. There was no pressure or temperature change involved in this situation.
Jeanette of Syracuse NY (05/11/07)
I was cooking and took the lid off the Pyrex pan and it exploded in front of me. I thought a bomb went off. At first I thought I was ok. I just itched all over, but the next day and day after that I'm getting bumps all over the right side of my face, chest, arms, and a couple on my legs.
Linda of Claremore OK (05/09/07)
I put 2 chicken breasts in an 8x8 clear Pyrex dish and put them in the oven to broil. My husband opened the oven to turn the chicken. When he turned one piece, it touched the side of the dish, and the dish exploded. We had glass shards and hot chicken juices every where. We had to wait for it to cool off before we could clean it up. As it cooled, pieces of glass would crack more.
Fortunately, it exploded away from my husband. I had to wipe to floor with wet paper towels to get up the pieces we could only see with a flashlight. We used a small vac to get the slightly larger pieces, and picked up the big shards. If it had blown towards my husband, it would have hit him full in the face.
Marcia of New Haven MO (05/08/07)
I had a 3 quart Pyrex glass pan with lid. I use it all the time in the oven. I was cooking a turkey breast in it and when I went to turn the breast over the pan EXPLODED. I was very devastated that this happened. It burned my flooring in the kitchen in 5 different spots. I had on shorts and it busted all over my legs. I did not get any wounds on my legs. But I rent my house and my floor is ruin now and my favorite pan is now gone.
My supper was ruined, my floor is now ruined. When I move I will not get my deposit back because of this.
Kimberly of Portland OR (05/01/07)
I purchased a set of pyrex bakeware with lids. I have cooked flank steak among other things many times in the 9x13 pan. last night when i attempted to remove the pan from the oven, i managed to grasp the side with the potholder slide it to the front edge of the rack and when i tried to lift it it broke, sending pieces all over the oven and floor, and hot fat everywhere.
Theresa of Wright City, MO (04/26/07)
I have always used Pyrex for baking. Today I baked a cake. I took it out of the oven and when I got the 13 X 9 pan at stove top height, the pyrex pan exploded. It shot glass all over me, my dog and my kitchen. Luckily only minor injuries.
There was absolutely no reason for this to occur. I didn't even get the pan on the hot pad when it exploded.
Linda of Middletown, NY (04/26/07)
This evening I made a meatloaf in my pyrex visions 8x8 pan, as I have done many times. After removing it from the oven and taking out the meat loaf, I put the pan on the stove top to make gravy.
I walked about 7 feet away from the stove to answer the phone when I heard the pan explode into thousands of pieces. I only received a few small cuts on my arm from the shards of glass, but if the phone had not rung, it would have exploded in my face.
Mike of San Jose CA (04/26/07)
I was using a Pyrex 8 X 8 glass pan to cook fish in an electric oven. The fish had been cooking for about 8 minutes in a preheated oven when I turned the temperature from 400 to almost 500 degrees. The pan was at room temperature when put in the oven, and nothing was added. The fish fillets were thin rock cod, not thick slabs that might have had a gush of juices suddenly spurt out.
After just a few minutes at the higher temperature there was a loud crack from the oven. The pyrex pan had cracked into several large pieces and, of course, lots of small splinters.
One ruined dinner, one ruined pan, but aside from a few minutes of cleanup, no other damage.
Mark of San Leon TX (04/24/07)
04/24/2007 9pm I have a 10 (9.5OD) Pyrex bowl with which I planned to boil water. I filled the bowl with hot tap water, covered it and placed it on my electric stove top, then turned the burner on and set it to HI. After approximately 2-3 minutes the water was very hot but not quite boiling. Suddenly there was a loud bang and I turned to see that the bowl had disintegrated on the stove top in a mass of glass shards. Smaller (millimeter) sized pieces flew 1-2 feet in all directions. I had always thought Pyrex was safe for the stove-top. Apparently this is not the case. Had me or my pets been at the stove we would have been scalded. Ditto had I been carrying the bowl to the sink - as I do when draining spaghetti for example. I will relay this story to all my friends - I'm back to using metal for cooking.
Kusum of San Francisco CA (04/23/07)
Whilst cooking a Sunday Roast, I put a 8in by 8in dish on the stove (which was not on but a little hot from the oven being on) I had added 2 tablespoons of bacon dripping in the pan and was just about to pour some yorkshire pudding batter into the pan and it just exploded sending shards all over the kitchen.
Thankfully no-one was hurt but it took some time to clear up the 100's of shards created and it also ruined the sunday roast I was cooking for some dinner guests.
