Anchor Hocking Glassware Reviews

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

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

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

I can't believe the amount of complaints, I have already read about this seriously defective product and am angry that consumers are not being made aware of this. On June 14, 2011, I made chicken enchiladas and used an Anchor Hocking baking dish. The dish was in the oven, set at $375 for only 20 minutes when I heard a loud boom. I opened the oven door and the dish had exploded into pieces. I was only minutes away from opening the oven door to remove the dish. I will never use this product again and will make sure my family and friends avoid using this hazardous product too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was on my way home from visiting a neighbor at 1:00 am when I found my wife, Lois, awake with all the lights on in the kitchen. She said she was settled in bed with the TV on and heard heavy glass breaking, but didn't know what it could be, since we have a few house cats and do not keep breakables around. She went to investigate, saw the cats startled and staring into the kitchen, afraid to go in. She searched for a while, then wondered if on the outside chance something was misplaced in a cabinet and had fallen over.

I was warming up meat in dish in oven at 350 degrees. The bake ware exploded without warning. Cost of bake ware is $11.00 and cost of meat is approximately $10.00.

I had an Anchor glass dish to blow up in my oven which was on 350 degrees for 15 or 20 min. Glass was everywhere. What can be done?

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

After having a brand new Anchor Hocking large glass pan explode in my oven on 6/3/2010, I emailed Anchor Hocking's customer service to report the incident. The response I received from customer service sounded like the only reason the pan might have exploded was because it must have been chipped or damaged during shipping or in handling. I assure everyone that the pan was in 100% perfect condition (visually), and brand new (never used) so I don't agree with their assumptions. I also don't want a replacement pan as I would be afraid it too would explode. Here was their email to me:

I purchased two very large rectangular Anchor Hocking baking dishes with plastic lids two days ago (June 1, 2010) at Publix and they were rather expensive, about $11 each. Last night (June 3) I prepared two batches of meatloaf in the pans and placed them in the center of the oven that was set on 350 degrees. Five minutes later while I was still in the kitchen I heard a giant "bang" like an explosion and the oven shook slightly. I opened the oven door and one of the two pans had exploded. I immediately turned off the oven and took digital photos of the mess before attempting to clean it up. I had to wait for the oven to cool and there was meatloaf everywhere inside the oven.

I bought 2 sets of Anchor Hocking measuring cups 1-4 cups, tickled that they were so much more affordable than Corning. Used the one cup to melt butter in microwave, no more than 30 seconds. Poured the butter into batter, set aside. Then all of a sudden, it just spontaneously shattered all over my counter, floor, sink. I looked around to see what had fallen on it, but the cupboards were all shut; nothing could have fallen on it. Took both sets back to Walmart for full refund, including the one that shattered, but here I come to this site and there are all kinds of repeat situations by other consumers. I agree, should be pulled off shelves. I often have my grandchildren over. They easily could have been under foot or I, just as easily, could have been hurt by flying glass.

I was cooking meatballs for dinner. 15 minutes after I placed the Anchor Hocking pan in my oven at 350, it exploded! It scared the living daylights out of myself and my son. We wound up eating pizza for dinner. So much for yummy spaghetti and meatballs. I couldn't finish cooking after that. Then I get on here and read all these other reports and I'm wondering why on earth does anyone still sell this product. One lady had her explode on her stove top. What if that happened here with my 3 year old in the kitchen? Someone could have been seriously injured! Does this company not care about the consumers? I am contacting the news crews here in Vegas. I hope the rest of you that have this problem do the same. This is dangerous and can be fixed!

Anchor Hocking custard cup exploded in the microwave.

I'm on my 3rd measuring cup from Anchor Hocking within one year. The red printed measurements completely wash off the cups within a short period of time. Since I use the cup each day, it's put in the dishwasher every evening. Hence, the fading of the graduations. Now, what good is a measuring cup without the measurements? The graduations used to be embossed in the glass itself and they need to be again. Perhaps it's cheaper to use the red paint but it's unsatisfactory and needlessly costly to your customers. Please reimburse me for the last cup or send me a new version. Thank you.

I was cooking roasted potatoes in the oven (set at 350*). All of a sudden, we heard a loud bang. We couldn't figure out where the noise came from (although, we were in the kitchen). But, I thought to look in the oven. The entire 9 x 13" glass Anchor pan exploded!!! There was glass, food, and grease everywhere! Due to the grease leaking down onto the broiler below, it started to smoke and ignite!

I purchased the 3 pk of anchor hocking pans at Wal-Mart late last year. On May 21,my daughter was preparing two boxes of scalloped potatoes according to the directions, and she placed it in a 13x9 pan and into a 400-degree preheated oven. After about 10 minutes, she saw smoke, and we heard a crackling sound and then a huge pop/explosion!

