Pyrex Reviews

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.

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.

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.

You're not supposed to bake with glass cookware over 325F because it can break.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

My dog has PTSD now, ruined dinner.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Luckily the kitchen was occupied at the time and the fire was quickly under control and put out.

I was baking a ham, added a little water and it exploded in my oven. Not the easter dinner I had planned.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Obviously had to throw away the dish.

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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?

Nothing major but a mess and DISBELIEF!!!

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

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.

My Pyrex dish exploded after removing from oven to cool.

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.

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 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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing major - the pork chops were ruined.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 have read all of these complaints about exploding pyrex and wonder why there is nothing on the government site for consumer protection about this.

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.

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!

Pyrex 9x13 pan shattered (exploded) in oven.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Pyrex baking dish exploded when taken out of the oven and placed on top of the stove.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

2- 2qt. cassarole dishes ,while cooking exploded into a lot of pieces.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was just a terrible mess, thankfully no injuries.

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.

I had a purple 9X13 Pyrex baking dish explode in my oven after less than 10 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Preheated by oven to 375 to bake a chicken pot pie for 30 mins and took it out of oven and placed on cook top that was not on or even hot from cooking. I turned my back and bang! I turned around and the dish had exploded sending glass all over the cook top and counter into other food prepared. I never heard that Pyrex would do this and I have other pieces that I will now be feeling very questionable to use ever again.

On 1/30/07, I was baking au gratin potatoes in my round Pyrex dish, at 450 degrees for an hour. When it was done, I took the dish out of the oven and set it on an unused burner to cool. I turned my back and seconds later heard glass shattering. I turned back around to find my dish had exploded all over the cook top.

On 1/31/07 I was cooking a Porkroast for my family.The roast had been in the oven for 45 minutes on 375 degrees. I opened my oven door to look at the roast when there was a huge explosion. I jumped back and glass blew all over my kitchen I am disabled so I was unable to run I had to just stand there praying that I would not get peppered with the flying glass. Once all the glass landed I called my Daughter to come over to clean the glass. My oven had to be taken apart because there was glass in every level of my oven. We also found glass in our dining room which is 15 feet away from the oven.

I was baking chicken wings in two 13 x 9 Pyrex dishes when they both exploded in my oven. I don't know if one went first and shattered the other one at the same time or what. The temperature was 375 degrees and they were about 30 minutes into the cooking time (with about 20 to 25 minutes more to go) when they suddenly exploded! It wasn't like I had taken a dish cold out of the refrigerator and stuck it in the oven, they had been baking for a half hour before they exploded. I heard the sound and opened the oven door to an unbelievable and dangerous mess. I'm going to have to take my oven apart to get the shards out of the bottom area where the gas flames are. I'm still reading the manual to figure out how to do that. We've almost got the rest of the oven cleaned up. The glass shards got baked into the interior of the oven with the barbeque sauce. We've been using lots of Windex to loosen the stuff and then scraping it up with metal spatulas.

I made a cake and took it out of the oven to let it cool. About 4 hours later I was in my bedroom and heard a loud noise. I came into my kitchen and there was shrapnal everwhere! My cake had exploded and sent glass flying across the room.

After using this pan for the 2nd time it exploded. I had baked lasagna in gthe oven for 40 minutes at 400 degrees. I had placed the pan on a wood cutting board and about 10 minutes afterwards,I heard an explosion in the kitchen. Little shards of glass we everywhere and my meal was ruined.

My cookware has exploded twice. once not resulting in harm, the second where it ruined dinner for my guests and my family. My measuring cup exploded while i was measuring hot water, which scalded both of my toes, and there were tiny shards that were unseen and ended up in my husbands foot. there was glass all over in the food thus rendering it unusable.

When taking a beef tenderloin out of the oven (it had baked at 450 degrees for 40 minutes), all of a sudden the oblong glass pyrex pan I was holding in my hand exploded. Luckily I had an oven mitt on but there was beef tenderloin, meat juices and glass all over my kitchen floor. Not only on the floor, but there was glass all over the inside of the oven, and glass shards shot as far away as into the adjoining dining room. Other than making a huge mess and ruining a $35 beef tenderloin, nothing more serious happened and luckily no one got hurt.

