Originally Posted by
tranum
Agree. I’ve heard of new brand name glass baking dishes breaking in the oven because the products used to manufacture them are inferior. Now imagine, if you will, cleaning up that mess.
I always feel so sad when I see a company go from making (and selling) a high quality product to making a significantly lower quality product. Pyrex glass baking ware used to made with borosilicate; it's now made with soda-lime, which makes it more prone to breaking from the stress of thermal shocks, but is cheaper to manufacture. Interestingly, the borosilicate version is available in Europe. I'm surprised that they don't at least offer the *option* of buying the borosilicate version in the USA - they could market it as the "Gourmet" line and sell it at a higher price and offer the cheaper soda-lime version for people who want to spend less. I got some of my Pyrex dishes from my grandmother when she moved to assisted living, and when my parents are no longer cooking, I plan to get and save their Pyrex dishes for my daughter to have some day.
Singer is another sad story - their machines were beautifully engineered and manufactured for so long, and now their machines are cheap junk. So sad.