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We had an explosion about 3 years ago. It was our fault (hot dish touching cold steel sink rim), but it still caught me by surprise. I'd known since I was a kid
by beej71 2y ago
We had an explosion about 3 years ago. It was our fault (hot dish touching cold steel sink rim), but it still caught me by surprise. I'd known since I was a kid in the 70s that Pyrex was highly tolerant of heat changes, so I felt that shouldn't have happened. (And so violently! Glass went everywhere. All the food was out and prepped for dinner and it all went in the bin and we ordered takeout.)
That's when we dug into it. Now we have a bunch of PYREX that we've picked up up second-hand.
And we don't let it touch the sink after the oven. :)
- jandrese 2y agoI managed to explode a 9x13 by placing the cooled dish on the stovetop to free up counter space. This wasn't initially a problem, the problem came when I turned on what I thought was the front burner to start cooking, but was actually the burner the 9x13 was straddling. The explosion was interesting, it didn't make a "bang" but rather a "pop" sound and the shattered glass flew all over the kitchen. It probably would have been worse, but the 9x13 was full of brownie that probably absorbed some of the kinetic energy. It makes me wonder how glass cooktops avoid this problem. They have enormous uneven heating stresses every time they are used, and somehow manage to avoid flying apart.