My Pyrex 9 x 13 pan Just Exploded In the Oven??

[monorailsilver]

It must have been a bad year for Pyrex because about a month ago, I was cooking a chicken on the grill with the square Pyrex pan (it was a small chicken & it was hot & it comes out so yummy on the grill).

I added some water to the pan after it was cooking & glass splattered everywhere.

Needless to say I need a new Pyrex pan.

 

[disneysnowflake]

I've never had anything like that happen.

I have pyrex bakeware and glass containers in all sizes. I've never had anything like that happen.

I use my glass cake pans, pie pans, and baking dishes all the time.

That would have scared me so bad to hear something exploding in my oven.

I'm glad no one was hurt.

 

[CajunDixie]

Add me to the purple Pyrex explosions. I guess I sat an empty pie plate on a hot back burner, instant explosion.

On a slightly OT note: Don't ever sneeze on a lit bare lightbulb. Although I must say I have never seen my dad run so fast. He was like WTH was that? Here I was working on a school project and needed a brighter light (my then bedroom had no ceiling light) so I removed the shade from my lamp. Then I ahhh sneezed and the bulb exploded.

 

[TheRatPack]

Was the water cold or warm? I know that I had a baking stone break once, b/c it was straight from the oven and I put something cold on it. I guess the extreme heat and then sudden cold causing the breaking.

So glad it didn't explode while you had the oven open.

Lori P.

Sometimes if you wash it in the dishwasher or if it has a small stress crack in it (from being bumped against something or dropped) it'll explode if it gets water in that crack just right too. My MIL had a pyrex plate explode on her when she took it out of the oven and sat it on her glass top stove. I'd probably pass out if something glass exploded in my hand though LOL

And nice to see the above poster from Chattanooga We're just minutes from there (northwest georgia).....high neighbor.

 

[shades]

Pyrex doesn't do temperature changes well, at all. Not even slight variations. I've thrown all of mine away and use only metal and or pottery type dishes in my oven these days. I do have some Fire King sapphire depression glass cookware that I use for cold dishes during the holidays - stuff like jello salads and what not. Jello is always colder and sets up better in glass rather than tupperware.

 

[teamagic]

Don't ever sneeze on a lit bare lightbulb. Although I must say I have never seen my dad run so fast. He was like WTH was that? Here I was working on a school project and needed a brighter light (my then bedroom had no ceiling light) so I removed the shade from my lamp. Then I ahhh sneezed and the bulb exploded.

I bet you dad was very shocked. My dh did something like that once, while we were painting a closet. Afterwards, it was very funny.

 

[bgirldeb]

Don't ever sneeze on a lit bare lightbulb.

Thanks for the laugh!
Oh Tagfairy??

 

[ladysoleil]

Yeah, unfortunately Pyrex just does that sometimes. Generally- if you've scratched or chipped a piece that you can see, stop using it.

I've only lost one Pyrex loaf pan and it was a roommate's fault- he microwaved something in it and set it down on the counter top, which was some kind of stone/Corian type stuff, and cold. The pan shattered.

I also had that happen to a glass cutting board- I wasn't thinking and needed to pull a scorching pan off the range quickly, and put it down on the board, which exploded like a bomb. That one was really bad/scary because there were little shards everywhere, it wasn't that heavy Pyrex glass that seems to break in big chunks.

Generally if I need to put down a Pyrex pan anywhere, I throw down a kitchen towel or potholder/trivet to insulate it from the temperature shock. Seems to help.

 

[ladysoleil]

On a slightly OT note: Don't ever sneeze on a lit bare lightbulb. Although I must say I have never seen my dad run so fast. He was like WTH was that? Here I was working on a school project and needed a brighter light (my then bedroom had no ceiling light) so I removed the shade from my lamp. Then I ahhh sneezed and the bulb exploded.

LOL. Don't accidentally shoot a lightbulb with a water pistol, either.

 

[Jaklackus]

My purple pyrex bowls have all exploded....one time from heat and the second was from a 2 foot drop to the floor from a refrigerator shelf. The heat I blamed on my own stupidity(turned on the wrong burner on the stove) the fall was enough for me to throw out my newer pieces...my kids are small and shattered purple pyrex looks like broken grape lollipop and I am still finding it in under appliances. I did however hold onto 2 older bowl sets that came from DH's grandmother's house....if anything they are collectible if Ebay is any indication.

