Comments on: Exploding Pyrex http://dponline.org/weblog/2007/11/21/exploding-pyrex/ A little bit of this, and a little bit of that Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:07:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: cjmr http://dponline.org/weblog/2007/11/21/exploding-pyrex/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 cjmr Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:22:11 +0000 http://dponline.org/weblog/2007/11/21/exploding-pyrex/#comment-1192 I had a Pyrex dish explode in my (fortunately gloved) hand as I took it off the burner it had been sitting on that I had accidentally turned on in error. Little hot shards everywhere--some of them melted holes in my new vinyl flooring. Amazingly, I didn't get cut or burned as I cleaned it all up. (In retrospect I realized I should have turned off the heat and let the thing cool in place, rather than lifting it into the cool air.) I had a Pyrex dish explode in my (fortunately gloved) hand as I took it off the burner it had been sitting on that I had accidentally turned on in error. Little hot shards everywhere–some of them melted holes in my new vinyl flooring. Amazingly, I didn’t get cut or burned as I cleaned it all up.

(In retrospect I realized I should have turned off the heat and let the thing cool in place, rather than lifting it into the cool air.)

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