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  • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Cooking glassware is rarely simple glass. Mostly it's Pyrex, which is glass treated with boron to make it more resistant to heat stresses. It's the same stuff they make beakers ands test tubes out of.

    They wouldn't let you cook with glass cookware if it just exploded all the time, you can treat it like a normal tray. If you're really nervous about it, maybe don't take an empty pan straight out of the oven and fill it with ice water. Even if you did it would probably be fine.

      • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh - I don't live in the US. Soda lime glass hey? Don't know much about that, does it explode?

        • SexPorner69 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Soda lime glass is just normal window glass, it's much worse than borosilicate glass in terms of thermal shock resistance. Though I have to assume they use some special kind of soda lime glass at least in order to not have it explode all the time.

          Anyway, don't worry. Fracture from thermal shock is hugely more likely to occur on cooling than on heating, just don't have it touch any cold surface when you take it out of the oven, put it on a kitchen towel or something

      • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Oh shit I remember reading about this because that change made it much harder to make meth so people had to start breaking into labs to get the borosilicate beakers