Pyrex Reviews

I had the blue Pyrex 9x13 cookware in the oven at 425 degrees. When I took it out and put it on the stove, it exploded while I was still holding it. This is my first piece to explode with heat; however, most of my other pieces have burst also without heat. This cookware includes measuring cups and bowls. What is going on with this company? I got a cut on my foot and loss of food, time, and cookware. Thank God my four year old was sleeping.

I had a dinner party for 8 people and was cooking stuffed mushrooms and stuffed artichokes. I removed the artichokes and closed the oven door when my guests along with myself heard a terrible explosion. The Pyrex dish exploded after being in the oven for 20 minutes on 425 deg. I had purchased 2 glass baking dishes in March 2009 for cheesecakes I was making for Easter. This incident happened in June 2009.

My Pyrex baking dish exploded in my oven. Not only that but it also did not break into small safe pieces. It broke into small and very large pieces (almost the entire base is intact) and some of the broken edges have sharp points. It had not been exposed from cold/hot or vice versa. I simply took it out of my cupboard, put my vegies in with a dash of oil, and put it in the oven then 10 minutes later boom! Thank goodness it was in the oven, but I shudder thinking what could have happened if it wasn't. My oven doesn't appear to have sustained any damage, just a long, messy and dangerous process of cleaning hundreds of bits of glass out of it, not to mention the scare I had when it happened. I do want people to know that this new pyrex is unsafe and unstable.

I was scrubbing a rectangular Pyrex casserole dish on Sunday evening, August 23, under running water when it suddenly exploded and sent a zillion chunks and sharp slivers of glass flying everywhere. It was scary to have this happen with absolutely no warning, and Pyrex is a product I've had in my kitchen for years. This particular piece was less than a year old. The explosion spewed glass all over cutting my hand, covering the counter, the kitchen floor and my clothing. It's a miracle that no glass flew into my eyes. We're still finding tiny pieces of glass here and there in the kitchen.

I purchased an 18-piece Pyrex bake ware set a month ago. I made a dessert in the 9x13" glass baking dish. I had my oven set on 350 for 45 minutes. This is not unusually hot or long. I cooled the dish on a wire cooling rack so I could put the lid on and take it to the event I was going to. I got to the event and placed the dish in the oven on warm for 30 minutes. When it was warm, it was removed and again, cooled. It was carried out bare-handed to the serving table, so it was not hot at all. Right as it was set down, the dish broke into a million tiny pieces. Glass shattered and was found as far as 4 feet away from where the dish was. We had small children nearby; luckily, none of them were injured! The entire dish and contents had to be thrown away. I've used Pyrex bake ware for years and never had a problem! The only reason I had to buy a new set was because over the years, my borrowed dishes/bake ware weren't returned. I'm curious if they've changed their formula or if they've outsourced to a different company.

I have been reading the Pyrex complaints, and noticed that there haven't been that many comments of the positive nature. I've been cooking and baking with Pyrex cookware for more than 25 years now, and have never had a piece "spontaneously explode." I have had one piece shatter rather impressively when I dropped it (at room temperature) onto a tile floor. I don't think a glass baking dish can be blamed for breaking in that situation, nor when I accidentally placed a cake pan onto a hot stovetop element, and it did explode due to my own negligence.

On two separate occasions, my glass Pyrex cake pans have cracked and exploded upon being taken out of the oven. Good thing no one was hurt. Both pans shattered coming out of the oven for no reason. Thankfully, I was the only one in the kitchen so one one was hurt.

A 13x9 Pyrex pan exploded while I was cooking beef at 350. I was pouring a little water in the bottom of the pan. These pans do indeed actually explode. Glass that escaped from the side of the oven was found 5 feet away. This happened in front of 2 witnesses. Miraculously, no injuries.

I was using my Pyrex dish to bake chicken, something that I always do, when I switched it to another rack in the oven. Before I could close the oven door, it exploded, sending glass everywhere. I was bare foot so I had cuts on the top and at the bottom of my feet. I had an oven full of glass plus a small fire. I always line with foil, good thing, or it could have been a bigger fire.

