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Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Tabatha on February 26, 2006, 01:38:37 PM

Hi, this is a storage jar (from the 1970's I think). You had to collect nescafe tokens and pay a little extra to get it. I think its glass  :oops: ? Anyone got one or can tell me if it is definitely glass?

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/TopsyCat/StorageJar.jpg

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Pinkspoons on February 26, 2006, 02:15:33 PM

Looks like glass... try holding it up to a strong light. Even really densely coloured glass will let some light through.

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Max on February 26, 2006, 02:15:58 PM

Er...yes, looks like glass to me Tabatha.  :)

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Della on February 26, 2006, 02:22:10 PM

Hi Sarah,
I'd call it pyrex, but that is after all just a trademarked brand of heat and chemical-resistant glass. (Which I didn't know until I started collecting glass :oops: )
I still managed to explode a pyrex bowl by filling it with boiling water, when the dish was really cold :oops:  :oops:

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Pinkspoons on February 26, 2006, 02:31:33 PM

Wow - I've never managed to blow up any of my Jobling pyrex, and I've put it through quite some rigours over the years. I'm impressed. :D

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Della on February 26, 2006, 02:37:27 PM

Must run in my family Nic. My mum once tried heating up hotpot, on the gas ring, in a pyrex dish. Luckily no-one was nearby when the dish literally shattered to pieces and potatoes, carrots and hot gravy etc. were propelled all over the kitchen.  :shock:
It was a frightening experience for an 8 year old child, but I look back at it now and I have to smile.  :)

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Post by: vidrioguapo on February 26, 2006, 02:53:01 PM

Whoops!!! I did that too when I was a "young married" and trying to impress with a goulash in pyrex dish on top of gas flame. !! You live and learn!  Well, the label didn't say NOT to put it on a flame

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Max on February 26, 2006, 03:10:30 PM

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Well, the label didn't say NOT to put it on a flame

 :lol: So you did anyway...  :lol:

Title: Re: Is this Glass?
Post by: Anne E.B. on February 26, 2006, 03:29:18 PM

Quote from: "Tabatha"

Hi, this is a storage jar (from the 1970's I think).

I use to have a couple of these in the 70s  8)  and I thought they were Pyrex.  I've got another similar set (very 70s also) stored away some where.  I think that they might have been made in France ... I'll have to have a look now :shock:

Title: Re: Is this Glass?
Post by: Pinkspoons on February 26, 2006, 03:36:59 PM

So the moral of this thread is that if you want to find out if your storage jar is pyrex.... put it on a gas flame and run for your life!  :lol:

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Tabatha on February 26, 2006, 03:46:49 PM

:lol:  Thanks everyone. I might try the flame/heat test later... not  :roll:  :lol:

Title: Re: Is this Glass?
Post by: Frank on February 26, 2006, 04:05:44 PM

Quote from: "Pinkspoons"

if your storage jar is pyrex.... put it on a gas flame and run for your life!  :lol:

Running for your life would be a good idea as a flame will smash pyrex... oven heat is OK, I found this out cooking when much younger :?

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Jay on February 26, 2006, 04:16:16 PM

and did you know...??

The 'magic' ingredient for Pyrex is called Borax, and it nearly all comes from the one town of Borax in Southern California !

(I wonder how big THAT hole is by now???)

(at least according to my memory of some recent reading on the web, but I think it's correct!)

and I feel bound to point out...

The same sort of white effect can also be done to lead crystal or other sorts of glass, and is usually referred to as 'milk glass'. so please don't anyone think that ALL white glass is Pyrex or therfore ovenproof!

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Max on February 26, 2006, 04:35:49 PM

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The same sort of white effect can also be done to lead crystal or other sorts of glass, and is usually referred to as 'milk glass'. so please don't anyone think that ALL white glass is Pyrex or therfore ovenproof!

So, to clarify:

If your glass explodes in the oven, it's milk glass, and if it explodes over a naked flame, it's Pyrex.   :wink:  :P

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Frank on February 26, 2006, 07:27:54 PM

There are glasses now that can cope with the direct flame... joys of modern technology. Only problem is I don't know what the glass is called.

Despite the flame resistance they still break when you drop them on a concrete floor :evil: one day someone will rediscover flexible glass and we can have flames resistant glass balls. Perfect for hell - our kitchen.

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: Tony H on February 27, 2006, 06:16:06 AM

Tabatha
Yes it is glass, we have some in our pantry, we use them for rice and paste.

Here in NZ it was a Nescafe promotion, they were filled with coffee. 1970s is when we got ours.

Tony H

Title: Is this Glass?
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 27, 2006, 09:40:35 AM

:D:shock::D

Just the sight of the jar conjures up the image of it, half-full of nasty powdered instant "coffee", just starting to "cake".  :twisted:  I can SMELL it. Yeeeeugh!
I'm off to get a decent mug of real, Fair-Trade coffee. I need it to take that vile smell away!

Are they really that old......?