 

[iggbees]

i work with glass all the time at work (corning, pyrex, kimble, you name it if it's a scientific glassware company). the one thing we're always worried about it vacuum attachments and temperature shifts. we've been lucky so far and haven't had any glass explode on us, but we have had glass crack that was on a hotplate and taken off to be put on a room temp countertop. the glass just shattered on the bottom. i use pyrex dishes all the time at home and i'm just careful where i put it and what i put into it.

 

[LoriKay]

Well this just settles it. If I can't be safe using Pyrex then I must quit cooking altogether.

 

[texasthree]

I have had a 9x13 pyrex dish exploded but I had pulled it from the oven and accidentally sat it on a burner that was still hot. It exploded all over the kitchen and ruined thanksgiving dinner.

 

[Wigit12]

I had a clear 9 x 13 Pyrex dish crack in the oven baking a cake. No temperature change at all. Just assumed it had a stress crack I didn't see.

What a mess to open the oven and see cake batter baking on the bottom of the oven and overflowing over the edges into those cracks on the sides you can't get into

Not that I wished this on anyone else, but I'm so glad to have company. No one believed me.

 

[Breakfast@Tiffany's]

My pyrex exploded in the oven as well, I was cooking a roast and added a small amount of water to it. The oven door was open but most of the glass was contained inside. The funny thing was my husband's face when he came in the door a short while later...he could smell the roast, but there was nothing to eat.

I only use my pyrex for cakes and other bakery dishes, and use stonewear or roasting pans for meats.

 

[Sweedee]

I had a pyrex/pampered chef mixing bowl explode in my hand - I was just taking it out of the cupboard and BAM! A bajillion pieces all over and I was left holding just the handle. Strangest thing ever. The only thing I can think of is that my cupboard is against two outside walls and maybe there was enough thermal shock just going from there to the warmer kitchen air

It wasn't enough for me to stop using pyrex, though. I got a replacement bowl and still use it as well as lots of other pyrex pieces.

I have had that exact thing happen about 8 yrs ago! I leaned over, and pulled a 9 x 13 out of the cupboard (not near a dishwasher, stove or outside wall) with my then 6yo standing next to me when it shattered in my hands. I about had a heart attack! Both of us were surrounded by glass, but neither of us were hurt! It scared the beejeebers out all of us!! I do still use and own pyrex, though.

 

[branv]

I did some research on Pyrex a little while back - I'll paraphrase what is still in my memory, so there could be some slight flaws to it, fyi.

It seems that this is a much more common occurence for newer pyrex i.e. pyrex bought in the last 10 yrs. As many of us know who've inherited Pyrex from our mothers or grandmothers, those suckers take a licking and keep on ticking. However, apparently Pyrex was bought by another corporation. It seems that since then, there have been alot more incidences of not just breaking, but exploding (as some of you have written.) Yes, some can be excused by things like temp changes (Adding liquid, etc), and they do tell you to NOT put Pyrex on a stovetop to let it cool. But for some people, it was just a matter of pulling the darn thing out of the oven into the ambient air and having it go off in their hands, or having it go off in the oven. I read a number of these stories on consumeraffairs.com.

My point is that regardless of the "reasons," some of which seem to be no error on the side of the chef, these things just seem to be alot more dangerous than they used to be. I still have some older Pyrex, but I won't buy any new. Not after the stories I read.

 

[hsmamato2]

Wow, totally wired breaking glass stories! here's mine... My dh took a glass out of the warm dishwasher and set it on the shelf, it was about 70 degrees that day, it cracked in half! tempature thing? maybe...
last year, our tempered glass deck table,which we'd used all year, had sat through the winter,covered, well the first warm day in spring,it was like 75-80 degrees,and the table just exploded! fortunately,none of us were on the deck at the time, it shattered into a million pieces!
it was loud....

 

[drgnfly30]

I used to own that old Vision cookware.. I had a pan explode on me.. tiny slivers of glass EVERYWHERE! I don't use anything like it anymore... good old pots & pans and for my bakeware I use Longaberger Pottery.

 

[Nevergrow'nup]

Here's my story. I made a lasagna in a pyrex dish. It was in the over about 1/2 an hour until BAM! What a mess!! Millions of pieces covered in tomato sauce, cheese and noodles. We had pizza instead. One of the last times I've made lasagna from scatch!!