PSA: last night one of our pyrex cooking dishes exploded.
not fractured, exploded. “pyrex isn’t supposed to do that” we thought.
as of a few years ago, Pyrex sold their brand, the new company changed glass recipe as a cost cutting measure, resulting in a pandemic of exploding cookware and a class action lawsuit.
thankfully the patent has expired and the keyword to look for in competing glass cookware products is “borosilicate glass”
@zensaiyuki i remember reading this is only a thing in the US and european pyrex has always been borosilicate? Might be worth a double check
...i sure hope the laboratory glassware is still borosilicate. That could cause some *major* problems if they started using soda-lime glass instead
@zensaiyuki @Felthry welcome to capitalism…
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if Australia is participating in the European Song Contest, how hard would it be to also get the consumer protection wer have here?
i hate Britain is leaving… wanna join?
@Felthry in Australia. our pyrex exploding seemed pretty real. someone else replied here that lab pyrex is still borosilicate.