Product Issues
There have been a considerable amount of reports of one of World kitchens products licensed under the name "Pyrex" exploding when in use. The company licenses the name from Corning who was the previous manufacturer of Pyrex and who made that product from a different and more expensive material called Borosilicate glass. Corning manufactured Pyrex with borosilicate glass from 1915 and switched to soda-lime glass in the 1940s. World Kitchens products sold in the USA under the name "Pyrex" are not made from borosilicate glass but rather the less expensive Soda-lime glass. The Soda-lime glass is said to develop micro-fissures and can break when exposed to wide temperature changes, although it is more resistant to breakage when dropped as opposed to borosilicate glass. These "explosions" can be caused by the misuse of the product.
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