Unmitigated food disaster

john south wrote:


Absolutely. Never put thick glass on a flame. Did you ever take
chem lab? The beakers and such that you place over a bunsen burner
are all thin glass.

Steve
 
On Mar 14, 2:14?am, "john south" wrote:


The heat stress from applying a flame to a glass bowl is much higher
because the high temperature is much higher: 3500F for a methane
flame vs 500 at most for the oven.

Pyrex made a "Visions" line of glass saucepans -- try to find one of
those.
 
Mark Thorson wrote:

I checked. There's a big pot with tab handles (or whatever
you call the little ones, a medium-size pot with a long handle,
and a small pot with a long handle. All of the pots have lids.
They were last used about 30 years ago. Too bad the reviews
are so scathing. They don't sound worth saving.
 
On 3/16/2011 5:38 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:

They are horrid. I had a set of them. I believe they were called
"Corningware Visions" Never hated pots as much as I hated them.

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Janet Wilder
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Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
I know has Pyrex glass saucepans, that they use to
boil things in.

However the wife doesn't think that these glass bowls should undergo
this
kind of treatment on top of the gas rings.My question is not whether
this was really an oven proofed glass dish, since
i guess we will never know for sure.I 'wouldn't have dreamt
of putting a Pyrex bowl directly on a gas hob. We regularly use ceramic
ovenproof dishes, but again,But is the wife right in saying this is a
very *risky* procedure, putting
a
pyrex glass bowl over a gas ring to boil things? Even though i always
start on




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afaqanjum28
 
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Julie Bove wrote:

IME the glass had so much thermal inertial that they were uncontrollable
- took forever to heat up and then retained it for far too long after
turning the heat off. Like other posters, I found they burnt with
regularity and were very hard to clean afterwards.

Nick
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:14:27 -0000, "john south"
wrote:

I have a Pyrex double boiler, that is fine with that kind of heat -
but unless you're using laboratory grade material, risky is putting it
nicely. You do love living dangerously! I hope you're prepared for
some kitchen cleanup and a possible trip to the hospital if you
continue your half-witted practice of exposing home grade Pyrex bowls
to a flame.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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