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are you volunteering, Rob?

What you need Janey is a personal Chef :))))))


Robxx

We have two cereal bowls which were given away with, I think, cornflakes over 30 yrs ago. They are white opaline (pyrex) and are in use every day. When we have porridge it is heated in the microwave in these.

Oh Bob.....I wish......

I hate cooking....lol

Cx

you CAN.........LOL

get a cook, in......LOL

Bob

I bought those protective gizmos to stop my self from burning my forearms on the hot shelves didn't I?


So.....what have I done now?


Yelp......caught the soft part of my forearm near the elbow on the top rim of the oven whilst manoevering plates about!! Ouch..


Can't win!


Cx

My Pyrosil dish had a clip on handle I think, probably still around somewhere but hardly used the handle.

Lizx

Hi Meg


yep, still understand them, though we are officially metric.


The US isn't though, which can create interesting problems.


so, not too big.


Have you seen some of the monsters that are found over here?

In fact, many of them are "the" house ........ the owners just drive north and then south with the seasons! They cost as much as a house as well!

Sylvia, 24 feet overall, and 9 feet 7 wide. I think you Candians still understand proper measurements.

But stuck on the drive, anyone passing behind it to get to the front door, will have to be no more than a size 6.

Our builder Darren is going to advice.

I somehow think Pyrosil was made by Corning, not Pyrex.

Thank you all for the clarification.
The one I saw was white with blue pattered flowers, - no lid.

No Janey, I wouldn't put Pyrex on the hob, although grandson did one day when making some instant custard ( just add hot water to measured out powder). The instructions said that if the custard wasn't as thick as required one should heat it on the stove, ..so he did, thereby breaking the small jug ( half pint size) which of course has been discontinued by Pyrex.

Gwyn

My first item for my bottom drawer (well it was the early sixties) was a blue and white Pyrosil casserole dish with clear glass lid that I won on a bingo stall at a small coastal village where I took my last holiday with my parents and brothers. Had just left school and there was very little to do especially with two younger brothers so resorted to trying the bingo stall and other amusements, and won enough to get the casserole dish.

I actually still have it somewhere, it's old and a bit sorry for itself and the lid got broken but it's useful at time and is of great sentimental value. I think it was made by Corning and I also have several of the white Corning? saucepans with clear lids too.

Lizx

right.. I say michaelwave because..........

many years ago there was a sitcom, on tv, and the "hero", a rebel,wolfie( power to the people) ,his mother referred to the microwave as michealwave and to my purile? mind the phrase stuck.

richard hammond is/was a presenter on a program called "brainiacs" and the crew did stupid experiments on tv, several of which used microwaves (which invariably blew up and destroyed themselves.........the microwaves, not the experimenters!)or dropping caravans from cranes

as I said earlier, World Kitchen UK sell the brown clear glass cookware very much like the original Corning Vision, stuff...which IS safely microwave-able

but using common sense, it is not adviseable to put cold glassware on a very hot bare flame or hot glassware on a cold surface........too much of a temperature gradient!!

Did you know that Steuben Crystal was a division of Corning??

Had been since about 1918, but was apparently sold in 2008 to the Schottenstein Stores Corp


OH was over in Upper New York State for a meeting many years ago, went for a drive, and found himself in Corning (the town for which Corning is named!), with the Corning Museum of Glass

He had a tour, then bought 2 whisky tumblers as a present for me.


They're gorgeous!

Janey


Two of my remaining Corningware are white with blue flowers ............... cornflowers. That was the very first pattern, first produced in 1958


from Wikipedia:

Originally manufactured by Corning Glass Works, the CorningWare and Corelle brand names are now owned by World Kitchens Incorporated of Reston, Virginia, which relaunched the brand name in 2001.[

CorningWare is sold worldwide, and it is popular in Canada, United States and Australia.

The original pyroceramic glass version of CorningWare was removed from the US market in the late 1990s. It was re-introduced in 2009[3], due to popular demand. There are various rumors as to why the popular stovetop product was temporarily discontinued. The company's official word is that the product died out due to a lack of customer interest.

The company's 2001 annual report shows that the stovetop and dinnerware product lines were halted at the end of the century "as part of a program designed to reduce costs through the elimination of under-utilized capacity, unprofitable product lines, and increased utilization of the remaining facilities."[1] Facilities in Charleroi, Pennsylvania and Clinton, Illinois were closed.

AND


World Kitchens sells similar looking products under the CorningWare brand name that are common white glazed stoneware. The packaging for these newer CorningWare branded cookware products say specifically that they are not for stovetop use. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Google now, Gwyn.

I asked google for

pyrosil hob

and it immediately asked me whether I really wanted

Purosil hose

I wonder what that's about??

We don't say "hob" here, so I guess I confused google.ca.

Anyway, yes, can be used on the hob. Pyrosil, whatever it is, but not Pyrex.

My Corningware has the clip-on handles. Is Corningware not known over there?

http://www.corningware.com/

Mine's an old stye, white with blue flowers on it, and thicker.

Madmeg, look at "SimplyLite" -- 50% lighter. Maybe that's what you want!

very nice!


How long and wide is it?



Mind you, you could always park it on the lawn!

I saw a Pyrosil dish in a charity shop today and immediately thought of this thread.
Is that the material that can be used on the top of the hob or in the oven?
It didn't have handles, but I vaguely think that I saw a similar one once, which had clip-on handles.

Gwyn

Old van had a great set of melamine, done 23 years of service. Sadly, 1980s retro red and yellow, not what I want for my new "neutral" van (now due for delivery 2nd March). Yes, Janey, pyrex, and it might have to be. Yes Sylvia, something has to go. Could be the OH but for the fact that I need him to tow the thing.

Yes, new car as well, PLUS, silly noddies that we are, didn't realise that with the van on the drive NOBODY will be able to get to our front door, so having to widen the drive. You'd think it was a big van we've gone for, but it's actually quite small compared to many.

http://www.coachman.co.uk/vip-range/overview

Model 460/2

Note no room for grandchildren. Not that we've got any yet.

Plan is to tour UK records offices. How sad is that? OH will be bored stiff, but I might enjoy.

you're googling



like I started doing after that last post!



Lots of melamine dinner ware on sale on the internet!



Probably is time to start collecting it!


We have some really nice looking white plates, bowls and mugs with a grapevine pattern on them ......... got them as a present for the cabin soon after we bought the place.

Unfortunately, that pattern no longer seems to be on the market. So I had to buy plain white ones to more fully fill the "china cupboard" up there!

Pet food -- I hope not baby food!

No, that's right -- only the pet food made it to North America, but it was added to baby formula in China and made thousands ill and killed six. It was also going in animal feed and thus into eggs in China, apparently.

Melamine has high nitrogen content (I'm now becoming a melamine expert) which actually makes it fire-retardant. That's why it fools protein-content tests.