Pyrex Reviews

On Christmas eve my Pyrex Easy Grab 2 quart casserole shattered. The Gardien roast I was cooking had only been in the oven for about 15 minutes when I heard a very loud pop coming from the kitchen. I went to investigate and could see through the oven door window that the bottom of the casserole dish had completely shattered all over the oven and my roast! I quickly turned off the oven and tried to open the door but the glass kept breaking. It was like it was brittle (much like a leaf in the fall) as the pieces fell from the racks they shattered even further. Thankfully, I was not hurt but it was way too close for comfort.

While roasting a wonderful romantic pre-christmas dinner for just us two, my husband was roasting a bacon wrapped pork roast, a very small one, just for two. Baked at 350 degrees, when almost done, heard a very loud bang.... Got totally freaked out, didn't even want to open the oven, but did...... and there was our dinner, sitting atop bunch of broken glass.... It looked like it had split at the sides, and the bottom was all over the bottom of our oven. So tell me, what do we do to clean this up? We have family coming for Christmas dinner. I'm afraid to use the oven, I'm afraid to use the rest of our Pyrex products.... In fact I will not use the Pyrex ever again, and plan to tell everyone I know of what happened to my poor oven and what was supposed to be a wonderful, awesome dinner.

I can honestly say Pyrex ovenware does explode @ high temperatures. My glassware just exploded as I opened oven to take out baked chicken. TYJ the oven is low b/c it could have seriously injured me. This isn't the 1st incident I witnessed of it exploding. Years ago my sister placed Pyrex dish on counter out of oven & it exploded with a piece of glass piercing my leg (minor cut). I will NEVER purchase Pyrex again. It could have easily exploded & injured my child. I thought it was suppose to be durable but it's a hazard that should be recalled before someone is seriously hurt.

The glassware exploded in the oven and destroyed it. There should be a consumer label on the purchasing wrap that warns people of this scary and dangerous glass.

Was baking banana bread when Pyrex baking pan exploded inside oven. Shards of glass everywhere. Won't eat the bread now because not sure if there are small pieces of glass embedded in it. Luckily it did not explode outside of the oven because there are sharp shards of glass that broke off. Scary!

I was baking bread today and we heard a huge explosion from the kitchen. I opened the oven and one of my bread loaf pans had exploded. No drafts, no cooling off, just bang (!) like a gun went off. I had always thought Pyrex was reliable, apparently not since I found numerous complaints about glass exploding. I will never buy another Pyrex baking pan again. EVER.

3 AM I am a dad and thought someone broke in. Had shotgun out and looked everywhere, no break in. My wife opened the cabinet later that day and down came shards of glass. So the Pyrex exploded in reg conditions in my cabinet. WE ARE GETTING RID OF ALL GLASS COOKING WARE. I can't imagine my 2 yr old son or 6 year old by this stuff.

I am no stranger to the exploding Pyrex phenomenon. Several years ago, I blew up a 9x12 dish when I accidentally dripped a few cold water drops onto a pan that was oven-hot but sitting out to cool. I completely understood the physics behind this accident and learned what NOT to do with Pyrex.

On November 4, 2013, I purchased a 3 cup Pyrex bowl with a no leak purple lid. Prior to using the bowl, I placed it on the top rack of my dish washer, along with a full load of dishes. About 30 minutes in to the wash cycle, I heard a loud explosion. When I went to investigate, I saw that the bowl had exploded in my dishwasher all over my dishes. I contacted Ralph's, where I bought the bowl, they directed my to their claims department, who has now passed me off to Pyrex directly. I am now being asked the below questions:

Accidentally placed 8x8" Pyrex on warm burner of stove top and it sounded like a 9mm handgun was discharged 15 seconds later. Glass thrown up to 15' away. A nightmare! Am going to go with an alternative like ceramic after additional research. Had I been standing in front of the stove when this little bomb went off, I'd likely have incurred severe cuts. This stuff is extremely dangerous.

I baked a squash, removed it from a 400 degree oven, set it on the stove top to cool and it exploded everywhere into a zillion pieces! Miraculously no one was hurt. It was definitely a Pyrex brand, perhaps 4 years old or so. I threw away the squash and have a terribly big mess to clean up. I'll be throwing away all other Pyrex from my cupboard and recommending that others do the same.

Was cooking homemade mac and cheese and went to remove it from the oven (with oven mitts) and the Pyrex glass pan exploded while in my hands. I had my 2 dogs laying in the kitchen and the one dog was cut. It flew up in the air and pieces came down on myself and my dogs. It was in my hair, down my shirt and cut my arms and feet as I had to walk through it in order to get the apparatus to clean the mess and take care of myself and dogs. I used to stand behind Pyrex and now I will never use or purchase another piece of Pyrex. I will also be passing the word along to A LOT OF PEOPLE about this product and tell them to throw out any that they already own.

Put a tuna casserole in new, never used Pyrex glassware in preheated oven at 350 degrees. It was in the oven for only 5 minutes when we heard the sound of shattering glass. Not at all happy with Pyrex. I followed all the do's and don'ts so no reason for this to happen except inferior product. The photo shows the casserole on a cookie sheet after removing it from the oven, I did not bake it on the cookie sheet just for clarification.

I was baking two halves of an acorn squash and went to pull the pan out of the oven. Some of the liquid that had accumulated in the squash spilled and as soon as it hit the pan, the pan exploded!!!! It was not a crack or a typical glass breaking situation... it was an explosion. I was lucky I was not hurt, but have to wonder if glass is stuck deep somewhere in my oven and will pop and end up in my food. Oven had to be taken apart and vacuumed in there but I still don't feel comfortable with the parts of the oven that were not taken apart where there could still be glass. Our oven is only a couple months old, so yes, I am very angry and worried about cooking in it!!!!!! All glass bakeware and mixing bowls in my house will be thrown out!!!!!!!!!!

I cooked fish in the oven at 350 in a small rectangular Pyrex baking pan. I then took the fish out of the oven and set it on the stove. The burner under the pan was hot, as I'd used that burner to boil a vegetable, but about 10 minutes later the pan exploded. That is the word: exploded. Fortunately, I was in the next room and my children weren't in the kitchen. Glass shards flew all over the kitchen, some quite large, others tiny fragments. I recognize that heating the unit under one side (where the burner was) may have caused stress on the pan, but for it to explode in that way was shocking.

I have a new Pyrex 13x9 glass baking dish that I have used once before without incident. Yesterday I used it to bake a cake. Pan had been in the cupboard, and cake was baked at 350 for 40 minutes. I took it out of the oven and placed it on top to cool. About 30 minutes later, I heard a large amount of glass shattering in the kitchen. The dish had just exploded, spraying shards all over the kitchen, as far as 10 ft away. I stepped back because I could hear the glass continuing to crack. It was a big clean up. I am writing this review because Pyrex continues to call this product safe and seems to indicate it is mishandling by the consumer. Not the case in this incident. I am still using my mother & grandmother's Pyrex after decades. This is surely not the same product. I have photos.

While cooking a roast in our stick free coated Pyrex, my partner opened the door to check the roast and the Pyrex exploded. It scared her a lot. The rib roast was garbage. Fragments were everywhere. Huge clean up. With only minor cuts. Photos were taken.

My Pyrex exploded in the most rare circumstances. We bought these new Pyrex pans and without using them, that night, we stored them in one of the kitchen cabinets. The following morning, one of the trays had exploded mysteriously. In this experience, no heat at all was involved, no abrupt temperature change was involved either. Still the Pyrex tray exploded at some point through the night. We were lucky it exploded while in the kitchen cabinet and no one was hurt. We called Pyrex to complain about this problem. They did not give any explanation, but they apologized and sent us by UPS a new Pyrex pan for free to replace the one which had exploded. This happened last December (2012). I haven't had any problems with my Pyrex trays anymore (I have pictures of the explosion to document these facts).

My mother just gave me some new Pyrex cookware. I used the small baking pan to make some Baked Mac n Cheese. The dish was in the oven for 20 min. but for some reason, when I took it out and set it on the potholder on my counter, it exploded! There was no drastic temperature change, no bumping, or any damage to the glass! It was brand new and I had never used it before! I am now cleaning glass up from all over my kitchen and living room and picking glass out of my arms and hands! All the rest of the cookware is going into the trash immediately and I will never ever use this product again. I will also make sure none of my friends or family use it. What if it had gotten in my eyes? Or worse what if children had been in the kitchen?