Michelle of Keizer OR (04/14/07)
Our Pyrex glass baking pan literally exploded and shot pieces of glass about 10 feet+. It had been placed on a hot burner accidentally. To my best estimation, the pan was on the burner for approximately 3-5 minutes. When the pan exploded, it sounded as though a rifle shot through the back window. While I would expect the glass pan to break, I never imagined that it would literally explode into thousands of pieces, nor have I heard of such a thing happening (until I looked it up online). While gratefully no one was within range of the projectile shards of hot glass, it was disheartening that a product I have loved to use had such an overly excessive reaction. (I do have pictures of the pieces all over the kitchen.) Just moments earlier 4 children were 4-6 feet away at the kitchen table. Had they still been there, or if I had been at the stove, critical if not fatal injuries would have easily been the result. A friend went out and purchased another 9x13 Pyrex Blue Glass Baking Pan for me, first so that we could read the warning on the packaging (which no where indicates the possibility of that type of explosion), and secondly to replace my bakeware. I WILL NOT be using or keeping this pan, nor the other one just like it in my bakeware cabinet. The new one will be returned to the store, and my other one will be thrown away. While I recognize there was inappropriate use, the result was situationally catastrophic, and beyond what should be considered reasonable.
When the glass exploded it flew literally everywhere. Under every appliance, into every container on counters, all over counters & the floor, onto bookshelves & fell into books, and one 1 1/2 inch piece even flew across the kitchen & dining area (approx. 10 feet) to rest in the well of our sliding window. Hot pieces of glass melted the floor, stuck into the floor, and melded to the carpet as well. The flooring & carpet will need to be replaced.
Penny, Rn, Bsn of Oberlin OH (04/09/07)
I have used Pyrex bakeware for most of my 60 years. I always thought it was safe. Yesterday I cooked a chicken in the oven at 325 degrees F, took it out of oven and removed the chicken. Made gravy from the drippings and then placed the pyrex 9 X 13 dish on the stove.....NOT on a turned on burner. I was right there near that stove making a salad when the pyrex baking dish EXPLODED.....it did not break.....there was a very loud explosion.....all our cats went running downstairs, and my housemate came running in from LR to see if I was OK.
I was shaken, but luckily the large and small shards of glass did not hit me. That was actually miraculous....as the glass was sent flying in an area that covered the entire stovetop, the floor, the cabinet top. Some pieces were 2 inches in diameter, others were tiny shards....but all were sent flying in all directions. The gravy was all over the stove, and it took us an hour to clean up the mess. Dinner was ruined after hours in the kitchen....and I am angry.
I wear glasses and luckily the shards did not hit me in the eye or puncture my chest......as I was stading right there......where I could easily have been blinded or killed. I have read your account of the Pyrex company's uncaring attitude and refusal to even admit that their bakeware can explode! That is sad.
I am a professional with a scientific background and I can tell you that I know the difference between exploding breaking.....and that glass EXPLODED!! Something should be done to at least warn the public who use and purchase pyrex of the dangers. We have all been led to believe that the tempered glass is safe for cooking.....and now I find that it might not be safe to count on pyrex any more.
I will miss pyrex......it was a great way to bake.....until it came so close to taking my sight or my life. I know how easily a large, pointed shard could have been hurled into my chest.....and the consequences of that could be death. Or hurled into my neck...and the consequence could still be death. Too big a risk for baking.....so now I have to go back to metal pans!
Luckily I was not hurt.......only scared and shaken by how close I came to some real harm! I lost my belief in Pyrex cookware.....after a lifetime of use. If I thought that Pyrex was addressing the issue I might feel differently. But to read how callous was there response to the explosions.....I will have to just throw all my pyrex away and warn my friends.
Susan of Lebanon MO (04/09/07)
I have a baking dish that broke completely in half while cooking a ham. Oven temperature set at 450 for about 20 min when I heard a loud crack. This baking dish is 9x9 - blue with a white interior.
Chris of Tucson AZ (04/08/07)
My wife and my 7 month old son were visiting my parents. We were using a Pyrex measuring cup to mix our son's formula. We had been feeding our son for 3 or 4 days with the formula mixed by the Pyrex measuring cup. We noticed that he was becoming constipated and having trouble using the bathroom. We thought he might of had a nervous stomach from all the traveling or from being in a new environment. Come to find out the Pyrex measuring cup we were using was off by 1 oz. My son was not getting the correct mixture with his formula resulting in painful constipation.
I know this is not a major complaint, but I wanted to write so other parents could be aware.
