Thursday, November 22, 2012

The Pie in Pyrex

I was reading an article in the Fall2012/Winter2013 issue of "Chemical Heritage" (R. Blaszczyk, Cooking with Glass) about Pyrex bakeware.  Apparently when Corning developed borosilicate ovenware, the first dish produced was a pie plate.  The names considered for the glass were thus Pie-Rite or Py-Right, but then it was changed to Pyrex in 1915 (to rhyme with Nonex, another brand of Corning glass).  Seems appropriate to mention pie on Thanksgiving!  Hope yours is good.

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