Tonight I was baking chicken in a Pyrex glass dish when I heard a noise. Ran to the oven to discover the pan had exploded and glass shards were everywhere. Luckily nobody was hurt. I love Pyrex and will continue using it; however, I would really appreciate it if the Pyrex company would reimburse me with a new 9 by 12 baking pan. I feel that would be very appropriate.

I was making brownies this evening to take to a new teacher meeting tomorrow. While sitting at the dining room table waiting for the brownies to finish baking, my family heard an explosion. We ran to the oven and discovered that one of the Pyrex baking dishes exploded and sent shards of glass all over the inside of my oven. Needless to say, I have lost time, resources, and a dessert for tomorrow. What on Earth happened? I believe the public needs to be aware of this issue.

I have been baking with Pyrex for many, many years...I had made 2 Pyrex casserole's with stuffed peppers and had them covered with foil. I opened the oven door about halfway through cooking them to check them and one of the Pyrex casseroles just EXPLODED...WOW...talk about scared...just glad it didn’t EXPODE in our faces. It was a big mess in the oven, the oven drawer, the kitchen floor and got some glass in my hand...Just think you should know because I AM IN SHOCK...like I said, been cooking with PYREX for many YEARS...very disappointed to say the least...no dinner tonight...by the time we get everything cleaned up after the oven cools off...thank you for listening.

I'm quite upset with Pyrex glass. This is my second occurrence where their product has exploded during or just after cooking. There wasn't any extreme temperature change or cold to hot. With a family on a budget and meals planned accordingly, we are now a meal short this week due to Pyrex not being a reliable cookware. Thanks a bunch, guys.

I just finished picking shards of glass out of my leg and foot after a Pyrex glass bakeware dish exploded after pulling it out of the oven. I'm thankful my children were not hurt.

I preheated the oven to 350 for ten minutes. Sprayed cooking spray (Pam olive oil) on the Pyrex dish and put pieces of a rotisserie chicken from Walmart (already cooked), placed it in the oven and cooked it for 10 minutes. I opened the oven to get it out and the Pyrex dish exploded. Shards of glass went all over my oven and kitchen. I want everyone to be aware of this. It's super scary. My husband's face was scratched and he got glass in his arm. I'm throwing all of my Pyrex cookware away. The shards of glass went all in our food. We could've ate glass and died.

I was cooking my dinner in a medium sized Pyrex bowl when I checked it for doneness. Was I surprised to find an explosion had happened. I just threw everything away and chalked it up to a mishap of some sort. It happened about 2 months ago and I forgot about it until I read about this happening before in Consumer Affairs.

My Pyrex baking dish exploded in my oven. I was baking potatoes at 350 degrees. There was seasoning, olive oil and water in the dish. I opened the oven and added additional water (water was not cold), and the dish broke into several large shreds, creating projectile across my kitchen. This dish was given as a wedding gift in 2007, and was purchased from Fortunoff. I have pictures to verify. This occurred this evening (7/25/2013) at 9 pm.

I was cooking Chicken in my large Pyrex Dish @ 350. Within 15 min it exploded in the oven. Glass everywhere. It had never done this before and I have used it without any problems. I have used Pyrex my whole life and have never seen this happen.

My wife was cooking enchiladas on a Pyrex pan at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes when the pan literally exploded in the oven blowing glass fragments everywhere. We are just thankful that it happened while it was still in the oven rather than when she was removing it from the oven. My wife said that she had another identical pan, and I told her to discard it as it was a comparable age as the dish that blew up. I'm telling you that this is a serious safety issue concerning this cookware. Had this incident occurred under different circumstances, there could have been a very serious accident.

I have had my second Pyrex pan explode. The first time, I thought I bumped it on something. This time, it was sitting on the stove with no one touching it, and it exploded. My four-year-old daughter was sitting about three feet away from the stove and was hit with glass. It shot fragments of glass all over the kitchen and spilled the hot contents all over the stove and onto the floor. This is a serious safety hazard. This was not a small cracking and falling apart; it was an explosion shooting fragments everywhere.

While cooking a chicken breast from a semi-frozen state in a Pyrex loaf pan, the pan exploded. I had removed it from the oven and was in the process of flipping the breast when the water/juice hit the bottom, the glassware simply shattered. I was not injured. The food was ruined and the clean up was terrible. Despite not being hurt this time, it is my personal opinion that the potential is there for serious injury. The shards were moving at a very fast pace and had one hit my eye, I believe it could have blinded me. It's simply not worth the risk.

I used a room temperature Pyrex 8x8 glass casserole dish to bake stuffed peppers. The oven was pre-heated when I put the stuffed peppers in. After about 15-20 minutes, the dish exploded. I sent the glass to Pyrex for analysis by their lab. They sent me a replacement dish. Later I received a letter saying that I must have, at some point, knocked the casserole dish and not pre-heated the oven. Neither are true. The casserole was only 6 month old and I hardly used it. Not to mention, knocked it against a hard surface. They took absolutely no responsibility. Luckily, no one was hurt but I worry about others' safety. I really think they should take this product off the market.

My Pyrex baking dish shattered in my oven. I was baking chicken at 350 degrees. It had been in the oven for about 30 minutes when I heard a loud "bang." I opened the oven up to see that the glass had shot into the other three dishes in the oven and shattered all over the bottom of the oven. Not sure what damage to the oven is yet.

Hey, Pyrex! I am very, very unhappy with your product. I purchased a set from Target and I put it in the oven with veggies I was roasting and, all of a sudden, I heard a huge crash. I opened the oven and the whole dish shattered all over my beautiful veggies. I know for a fact my Nana's does not do that. I bake in hers all the time. What changed?

I used the shallow round baking dish to cook bacon in the oven at 375. Not 5 minutes later, I heard an explosion. The sound scared me so bad that I had an anxiety attack. My husband opened the oven after making sure I was okay and proceeded to throw all glass cookware away. I thank God that it did not explode when I would have opened the oven to check the progress. No images, just telling everyone about the experience.

I was pulling my 8x8 glass pan, holding a small roast, and it just exploded into so many pieces; it is impossible to tell what it was. I have taken several pictures of the aftermath, but I am only submitting 3. A piece of glass (very small) went into my arm but could have been my eye or that of my 12-year old who was supposed to be the one taking the pan out. Although I was uninjured, I am out a dinner and a pan. My biggest concern, however, is that this does not happen to others.

I had heated up a large pizza bread sandwich in my oven in a 9-inch glass pie plate. We had used this pie plate before with no problems at all. It was on 400 degrees. The oven itself was hot on the surface. I took out the glass dish with oven mitts, then gently placed it down on the hot oven. I know not to ever place hot to cold with glassware of any sort. I had my face down looking closely at the sandwich - deciding where to cut it. I turned around to the utensil drawer and at that second, a large explosion happened. In shock, I saw glass everywhere. This is not the safety type glass where it breaks in square little pieces. This was a killer glass. Long knife-like shards, tiny needle-like shards, and chunks of glass over an area of several feet.

On Easter morning, I was preparing food in the oven and the dish blew up ruining all that was being prepared in the oven. Glass was all over and the food was ruined. Why did this happen? Never has this ever happened before. Very dissatisfied experience. I had to start over after having to clean a mess up. Not at all a happy Easter.

Two nights ago, I heard a boom in my kitchen. I thought the hot water heater exploded. I ran in there to see my daughter's foot covered in blood. She had dropped a Pyrex bowl from the microwave. It would take 10 stitches to put her foot back together. These pieces are razor sharp. Our floor is made of wood and is springy because it's on the second floor. Nothing usually breaks on that floor. The doctor had to stick a needle in her foot 10 times, 1/2" deep to numb it up for stitches. The Pyrex bowl had stored energy. Glass bowls don't normally explode when broken. This was a bomb waiting for a trigger.

I had a preheated oven at 375F so I could roast beets for a dish tonight. The beets were merrily roasting away for at least 30 minutes and I was preparing other dinner creations when I heard a pop and rattle sound emit from the oven. I glanced over from my sink to see what happened; nothing was apparent from that distance. But when I actually peeked in closely, I saw the completely obliterated dish pieces all over the oven. Lucky me, I did some Google research to find other people with far worse stories. I am quite disappointed and somewhat nervous now. We recently tossed out another Pyrex dish about a month ago because it was chipping and seemed like it wasn't safe enough to use. All of our cookware is Pyrex brand and we got it about 8 years ago as a gift. Hopefully our other glassware isn't destined to the same fate as our two pie dishes.