Dwayne of Belton TX (04/08/07)
We have had 2 different 13 X 9 Pyrex baking pans explode on different occassons. The first while baking chicken in the oven, we heard a load bang come from the kitchen, we wnt in to find nothing obvious, when we looked in the oven the Pyrex pan had exploded. The second time we were again cooking chicken in our new oven, this time we lined the pan with aluminium foil. When the chicken was done I removed it from the oven and gently set it down on a pot holder in the center of our kitchen table and it exploded on contact with the pot holder while it was still in my hands.
With the first event we lost dinner and it ruined the gas oven, we had a repair company come out and there was no fixing the unit due to age. Our Homeowners insurance replaced the oven, but because of its age we had to get a seperate Microwave range hood, which then required installation of cabinets in order to mount them. Our out of pocket expense was about $450.00. With the second incident, we just had to clean up glass from the table and a 5' radius around the table. Luckily in both cases no one was injured although I did have to pull glass out of my shirt chest area which was at least 2' above and 2' away from the exploding pan.
Maryanne of Collingswood NJ (04/07/07)
About a week ago, I was cooking chicken for my family at 375 degrees which was seasoned with pepper and salt only. The chicken was moist (chicken breasts and legs) so there was no need to add any type of liquid to cook the chicken which was to be barbecued after it had baked for a while. The chicken was in the oven for a maximum of 20 minutes when my son was about ready to remove the chicken when we both heard a loud explosion. We couldn't figure out where it came from; not even suspecting it could be the oven, but we were definitely wrong.
When we opened the oven door we discovered the glass pyrex dish had shattered into many pieces throughout the oven and onto the chicken. It was just fortunate that we did not open the oven door at that exact time of explosion. We could have lost our eyesight and suffered many cuts and abrasions. Our evening was definitely ruined but no one was hurt. It took quite a while to clean up the mess. The oven door had to be removed because the glass had shattered into many pieces between the oven door and the oven. The chicken was destroyed; we had to purchase take out dinner. We needed to use a shop vac to clean out the oven.
This incident has really effected the way I feel about Pyrex dishes. I threw the other dishes I had in my kitchen cabinets away. I do not feel comfortable using Pyrex products. Is there an age where Pyrex wears out? Are there any tell tale signs of this wear?
Linda of Richland MI (04/04/07)
I was using a Pyrex Baking dish, to bake chicken in, when I opened the oven door to turn over the chiken, the baking dish just blue apartment in thousand of pieces in side the oven, took me 2 hours to clean up, and still there bits and pieces of glass still in side the oven. So I threw out my other baking dish, which is a pyrex..
No physical damage, at this time, but glass could have gotten in my face. good thing I had fast reaction to closing the oven door
Ben of Bellingham WA (04/04/07)
My roommate was cooking asperagus in the oven at 350 in a 3-times-used Pyrex dish. It finished, she removed the 9x13 pan, removed the asperagus, placed some room temperature chicken breasts in the pan, returned it to the oven - now at 475, and within 5 minutes, heard a loud explosion she thought was someone outside throwing a rock at the kitchen window. She opened the oven and there was the skeleton of the Pyrex dish, one of the four walls completely blown off and two large holes in the other walls, where shrapnel had blown through.
Lizzy of Pittsburgh PA (04/04/07)
I was in my kitchen preparing my childhood favorite meal for my family. I read the directions on my pyrex glass cookingware, it on said not to broil. The recipe didn't include broiling so I did not broil. I put the meal in a 375 degree oven for 35 minutes. I pulled it out of my oven placed it on my stove top. My stove top was warm not cold not hot. When you turn on my oven naturally the stove top get warm. My burners wern't on and sure enough I put put a serving spoon in the dish, mind you a room temperature serving spoon, and the pyrex glass dish exploded into a million pieces. My fiance was napping on the couch and when it exploded he jumped up and ran in the kitchen to see. There i was holding my eye and trying to clean up the mess. There was glass in all my rooms and in my toaster. I now have to clean behind my oven and in my burners. I also have to clean behind and under my fridge.
I went to the ER and was told I may have burned eyes and I had shards of glass in them. Along with millions of tiny painful cuts on my neck, face, and lower arms/ hands. I have lost my meal for my family, my cookingware. I need to take time off of work to recover from my ER visit.
Kate of Portland OR (03/14/07)
Last night (03/13/07) I was baking 4 breasts of chicken in a 375 degree oven. I had preheated the oven. After the chicken had been cooking about 45 minutes, the pan looked a little dry, so I got some chicken broth out of the fridge and poured some in the pan. The baking dish shattered, glass was all over the oven and the floor. Luckily I was not hurt--I was not touched by glass or hot liquid. but it was a close call. The dinner was ruined and the mess was colossal.
