Failing VISIONS

[cadman]

I know we had a thread on this awhile back, but thought I'd post pictures of an interesting failure we had the other night. Actually, the dish was an Anchor-Hocking in the Visions style. Was on the stove boiling away when all of a sudden....CRACK....hisssssss. The lower portion and side cracked out completely.

The worst part? We were bringing beer to a boil for brats- You can imagine the smell as a good portion of hot, stale, beer entered the '60 Frigidaire cooktop!
-Cory

 

[joeekaitis]

Well, there ya go . . .

Anchor Hocking amber cookware was probably tempered glass, not glass-ceramic like VISIONS or CorningWare Pyroceram, so using it on an electric coil burner (and maybe even a smoothtop) without a wire spacer is courtin' disaster.

 

[hunter]

If I recall correctly...

Even the original Visions cookware had issues of shattering. I think that is what began the decline of pyroceram in America.

Unfortunate because it is my favorite cooking material; absolutely inert, takes temperatures extremes, extremely easy to clean...I cook in corningware on an electric smoothtop all the time. And, of course, use it in the oven.

The only other thing I'm really using now is my stainless steel pressure cookers.

Hunter

 

[henry200]

Yikes, Anchor Hocking is intended for oven and microwave use only, not stovetop or broiler!  I once saw a dish like that shatter just from someone putting cold water in it when it was still hot from the oven.  I can just about imagine what a mess you had to clean up after all that beer flooded the stove.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The pan pissed out the beer before anyone else could even take a drink.

 

[whirlcool]

We were making some Gen Cho's chicken from a frozen food kit last week. It said to put the chicken in a glass baking dish and cook at 350F for 35 minutes. We did that. It then said to "remove dish from oven and pour frozen sauce on top of chicken and return to oven for 10 more minutes". I took the baking dish out of the oven and thought "Are they crazy?" So I quickly microwaved the sauce to about room temp, and then put it on the chicken and cooked for 2 more Minutes. I wonder how many people have lost glass baking dishes making this recipe?

 

[appnut]

cory, sorry ya had to larn the lesson the hard way.  Anything but visions/pyroceram is not stove top compatible. 

 

[cadman]

You know what's interesting Henry is that I flipped the broken dish over and it actually said Oven and Broiler safe......apparently not stovetop though : ). I wondered how this piece got mixed in with my visions (put together individually). Turns out it was the gf's!

 

[combo52]

GLASS COOKWARE FOR STOVE TOP COOKING

Corning-ware and Visions are the safest for the stove-top, but neither are flat enough for efficient cooking on electric ranges. The only glass cookware that I use on electric ranges is the Corning Cook-mates that are ground completely flat. When you are cooking on high heat on a conventual electric burner the element should never get red hot. If more than a few small spots glow red hot you are not getting good heat transfer. You also risk catastrophic element failure which can not only be dangerous but can destroy parts of the range including the porcelain cook-top it self.

 

[joeekaitis]

Here. Get the REAL thing, brand-spankin' new.

http://www.shopworldkitchen.com/visions/products?results=all

 

[toggleswitch]

oooh that was messy, i'm sure!

SURE BLAME THE GF!

(Ducks and runs!)

 

[hunter]

SOME corningware was flat enough.

Some Corningware was flat enough to use on an electric smoothtop; the bottom is absolutely flat and was made for 'the countertop that cooks.' I have several pieces of it. (They are all old, I don't know if the new ones, from France, are that flat).

I agree about the other stuff: it isn't flat and gets hot spots.

 

[joeekaitis]

French White Pyroceram vs Just White from France

Before we were married, my wife bought 2 pieces of French White Pyroceram (made in USA). The use and care instructions said that while it was safe for use on the stove, the uneven bottom and oblong shape could cause uneven heating.

I bought a 2-piece Just White set (made in France) when it was brought back for CorningWare's 50th anniversary. The use and care instructions are almost cavalier about what you can do with it, even suggesting it was safe to go straight from the freezer to a raging hot stove burner (and vice versa) and then into the kitchen sink while it's still hot.

 

[joeekaitis]

Oh, forgot to mention. . .

. . . the Just White dishes are flatter than Kansas, so they should be perfect for a smoothtop electric. Ditto for the VISIONS pieces I've acquired.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The A series pans which came out in the 70s have flatter bases than the original P series and will work well enough on the electric coil stove top for non-delicate cooking operations. Since the smooth top ranges cook by radiant heat that goes right through glass cooktop, it also passes just as easily through Corning Ware so you don't need the absolutely flat bases to cook on the smooth tops.