Alert! This problem must be handled immediately by Pyrex. Yesterday, I prepared a pork tenderloin in my oblong Pyrex dish, which was about 5 years old. I took it from the oven, covered it loosely with foil, and left it to cool for over 2 hours. My husband went into the kitchen to fix a plate, turned to the sink to wash his hands, and boom -the explosion. When I ran into the kitchen, I was shocked. The Pyrex dish had literally exploded and shot glass shards in a million pieces over 10 feet, from one end of the kitchen to the other! It blew so hard that it blew up the pork tenderloin and potatoes all over the kitchen as well. If my husband had not turned for one second, he would have been seriously injured! I was shocked to see over 1268 complaints of Pyrex dishes blowing up in the past few months! Pyrex needs to pay attention to this immediately before someone loses their eyesight. I will not ever use Pyrex again.

I was cooking a tri tip sirloin in a parchment paper wrap with a Pyrex baking dish. When I went to open the parchment paper, the Pyrex pan exploded almost in my face and eyes! I have a 7-pound Westie puppy that was smelling the cooking and almost was hit by a shard of flying glass. If he was hit, he would have surely been killed! I could not believe the explosion. The shards shattered and raced through the air! I am lucky I did not get hit and blinded or had my face cut up!

We can't believe what happened this morning. My husband was heating water in a 1-liter Pyrex bowl in the microwave (he makes his porridge in the microwave). We heard a loud pop and the sound of the turntable being jarred. When we opened the door, the dish was in 2 large pieces and many smaller chunks. We never expected Pyrex to do this.

Daughter was cooking a small pot roast in the oven using the big casserole dish. When she looked into the oven, the dish exploded in her face. Thank God she wasn't hurt. I will never trust another Pyrex dish again.

I took a heated glass Pyrex casserole dish out of the oven and set it on the cook top. I added one handful of chopped garlic that was dry and at room temperature. Immediately, the dish exploded, shooting shards of broken glass everywhere. The dish exploded with such force that glass flew nearly 12 feet across my kitchen. The glass was broken into many pieces of different shapes and sizes, including many hard-to-clean-up tiny slivers of glass and some sharp 5" long large pieces shaped like the blade of a knife. Immediately after the explosion, my right eye started feeling strange and like it had something in it. I flushed my eye with water but this didn't help with the feeling, so I went to my local urgent care.

I had the scariest mishap happen in the kitchen just now. I took the Pyrex bakeware out of the oven (400 degrees F) and as soon as it touched the counter, the dish exploded everywhere! I was so terrified of what could have happened. A piece of glass could have hit my eye and I could be blinded or if it hit my face, I would have been facially scarred. My dog was also standing next to me and he could have also been hurt. I can't believe bakeware like this is allowed on the market. It should be recalled! I looked up Pyrex safety on their website and it does say not to place it directly on the counter, but nowhere does it say that it would explode if you do. There should be a big warning on the box to warn consumers that these glasswares can explode. Because of this, I will never buy another glassware again.

I was baking chicken breasts in the oven yesterday evening. I was using the Pyrex oblong baking dish that I have had for several years. When I turned the chicken over, the dish exploded and shattered in a million pieces and went everywhere - but mainly in the oven. I was fortunate that none of the large slivers came in my direction. It took me quite a while to clean it up and had to clean my oven this morning. This is quite dangerous and now I find that it is quite common. There should be a recall on these dishes!

I will start with tonight's disaster. I was making Sunday night dinner for my family. Now let me tell you real quickly that we have been going through a really hard time. Both my husband and I are out of work and we are hardly making ends meet. Anyway, I was baking chicken, a family size pack, because it was cheap and it would last us for a few meals: chicken sandwiches, chicken casserole and then chicken soup. I put the oven on 350 degrees, put the chicken in the large lasagna size Pyrex dish and put it in the oven for 30 min. About 25 min in, I heard a loud pop and my family ran to the kitchen. We didn't see anything unusual and then the timer went off. I opened the oven to find that the Pyrex dish had exploded. There were shards of glass everywhere and my entire meal was ruined. I can't believe this happened. Pyrex is supposed to be a trusted name, right? As you can imagine, I am extremely upset. There goes at least 3 days of meals for my family.

I've used this dish for a couple of years in this exact same manner, although last night for some reason, when I removed the dish from the oven and placed it on the same cutting board as I always do, it exploded with a loud crack sound into dozens of pieces of elongated sharp glass. Some of the dish was reduced to glass dust on my counter. Searing-hot pieces hit my legs (which were thankfully clothed) and our dog ran forward to eat them since things that hit the floor while I'm cooking are usually edible, not hot shards of glass. Thankfully, I kept her from touching the hot glass with her mouth but I burned my hands picking them up quickly. I will be finding an alternative to Pyrex when I replace this dish and am very angry that my dog and myself were in danger.

I purchased this glass baking dish two years ago. I actually read and followed the instructions for use and cleaning care. Tonight, I used the glass baking dish to cook chicken in the oven at 375 degrees for 16 minutes. I removed the glass from the oven, took the chicken out of the dish, and placed the chicken on a separate plate. I heard the juices from the chicken sizzling in the dish more than usual, so I moved the dish to the sink where it exploded as I was lowering it but before it touched the sink's surface. The glass shattered completely, making a mess of my kitchen sink and sending glass everywhere. Luckily, I was not injured but I was very shaken by the experience. I easily could have been very injured by this product if I hadn't been placing it in a sunken sink where the walls of the sink protected me from getting glass on my body. Now I have to remove the glass from my sink and garbage disposal, so that no one is injured when we go to use the disposal.

On 1-22-2013, I made pork tenderloin at 425 degrees for 30 minutes. After I was done eating, the Pyrex was cool so I put soap and water in the dish to soak. After I got my other dishes done, I picked the Pyrex dish up and was putting it in the sink when it broke in my hand. It broke into five pieces. I had to get six stitches in my pinky finger, a few smaller cuts, and the tip of my thumb was cut off. This Pyrex dish was given to me when I moved out of my parents' house. There was not a single crack or chip in the dish! I will be getting rid of all my Pyrex dishes.

My wife was putting burger in this Pyrex product after she had cooked it to start her shepherd’s pie, and it flat exploded. Shards of glass went everywhere up to ten feet. The only thing left was a round piece, approx. 8 inches round, with the Pyrex logo on it. The only reason it stayed was the burger was laying on it. Consumers need to be aware of this faulty product. It could have been much worse if my wife was not wearing her glasses. She could have lost one, if not both eyes.

Glass 1 Cup container with red plastic lids (Pyrex # 7202) - I have never been able to use them for puddings or jello or anything because the lids are too tight and cannot get food out without the food being jumbled up. I bought 12 from Walmart; it was about 2 years ago. They are too good to throw out and yet totally useless to me as is. I have to use plastic wrap but then I can't stack them. I would like different lids with a lip you can use to pull up the lid. In fact, I was in the market for some good glass storage containers Saturday and totally passed over your product. I bought Ziploc VersaGlass instead, because I could safely remove the snug fitting blue lids that had a lip to hold on to.

Using a Pyrex pie plate, I had just taken it out of a 400 degree oven and set it on the grill portion of a Thermador. It did not explode but cracked into pieces just after it was set down. I had been heating an item that was sealed in parchment paper, so I did not have to ruin dinner but I have duplicated this meal four times lately using the same Pyrex and the same procedure. It's sad to lose faith in such a mainstay of my kitchen. No longer will I reach for the Pyrex measuring cups when using hot liquids or the baking dishes.

My daughters and I have always thought Pyrex measuring cups were heat-proof and routinely added hot water to soup powder to make bouillon. This evening, my younger daughter was measuring hot (but not boiling) water to make soup when the Pyrex cup exploded with force. There was a loud bang and pieces were flying everywhere and bouncing off stuff. She felt fortunate to escape injury. Glass shards to face or eyes would have been a very serious matter. Thermal shock seems an insufficient explanation. There's not that much difference between 20 C and 90 C, and the cup was relatively new and undamaged. We will be replacing our Pyrex.

