Pyrex Cookware Reviews

Had a dinner party, put a room temp pyrex baking dish full of Lobster Mac and Cheese in a 350 degree oven. After half an hour, I upped the temperature to 400 degrees to help brown the top. A few minutes later I heard a loud pop and I realized the pyrex had exploded in the oven! An enormous bummer on so many levels... The pound-a-half of lobster meat that can no longer be eaten, the hour of prep wasted, what to serve our hungry dinner guests now, and the massive clean up of my oven. Never again... just bought a set of Staub ceramic bakeware!

Similar story to others. Cooking au gratin potatoes in preheated oven using 9x13 pyrex baking pan per instructions. Several minutes later a loud bang from oven. An entire end of the dish had shattered with fragments all over oven. What remained had multiple cracks running through it. Oven was not usable until cooled and thoroughly cleaned. Have always trusted Pyrex in the oven... Now will always be leery.

We placed two pyrex pans of apple crisp in the preheated oven, somewhere in the baking process one of the glass pans exploded. Shards of glass all over the oven! One of the Pyrex pans was purchased nearly 17 years ago and that one was fine. The one that exploded we bought this year at Kohl’s.

Placed Pyrex glass casserole dish to bake casserole in oven. 5 min later a large boom and the Pyrex shattered in oven. Got burned on my fingers and small cuts on my hands as I opened oven. The baking casserole dish was oven safe. My whole dinner was ruined not to say as well as money wasted from grocery store. When I opened the oven after the heard the noise, the Pyrex dish was continuing to explode glass at me. Thank goodness none got on my face or eyes.

About 12 years ago, I removed two small Pyrex bowls from the dishwasher which just finished the dry cycle and was putting them in the cupboard. They were hot and due to the heat, I slightly dropped one bowl about an inch distance into the other bowl of same size which was in my hand. The bottom dish exploded into millions of bits of shards of glass and blew into my face and hand. 12 years later, I still have bits of glass working out to the surface of my chin. The bits of glass form small bumps under the skin surface and then work up to the surface rupture the skin leaving terrible sores that then weep tiny bits of glass residue for days/sometimes weeks. If this is hard to read, it is because it is as terrible as it sounds.

I have used Pyrex many times over the years. Last night I was baking meatballs in a 350 degree oven in my 9x12 dish when my dog and I heard a loud bang! We went and looked inside the oven and sure enough, the dish had totally broken apart and into many large and small pieces of glass. There were even shards around the bottom of the oven. The particular Pyrex dish was rather on the newer side with longer side handles, as opposed to the older models with shorter handles and more depth to the dish. I knew they exploded years ago, but didn’t know this was still occurring! Won’t use this type of product again!

It happened to me too - exploded with routine, nonabusive use. Dangerous and unacceptable. Should be banned. It ruined a week's worth of food tonight, it took forever to clean up. Just lucky nobody was injured. This brand is not what it used to be. Use a cheaper form of glass that is prone to exploding. This is not your grandma's Pyrex. Tell your friends.

On May 3rd 2020. I was cooking a meal in a Pyrex glass cookware dish at approximately 350 degrees. After 40 minutes in the oven I removed the dish and set it on the counter and the dish subsequently exploded sending glass shards everywhere and cutting my wrist and arm.

I entrusted my high-end Le Creuset, Emile Henry and Cuisinart bakeware to a disreputable mover and lost about two-thirds of a collection that took many years to amass. (Yes, very sad.) So, after much research I decided to take advantage of a promo offered by Corning/Pyrex to re-establish my kitchen. All of the various & sundry pieces of Pyrex I bought are still USA-made.

I was cooking Brie in the oven in the glass pie plate. I was done and I took the pie plate out as soon as I placed on stove it popped. And exploded with shards of glass everywhere. Thankfully my 3-year-old granddaughter had just left the kitchen area. Now with glass all over the place including in the stove where my dinner was still cooking - I was now out app and dinner and have bloody fingers. Unbelievably upset and won’t purchase anything from Pyrex again and emptied my kitchen of measuring cup, other pie plates and glass mixing bowl set. Money down the drain and this is a known issue!!! Thankfully no serious injuries.