Approximately three months ago, I put tacos in a Pyrex dish and stuck them in the oven to heat and melt the cheese. After about five minutes, I removed the dish and placed it on top of the range. A few minutes later, I heard a loud pop and turned around to see glass flying everywhere. A piece of glass hit my leg causing a small surface cut. I had a big mess; shards of glass were all over the stove, counter and floor.

I used a 9 x 13 Pyrex dish to bake some cubed potatoes. The oven was set at 400 degrees and the potatoes baked for approximately 40 minutes. I took them out and placed the Pyrex on my room temperature stove top. Before I could even close the oven door, the dish popped and sent glass shards all over the stove top and floor. I feel lucky that there was no hot liquid involved and that it did not disintegrate while I was holding it. It was a mess to clean up but, thankfully, I was not hurt. I am hesitant to ever use a Pyrex dish in the oven again.

My 13 x 9 Pyrex baking dish exploded at room temperature. The pan was not even being used. I have only used it once since I purchased it. It just exploded out of nowhere and glass was everywhere.

Today, I spent five hours in the Kaiser Permanente Emergency Room in Richmond, CA, getting nine stitches and splints put on two fingers of my right hand, because a Pyrex bowl exploded in that hand. The bowl was at room temperature, not hot or cold, and was empty. I was putting it into the refrigerator to see if it would fit on a shelf. I heard a sharp noise, and I looked down to see blood and shards of glass everywhere. Fortunately, my husband was there with me, and he wrapped up my bleeding hand and immediately drove me to the emergency room.

On 7/10/09 at 3pm, my wife was preparing a meatloaf for the family for dinner. She was using a 9X13X2 glass casserole Pyrex dish. The glass pan was cool to the touch as well as the meat mixture placed in the dish. There was no sauce warm or cold in the dish. The oven was preheated to 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes prior to placing it in the oven. The meatloaf was baked for 45 minutes. My wife then took out the dish using potholders, and placed the dish on a dry room temperature bamboo cutting board to cool. Four hours later, my wife walks into the kitchen and checks the meat temperature. It's cool to the touch and the glass dish is also cool to the touch. She slices several pieces of meatloaf not touching the bottom of the dish and uses a spoon to scoop a piece out.

I have a Pyrex portable casserole dish. It came with a Microcore Hot Pack. I used hot pack for the first time, heated in microwave for less than the stated 4-1/2 minutes. It exploded. Why did this happen? How do I go about replacing said product? Thank you.

My wife cooked some popcorn in our Sharp Carousel microwave. She placed the bag on top of an inverted Pyrex pie plate. When the popcorn was cooked, she removed the bag from the oven and closed the oven door. After she had moved away from the kitchen area, she heard a large crashing/glass breakage noise. When she looked in the oven, it was apparent that the pie dish had exploded into hundreds (perhaps thousands) of shards that were sized from miniscule to 2 inches to 3 inches. Luckily, the oven door did not open due to the glass failure and all glass pieces were contained by the oven. This dish has been used for this same purpose many times - it could easily have been through hundreds of similar cycles.

I had just made a whole dish of lasagna. It took me about an hour to put it together. I had put it in a Pyrex glass 9 x 13 dish. I put it on top of a cookie tray in case it spilled over into the oven. About 10 minutes of cooking went on when I heard what sounded like the lasagna dripping into the oven, so I went to see and the whole sides of the dish blew out. I have glass in the oven and all over my food. Now my meal is ruined! The temperature of the oven was at 300 degrees and it only has been 10 minutes into the cooking time, so it hadn't even reached any amount of temperature. I have taken a picture of it. Now what are my options?

My wife was baking at 450 degrees and we heard a loud explosion and the Pyrex (oven and micro safe, exploded). Our dinner was ruined, my wife has multiple cuts and we have extensive damage to the Whirlpool oven. Consequences: cost of repairs to oven, not yet determined.