The Pyrex baking pan was sitting on the counter and was not even warm. It had been out of the oven for 48 hours and no one was in the kitchen when it violently exploded. Small pieces of glass were all over the floor, counter and in the sinks. I am getting rid of all Pyrex baking dishes and will not use Pyrex for baking again.

Last night, I was using my Pyrex baking dish for a pork tenderloin at 325 deg. I have had this dish for 25 years and never had a problem using it for this purpose. I took the baking dish out of the oven after about one and a half hours, placed it on top of the stove and this dish exploded all over the place. It sounded like an explosion with glass everywhere. I have used this dish at higher temperatures so I didn't think it was a problem. I will never use Pyrex again. Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

I purchased a new Pyrex Measuring cup (4-cup size) in October 2012. The first time I used it was in a microwave, melting Melt & Pour Soap Base. I was melting it in 30-second bursts. Two pounds of M&P Soap Base were in the cup. After the third burst, the cup shattered inside the microwave. I'm 57 years old and I have never seen this before. I will never use the new Pyrex products in my microwave again. The experience was terrifying. My old Pyrex dishes and cups have been used the same way without any problem. I know that in the Soap Making community, this has been a common and growing complaint.

Last evening (04 Jan. 12), my wife and I were baking chicken breasts in two (2) Pyrex glassware 9x13 baking dishes. The oven was at approx. 400 deg F. After approx 30 minutes in the oven, we heard what sounded like a crash from the oven. Upon opening the oven, we were astounded to have found that one of the baking dishes had literally exploded, sending glass shards and debris throughout the oven. The blast must have been so intense that glass shards impregnated a loaf of bread wrapped in many layers of foil that was also baking in the oven at the time of the explosion. Other than ruining our dinner, destroying a piece of bakeware, and creating what was literally a 90+ minutes of clean up job (both messy and dangerous - numerous slivers of extremely sharp glass were in every crevice/crack of the oven interior), we shuddered to think what would have happened had the blast happened in the process of opening the oven door or when the door was open no less, while possibly handling the dish itself.

On 1/2/13, I had two Pyrex dishes in the oven with chicken in them. I have used these dishes for years. When I took them out of the oven, one exploded everywhere. I was really lucky that the glass did not hit me in my eyes or on my body. Needless to say, we did not eat the chicken and I threw every Pyrex dish and lid that I had in the house out. No more Pyrex dishes for me. Please, everyone, be careful cooking with these dishes.

I now have a data point to add to the discussion of new vs. old Pyrex baking dishes. For the past seven years, we have been making Yorkshire Pudding from the same recipe to go along with Roast Beef. This recipe calls for pre-heating the baking dish at 400 deg F before adding pan drippings from the meat to be followed later by the batter. There has never been any problem with this procedure using my mother's 40-year-old 9 x 13 Pyrex baking dish. This year, I decided to bring my newer dish of the same size and brand to save her some clean up. Immediately after adding the pan drippings to the pre-heated dish, it exploded violently coating the entire inside of the oven with scalding fat and glass shards. Fortunately, there were no personal injuries and amazingly a grease fire did not occur. So Christmas dinner had a few less calories this year and the rest of the holiday had to be spent cleaning up the kitchen and the inside of the oven.

On Thanksgiving Day in 2011, the last dish to go on the table was candied yams. I took them out of a 350 degree oven with clean, dry oven mitts, took one step back from the oven and the dish fell apart in my hands. I slipped in the hot bubbling yams and fell. I received severe burns on my right hip and shattered the greater tuberosity in my right shoulder. After ten and a half months of excruciating pain and surgery, I returned to work. Over a year later, my shoulder still hurts and I still have restricted movement. That was on top of the medical bills that my insurance didn't cover and my disability payments were $2000 less a month than what I earned when working.

About 15 minutes into baking an apple dessert, I heard an explosion and then glass falling onto the bottom of my oven. What a mess it was! I have been using Pyrex baking dishes all my life and have never had an experience like this in the past. Today, while online, I saw an article about Pyrex cookware breaking and read what other people had experienced. I will be heading home to clean out my cabinets of Pyrex baking dishes and disposing of them all in the trash. I am not willing to take a chance that someone may get hurt with my Pyrex cookware.

I baked a quiche at my Pyrex 9-inch pie plate at 350 degrees for an hour (nothing unusual). I took it out and put it on a warm (to the touch) cook top to cool. Three minutes later, it sounded like a bomb went off and shards of glass went everywhere, including into my family room 20 ft. opposite of the stove. Hot glass embedded in my carpeting which is now ruined. Glass ended up in two of the plates of food, which I was getting ready to take to the table and had to throw away instead. It took three adults and 20 minutes to clean up the glass and keep the pets and toddlers away. What a buzz kill to a special day. We are so thankful only the rug was ruined and I had minor cuts on my hands. I will never buy Pyrex again, having learned they changed their formula. I'll opt to buy the more expensive Creuset brand.

I was cooking in a Pyrex dish. As soon as I pulled the dish out of the oven, the dish exploded in my hands! It scared the crap out of me. I had to keep two kids and a dog away from the broken glass on the floor. I will never use glass to bake again. I thought it was only me, until I started to read all of these posts. Please pass this information on to others who may not know this type of glass does explode and can explode in midair as you pull it out of the oven!

I just saw a report about Pyrex pans shattering. I thought it only happened to me. I have had two of them shatter in the past 8 years, one after being taken out of the oven and another shattered while in the oven! Both scary events. Luckily no one has hurt (except the food) in the incidences.

I was baking a cake like I have many times before. When I removed it from the oven and set it gently on top of the stove (the burner was not on where I set it on), it exploded with a loud noise. I had glass all over my kitchen. My husband heard me scream from outside in the driveway. He came in and helped clean up the mess, while I kept the dog out of the glass as I was barefoot. Fortunately, I was not injured as I always wear oven mitts that go up to my elbows. Of course I threw out the cake, along with the cake pan pieces and won't purchase another Pyrex anything. I have several pieces yet to replace as I won't use them again for fear that they will be next on the explosion list as they are older than the cake pan that was only about a year old.

I had a similar experience. I took a Pyrex pizza plate from the oven and set it on the cooktop. Within a minute, it shattered explosively - sending shards of hot glass across the kitchen. No one was hurt, but the hot glass permanently damaged the kitchen flooring.

I thought I was the only person that had experienced the exploding cookware phenomenon until I read an article online. I too had experienced this. I cooked a pan of lasagna in the oven. When it was finished, I pulled it out; placed it on the stove to cool; and set for a while. I went to the living room to watch some TV and it sounded like rain was hitting the kitchen window. When I got up to see what the ruckus was, I was in awe to see the lasagna slowly oozing out of the Pyrex cooking dish. It had splintered into a thousand long, slender pieces. I was just lucky to not have had the hot dish in my hands or worse, set it on a table with hungry guests. The only loss was a healthy portion of good ingredients and about two hours of preparation and cleanup. Again, I was grateful that no one was injured.

This is nothing new for this cookware. Subject Pyrex cookware to any severe extreme temperature and it will explode. Making them explode is easy. Just start making escaloped potatoes in them. Put the water and butter in one of the saucepans on the stove top, bring to a boil then add the milk and presto! Explosion! Works every time. I've been able to replicate this 95% of the time.

Dish shattered - I was making a roast for supper. The roast had been in the oven for probably 45 minutes. I opened the oven and then got a fork to turn over the meat so it would brown on both sides. I turned away and while I had my back turned, the dish shattered. This was probably about two years ago. It scared me silly and it was in the oven. I was surprised we didn't have a huge grease fire in the stove.

The pan was used about 10 times. I put it in a preheated 350 oven with a chicken and some juice in it. I opened the door to remove from the oven an hour later and as I lift the pan, it explodes into a million shards of glass and hot fluid flies everywhere.

My favorite Pyrex dish, a very large rectangle, exploded in the oven. I use it a lot. It was full of nice size chicken drumsticks. How do you explain to autistic children who have been eyeing dinner since it went in the oven that it's Little Caesar pizza? It was not a good time as I only use Pyrex dishes. I'm really disappointed at this mishap.