I was making an Easter dinner for the family (12 people). My brand new casserole (a Christmas gift and never used before) was in the oven with scalloped potatoes. I was near the stove talking to one of my guests when we heard a terrible pop. I looked in the oven and the entire 9X12 casserole dish was shattered into millions of pieces. I contacted the company and just received a free replacement, but I don't know whether to use it after reading about all the similar experiences of others. I just lost my food. There were no injuries since the oven was still closed thankfully.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was New Year's Eve 2009. We were having company for supper. We were preparing the meal. The last thing to cook was the homemade chocolate cake. My husband opened the oven door to check on the cake (which I might add was in the Anchor Hocking company bakeware 30 Qt glass dish) when it exploded everywhere burning his arm. I have taken pictures of the incident. Never have I seen bakeware explode as this did.

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

An Anchor Hocking oval glass baking dish (approx. 7" x 11") exploded in the oven on Christmas day 2009 within a few minutes of opening the oven door to inspect the vegetable casserole. It was cooking at 350F. There was a popping sound from the oven and, upon inspection, we found the baking dish had exploded into hundreds of pieces. The dish is approximately two years old and rarely used. This explosion made a mess in the oven, but the oven contained the glass and hot vegetables so fortunately, there were no injuries, and no consequential damage to the kitchen. A few minutes later and the story may have had a different ending.

Tonight, I was baking a pie crust in a new Anchor Hocking glass pie pan I had purchased at Big Lots. After it had been in the oven at 375 degrees for about 5 minutes, I heard what sounded like beads exploding in the oven. A moment later, I heard a second loud explosion of glass. It took us awhile to figure out what it was at first. We opened the oven to find glass shattered in the oven in hundreds of pieces with dough torn to shreds. Wow. I am still kind of stunned. I took pictures and I am boxing the glass. Someone could have been hurt. I purchased two that day. I have used the other once and it did not explode. I am not using it again. What a loss of money, time and faith in a company I thought was pretty reputable.

It was around Dec. 10, 2009, when my mother bought the casserole dishes for me. I was making dinner for my two year old son and husband using these dishes. I put diced chicken into it and rice on 350. After 10 minutes, my husband heard a popping sound coming from the oven. By the time he opened it, the glass was in a ton of little pieces. I was so upset for the fact my mother wasted money. I lost a great meal that my family wasn't able to enjoy. So, I please say to this company that your casserole cookware off the shelves of stores before someone gets hurt.

I used an Anchor ware 13x9 casserole dish to bake a chicken on 325 degrees. I pulled it from the oven and set it on two potholders on the counter. We heard a pop and a loud crack as the dish just shattered sending glass and hot chicken juice everywhere. Luckily, I had set the dish down before it did this or I would have been in the ER. Anchor ware should really take care of this issue before something bad happens. I plan to seek help in fighting this due to the possible trouble it could cause. The clean up was awful. Chicken is greasy and it ran into every crack it could find.

I used an Anchor Hocking rectangular glass baking dish to prepare a chicken and rice dish for my family. The oven was preheated to 375 degrees F. The glass baking dish was room temperature. Within five minutes of having the baking dish in the oven, I heard popping and sizzling noises in the oven. I cautiously opened the oven door and found the baking dish in hundreds of pieces and all of the food (rice, diced tomatoes, water, chicken, corn, seasoning mix) on the bottom of the oven floor. It was a real mess!

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

I am 75 years old and three days before Thanksgiving, I purchased two of your pie plates at Walmart. On Thanksgiving morning, I prepared a pumpkin pie according to directions, and put it in the oven at 425 degrees for 15 min. and then lowered the temp to 325 for the remaining time. Minutes before the pie should have come out of the oven, it exploded. Needless to say, my oven was a complete mess and my housekeeper had to come Friday to clean up the mess. I know if this had happened a few minutes later, and the oven door was opened, I can't even imagine what damage might have occurred to myself. I took pictures of the oven and saved all the glass, which I thought you might want to inspect to prevent this from happening to someone else. It was a frightening experience and to be honest with you, I will never put anything glass in my oven again. Thank you for wanting to know my experience, maybe it will prevent it from happening again.

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

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

I got on this website to see if there have ever been any other listed complaints about Anchor Hocking Cookware that have been posted and sure enough, 12 pages describing exactly what happened to me last night. I was cooking Chicken Parmesan in the largest Anchor pan I have at 400 degrees for 25 min. I pulled the glass out of the oven nice and easy and when I set it atop my stove, it exploded into 500 million large and tiny pieces in my oven, on top of my oven, clear into my dining room, living room. What a mess! Thank goodness, I only have one mark on my arm and not all over my face and in my eyes. This was not old cookware and I have used it before with no problems. Never again will I use this brand of cookware and I will make sure to let everyone know that I see. Thank goodness, none of my family or family dog was nearby when this pan exploded! Very scary!

I have used the baking pan for a few years. I have never had a problem with these baking dishes before. I put the baked stuffed chicken breasts in the oven at 350 degrees. About 1/2 hour later, I heard an explosion! I opened the oven door to find that the pan had exploded! Glass was everywhere. Food was burning and the kitchen was full of smoke! Smoke detectors were screaming. What a mess and how dangerous that was! I had company so we all went out to dinner. I was angry and embarrassed about this!