A Pyrex dish shattered in my oven while baking sweet potatoes. No one was hurt, but it was a terrible mess; Oven was a mess with shattered pieces of the Pyrex dish along with brown sugar and marshmallows from the sweet potatoes. And I was shocked that a Pyrex dish would just shatter like it did. Thank goodness, it was in the oven when it shattered. The dish was 37 years old, but it should have never shattered. I will never use Pyrex again.

On July 17, 2009, I had a Pyrex baking dish explode after taking it out of the 400-degree oven and placing it on the stove burners. We used the dish for 15 years in the same fashion. I was not aware of the danger. Glass was all over the kitchen.

While baking a piece of meat in our oven, which we have done numerous times, the blue Pyrex dish exploded. The explosion was so strong that the shards of glass actually opened the oven door and we had pieces of blue Pyrex glass all over the floor of the kitchen. I would like to know how to reach the Pyrex Company to let them know of this problem. We have another dish of the same size 9"x13" and I’m afraid to use it for fear that the same thing may happen.

Our new Pyrex 13" x 9" dish exploded while cooking chicken breast at 375 degrees in the oven. Corning licensed the Pyrex name to World Kitchen, LLC and we've been paying good money ever since for inferior products that have nothing in common with the quality product we believe we are getting when we see the Pyrex name. Real Pyrex is almost indestructible, but after seeing the numerous complaints on this site, I'm forever staying away. How many more accidents and injuries must there be before something is done about it?

While cooking a flank steak in my 13 x 9 Pyrex dish using my oven, I took it out and it exploded while on my counter-top. The contents were hot (sizzling) and I'm just glad that the kids were not in the kitchen. I read reports that Pyrex does not explode, but this one did! I had hot burning juices from the cooked meat all over my arm, which caused burns and I had pieces of glass clear across my kitchen and on the center island (the Pyrex dish exploded on the counter away from the island). Please beware when using this product!

I have many Pyrex dishes and this was the first and hopefully the last time I experienced that. I cooked something in my Pyrex dish in the oven, took the dish out and placed it on the oven and it exploded into pieces. The place I put it was not cold and this is not my first Pyrex. I use them all the time but I was terrified. We were very lucky that nobody was hurt since little pieces of glass flew everywhere. I just wanted to let everyone know to be very careful with Pyrex especially when they have kids around.

Yesterday afternoon, I baked a rhubarb/strawberry pie, double crust in a clear, Pyrex pie plate. It was on a cookie sheet, covered with Reynolds No Stick Aluminum Foil. I cooked the pie in the oven at 350F. When it was done, I took the whole thing out of the oven (cookie sheet, foil, pie) intact and set it on top of the stove (which had not been used prior to this). About three minutes later, the glass pie plate shattered.

We heated some leftovers in a Pyrex nesting bowl (we checked to make sure it was microwave safe), removed the bowl from the microwave. The bottom fell right out of the bowl creating two noticeable nicks in my new stove along with a burnt foot from the meal that was in the bowl.

I was baking some fish in a Pyrex baking dish at 400 degrees and slid it out to turn the fish and the dish exploded, sending glass shards all over, including into the vent of the oven door. It took me literally two hours to clean up the mess and I had to take apart the oven door to get the glass and grease from it. Unbelievable!

My Pyrex dish exploded when placed on the top of the stove. Fortunately there were no physical injuries. However, shards of glass that flew into our breakfast ruined it.

We used a glass Pyrex baking dish to cook 3 pieces of fish in a 475 degree oven. The dish had been at room temperature before going into the oven for 8 minutes. When we went to take the dish out of the oven, it seemed to literally explode. There was a loud noise and glass shards went flying. Luckily, no one was hurt, but the potential for serious injury and damage was huge.

While roasting potatoes at 400 degrees in the oven, our 9x13 Pyrex dish exploded! This shot glass fragments all throughout the oven. Fortunately, the door was closed and there were no injuries, but a real mess. I never realized the potential for Pyrex to explode. This is clearly not oven safe and tested material and should be removed from the market. The potential for injury is extremely high.