I am visiting a family member and used their Pyrex dish to prepare a roast turkey roll like I've done hundreds of times in my life. As always, I baste the turkey and after it browns, place less than a cup of room temperature water in the baking dish so the drippings don't burn as it continues cooking. To my shock, the dish exploded into hundreds of pieces. Fortunately, no one got hurt, but it took over an hour to clean up. When I bake the same meal in my own home, I use Corning Ware and never had a problem. It was not until I did a net search that I learned it was a frequent problem. The product needs to be taken off the market. It's dangerous, like shrapnel!

I purchased a new Pyrex dish with the carrier. The first time I used it, I took it out of the oven 350 degrees to set on the counter to cool. Within a few seconds, it exploded, sending glass everywhere. I was grateful that it didn't happen while I was holding it or I could have had glass embedded in my face or arms; not to mention, being burned by a hot casserole. This is very dangerous!

I was roasting a pork on the center rack of my oven and when I opened the oven door, the 13 x 9 Pyrex exploded all over my oven and on my kitchen floor - glass everywhere. Boy was I in shock. Even the bottom of the oven where it covers the flame popped off. All I thought about was a fire. I hope there's nothing wrong with my oven. I'm waiting for it to cool so I can clean it. I see that glass did go into the openings of the oven, which I'm sure will be a pain to get to. Well, there goes a nice meal and possibly my oven! I think I'm done using Pyrex!

After having had a bad experience with an exploding Pyrex dish some years ago, my husband and I were particularly careful this Thanksgiving to make sure all our dishes (from the refrigerator), were taken out and not put into the oven until they were at room temperature. Even with this precaution, about half an hour after putting them in the oven at 250 degrees, we heard a frightening crash. Much to our amazement, we found an entire lasagna-sized dish of stuffing shattered, taking with it 2 other dishes now filled with glass shards. There were significant chunks of glass on the bottom of the stove. It was not only a disappointment to have to throw out all the food, but the cleanup was distressing & possibly dangerous with our grandchildren present. Our anger and disappointment with Pyrex products has brought us to the decision of never buying another Pyrex product. Do you need to take a science class on thermal shock to use their products?!

I had made rolls for Thanksgiving in my Pyrex 13x9 dish. I have used this baking dish for years with no problem. I took the dish out of the oven and placed it on the counter and it exploded. Luckily, it didn't shatter into a lot of pieces and I was able to salvage my Thanksgiving rolls. What did shatter shattered into a lot of pieces.

I preheated the oven at the manufacturer’s direction on my newly purchased Pyrex 9x13 brand dish. The oven was set to 325 for 25 minutes. I heard a large bam and opened the oven to see glass everywhere and food. My oven heating unit is ruined and so was our Thanksgiving dinner.

I was cooking herb bread dressing in a recently purchased Pyrex square dish; it had baked for 30 min (350 degrees). I turned the oven off and left the dish of dressing in the oven with two other dishes when 10 minutes later, it exploded in the oven into hundreds of shards, which also fell in the other dishes. Luckily no one was injured, but we had very little to eat for our early Thanksgiving dinner since three dishes for dinner were ruined and it was a difficult mess to clean up. This is ridiculous that it exploded at a low temperature and with no temperature change to a colder counter, etc. as I heard this could happen if you sat it on a colder surface, but it was still in the oven. Pyrex should stop making these dishes and go back to the dependable formula they used to use.

I was looking forward to having some stuffed sole fillets from World Port Seafood (Omaha Steaks) for lunch along with my wife. I placed the two fillets in a 9x9 Pyrex dish and put them in a pre-heated oven at 375 degrees along with 2 tablespoons of water as instructed. Twenty minutes into the cooking time, I heard a crash and found the dish had "exploded" into multiple pieces.

My wife was going to bake a cake. She had prepared the Pyrex dish with PAM cooking spray and flour. The dish was sitting on the kitchen island behind her. She had her back to it and was standing at the kitchen sink. Suddenly there was a loud explosion and she was standing amidst all the fine pieces of broken glass from the dish. She is adamant that the dish had been placed securely on the island and that it had not simply fallen and then shattered at her feet. I was in another room - heard the explosion and went rushing to the kitchen to find her standing in all the shards of glass. That was very scary stuff for both of us!

I have been using Pyrex for years with no problems. This evening, I was taking pork tenderloin out of the oven (350 degrees, it had been in for 40 minutes) and I had barely gotten it off the oven rack when it exploded in my hands. Luckily, I was not injured at all, but dinner was ruined and it could have been a lot worse. There were no extreme temperature changes, no obvious marks in the glass. Then I looked online and saw how this has been happening to so many people. I felt I needed to add my story to all the other reviews. My little daughters are often in the kitchen with me, playing while I cook. Thank goodness tonight they were in the other room. I will never buy another Pyrex dish again.

Pyrex 9x13 blew up in 350 oven while cooking brownies - We had a regular baking excursion with boxed brownies in the oven. After about ten minutes, there was a pop; there was Pyrex and burning brownie mix everywhere. That was in my new wall oven, in my remodeled kitchen! The proof is in the pudding, as we say. This dish is less than one year from purchase, and while my experience with Pyrex brand up to this point has been great, this is obviously not the old Pyrex.

I was baking a chicken pot pie in one of the Pyrex 9 x 13" pans with the handles on it. I had used it 3 or 4 times before. The dinner was almost done when I heard a loud popping. I went into the kitchen and looked in the oven to see that the pan had burst into hundreds of small pieces. Everything had to be thrown out, peanut butter and jelly for dinner and a loss of grocery funds caused by exploding pan

I inspected my glass Pyrex 9X13 before filling it with Apple Danish Pastry to bake. I preheated my electric oven to 375 and checked that the rack was in the middle. I placed the pan in the preheated oven and set the timer for 50 minutes. About 20 minutes into the baking time, the glass dish shattered around the pastry, leaving the pastry largely intact but shards of glass everywhere.

The glass Pyrex casserole dish with chicken cooking in oven completely shattered when my wife opened the oven door to check on the food. Thankfully for her (and Pyrex or the company who makes the glass dish), she was not injured when the glass blew out of the oven towards her. The dish does not say anything about maximum temperature for this type of dishes. When I went to the store, they still do not have such a warning. I photographed the breakage in the oven and kept (for the moment) the shattered glass dish. Seems to be a problem when I look at your site and other sites involving this issue! I checked angry because this could have been a lot worse (glass in the eye, etc.). Maybe it is time to start putting warnings on all glass dishes that go into an oven (maximum temp and time they should be in?). Just a thought. Thanks.

Just minutes ago, I was taking a meatloaf out of the oven. I was holding the 13x9 Pyrex dish with two potholders. As I was turning from the oven, the Pyrex exploded sending shards of hot glass and hot meatloaf, as well as hot grease all over me up my arms into my face and all over the kitchen. The furthest shard traveled over ten feet. As a result, I have minor cuts and burns and have lost about $20.00 in groceries as everything on the stove top had to be thrown out. I am frightened and pissed off. I never knew this had happened to others. To me this is sheer negligence on the part of the manufacturer. Will it take someone getting blinded to fix this?

The other night, I used my square Pyrex baking dish to bake two frozen store-bought stuffed chicken breasts. I preheated the oven at 350 as usual and baked them for the 40 minutes required. I removed the dish from the oven and set it on a wooden trivet on top of my stove. I had just left the kitchen and heard a loud explosion and came back to the kitchen to find my dish had exploded all over the kitchen! My daughter came running in and we stood there in amazement.

The first time my 9x13 Pyrex exploded, I emailed and put in a complaint; they responded and sent me a new 9x13 and some other items. I thought since they sent me a new 9x13, it would be safe to use. I was cooking baby back ribs. Being cautious after having one of these dishes explode before, I put the ribs in the oven prior to pre-heating at 250 degrees to slow bake them. Within 45 minutes, the dish had once again exploded; shards of glass everywhere in my oven. I had to dismantle the oven to remove all of the glass, and the glass scratched and dented the bottom of my new oven! I emailed them once again. This is 2 weeks ago; no response. I can’t believe they can continue to sell these dishes; they are unsafe to use and should be taken off the market before someone gets seriously injured. For now, any Pyrex in my home is going in the trash.

I was cooking potatoes last week and I went to add some stock I had warmed up to the square Pyrex dish I was using. There was a loud boom and glass was everywhere. I stood there in shock a minute or so before I could check myself for injuries. How I didn't get shards of glass in my eyes, I will never know. I had heard Pyrex could explode, but I really didn't believe it until it happened to me. Since telling my story to several women, I was surprised to find many of them were unaware that adding liquid, using it on the stove top (even one woman puts it on top of her charcoal grill) should not be done while using Pyrex. People should be made aware of the potential dangers of using Pyrex. I will never use this product again.

