Pyrex Reviews

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.

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.