Last night, a Pyrex dish exploded in the oven after my wife opened the oven door. It exploded as she stepped back to obtain a pot holder and before she could remove the dish from the oven. Large mess with broken glass. Fortunately, she stepped back to obtain a potholder and was not holding the dish, so no injury.

I bought a digital thermometer and used it for approximately two months before it just stopped working. I cannot return it to the store because I used it. I am extremely disappointed with this product and the company. I am out the $20 plus that I spent on it and have to spend more to buy a new one.

I made dinner tonight for a few friends. My scalloped potatoes turned out awesome. Dinner was done by 6:30. At around 9 pm, my husband and I heard an explosion in the kitchen and thought someone had broken a window. It was my brand new Pyrex that I had used for the first time tonight to make my potatoes. Nothing on or around it was hot. I can't explain what happened. I had just bought my Pyrex and now I'm throwing it all away. I have a 2-year old and can't risk him being in the kitchen next time my baking dishes decide to randomly explode. Are you serious?

My Pyrex 9x13 baking dish exploded in my oven while baking pecan pie bars on May 23, 2009. I have made the recipe many times in the past but always with a dish bought in the 1980's. The Pyrex dish that exploded was new, purchased in April 2009 at a Target store. I have the shard of glass marked "Pyrex".

My clear, rectangular Pyrex dish broke in three pieces while on removal from the oven. It was a big mess. Luckily, no injuries.

Don't use Pyrex. I have had two dishes explode on me. They are hazardous. I don't know how Pyrex can get away with this. I had followed all the guidelines but still it happened. I now use stoneware for all of my cooking and baking. It costs less, looks better and cleans up easily without scrubbing unlike Pyrex.

Tonight for dinner, I had a beautiful piece of haddock cooking in a small rectangular Pyrex baking dish (smaller than 9x13). It was a great size for cooking for two. The fish cooked for 15 minutes. I opened the oven, reached in with an oven mitt, began to lift the dish out and the dish fell apart in my hand. It did not explode as others have reported, it just fell apart, spilling glass and fish all over the oven, oven door and floor. A terrible mess and a great disappointment not to have any dinner.

I just finished cooking some homemade soup and spooned out a bowl for my husband and grabbed one of the Pyrex ones (didn't care what it looked like - we were just starving). I was holding it in my left and and ladling with my right when the bowl exploded, sending glass several feet in all directions; cutting three of my fingers that was holding the bowl. I couldn't believe it.

My 9"x13" Pyrex Glass baking pan shattered in my oven. It was normal use. We made a meatloaf & put it in a 350-degree oven. Bam! The glass pan shattered within 30 minutes; grease and glass were all over the oven, and our dinner was garbage.

A deep dish pie plate which was recently purchased and used only one time exploded in the cupboard while it was being stored. My husband and I were downstairs and heard a loud noise (as if something very large fell upstairs). We could not find what fell until I went to retrieve an item from the cupboard and glass literally flew out at me. The explosion caused glass to fly onto other shelves in the cupboard.

I was just trying to melt some paraffin in my microwave. Since my trusty seven-year old Pyrex mixing cup said microwaveable on it, I used it. After two minutes in a small microwave, it broke flooding the microwave. I cleaned it up right away and nobody was hurt but I think I'll buy another brand next time. That wasn't good for my nerves when I heard the loud thump!

I was baking chicken. After 20 minutes, I pulled the rack out to turn the chicken and the glass baking dish exploded in the oven and all over my kitchen floor. My stove is ruined. There are pieces of glass in the door jamb that I cannot get to. There are pieces of glass in the bottom that I cannot get to. I'm in the process of selling my house, and the crunching of glass when I open the stove door is not the best selling feature. My vacuum is ruined. My only choice was to try to suck up the glass out of the stove - which in turn ripped a hole in the hose of my vacuum.

