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[joeekaitis]

If this works, you'll be seeing a lot less Corning Ware Pyroceram at garage sales.

Sorry.

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[cleanfresh]

I'm sick and tired of companies always doing this

They're ALWAYS changing good, tried and true products, formulations, ect. And then, ALWAYS ALWAYS, acting like people WON'T BE ABLE to tell the difference!!! I love the original Corning Ware. I find myself clutching it tightly sometimes because I'm afraid I might drop it and break it. I'm steaming about this news!

 

[whirlcool]

Hit Ebay Now!

We have tons of the original Corningware here. Most everything we bake in is done in Corningware. I always thought that things taste much better than being baked in aluminum pans.
We have this one serving dish that is Corningware with a metal plate embedded in the bottom. You stick it in the microwave for 1 minute before putting food in it and it browns the food as you microwave it. Just don't touch the bottom of it after you have heated it. One of our neighbors still has his fingerprints burnt into the finish.
A lot of our stuff has the blue flowers on it, but in the mid 80's or so Corningware came out with "Plain White" and we bought a lot of that. We use Bauhaus dinnerware so the Corningware matches nicely. It ws designed by the Design House Bauhaus in 1928. Everything interlocks. Small plates act as covers for the bowls, coffee cups stack easily. It looks like it was designed yesterday. It's timeless, that's why we like it so much!

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[DADoES]

I have two micro-browning dishes. Both came with microwave ovens. One was for a Sharp that had settings for a few foods that included a programmed preheat period for the dish.

 

[sudsmaster]

Got some

I bought a set of oval and round glass-covered Corningware bakeware back in the 80's, when I thought they were best for microwaving things that would otherwise destroy mere plastic types of microwaveable containers. I used them for a while, but gradually lost interest in microwave cookery. Still have the "real" Corningware, though... I like the plain white look, along with the fluted sides. Classy.

I'm assuming these are genuing pyroceram stuff. All it says on the back is "Corningware", with the capacity and model #. It does look glassy, and the finish is definitely smooth.

Nowadays I do most of my roasting and grilling out on a covered patio with a propane rotisserie/grill. But I suppose the Corningware would be good for casseroles etc.

What I really get a lot of use out of is the set of Corelle dinnerware, with the herbal "Thyme" pattern, I got four years ago. I bought enough for 12 places, and I use it every day. Still looks brand new. Great stuff. I even have some plain white Corelle that dates back to the 70's, but most of it has gone away. At the time I noticed that some sets came with cheesy teacups, with sharp seams on the handles that made them ugly and a bit painful to hold. I had to find the boxes with the better teacups - Corelle Coordinates - made in Thailand - that were more like regular beakers and smooth all around. I understand they are not pyroceram but they are very durable and none have broken despite a number of hard knocks. I suppose the ugly painful teacups were more genuine, but in my mind they were less desirable for practical use.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why Corning would discontinue such a successful line of cookware and replace it with an inferior product. Perhaps it's a cost cutting move, designed to mollify rapacious retailers like Walmart, but I would think they could still offer the pyroceram stuff at a premium price and make it a win-win situation.

Oh well.

 

[appnut]

I do believe the division that made the Corningware stuff, as in from corning NY, was sold off as part of a corporate downsizing to concentrate on a key industry.

I too have a Corning Browning thing I got with my 1978 Litton 500 Meal-In-One. I haven't used it in years, so messy to clean up when I've grilled burgerse or cheese sandwitches. Still have the small cookbook that came with it. I have a Corningware 10" skillet (rectangular) which is perfect for my 1950s era brown rice; a 5 quart dutch oven I used to simmer large batches of stuff in the microwave; and a 4.5 quart large cassarole I bought while estate saling at the 2002 convention.

Now I do have a question, isn't the Visions" pyroceram also? I have a lot of that I gingerly use and take care of.

 

[knitwits1975]

OK, Now I have a question.

I went with my mother to the shopping mall yesterday with the intent to replace her dead coffee pot. The deceased was a Black & Decker Spacemaker that was not even two years old yet. We went to "Kitchen Collection" which I believe is a World Kitchen Brands Store. Well between Mom and I, we have gone through about eight coffee makers this last decade. I tried to get her to get a Bunn-O-Matic. I realize they are expensive and bulky, but they are a VERY well made and a Canada/USA made unit. But the sales Rep was very much (I felt) trying to talk mom out of buying the Bunn. She said things like you have to leave water in them all the time, and you have to use it every day, or the gaskets will crack. and if you leave water in them for too long, it turns green and cannot be cleaned. Why was she telling my mother this? Is this true about Bunn-O-Matics? If not, Why would she make up such crap? Well, unfortunately all her talking worked and my mother took a Cuisinart instead. What's your take?