My wife and I were cooking a crown roast for dinner for our 4 kids and ourselves on 1/14/2007 we were cooking our roast in a pyrex dish after being in the oven for about 1 1/2 hrs almost done my wife open the oven to check on the roast when she open the door the pyrex dish exploded in the oven sending hot broken glass everywhere and the oven caught on fire from the juice and oil from the roast my wife got a small burn on her hand and i got a small cut on the hand the kitchen was a disaster it took hours to clean the mess and the oven seems like it is not working right after the explosion in the oven.

I baked a roast in my 13x9 Pyrex glass pan . The oven was set at 350 degrees. I took the roast out of the oven and placed the glass pan on the hot plates. Approximately fifteen minutes later I took the roast out of the pan. I poured some gravy mix into the pan to capture the juices from the roast. After dipping enough gravy from the pan, I walked over to the kitchen table. Within 30 seconds of walking away from the glass plan I heard a huge explosion. I turned around and the pan literally exploded into thousands of pieces. Some pieces were as large as 2 inches; other pieces were tiny.

On 1/14/2007 I checked my steak that I had in a Pyrex 13x9 glass baking dish when all of a sudden the dish just exploded in my left hand sending glass every where, Lucky my 2 small children were not around. I have never seen this happen - it sounded like a window shattering.

Had an experience with a 9 x 13 pyrex casserole dish. I was marinating four quail in a port and ginger sauce - wow, was this going to be excellent. Except, after 4 hours sitting in my refrigerator with the marinade, I heard this loud POP from the fridge. Opened the door, and the pyrex dish had shattered spontaneously, spattering the marinade and glass throughout my refrigerator. This is very concerning, considering there was no abrupt temperature change to the pyrex, and my refrigerator is not abnormally cold.

A glass baking dish rectangular exploded. I had taken the dish out of the fridge and removed the portion of food I wanted to heat up to another glass bowl. I had left the room when I heard the sound of glass on glass breaking. When I returned to the room I found glass pieces on the counter and floor. The glass dish had shattered into pieces. Some pieces were large and others very tiny.

I was cooking dinner for my kids and the glass pan just exploded infront of me. My daughters two friends had been over and we all were covered in glass. They had been in the living room and I was in the kitchen the glass flew a distance. I dont understand what and why this happend, I had just pulled it out and had just placed cooled noodles into it. Seconds later it was so loud I herd ringing for two days. What do I do now ?

While broiling (450 degrees) garlic chicken w/ ample amount of liquid in my Pyrex 9 x 9 baking dish, it shattered/exploded when the prong of the fork grazed the edge. Shards of glass and hot liquid flew everywhere.

I preheated my oven to 350 degrees. I mixed up a simple meatloaf in a 13x9 dish/pan. About 30 mins into cooking we heard a horrible EXPLOSION from the kitchen. My Pyrex dish had exploded IN THE OVEN.

I was removing a Pyrex 13-by-9 in. pan from my oven that had chicken breasts in it and as I was just removing it over the open oven door it literally exploded in my hands into thousands of pieces - some maybe 2 in. long and most tiny shards and small pieces. It flew everywhere - on me, in the oven, on top of the stove,on my linoleum floor, on the cupboards, into rooms near my kitchen. I now have pieces that are stuck onto the inside of the oven door. There is no possible way I can get all of the glass out of my oven and stove top. It is everywhere. My stove will need to be replaced.

My Pyrex baking dish just exploded in the oven. I was cooking chicken (3 breasts) @ 400 degrees per the package instructions. Glass exploded all over the oven. This is very dangerous.

I was using a 13x9 pyrex baking dish in the oven at 375 degrees cooking potatoes. 1/2 into the cooking I heard a loud noise inside the oven, sounded like all the racks fell, turned around to find the dish exploded in the oven. Never Again using Pyrex.

I put a $100 piece of filet mingon in 13x9 pyrex. 5 minutes into cooking the glass shattered all over the stove, ruining the steak and all other food in my stove.