I baked a cake at 350 degrees in a 13X9 Pyrex dish. I removed it from the oven, set it on a wire rack to cool and the dish exploded. There are shards of glass stuck in a wall that was 8 feet away. I am still picking glass out of my legs and hands. I am terrified of using Pyrex again.

I had Easter ham cooking in it at 325 degrees for one hour. I removed it from the oven, placed it on a hot pad on the counter, and less than 30 seconds later it exploded all over the kitchen, sending shards out 6 feet.

Today, Easter Sunday, I was baking a very special quiche for my mother-in-law. I had blind baked the pie crust (rolled by hand) and was baking the quiche when I heard a loud bang from my oven. The Pyrex pie pan had exploded and the glass pieces were everywhere, not to mention the uncooked quiche.

I have had it! I have had three Pyrex pans shatter on me. I need to see the bottom of the pan so I have invested a lot of money in Pyrex bake ware. I bake Baklava and so the cost of each pan's ingredients can be as high as $35. That's a lot of money to just throw away. In each case, it sounds like rain in my oven and I open it up to find the bottom filled with shattered glass and my Baklava resting on the rack. How do they continue to get away with this?

I recently moved to New Zealand and am using secondhand glass cookware, both Pyrex brand and Vision Corning USA that I've been able to find in thrift stores and the like. After reading about the extreme hazards of using glass cookware/bakeware (shattering is one thing, but an exploding scenario is another thing altogether), I'm hesitant to continue using them. The people sharing their stories about Pyrex dishes exploding have not always said how old the cookware/bake ware was. If more product data were to be collected from your respondents, then maybe it could be determined if a manufacturing malfunction was the cause. Vision Corning have a website that looks very current and there is no indication that a recall on any of their products has been made. I have yet to check out the Pyrex website.

My brother and I were cooking dinner last night being the 07/04/2009 for the entire family. We had baked veggies in the glass Pyrex dish. Dinner was finished being cooked, and we got everything out of the oven and sat it on the bench. Randomly and unexpectedly, the dish exploded through our entire dinner, 3 baking trays worth of food. We were very lucky my two little kids were not close by; I could not believe it. Not only had the dish exploded, but it destroyed about $30 worth of food.

I had baked some chicken in an 8-square baking dish. I took it out of the oven and was holding it with an oven glove and it exploded. It sounded like an explosion, really loud. Glass was all over the kitchen and chicken was on the floor. There was no piece of glass larger than a quarter and most were the size of a pea. Shards were everywhere including stuck into my shirt and hand and in food that was ready to go on the table.

I have a 9 x 13 Pyrex baking dish that I have used for several years. I was baking fish in the pan yesterday, at 350 degrees, and as I carefully took the pan out of the oven, it exploded in my hands! My husband asked if I had bumped it on the edge of the oven as I removed it but no, I had not. It simply exploded, glass shards all over. Some of the chunks of glass melted my kitchen rug. I was truly grateful that my laminate flooring wasn't damaged. The glass pieces were in all sizes from long shards to almost square chunks to tiny slivers. I was very glad my children were already seated behind me and that we got the dog outside before he stepped on any glass. I will never use or trust Pyrex again.

Today, I had my second Pyrex dish explode on me within two months. The first one was a 13 x 9 back in the beginning of February. I lost a whole dish of chicken enchiladas and glass flew everywhere. Today, I lost an 8 x 8 pan with jello in it. I may never use my Pyrex pans again. I'm too worried of what could happen if my kids happen to be in the room the next time a pan explodes.

I was roasting peppers in the oven under a broiler at medium heat. After removing the dish briefly and replacing it in the oven, I heard a muffled boom. The dish had exploded. There were shards all over the oven. There was no damage of consequence but imagine if it had happened a moment sooner, outside of the oven.

Yesterday, I used for the first time a Pyrex bakeware (3qt oblong dish) I bought a week ago. I put it in the oven at 350 with a chicken and potatoes in it. After 40 minutes of baking, I heard a shattered noise and discovered that the container had broken in pieces and my dinner was ruined.