 

[appnut]

Jason, why not a regular good ol'-fashioned percolator coffee pot? I was fortunate enough to not have to replace drip ones every few years--have seen that increase with my parents over the years. Percs make better coffee as well as it's a much hotter temp when poured into the mug. I'll never go back.

 

[magic clean]

Don't despair! Arcoflam to the rescue

An alternative to Corning Ware. Performs like the original.

http://www.villagekitchen.com/mfg/arc/arcoflam/arcoflam.html

 

[Designgeek]

Speaking of percolators, what ever happened to those? The old fashioned stainless steel "coffee pot" you'd plug into the wall and then pour the stuff out the spout. Seems they've all been replaced by those drip style machines that started with Mr. Coffee.

I don't drink the stuff -never have, caffeine is too strong a drug for me and I can't take the chance of someone making a mistake with "decaf"- but the old electric percolator was always a familiar kitchen item when I was a kid, with its "plurp-plurp" sound and the coffee bubbling up in the little glass dome on top. Then they just disappeared. Or does anyone still make them?

I get the impression that the "Mr. Coffee" type machines, the ones that everyone has now, are more compicated to set up, use, and clean, than the oldschool percolators. Is that true or am I just dreaming of the good old days...?

 

[maytagbear]

Perked coffee

Is, in my opinion, dismal stuff. Coffee should never be boiled, and that is what perking is. Also, most percolators were aluminum, and aluminum does dreadful things to coffee's flavour. The only perk I'd even consider today would be a Farberware.

The Bunn is an annoying machine. Its speed is because it is always plugged in, and it is an enormous waste of energy. The only place for a Bunn machine is in a restaurant.

When used well, an automatic drip machine makes excellent coffee, but very few automatic drip machines are engineered properly. They should bring the water to around 203F (90 something C), and hold the coffee at around 180F If I were to buy a new automatic drip, I would get one with a thermal carafe.

I currently have a Melitta one cup manual filter, thanks to the off board suggestion of one of our members, and I love it.

I, too, am very sensitive to caffeine, but once in a while, a cup of decaf at home is pleasant.

Decaf can be good, if the beans are of decent quality (think local cafe for beans), and if they are freshly ground.

Oh, and filtered/Brita water makes the best coffee.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[knitwits1975]

OK then. So a conventional coffee maker is the way to go. But still, do you ever get the impression that these retailers are trying to push consumers into buying the outsourced rather than American made products? Or is it just me?

 

[whirlcool]

Maytagbear:

You are sooo right about perked coffee. I think the best coffee comes from those Sunbeam C-30's, a vacuum style coffee maker.
I thought maybe it ws just us, but we too have gone thru a bunch of coffeepots in the past several years. We've had cheap ones (Sunbeam) and TOL one (Krups and Braun) and it doesn't make a difference. We use our Sunbeam vacuum pot most of the time, but over Christmas we bought a Cusinart because it was on sale, cheap, and it came with a three year warranty.
We also have some freinds who use a Bunn and they really love it, they have been trying to talk me into one. But we really love the built in timer so you can wake up to fresh coffee n the morning. We use a timer with our Sunbeam vacuum pot.
I am one of those who staggers into the kitchen in the morning and can't do a thing until I have at least two cups of coffee in the morning. Funny thing is I didn't start drinking coffee until I was in my late 20's.

 

[DADoES]

My mother had a Bunn for some years. It leaked recently, or somehow went wrong, and I believe she decided not to get another.

 

[petek]

There aren't too many new percolaters on the store shelves these days. Cuisnart does make one, a cordless, and I happened to find one unused at the thrift store. I've never tried it out though because I prefer drip coffee. Quite a few here like me have collections of old percolaters.
I agree about the Bunn. It keeps a pots worth of water ready at the boil 24/7 so you're wasting a lot of energy and somehow I would think that water that's been sitting all that long especially if you don't use it alot isn't going to make the best tasting coffee. Still some people don't mind it but they have bad taste LOL .