I would definitely use the word exploded to describe this, even if that is not, technically speaking, what happened. The dish was so shattered that it could not have been identified as having ever been a baking dish except by a forensics expert. It was in little tiny shards and pieces. The chicken pieces were sitting, all by themselves, on the oven rack.
Just a huge mess to clean up. I had no idea this was such a common occurrence. I feel lucky that more damage was not done.
Vickie of Port Charlotte FL (03/14/07)
My mother just took one of pyrex glassware pans out of the oven set it down. when it exploded EVERYWHERE i have marks in my wall from the glass flying there are 8-10 burn marks in my new floor. i also have melted glass in my floor. it has ruined my kitchen walls and floor.
Tracy of Harrisonburg VA (03/10/07)
I just read the article "Pyrex Panic: Shrapnel in the Kitchen" and wanted to say thank you for making me realize I am not the only person that this has happened to. Last night I was using by 9x13 inch Pyrex glass baking dish and I suddenly saw glass exploding outward and this sound like a gunshot. My reflexes kicked in and I turned my head away quickly as I saw the glass exploding and shut my eyes. Fortunately I was not hurt in the incident, but I was really shaken up as I realized what could have happened, especially since my hand had been inches away and my entire body was standing not even a foot way from the pan.
The spokesman for Pyrex in the article said that glass just breaks, it does not explode, but from my experience I have to say that the word explosion is the only way to describe it. Glass went all over my kitchen- including my stove, countertops and floor. Some of the glass that hit the floor and rugs caused burn and melt marks. On the floor there are burn marks and on the floor rugs the threads melted together.
David of Novi MI (03/08/07)
Our 9x9 square baking pan literally exploded. I can assure you, as someone who had to deal with the fallout of glass covered food and a shard filled kitchen that what happened shocked and stunned both me and my wife. My faith in Pyrex was shattered. This wasn’t a simple cracked dish. With a small child in the house, it was a scary moment to see a glass dish EXPLODE and shoot shards of glass in all directions.
Aida of Chester, NY (03/04/07)
Last night I was making a pork roast using my 13x9 inch Pyrex baking pan. When I opened the oven, with the intent of basting the roast, the pan EXPLODED inside of the oven sending shards of glass all over the kitchen, with one piece of glass hitting my 10 year old daughter on the back of the head. Glass hit me on my chest and hands.
Cristin of Dallas TX (03/02/07)
Earlier this evening, around 6pm, I cooked pork chops in the oven in my Pyrex dish, at about 375 degrees. The empty dish was allowed to cool naturally in an environment approximately 70 degrees. Hours later at approximately 12:55 am it EXPLODED. It was just sitting there before it "broke". I really thought someone had thrown something through my kitchen window. That's how loud it was.
Min of Shamokin PA (02/26/07)
I microwaved soup in a one-pint Pyrex measuring cup. Three minutes does not even bring soup to a boil. Consumed soup and had the empty Pyrex on my desk for about one hour at normal room temperature. All of a sudden a thin, curved piece of the measuring cup comes flying past me. It went about three feet before hitting the computer monitor. Made a loud clinking noise when it went off the Pyrex. No temperature change, nobody touching it, and it isn't very old either. The glass piece is a curved section of the rim, about three inches long, half a centimeter wide and maybe a millimeter deep. Four or five tiny slivers also landed on the desk. The rest of the measuring cup seems unaffected. Needless to say it's not sitting here by my face anymore. And needless to say I'll never use Pyrex again.
Adrienne of Durham CA (02/24/07)
I have been using Pyrex dishes for almost 50 years and am quite familiar with their "dos and don'ts". A week ago I baked a ham in a recently-purchased 13x9 baking dish. As we were relaxing at the table after dinner, the dish suddenly exploded, leaving the ham sitting in a pile of glass shards and juice running all over the table. There was glass all over the kitchen; luckily no one at the table was hurt.
I have never seen or heard of this happening (except perhaps with sudden temperature change), but this was a dish that had been handled normally and had been sitting on the table for about a half hour at a constant temperature.
Julia of Ottawa Canada (02/20/07)
Brought jug 4 years ago, it exploded with Boiling Chicken stock in it, luckily it missed me but made a mess all over my kitchen, it just cracked for no reason, have used it previous no trouble.
Wynna of Cleveland GA (02/18/07)
Preheated by oven to 375 to bake a chicken pot | 
