Pyrex Reviews

My 13X9 pyrex baking pan exploded, melted my floor and ruined dinner. Thank God my kitchen is too small to stand in front of the stove, as the glass shot out of the oven, but I was standing to the side, whereas the glass shot straight out. I am also glad no pets were nearby and that I didn't actually have the dish in my hands when it exploded. I don't care if Pyrex says it doesn't explode- it did. I am glad to have unscarred legs, undamaged eys and no injured pets. My floor, however is another story. I will never buy Pyrex again and am throwing away my Pyrex measuring cup, I will tell everyone I know and also put it on the internet, with the photos I took of the incident. I am also contacting Pyrex. Thay can replace my floor, and buy us dinner, and refund the price of the baking dish.

Was getting a 9x9 pan out of the oven that contained stuffed tomatoes. When to pan tilted and some of the juices flowed to the dry portion of the pan, it just exploded in my hand in relatively big pieces, there was glass and the content of the pan all over the kitchen.

My husband and I had 2 friends over for dinner, they brought their newborn and we had our 6-month-old twins in the living room. We were sitting on the floor playing with our babies and heard an extremly loud pop. Naturally we thought the dog must of knocked something over but he was laying on the couch. My husband walked in the kitchend and there was glass shattered all over the kitchen.

More than a year ago I had some chicken baking in a 9x13 glass Pyrex dish when the dish suddenly broke in the oven. We were sitting in the livingroom when we heard what sounded like a big pop. When I went to look for the source I noticed that my oven was smoking slightly. The 1/2 cooked chicken breasts were sitting on the heat element after falling through what was left of the dish. It had 4-5 large pieces left, but the remaining chunk was almost like snowflakes, all over the inside of my oven. It took several hours to clean up and I sustained several cuts to my fingers from glass that wasn't visible 'til already stuck in my skin. I never could get all of the food off of the element so it smoked regularly. We replaced the oven a few months later. My sister-in-law mentioned some other people having a similar experience so I investigated and found this site.

I experienced a frightening experience with exploding pyrex and am slowly discovering that I am not alone. I am still in shock though because I have been using pyrex for 27 years with no prior incidences. I know that pyrex is sensitive to temperature change and I also know that you do not cook with them on top of a stove so I never had any problems. This particular evening I was baking salmon using a pyrex baking dish in a 400 degree oven. Just afer I took it from the oven to cool on a trivet in the center of the kitchen table, it exploded and shattered all over the kitchen and family room. I stood there in shock as my husband came to assist in the clean up, which took at least two hours. Needless to say we had no supper that evening and I'm glad we didn't have company as we often do. After this expericence, I don't think I will ever use pyrex again.

We took one of our 8x8 Pyrex dishes out of the oven and set it on the stove top, like we had done a thousand times before. This time the dish broke apart/cracked in 4-5 major pieces with tiny glass flakes covering the stove top.

On Feb. 1st 2006 My Pyrex dish exploded in my hands after removing from the oven as I walked to the counter. The force blew glass6-7 feet forward on to the counter and out both sides This was one of my newer ones, aprox 2 1/2 years old

My 13 X 9 baking dish exploded as I removed it from the oven. I was still holding it with a pot holder when it shattered into pieces.

I was cooking fish in a Pyrex baking dish in my oven broiler. I took the pan out to place it on the counter when the entire pan exploded in my hand send chunks of glass all over my kitchen. I was so shocked I decided to look online to see if this happened to anyone else. I came across all these posting. I decided to add my voice to the list so that the makers of Pyrex will take this seriously. Luckily no one was injured but I am still finding chunks of glass all over my kitchen.

My husband and I were cooking Cornish game hens for the first time. Neither of us had ever had one. We put them in a pyrex baking dish on 350'. After 10 minutes in the oven we heard an explosion in the kitchen. The glass dish exploded inside the oven and our dinner was ruined.

Twice took a pyrex pan out of oven and it shattered after cooling. Lost two pans one a 9x13 and a larger pan and the glass particles were not chunks but tiny slivers all over and shattered at my face.

I placed 2 pyrex dishes on the cooktop to keep warm and both dishes exploded within seconds apart. The smaller dish just cracked in the 3 places and popped apart. The large pyrex dish, which exploded 15 seconds later, blew out all over the kitchen in a million small glass shards.

While baking chicken in a Pyrex 13x9 glass pan, I opened the oven to check and turn my chicken, the pan exploded with such force that it blew glass as far as 14 ft. Luckily no one was injured - just the chicken!

I was baking chicken strips in a 9x13 glass PYREX baking dish. I opened the oven door to check at 20 minutes and the glass had exploded. Large and small pieces of glass were all over the oven and of course the chicken mess. I received the baking dish for Christmas 2005.

My Pyrex 13X9 in pan exploded as I opened the oven. I was in shock with several cuts over my face and arms.

We have now had two Pyrex pans explode, a 13X9 casserole pan (1-1-04) and a 10 pie plate (8-5-06). I searched online to find out if this was a common occurrance with Pyrex and this was the first site I found.