I was baking chicken in the real big glass pan I have used so many times before. When I slide the oven rake forward, it exploded in my face. I am chipped up and really scared. How did this happen? It is so wrong. Please call me. It ruined all my dinner for my family. I lost my ten chicken breasts and stuffing and corn. My oven is gas, so I have to get the very bottom cleaned out before I can use it. I have several cuts on my face, arms and legs - nothing that will require stitches, thank God.

I have a 3 pan set of Anchor Hocking baking pans. I cooked 15 Totinos Pizzarolls in the medium pan, took the pan out of the oven and set it on my stove (only 2 months old) and it exploded right in my face. Glass went all over the kitchen, all over the inside and outside of my stove and oven, and all over the front of me. Thank goodness I had my glasses on or I would have been really hurt most likely with glass in my eyes. As it was, my husband and I suffered from cuts on our hands and feet, as well as multiple shards of glass in our hands while trying to clean up the mess which, by the way, took over 2 hours to do. We have 2 kids and are now in constant fear that we missed a piece of glass somewhere and they will find it with their tender feet. My brand new stove top is scratched like crazy from the glass. Let’s just hope we got everything out of the oven itself!

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

After reading (and re-reading to be honest) the directions and cautions regarding their glass cookware, I placed a chicken casserole in the oven. About 15 minutes after I placed the casserole in the oven, I checked on the dish. Everything looked fine, no issues whatsoever. A few seconds after, I closed the oven door. I heard what sounded like a gun-shot. I freaked out and immediately turned off the oven. I turned on the oven light to find that the casserole dish had exploded sending bits of casserole and glass everywhere in my brand new oven! The oven took many hours to clean off the glass. I have to contact GE regarding how to get the glass out of the bottom unreachable part of the oven, and to see if the glass has done any un-repairable damage. I have several cuts on my hands. I am very afraid of this cookware now and would not recommend it to anyone.

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

I bought a 13x9 Anchor baking dish yesterday at Target which I used this morning to bake a casserole. The dish had only been in the oven an hour, when I heard a strange noise and opened the oven door to find the dish had exploded and shattered into hundreds of pieces. I got painful shards of glass in my hands and feet during cleanup, and it ruined an expensive meal. This happened about 30 minutes before company arrived to eat it.

I had chicken marinade in a plastic bag in the fridge. I took it out, turned on the broiler, and put my chicken in a square Anchor Hocking pan. I let it broil for ten minutes, opened the broiler to flip the chicken over, and the pan exploded. I am very, very lucky that I was not cut or burned by the shards.

I had chicken marinade in a plastic bag in the fridge. I took it out, turned on the broiler, and put my chicken in a square Anchor Hocking pan. I let it broil for ten minutes, opened the broiler to flip the chicken over, and the pan exploded. I am very, very lucky that I was not cut or burned by the shards.

I have both the Pyrex brand and Anchor glass dishes with lids. The Anchor brand lids keep cracking making them useless for storage of food. I have to replace the items for approximately $25, plus the guilt about the extra garbage!

While cooking chicken in our oven, the dish exploded. It broke out the front glass of our oven and caused other damage to the inside of the oven. What a mess to clean up. We had to replace our range. The damage was too extensive to try and repaint. The mess we had in the kitchen was glass all over the entire kitchen along with the grease from the chicken.

The blue lids on the storage bowls split on the sides. No longer do they seal tightly and I can’t put anything with liquid in them.

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

On 4/18/09, I heated macaroni and cheese in a blue Anchorware dish (9x9?) at 325F. After 20 minutes, it sounded like a car ran into our china cabinet. The dish exploded into countless pieces and shards. The macaroni was dripping onto the oven coils waiting to become a hazard. If we were opening the door at the time, we would surely have suffered significant injury. The obliteration of the dish was amazing. The oven floor was lined with glass fragments. I lost my dish and my macaroni. Fortunately, I didn't lose an eye or endure any other injury.

We purchased coffee cups from Walmart. These cups are Anchor Hocking #32. The problem with the cups is that the mold casting edge is so sharp that it’s real hard to hold the cups by the handles. We have checked the other cups at Walmart for replacements (same cup, same problems). We like the cups very much. We intend to keep them, but may have to use our old ones. We have no damage to complain about (just hard to hold the cups). We just want someone to correct the problem with the cups.

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

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

I recently bought 2 Anchor Fire King 250ml glass measuring cups. On New Year’s Eve, I used one to measure some room temperature water. I left it in the sink with the other dishes. All of a sudden it exploded into small pieces which went flying in a 3m radius. I was lucky not to be close by the sink at that point. I will taking the other one back to the shop.

As with many others, according to your website, My Anchor glass dish exploded in the oven. Please make others aware.