After reading the Pyrex Panic: Shrapnel in the Kitchen story I had to write with my own very similar story. Christmas day I had a 9x13 cobalt blue pyrex cake pan (probably 8-10 years old) full of pumpkin custard cake sitting on a cooling rack elevated above the counter top approximately 6 inches. It had been cooling for 90 minutes and was no longer hot to touch. Meanwhile there were potatoes boiling away on a stove top approximately 3 feet away and a turkey in the rotisserie on the other side of the cake approximately 1 foot away. The kitchen was warm but not uncomfortably so.

I work as a waitress in a well known restaurant here in Sacramento area, and the bottom of the pyrex mug popped in my hand and now i have severe burns and am out of work for the week. This the day before Christmas Eve.

I was cooking a $15 piece of meat in a glass pyrex 9x13 dish. I opened the oven door to take the dish out of the oven and all of a sudden the dish just exploded! Glass everywhere!!! It sprayed me with glass shards and hot liquid.

We too had a scary experience with our newer Pyrex (circa 2005) baking dish. After we prepared a walnut-crusted chicken dish, my husband placed it in the oven. Just ten minutes after putting this (room-temperature) dish into a 400 degree oven, we heard a loud 'POP' followed by an explosion. Thankfully, the oven door was closed and all of this mess was contained. I will never use pyrex in the oven again. Who wants to cook in fear of an explosion? I'm going to buy Emile Henry or metal pans.

I was baking a steak in a pyrex baker and it exploded in my oven. My Mother experienced this same incident with a pyrex pan as she was baking brownies.

About an hour after washing a Pyrex measuring cup, I heard a loud noise and found my dish drainer was full of broken glass. The measuring cup had fragmented spontaneously. There was no impact or extreme temperature involved.

My wife was cooking a steak in a Pyrex. She opened the oven door and pulled the dish out to turn the steak over. She turned to grab a fork when the Pyrex exploded everywhere.

We put some chocolate chips in the 8x8 Pyrex casserole dish and heated it in the microwave for 2 minutes, just to melt the chips. I just happened to turn around and saw that the little handle on the dish was on fire.

My husband was cooking a Cornish game hen in our Pyrex lasagna pan. The recipe said to warm some of the ingredients on top of the stove. He picked the Pyrex up at the correct time to put it in the oven. 10 seconds after he closed the door he heard a loud explosion and opened the door to find the whole dinner and millions of chunks of glass on the oven floor.

We use pyrex measuring cups in the diner where I work. As of 12/4/06 we have had 6 measuring cups explode for no reason. Tonight the cup had been sitting on the work table for one hour,poof it went up.

My husband baked some cornbread in my over 20 year old 8X8 pyrex baking dish as he has many times in the past. He removed the cornbread from the oven and placed it on top of the stove to cool. (No burners had been on.) He went out of the room and heard a loud noise. Upon re-entering the kitchen, he found glass everywhere including at least 5 to 6 feet away from the stove.

My husband had just put a dish of cinnamon rolls into the oven for Thanksgiving. The bakeware exploded in the oven sending millions of slivers everywhere.It literally blew the bottom out of the dish. I had to go 40 miles to replace the dish and ingredients and buy oven cleaner before we could finish dinner.We don't know the extent of damage to our oven yet. I thank God it wasn't worse it scared us to death, we thought something had shattered a window in the house, until we saw the smoke coming out of the oven.

I had put my turkey and dressing in the pyrex dish and one hour later removed it to baste the turkey and the pan literally shattered all over the oven and on the turkey!!!! It sounded like an explosion.

Most of your reports talk of pyrex being subjected to a rapid change of temperature around the time of the explosion, but such was not the case in this instance. A pyrex baking dish purchased in the last few years was taken from room temperature (20 degrees Celsius) and put into a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celsius. After being in the oven for about 25 minutes the dish exploded.

I was cooking my Thanksgiving Day meal and had a 3qt round casserole dish in the microwave with green beans in it. I heard a cracking sound which made me stop the microwave thinking the dish cracked. When I removed the lid from the dish I noticed the edge of the lid had broken. I then had to inspect my green beans looking for glass. Luckly I found the few slivers of glass that got into my green beans. If I had not been in the kitchen at that particular moment I would not have heard the glass cracking and my family would have been eating glass in their green bean casserole.