My pyrex dish exploded sending glass schrapnel 12 feet away. It had been setting on a hot plate protector on the counter for one hour, prior to being in the oven for 45 min at 375F. It was not particularly new nor old, and free of nicks or observable stress or imperfection.

On June 30, 2006, I prepared a casserole and put it in a 350 preheated oven. I used a 9 x 13 Pyrex baking dish (Portables to Go) that has always been stored in its padded carrying case. This dish was only a few years old and not used as often as my older Pyrex baking dishes. We had invited another couple to dinner and I went into the kitchen after 20 minutes to check on the casserole.....an explosion had occurred in my oven!! There was glass and sauce from the casserole everywhere. Thank goodness it didn't happen when I opened the oven door. My husband had to disassemble the oven for cleaning and their was even shards of glass in the broiler section below!! What a mess, we had to take our friends out to dinner and it took me several hours to clean my oven, the next day.

While cooking a roast beef in my 3 X 9 pyrex baking dish, I opened the oven to check the meat. As I was leaning into the oven to check, the baking dish exploded, sending shards or glass flying past me and all over my kitchen, my stove, and me. I picked a two inch shard of glass out of my foot, burning my finger in the process on the hot glass.

I was cooking dinner on Easter 2006 and had a pyrex pie plate explode on my stovetop. It went off like a bomb and was startling, shocking, and alarming. I have burns on my linoleum floor and a third degree burn on the top of my foot where a large glass shard landed. Glass was found across the room and in two hallways on either side of the kitchen - just to illustrate the force of the explosion. My foot is not yet healed. I went into a local flooring store and mentioned what had happened and why I was looking at linoleum and was told that another person had just been in recently with a similar pyrex story.

On May 26, 2006, my husband I made pizzas in two 13x9 Pyrex glass pans (one clear glass the other rose colored glass). Once the oven was preheated to 450, the dishes went in for 15 minutes. Both dishes sat side by side on the same rack (rack was positioned in the middle of the oven). When my husband took out the rose colored one, the rose pyrex dish exploded in his hands between his stomach and chest area. The explosion was accompanied by a large noise, shards of glass and pizza went everywhere. The clear glass pyrex pan stayed whole. It did not break.

I was baking in a 9x13 pyrex dish at a 350 degrees. I opened the oven door and to my surprise the whole baking dish shattered. My grandchild was in the kitchen with me and glass flew everywhere. I did nothing different, I just opened the oven door.

My 9x13 pyrex baking dish exploded while baking lasagna in the oven @ 350 degrees. The pan was set on a cookie sheet before baking.

I have a clear glass Pyrex baking pan (it's one size smaller than the 9 x 13). I took it out of my cabinet today to use. After looking at it, I decided I needed the 9 x 13 size instead. I went to put the pan back in my cabinet, and it exploded on me into a million pieces. I hadn't even used the pan--I took it out, changed my mind, and put it back. It did not touch my counter top or stove. Imagine my surprise when it exploded and glass flew all over.

I have been using Pyrex for over 30 years. However, last night, our pyrex casserole, (size smaller than 9 x 13), exploded while in the oven. It wasn't a break - I've had one Pyrex dish break before. But this was an explosion as explosion is defined in scientific terms. Ruined food worth $20. But it could have hurt someone if it had exploded while not in the oven.

Pyrex baking dish 13X9 exploded in oven with a loud cracking noise and oven door puffed open. Shards of glass and fruit cobbler were all over oven, below bottom pan and glass was embedded into fiberglass gasket around door. Thanking God my 10 yr. old and 81 yr. old mother did not open oven to check the cobbler. They were 1 ft. from door. Mess took 1.5 hrs. to clean. Cut finger on shard while cleaning. Still working on racks where fruit juice burned on and trying to self-clean rest of oven.

On the evening of Monday, 5/1/06, my wife was baking fish in a 9x13 pyrex dish in the oven at 400 degrees F. With her attempt to remove the dish using "heavy fabric pot holders", the dish exploded in her hands. She received a cut to the arch of her foot and there was glass shards and fish all over the kitchen and the range. During 3 hours of clean up, I dected a small crack in the inner glass window of the door of the oven about 1/4 inch long.

I too had a 9X13 pyrex pan explode tonight. I took it out of the oven and set it down. I was pouring room temperature sauce on it and it exploded. Lost a whole pan of chicken wings. I got a slight cut on my chin and even got some in my mouth. It was very scary!

I bought this Pyrex set recently and on yesterday 4/30 I used one of the pans in the oven. When I took the pan from the oven I held it with two pot holders because it was hot, for reasons unknown to me the complete dish exploded in my hands. It was like it imploded. Glass went all over my kitchen and into my hall way which is at least 10 feet from where I was standing.

We put chicken legs in a 9 X 13 clear glass pyrex baking dish. After 10 minutes in the oven we heard a large explosion and found the pyrex dish had exploded destroying the meal and damaging the gasket on my brand new oven door. Thank God no one was injured but I think this product needs to be taken off the market. This is not the first time this has happen to me. The last time it exploded when I took it out of the oven and while still in my hands expolded burning my forearms, face and feet.

Quite simply, we had a pyrex baking dish explode in our cupboard. The dish was not near any heat source and had not been used in several days.

