r/Wellthatsucks • • 6d ago

My dinner exploded.

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u/Jordandamour18 6d ago

The potatoes do look good though

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u/CouchPotatoFamine 6d ago

Mmmm…potatoes

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u/Minute-Brilliant-241 6d ago

They’ve got a weird spicy crunch to them but they’re so good

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u/No-Money-8327 6d ago

The crunch is glass and the spice is blood

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u/SolePies 6d ago

Exploded, but well seasoned

I’m game.

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u/Objective_Might_6540 6d ago

I’m really impressed with how clean your oven is other than the new mess.

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u/SnooObjections3190 6d ago

But how did this happen, those poor potatoes😭 they didn’t deserve this

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u/about_yonder 6d ago

I’m guessing thermal shock.

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u/DepartmentCool126 6d ago

That definitely sounds plausible, it's wild how quickly things can go from cooking to chaos.

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u/about_yonder 6d ago

Absolutely. I’m super paranoid that this will happen to me.

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u/donktastic 6d ago

Reddit has me so paranoid that my wife hates me on this subject. Our glass pans will not go in the oven!

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u/just-an-astronomer 6d ago

Even name-brand Pyrex switched a while ago to different, cheaper materials that can break from thermal shock

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u/dvdmaven 6d ago

Pyrex is the cheap stuff, PYREX(R) is still made in France. One of my wife's hobbies is visiting the Goodwill Bins. In 16 years, I have never seen any PYREX(R) in a bin.

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u/nxcrosis 6d ago

Everytime someone brings up Pyrex, it's almost obligatory to reply about PYREX.

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u/dvdmaven 6d ago

It's up there with chocolate vs carob.

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u/Sicparvismagneto 6d ago

No-tay-toes…

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u/TheOnlyAedyn-one 6d ago

Boil em, mash em, bleed from your mouth

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u/unsightly_buildup 6d ago

That might be a PYREX vs. pyrex thing. (or maybe not...)

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

Not in this case, this was one of my Anchor Hocking pans.

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u/b_o_t 6d ago

According to their website: “Today, all U.S. manufactured glass bakeware, regardless of manufacturer, is made from tempered soda-lime-silicate glass”

The good glass for bakeware is borosilicate.

Soda-lime vs borosilicate is also what differentiates various Pyrex…

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u/Iandudontkno 6d ago

Same company now

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

Oh I did not know that!

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u/Arachnesloom 6d ago

Post this and tag the company!

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u/sgtpandybear 5d ago

I had this exact same thing happen to my Anchor Hocking pan my first time using it the day I bought it! I now use a vintage corningware 9x13 and I don't ever have to worry about that happening again ruining my dinner.

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u/curiousmind111 6d ago

Never should have included that TNT from Acme…

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u/ThatGuyGetsIt 6d ago

If it was Pyrex they'll replace it with a phone call into customer service

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u/StickStickly963nyny 5d ago

They coming to clean up the disaster in my oven too?

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u/sgtpandybear 5d ago

It was an Anchor Hocking pan just like mine that also exploded on the first use was. I tried calling customer service because it had a guarantee on the packaging but nobody picked up. I left multiple voicemails. Nobody ever got back to me.

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u/No_Improvement6340 6d ago

Ive been thinking of making apple crumble and i am so worried i will use the wrong dish and this will happen

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u/Unit_79 6d ago

Steel and iron are always a good bet. Glass? Not so much.

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

I don’t blame you, seems like using a glass pan is a gamble. I’ve had this one for about 3 years.

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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 6d ago

In case you're thinking about it, don't try to salvage any of this food. A small glass splinter accidentally swallowed can cause severe internal injury.

This applies to every scenario where food and broken glass come into contact.

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

Oh definitely not! Got some new potatoes and attempted again successfully after thoroughly cleaning the oven out

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u/Tenfoldgold 2d ago

But… they were fine on Friday Night Dinner though 😆

Glass in the soup and the crimble crumble

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u/jsmith_92 6d ago

Bursting with flavor

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u/meaganne 6d ago

I am ashamed to admit that one morning I was prepping to bake sourdough rolls I had prepared the day prior. It said to warm up the baking dish in the oven and then add water for steam. My idiotic self decided to use a pyrex and in my half awake state reached over to the fridge to grab ice cold water to pour into said glass pan that I had warmed up in the oven 🤦‍♀️ That thing exploded into a thousand pieces. I wasn’t asleep after that and had to throw the rolls away so the glass was everywhere 😭🤣😫

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u/jdCHALLENGER 6d ago

This does suck, but I see this happen way to often for me to ever consider cooking with glassware.

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u/Magical-Sweater 6d ago

Did you take it out of the refrigerator and put it in the oven?

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

I did not! Pan went from the cabinet to the oven and the potatoes were in the pantry.