My boyfriend was kindly making me dinner while I worked late and decided to make scalloped potatoes. He said he poured the hot water and milk mixture in our 9x9 square dish, and as he was putting it in the oven, it exploded in a million sharp jagged pieces leaving glass and milk mixture everywhere. He thinks he may have swallowed some glass too as he felt it in his mouth and now his throat is sore. It’s just a giant ridiculous mess now, but if he's hurt I will be furious! I am really upset that my tried and true bakeware can't really be trusted.

I had put some chicken quarters in the oven on 425 degrees for 30 minutes to cook and before the timer went off, I heard a loud noise like something fell over and broke. When I opened the oven door to take out my dinner, l was in disbelief! The pan (9x13 Dark Cake Pan) had exploded all over my oven. The glass was down in the vent of the oven. I had to wait for the oven to cool down before cleaning and then ordered pizza on my credit card. I haven't worked in 3 years and my husband is disabled. This was something I would have never expected. I also have a bread pan that I just used last week. Should I throw it away or take a chance?!

I was cooking a roast beef in one of your 15" by 10" oblong Pyrex. When I opened the oven door to take out the roast, the glass exploded all over the floor and my oven. Not only did it break the dish, it ruined my meal. I had guests over and had to order pizza.

I had finished taking the last of the leftovers out of a Pyrex dish. It was left sitting on the counter for a few hours, so it was at its normal temperature, not super hot nor super cold. I put it in the sink to soak in warm, not hot, water. I was in my bedroom and heard a sudden, very loud noise. I went into my kitchen to find out what caused the noise and saw my Pyrex baking dish in a million pieces in my sink. Thankfully the way it broke, there is the biggest remaining piece over the drain so I won't have to deal with a broken garbage disposal on top of this mess, but I am not happy.

I placed homemade Chex Mix into a Pyrex baking dish, put it on the bottom rack of the oven because I was doing two batches at once - one on the upper in a Corning baking pan and one on the bottom, Pyrex. The oven was on 250 degrees. After about 5-6 minutes, I heard a sound that indicated something had exploded or broken and when opening the oven, the Pyrex dish had shattered and all of the contents were on the bottom of the oven and smoking as some had landed on the oven coils and they were all covered with butter, so there was a lot of smoking. If I had not been standing in the kitchen, it probably would have resulted in a fire in the oven as the contents of the dish, including the shattered glass, were lying on the oven bottom and the coils. I am lucky I was not home alone so I had help with the disaster, but I will not cook in glass dishes, except Corning casseroles in the future.

I have used Pyrex glass dishes my whole life, as did my mother. I put a pork shoulder in a large Pyrex 11x14 dish at 375 degrees. After about 2 hours, I turned the temperature down to 350 degrees and added a 1/2 cup of tap water. The water was not very cold, as it came out of the tap. I didn't run the water long to get really cold water. I just wanted to add some water to keep the fat juices from burning. The second I poured the water in (which I have done a million times), the entire dish exploded, sending glass everywhere. I was in shock. What a mess. I turned the oven off and started to clean up. Glass was on the floor. I didn't see and I knelt on a piece, which cut through me about a 1/4 inch. Blood poured out of my knee like crazy. I was home alone. I called my son who had served in the Army, and he's training. He was able to stop the bleeding using a pressure bandage.

I bought some Pyrex containers because I was happy that finally we had an alternative to the plastic storage units. One issue is when heating up soup, the bowl becomes very hot, making removal from the microwave slightly dangerous. But last week, I took a small bowl of rice out of the refrigerator (a two cup sized Pyrex). I removed the cover and put it in a small apartment sized microwave. I set the timer for 2:22 with the idea that I would check it while I was doing my other setup for my dinner. At 1:43 remaining, I heard an explosion. The Pyrex had exploded in the microwave. There were large shards as well as small slivers. I was amazed that the inside of the microwave wasn't damaged. It seems that Pyrex is in a heavy portion of denial that this incident would ever exist. I sent an email to them, and was acknowledged, but no reply, 5 days later. So now I will do my part and find places to blog this incident. I feel fortunate that it was me, not a smaller child. As it was, my dinner was partially ruined, as is my faith in this product, especially in light of their denials.

Pyrex 2-quart mixing bowl. This bowl is about 5 years old. This bowl was cooling on the counter and it cracked in several places. I still can't believe it happened. I have another bowl. I should I throw it away before it also breaks.

I placed eight pork chops with a small amount of water in a glass Pyrex dish (9 x 13 glass baking dish) and placed it in an oven preheated to approximately 350 degrees. About 20 minutes into the cooking process, I heard a loud sound, as if something exploded in the oven. This sound was followed by steam rolling out around the oven door. Upon opening the oven door, I found glass everywhere. The dish apparently exploded. Fortunately, I did not suffer any injury from such. However, my fear is the "what if" I had opened the door and then the dish exploded in my face. I'm now concerned about the many other Pyrex baking dishes that I own. Are they safe to use?

I was baking a turkey breast in the oven at 350 degrees. After about 90 minutes in the oven, I pulled out the rack in order to test the temperature. When I pushed the rack back into the oven, the dish cracked and exploded. The juices were splashed all over and the turkey breast tilted out of the broken dish and created more of a mess. The juices splashed on my hand and the interior of the oven - a very dangerous, painful event. Why did this happen? Never in all of my married life have I had a problem with my Pyrex. This is a new rectangular, lasagna-style dish with the open handles on either end. Until now, I really liked that dish.

I began to remove a Pyrex cooking sheet from oven. I had been using it to cook bacon. It shattered into large pieces, luckily, inside the oven. But the bacon grease covered the entire oven. A huge mess. It could have been much worse had I been holding the pan and the grease had gotten on me. Pyrex needs to put a warning on these products in large letters or improve their design. Until then, I won't use them.

On June 7, 2012, tonight, my wife casually reached into a cupboard for the 2-quart Pyrex mixing bowl which had been sitting at room temperature for several weeks. As she pulled it from the shelf, it literally exploded in her hands, cutting her in several places while simultaneously scratching and covering our kitchen's oak floor with hundreds of pieces of glass. She was lucky that none of it had entered her eyes as her face was directly in the force of the blast. After several hours of careful cleanup and removal of any exposed foods on the counter-tops, we are angrily searching for answers why this occurred when no hot or cold temperature swings or other unprovoked actions on her part caused this to occur.

I have 4 kids in the house - 12, 5, 3 and 1 years old - often coming in and out of the kitchen or near the kitchen. I am very upset after bringing home a newer boxed set of Pyrex dish, which I was making the best choice for me and my family by buying such a trusted brand. Last night was a horror when I went to remove my Pyrex pan from the oven. It began to explode in my hand. Glass shot back behind me at least 10ft. I thankfully have quick reflexes and put it down on the stove which was not being used where it continued to rupture. Thank God nobody was hurt. One of the pieces of glass just barely missed my 12 year old who heard the loud noise and came running to make sure I was okay.

I baked chicken breast at a temperature of 300 degrees in the oven as usual. I pulled the oven rack out and removed the chicken from the pan and 2 seconds later, it exploded all over my kitchen. As a result, I have a cut on the bottom of my foot and a cut on my arm.

I was baking a loaf of bread for diner using a Pyrex bread pan that I've owned and used for about 3 years now. I took the pan out of the oven and removed the bread from the pan to let it cool because we were eating soon. I left the pan on the countertop to cool. I then went downstairs for a couple of minutes to take care of a load of laundry, and I heard a loud popping sound. When I returned to the kitchen, I found that the pan had exploded. Luckily no one was in the kitchen when this happened, but there were glass shards everywhere in and in the food that I was preparing.

Pyrex cooking dish - I was fixing broccoli and cauliflower in the microwave tonight for dinner. When I took it out after just 5 minutes, the dish exploded. I did not get cut or burned but if any of my grandchildren would have been around, it could have been a different story. The dish says oven and microwave safe. I think not.