This is a response to your March 27th article on the subject of exploding Pyrex written by James R. Hood. I was searching the internet for that subject specifically and came across the story.

Strange to find this article on exploding pyrex dishes, as that is exactly what happened about a week ago to us - only our 9x13 glass pyrex exploded in the oven, with a loud bang, sending food and many shards of glass all over the oven. The only "extreme change in temperature" was that the oven door had been opened and the rack on which the dish sat was pulled out to check on the food - then the rack with dish pushed back in and the door closed. I'm horrified to think what would have happened if not contained in the confines of the oven.

Last night I had a pyrex casserole dish also explode immediately when I removed it from the oven and as I went to place it on the oven top, it exploded. The sides blew off in pieces and I jumped out of the way as quickly as possible as the bottom blew off and hit the floor cutting my hand and tops of my feet.

Read with interest your article about exploding pyrex bakeware. I have been fortunate in that regard - tho I will be more careful in the future with the glass baking dishes I have in my kitchen. But for at least 3 decades, it has been pretty much common knowledge that their tableware - Corelle Livingware, if it is still called by that name - is particularly susceptible to the kind of fracturing that produces high-speed shrapnel-like projectile slivers of glass (hope that fits the accuracy requirements of their R&D dept). Granted, dropping them is the usual precipitating event... but even washing them in hot water - whether by hand or in the dishwasher - can do it.

My pan broke after i brought it out of the oven and ruined our 20 dollar steaks and burned our fingers after it blew up and had to pick it up.

2 pyrex oven dishes broke within 2 weeks.

2 pyrex oven dishes broke within 2 weeks.

I used my Pyrex 13x9 baking dish tonight for the 3rd time since it was purchased for me. When I was done and it had cooled, I placed it in the sink and filled it about half way with warm sudsy water to be washed. I was standing in the kitchen at the counter for a moment when the dish exploded in the sink. This dish was only used 3 times now. I have pictures to show of it in pieces right after this happened. I am unable to locate a contact number for Pyrex.

We had a Pyrex Plate for nearly 30 years with No trouble at all, My Mom decided to get a new one because the other one was getting pretty worn out. We had probably used this new one 3-4 times at time of incident. We had made or baked some rolls in oven, took out pyrex plate with rolls on it, and allowed the plate, rolls, etc to cool off completely, after we had eaten the rolls and watched some tv, etc, some time had passed, at least 1 hour maybe 2 hours.

On Sunday, February 19th, I had eight guests to dinner and was baking crabcakes which I had purchased from a local caterer for $175 in my 13" x 9" Pyrex baking dish at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. When I removed the dish from the oven and set it on top of the stove, the pyrex glass shattered. The crabcakes, as well as my dinner party, were ruined.

I was unloading my dishwasher. It had run the night before, so the contents were cool. A Pyrex 9x13-inch dish exploded in my hands before I got it stored in my cabinet. I am still picking glass shards out of my hands. It did not appear cracked or defective before this.

Reason(s) why it explodes!!! Pyrex is not meant for use on the stove - it does not distribute heat like a metal pan would. Also when "placed to cool" on a range - make sure it is not over the oven vent, which is still a heat source, this will cause one portion of the pan to heat faster the rest and shatter. Always place on a trivet or cooling rack to cool. Also, never broil in pyrex.

My round Pyrex dish cracked all around the base while it was in the oven at 350. Luckily I noticed it before it was lifted out of the oven as it would have separated into 2 and the chicken & grease would have dropped all over. Very unsafe. It says "ovenproof" on the bottom.

My situation is slightly different from the other Pyrex complaints. I was making brownies in a 9x13 Pyrex dish, as I normally do, and put it in to bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. However, 10 minutes into baking, I heard a noise in the oven. I looked in, the Pyrex dish had spontaneously shattered, and brownie goo was all over the bottom of my oven.

While roasting a 10 lb Turkey on Christmas day 2005, my Pyrex roasting pan broke from one handle to the opposite corner. This happened after about 3 hours of roasting. There were no other items in the 18 month old oven. I was alerted to the problem by a smoke alarm and billows of smoke coming from the kitchen.

I purchased a 13x9 Pyrex baking dish as part of a 4-piece set from my local Wal-Mart. The very next day (today, 12/29/05) I used the dish to cook chicken and stuffing at 375 degrees. I took the dish out and set it on a towel on top of my counter. The dish promtply exploded, sending shards all over my kitchen. World Kitchen is lucky some poor cook hasn't yet been blinded by flying shards.

Christmas Day I was taking a casserole out of the oven when the dish exploded in my hands! It was a 9x13 cobalt blue pyrex dish. The dish heated up gradually with the oven and wasn't taken from the refrigerator or freezer prior. It was a newer dish also. I just read the report on your page and thought I should also file my report. I don't want this to happen to anyone else!

I had cooked a lasagne in the pyrex dish, when i attempted to wash the dish a sliver of glass came away from the rim of the dish and severed off my finger tip and sliced my other two finger tips. I don not want any type of compensation i just want pyrex to be aware of the danger. Had one of my children washed the dish it could have been a lot worse and i would have been extremely angry.