While baking a cake in my blue Pyrex baking dish last night, it exploded into pieces after taking it from the oven and placing it onto the top of my stove. The burners were off. The pieces of glass shattered and flew all over the kitchen with a loud sound of explosion. I stood there in shock, as I have used this baking dish numerous times for lasagna. It is perhaps two years old. Needless to say, I will not be using Pyrex glass bakeware anymore - that experience was awful, and I'm glad I didn't get cut. From now on, I'll only use metal pans.

Was baking a chicken,turned off oven in preparation to removing meal to the table. Heard a loud 'crack' and opened oven door to find,glass,liquid and hot chicken grease everywhere!

I was baking cinna rolls in the pyrex bowl. And accidentally turned on the wrong lid, and as i was loading the dish with cinna rolls.. bam.. right in front of me. . glass was shot at least 6 feet.. with force. Luckily my little sister was not at the stove eagerly waiting as she usually is for the rolls to be done or she would have been seriously hurt.

I have had 2 Pyrex measuring cups (a one cup and a 4 cup) crumble after heating water in them in the microwave. The 4 cup measuring cup had water heated in it, then was washed and returned to the cabinet. It EXPLODED all over the cabinet sending hunks of glass everywhere. The 1 cup measure broke into hundreds of pieces.

So I have experienced two exploding Breaking episodes. One was a few months ago in our old house and this one tonight. The first time that it happened, I thought it was my fault I thought that I hade done something wrong. But tonight I know that I did everything right, I preheated the oven, warmed the 13*9 baking dish to almost 100 degrees, I used the hot pad and gently put it on the counter area and then went to remove the meat from the dish. When I reached down with the tongs in hand the Explosion happened.

I recently purchased a 13x9 pyrex baking dish and have used it several times this sunday afternoon seemed no different as I filled the pan with chicken and placed it in the oven about 30 minutes into its baking time I heard an explosion in the kitchen to my surprise I found my oven smoking with burning chicken grease when I open the door I discovered the pan had exploded and ruined my entire dinner, not to mention the awful mess I had to clean up.

I was baking chicken in my pyrex baking dish, and the next thing I know I hear a very loud bang, followed by a sizzeling sound. I opened the oven door, and found my baking dish completely shattered. Pieces of glass are all over my oven.

Tonight I put brownie mix into 13x9 Pyrex dish and placed it into a pre-heated oven, like I have many times before. Within two minutes the dish exploded. The sharpnel was so severe that a piece of glass shard is wedged into my heating element, which I now must replace, before being able to use my oven again.

We pulled a Pyrex baking dish out of the over(375 degrees), and put it on the stove top and began making gravy out of the juices from the pork we baked..when we were finished with making the gravy we pushed the baking pan, with the gravy in it, to the back of the stove, then, BOOM! the pyrex pan exploded so loudly that our neighbors could hear it next door! Both of us were standing there in complete utter shock! In front of us, we couldn't believe what we saw: the pan had exploded so violently that it was now in pieces no bigger than a quarter in. in diameter..all over us, the kitchen and the dog !!

This evening, I was baking perogies in the oven for dinner and my husband & I heard a crash in the oven. We ran into the kitchen and looked inside the oven to find that the Pyrex baking dish had exploded.

I took my bowl out of the cupboard and put a package of jello in the bowl. It was not cold either. I added 1 cup of boiling water and the bowl completely shattered. There is not 1 shred of a piece bigger than 1 inch square.

I was cooking chicken in a pyrex baking pan and when I opened the oven to check it. If I had instead taken the baking pan out of the oven at that instance, it would have EXPLODED in my face. I was not hurt but the bakeware exploded inside my oven. It did not just break, it exploded into tiny pieces inside the over and some did go outside the oven.

I was baking a cake in a 9 x 13 glass pyrex dish. I had the temperature on the oven lower than the recipe called for, because it was the first time I had tried the recipe and was unsure of the results. After baking the cake, I removed it from the oven, placed it carefully on the stove top, then tested it to make sure it was done. I had just backed away from the oven when the whole pan blew apart. Luckily for myself and my nephew, who was standing close by, most of the glass blew back towards the stove, rather than towards us. Even still, it took days for us to get all the glass cleaned up from the kitchen counters and floors.