We came down this morning after a good night's sleep to a kitchen completely covered in shards of glasses. Looking around for the culprit, we saw that one of our Pyrex glass dishes, not used for close to three months and on a high shelf, had exploded. It was nested inside a slightly larger dish, so the force of the explosion was large enough to propel the pieces a great distance to cover our kitchen. I'll now be getting rid of our other Pyrex products as I'm reluctant to actually be standing in front of one next time it decides to blow!

On May 18, 2012, I was cooking two steaks in some Pyrex cooking ware. When I went back to take my steaks out of the oven, the glassware exploded in my hands as I was trying to get out of my kitchen. From all the hot glass, I step on a big piece of hot glass, causing a laceration to my feet and a cut artery. I am still suffering from it today, because I can't walk on that feet because it bleeds every day since last Friday.

I was baking fish in a Pyrex dish and when I went to remove the dish from the oven after the fish was done, the Pyrex dish exploded while still in my hand causing shards of hot glass to shower my face, arms and chest. I had burns to my face and body. I was very upset, not to mention, shocked and concerned.

I was cooking rib-eye steaks and I was baking them in the oven like I always do. And just minutes after I took them out of the oven, the dish violently exploded. There was glass, grease, and steak pieces all over my kitchen and stove. The supper was totally uneatable. My children were ready to eat, but it was unsafe. It exploded everywhere. The hot pieces of Pyrex melted into my new kitchen floor. I ended up with three small cuts on my feet. It took me two hours to clean this awful mess up. I am shocked this happened. This actually was a dangerous situation. Out of all the years I have cooked with Pyrex, I have never had any problems until now.

I made a chicken pot pie. I put it in the pre-heated oven. When I took it out and set it on top of the stove, it exploded all over the kitchen. Then, 20 seconds later, the rest of it blew. Fortunately, no one who was in the kitchen got hurt. I say exploded, because my pot pie and glass were all over the floor and the stove. I have been using Pyrex for over 20 years, and I have to say I am disappointed with this product. I have to wonder if this company is downsizing their products, just like many other companies have been doing over the years. Ingredients have been decreased to cut costs with many name brand products.

My husband was cooking haddock in a dark-colored Pyrex dish and he took the baking dish out of the oven, which was at 350 degrees and placed it on our glass top stove, burner not on, and he went to scoop the fish out with a stainless steel spatula and the dish exploded and sent glass all over the kitchen - in the kettle of rice, on the back burner and even into the dining room. He was lucky that it did not go into his eyes! How dangerous is that? What is causing these dishes to do this? I have had this dish for years, however, about 5 years ago, it happened with a batch of brownies and I thought maybe I had hit the dish too hard when I placed it on the ceramic tile counter. What will Pyrex be doing for us? I am surprised there are no lawsuits by the dozens! I really think I will be getting rid of all my Pyrex and just use CorningWare instead.

Well, at least I am not alone. I've used Pyrex dishes for years but over the past 3-4 months, I've had three Pyrex dishes explode! I can see I'm not the only one! Two exploded on the stovetop after being pulled from the oven, the other exploded last night inside my oven, wasting a good 3 meals worth of chicken for my family of 5! So much for pre-planning supper for the 2 nights that we would be running in from work/school and making a mad dash to be ready for church on time. Now, it looks like we'll be eating sandwiches or going through a drive thru. Very, very upset about this and will never buy Pyrex again!

My husband took our 13x9 Pyrex baking dish out of the oven and set it on top of the stove to add some Worcestershire sauce and it violently exploded into a million shards. The broth went into the burners, as well as everywhere else. So now I am out a baking dish, a dinner, three hours of cleanup time, and now the ignitors on my burners won't work! The company e-mails us back and more or less "Don't call us, we'll call you." But we are happy to be alive.

9"x13" Pyrex glass pan - Well it was my wife's birthday and I was preparing baked Chinook Salmon that I spent all day fishing for. I preheated the oven to 300 degrees, put it in at 5:00PM and checked it every 15 minutes. At 5:35, after checking at 5:30, we heard a load noise from the kitchen then looked in the oven and the Pyrex pan exploded into pieces like a car side window. Shards of glassed all over the oven ruined the birthday dinner. Thank God it didn't explode when my wife checked it at 5:30. I have pictures of this and want something for this, at least my money back. My wife purchased this cookware at Walmart. It is 2 weeks past the 90-day return policy, so Walmart said to contact Pyrex.

I used a square Pyrex to bake chicken at 350 degrees. I took it out of the oven, sat it on the stove and turned my back to finish cooking. A few moments later, the dish exploded into hundreds of pieces. Hot glass flew everywhere including the floor that now has several burn marks from the hot glass landing on the floor. The number of pieces made it impossible to get out of my kitchen as it was on the floor, counters, stove everywhere. In order to get out of the kitchen, I tried to push pieces of the glass away so a path was clear. In the process, I got several shards in my hand and a large piece in my foot. I would like to know what will be done to fix my floor - my injuries will heal, however, seeing that I rent, I will be responsible for replacing the floor when I leave.

Shattered Pyrex baking dish - Making Easter dinner and had potatoes in my large Pyrex clear dish. I took them out of the oven and within 1 minute, the glass shattered and flew everywhere, not only wrecking my potatoes, but ruined all my dishes. We were shocked at the glass explosion it flew into my next room beside the kitchen. I sure hope that I can somehow have Pyrex reimburse me. Thank you!

I had a brand new dish that I bought from you guys - the whole set. Never again will I buy something from you guys. It was Easter and I had the oven set at 350 degrees. I had corn in the dish. It was in there for four minutes and I heard a big boom. It shattered and all my food was at the bottom. My ham was also in the oven and was no good because glass was on it. It was a honey baked ham that was $70. Needless to say, I’m very pissed about this.

I was preparing dinner on Easter Sunday for 11 family members. I had potatoes roasting in a 375 degree oven. I took the Pyrex dish out and placed it on a dish drainer on the counter top. Within several minutes, the dish literally exploded and glass flew all over the counter and kitchen floor. Four of my grandchildren were thankfully at the kitchen table claiming prizes from the Easter Egg Hunt we had. There was so much hot glass to be cleaned up. It took about 15 minutes. The rubber mat in front of the sink was melted in a few spots where glass had fallen. The only injury was a small shard of glass in my heel.

I use this Pyrex dish almost everyday. It had no cracks or chipping. It was room temperature and I put it into my 425 degree gas oven to bake some mushrooms. After about five minutes, I opened the oven door to check on the mushrooms and the entire dish exploded! Glass went everywhere but luckily did not penetrate my skin. I am very wary of Pyrex bakeware now and will not purchase it ever again!

Our Pyrex baking dish exploded. I had a turkey breast in my oven at 375 degrees for an hour when I heard a loud explosion. I went into the kitchen to find the food sitting on the rack and the whole oven floor filled with glass shards and pieces. This took a long time to clean up and my Easter dinner was ruined. It was a good thing that no one was hurt.

I cooked Chicken Strips in a Pyrex glass baking dish. After 10 minutes, I heard an explosion. I checked the oven and glass was shattered everywhere, including the French Fries I had been cooking on a flat metal pan. I was left with a huge mess and glass fragments went down into the gas stove vents! I have no way to get them out! My oven is now unavailable! I have Easter Dinner to cook and don't know how I can possibly cook a Ham! I am so angry! Not to mention the fact that my daughter had friends over for a sleepover and because of Pyrex, the girls' dinner was ruined and I had to fork out over $40.00 to get them something to eat, not counting the gas to drive to get food that had to be replaced! I have pictures and am keeping the broken glass pieces I was able to collect, after cutting my fingers!

I took the Pyrex glass with non-stick red coating. The coating leaked into the food and when I put the pan on the counter, it shattered. I have pictures.

I was baking chicken for dinner and the oven was set at 375, was cooking for about 15 minutes when I heard a huge explosion. I come running into the kitchen, open the oven and the glass Pyrex bake and store pan exploded and was in a million pieces inside my oven. Now, I have to clean a million shards of glass and I have no clue what we're eating for dinner, very puzzled and pissed.

2 quart rectangle baking dish with lid - I was washing my Pyrex baking dish and cut my hand open on a jagged edge of the inside lip of the baking dish. I had only purchased the dish 2 weeks earlier. Where is the quality control?

