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They also complained about pyrex not being durable because they dropped it. My pyrex has lasted 2 decades of use and I think it's an example of a durable produc
by blueblob 4y ago
They also complained about pyrex not being durable because they dropped it. My pyrex has lasted 2 decades of use and I think it's an example of a durable product.
- willglynn 4y agoCorning invented a particular kind of borosilicate glass about a hundred years ago and called it PYREX™. They left the consumer goods market about twenty years ago, divesting the brand. Nowadays that name might refer to either borosilicate glass or to soda lime glass.
- crystaln 4y agoDepending on the capitalization. The good stuff is PYREX.
- willglynn 4y agoIt's not that simple. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exploding-pyrex/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exploding-pyrex/ > What's Undetermined > Whether Pyrex switched from using borosilicate glass to tempered soda lime glass only after Corning sold the brand to World Kitchen in 1998. … > In a January 2011 article on glass bakeware, Consumer Reports stated that they were unable to determine exactly when major U.S. manufacturers (including Pyrex) switched
- crystaln 4y agoThat’s the most amount of word salad garbage I’ve ever seen on snopes. The government hasn’t determined that soda lime glass is unsafe? Shocking. I wonder why chemists use borosilicate? Hmm.
- Dan_- 4y agoYou can still get it in America from a company called icedteapitcher. It’s the made-in-France true PYREX and is metric.
- crystaln 4y agoPyrex replace borosilicate with cheaper and far less temperature resilient soda lime glass decades ago.