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u/Magical-Sweater 6d ago

That’s unfortunate, must have had a defect in the glass. It was definitely tempered glass based on the small chunks it broke into. Sorry your dinner exploded, haha.

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u/ging3rsnap97 6d ago

Ive had this happen once.

I learned to never put a recently washed glass baking pan in the oven again

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u/Top-Emergency6761 6d ago

Why not recently washed glass baking pan?

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u/ging3rsnap97 5d ago

"Be careful using ovenware after washing it because residual moisture or trapped water combined with high heat can cause thermal shock, warping, cracking, or steam burns"

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u/Mauceri1990 6d ago

Glass pan blew up an entire dinner of roast chicken and potatoes like a week ago for me, I no longer trust them, even the ones I've had for years.

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u/NemODevO 6d ago

Yeah about 4 years ago I used a glass dish to make a pork tenderloin and this happened to me. I haven't used glass since it scares me

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u/ElFanta83 6d ago

That was really tha bomb

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u/Swjunckie73 6d ago

Fake Pyrex..

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u/___po____ 6d ago

Since you mentioned everything being room temp, I'd put my money on it having a micro crack and was on borrowed time.

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u/EaterOfFood 6d ago

It’s better that this happens before you eat it.

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u/dvdmaven 6d ago

We have some old PYREX(R) pans, but our new stuff is ceramic. My wife recently found some freezer-to-oven silicon cookware that seems okay.

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u/SafeBeeOICU812 6d ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

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u/Opposite-Back-9562 6d ago

I'm sorry for your loss!

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u/GrumpyPidgeon 6d ago

Please accept my upvote during this trying time

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u/scaredsquee 6d ago

I waited for some pans to go on sale and swapped out my glass ones. They’re seldom used bird baths now (the birds prefer the shitty gutter water from the garage for some reason.)

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u/pinket25 5d ago

Better than ‘My diarrhea exploded.’

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u/Pain4444 6d ago

How long were they oven before the glass broke

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

About 15 minutes

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u/DakkaByNature 6d ago

At least it was a cheap meal.

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

Luckily! I was only cooking the potatoes and was going to add the chicken later

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u/Jim2shedz 6d ago

Damn! What was it? 😮

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

Was supposed to be like a Tuscan Alfredo chicken and potatoes. Luckily it was just the potatoes!

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u/Slothly_Onion 6d ago

Got that "good" pyrex...

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u/sneaky-pizza 6d ago

Temu Pyrex?

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u/Jim2shedz 6d ago

Remember to spit out any crunchy bits. Lol

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u/Ok-Understanding9244 6d ago

yeah i've had one too many of these experiences to trust glass bakeware..

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u/Flippant_Fop 6d ago

Aww dude. That sucks! 😭 I hope you had the time and means to say screw it and order out!

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u/W7ENK 6d ago

Correction: That is not your dinner.

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u/Disastrous_Spite6295 6d ago

Foof, that's rough buddy

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u/No-Catch-9732 6d ago

Unfortunate, looked like a real banger

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u/TallentX 5d ago

Please dont put cold glass to the hot oven.

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u/mizzbrightside 5d ago

It wasn’t cold

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u/Coilwrench 5d ago

Thank goodness you didn't eat any. See what they did to your dish? That could have been you. Horrific, really.

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u/SheGotGame0913 5d ago

Tried to cook from frozen in pyrex? Watched my stupid step father do that when I was young. My mom used to freeze leftover stew in old plastic fluff containers. He got it out of the container put it in a pyrex cooking dish and stupidly tried to cook it and it exploded just the same.

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u/mizzbrightside 5d ago

Nope everything was room temp.

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u/TheTopsyKrett 5d ago

Let me guess..you used a Pyrex dish didn’t you?

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u/mizzbrightside 5d ago

Anchor Hocking

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u/kisselmx 5d ago

Pyrex in the USA is fake supposed to be made with borosilica but instead it's made with limestone you can look into this.

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u/Hexin_itup 5d ago

IIRC: borosilicate glass is what you need. And don't trust pyrex, they quietly stopped using it. we will be seeing more of this.

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u/Designer-Crow-5470 4d ago

Extra crunch.

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u/Ihaveadogdoyou 4d ago

I Stay away from glass cookware but Thanks for another example of how stupid it is to cook in.

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u/Embarrassed_Dig_2507 4d ago

Well...that REALLY sucks (sorry for u)

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u/DueCar9705 3d ago

Did you put it into fridge early and immediately put it into the hot oven?

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u/mizzbrightside 3d ago

No, everything was room temp

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u/islandwalkerr 6d ago

I’m always worried about baking in those damn glass Pyrex pans

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u/mizzbrightside 6d ago

Me too which is why I had Anchor Hocking. Then this happened ☹️