I am writing this email to tell you how angry I am with your product. I was cooking dinner, using your blue Pyrex glassware cooking chicken. I had the oven on at 375. When the chicken was ready, I put my oven mitts on and bend down to pull the dish out of the oven; and it shattered in a 100 pieces. It burned my kitchen floor because it was hot, and it cut my hands and feet due to the glass shattering and being hot. I am so disappointed with the product, which I have used for years. I am just glad my daughter or son did not get injured, just myself. And now, my kitchen floor has burn marks due to your product. I wish to hear from you company, and how is my floor going to be fixed because of this?

After having made dinner, my husband and I was eating dinner in the living room when we heard an explosion in the kitchen. Glass was everywhere and the rest of our dinner was ruined. It had almost killed our 17-year old cat! Never, ever again! I suggest that a warning be placed on these Pyrex pie dishes that to never use them for baking, oven, or microwave, or anything! There should be an immediate recall on this crap!

I just want to know about the issue with Pyrex glass cookware. Is this "product defect" and phenomenon also directly related to the stove top sauce pans, which I have been using for several years? I also have a blue casserole-type baking dish that has never caused me any problems (cracks, explosions). I have no idea if I indeed own Pyrex or some other brand(s). These glassware items were given to me. Maybe I should wear protective armor while using them? Anyone knows?

I have seen an exploding 9"x11" Pyrex baking dish, and thank God, I still have my vision! This morning, March 15, 2012, I placed 3 waffles and a sausage in a baking dish in a 400-degree oven and set the timer for ten minutes. I checked the food and decided to turn on the speed bake feature of my oven for approximately 2 minutes.

There is definitely a change in how Pyrex is manufactured, today, and it is not only unacceptable and fraudulent, it is dangerous. I was cooking some pork chops for dinner. After about 30 minutes, I went to check on them and opened the oven door, only for the entire glass casserole dish to literally, explode in a thousand pieces. It completely ruined the dinner, made the food inedible/had to be thrown out, and was extremely hard to clean up all of the pieces that were sprayed throughout the oven and kitchen.

I was having a dinner party for 16 and one of the Pyrex baking dishes cracked in multiple places in the oven! Fortunately it was below the other dishes and the glass didn't wreck that food. Also - fortunately, I had made a lot of food so we had enough to feed everyone! Now I'm gun shy with using the other Pyrex baking dishes that I have! I have a picture of the mesh if you like evidence of the disaster!

I placed hot pasta into a Pyrex baking dish at room temperature tonight, then I started pouring in hot spaghetti sauce. The dish suddenly exploded on the kitchen table into a thousand pieces. No major injuries, only a few small cuts from very small fragments encountered during the clean up. This was part of a new set purchased at BJ's this past week.

Spout on all their pouring bowls are a joke. To keep them from having a large discard rate in production they have chopped and made a wide spout that lets boiling water run down the outside of the bowl that can scald your leg and foot. To hell with your well-being, it grabs that nickel. If you want to see a spout that works, look at a Starbucks French Press Coffee. They never drip and they put the hot coffee in the cup, not on your leg and foot. These people should be held in a class action law suit for all the people that have been injured, due to these people want to cut cost and make a bad product.

We recently bought a Pyrex baking dish and it exploded as we took it out of the oven! Glass hit my face and I was lucky not to get any in my eyes. It totally ruined our meal and it took over an hour to clean up all the shattered glass from our kitchen. This product is unsafe and has been known to be a risk for some years now. This isn't the Pyrex that we all grew up on. Somewhere along the line, they changed the manufacturing process and now it's dangerous.

I was cooking ribs at 350 when my dish exploded in my oven. Glass went everywhere. Not only was my dish broken, my ribs and potatoes were covered in glass. I had to spend an additional $22.73 for carry out dinner.

Today, I had been doing some cooking which required my Pyrex jug. After I had finished using it, I then washed it. I washed it in my sink then put it to dry. When I can top it away, I picked it up and it exploded in my hand like nothing I had ever seen before. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen. It went like a bomb had gone off! Hundreds of pieces of glass all over my kitchen. I do count myself very lucky as it didn't cut me or go into my eyes! I was pleased my daughter was not with me at that time. I would like a reason for this as to why this could have happened. I use everything Pyrex and never before like this happened.

I was cooking dinner in my Pyrex cookware. As I was removing it from the oven, it exploded in my hand sending shards and pieces of Pyrex all over my kitchen. It terrified me. I was in shock as dinner lay on the kitchen floor. The broken pieces melted my vinyl flooring as well. I posted what happened on my Facebook and was stunned to see how many of my friends have experienced similar things.

I went to take my Pyrex dish out of the oven and put it on the stove. It exploded everywhere! Thankfully, I was not hurt but came close to being.

I received a 20 piece Pyrex cooking set for Christmas. I went to use it on today for the first time and 2 of my lids were bent. What should I do?

I was cooking two chicken breasts at 400 degrees for 40 minutes. The pan exploded inside my oven and dinner was ruined. It took me completely by surprise and I’m glad it did not happen while I was holding it.

I was heating up some chicken nuggets for my kids when my glass Pyrex baking pan shattered after only 12 minutes in center of a 325 degree oven! I am so upset because I’ve been reading how these things shatter while cooling and had I taken it out a minute before, my kids would have had glass explode in their faces!

I had salmon baking in a 9 x 13 Pyrex at 350 in the oven. As I was taking it out of the oven, it exploded. Some glass was inside the oven and the rest was all over the floor. Luckily, my daughters were not around.

I was baking chicken in square glass Pyrex when we heard a loud noise in the oven. The dish had shattered into a million pieces. I have used Pyrex for over 30 years and have never had this happen. I have a kitchen full of Pyrex, which I use almost exclusively for baking and am now concerned that their quality isn't the same as it has been. These Pyrex baking dishes have the red insets in the handles, and were bought only a year ago.

Last April, I was making meatballs (as I had several times before) in a 9x13 Pyrex pan. When I pulled it out of the oven and placed it on the counter, it exploded. Dinner was ruined, of course, but one of the long sides of the pan fell from the counter, cutting my big toe. As it turns out, the tendon in that toe had been severed, requiring surgery. Multiple casts, physical therapy and doctor appointments were required to get back to normal and I'm still trying to get there. A lot of these complaints seem focused on ruined dinner. I thought I would share my experience so people could see there is more to lose than $30-$40 (in my case, a lot of time, pain, and $15,000+). I also hope this product will do the right thing and put stronger warning labels and education in place.

I had a roast in the oven in a Pyrex glass baking dish. When it was done, I pulled it out of the oven and placed it on the stove top. Within a couple of minutes, I heard a loud pop and glass went flying. Luckily, none of it hit me or my cat who was sleeping on the floor nearby. Some of the hot glass shards landed on an anti-fatigue mat I just received as a gift for my birthday in September 2011 and melted it. The mat is now ruined and it will cost me over $120 to replace it. I'm afraid to use any of the remaining Pyrex dishes I have and will have to replace those with metal ones.

My wife put a casserole in a Pyrex dish into the oven. After about 20 minutes, we heard a loud noise in the kitchen. When we checked, we found that the Pyrex dish had exploded in the oven. We have used Pyrex for probably 40 years, and never had a problem. The dish that exploded, was one that we had purchased within the past year. Luckily, it was in the oven when it exploded, and no one was injured.

My small glass Pyrex casserole dish that was purchased a year ago, exploded and combusted. My fiance was cutting potatoes and the dish was in front of him where it has been for 2 days. The dish was not under any extreme heat or cold, it just combusted out of no where. It wasn't even being used. This could really have caused damage to my fiances face or body. I'm just thankful my kids were not in the room.

In spending money on ingredients and taking the time to grill, slice, dice, and combine the components for an awesome chicken multi-layered loaded nachos meal for my house gathering, after taking the Pyrex dish out of the oven and setting it on the unheated glass stove top, within 5-10 seconds the Pyrex dish literally exploded loudly sending glass shards (big and small) in every direction. From that explosion, too small pieces lodged in my arm and hand. Although, I was pelted with the glass shards (luckily, I had just turned my face away from the dish), my guests and I escaped “serious” injury.

We had a party at our house, with approximately 20 guests. We were warming a variety of food items in Pyrex dishes in our ovens, when one of the Pyrex dishes inside the oven literally exploded into thousands of slivers of glass, spraying the glass throughout the oven, over all of the food in the oven. It was a recently purchased Pyrex dish. Had the dish exploded, while being removed from the oven, or shortly thereafter, while serving food from it, there could have been serious injury to a number of guests attending the party.