Things I have learned today:

[cupcake_goth]

Pyrex baking dishes sometimes explode.

Nothing like greeting my parents at the door with "Er, there's been a change in dinner plans. Mom, have you ever had a dish explode in the oven?"

Partially-cooked roast beef sitting in a profusion of glass shards is eerily reminiscent of a former house mate's "art" projects.

We vacuumed the interior of the oven.

My life? Very, very weird.

Comments

[theblackdeer.livejournal.com]

I have had Pyrex explode, too...I guess it's not the great thing for temp changes that everyone says. And mine was my precious blue stuff. :(

[darkmane.livejournal.com]

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99265.htm

Nothing can be made immune to heat stress, but pyrex is really good at it.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

next time we hang out, remind me to tell you the story of making rice in the oven.

[minim_calibre]

I once had a plate explode. Corelle, I think.

It was sitting on a burner. I thought I'd turned the other burner on. A few minutes (in my world, which means something like 15 normal people minutes) later, I heard something loud, and wandered back into the kitchen to find shards of exceedingly hot plate all over the place.

[stephl.livejournal.com]

I broke a pyrex dish the same way -- it was sitting, empty, on a burner, and I was trying to boil water in a pan. I turned on the wrong burner, as I found out when there was a loud BANG! and pyrex everywhere. D'oh.

[vwbug.livejournal.com]

I broke a Pampered Chef baking stone that way. I think it was on the burner for more like 30 minutes, though. Couldn't believe that I did it. Fortunately, it broke into three nice pieces that could just be picked up and thrown away. But, it was my favorite stone, and I have yet to replace it...punishing myself, I guess.

[fufaraw]

OOh, the excitement! Now see, if it had been H? We'd have to sell the house. The man is excruciatingly paranoid about broken glass. He freaked when he saw me picking up powdered glass fragments with a damp fingertip.

Did it dent the oven walls?

Pyrex go 'splody.

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have had that happen, too.

[morbeux.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I had a Pyrex dish once. It exploded too, but it waited till after I pulled it out of the oven and set it on the stove to cool. Can you say Beef Stew ala Glass! Never used Pyrex again. I have been metal user now.

[debg.livejournal.com]

I've never exploded a pyrex dish, but I did manage to completely section one - as in, watching it crack and split into six beautifully precisely edged pieces - after I unthinkingly put the still-hot dish in the sink and ran some cold water on it.

It made a sort of "cheggity cheggity cheggity" noise, very ominous, and then this bizarre little science-fiction fissure appeared in it, and it just sort of separated.

Physics is weird.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Remind me to stick to bread and vegetables at your house.

Pretty Japanese Alice for you: http://www.moeboard.net/gndp~/20040620-1515-128.jpg

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

"Hey, WM, cooking is easy! Anybody can cook, even you!"

I notice nobody ever thinks to mention the life-threatening explosive cookware. I'll stick to microwaving, thanks, where the food comes safely packaged in space-age miracle polymers.

[ozitonaranjo.livejournal.com]

"Pyrex baking dishes sometimes explode."

!!!

I've never, ever heard of that happening. Yikes!