Old business - Exploding glass cookware

[infrogmation]

Eight years ago in this journal, I recounted how I had been cooking with glass pots dating back to about the first Reagan administration, until they all gradually broke. Further discussion revealed stories of glass cookware spontanious exploding!

And now, an update via techfragments.com: Exploding Pyrex Cookware Mystery Solved. It seems the problem was with a change in the formula in the 1990s.

Comments

yup

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a news article very recently on this. Women in my area start planning to go to thrift stores to buy up the older stuff until "the issue was fixed".

Thing is, in the article I read - Pyrex insisted it never changed the formula. It insisted that everyone must be abusing the cookware in some way.
That's the thing I hate about internet news over paper news. You can't go back and reword an article once it's clipped and in my book. I've taken to copying and pasting important articles into word before they get pulled, deleted, redacted...