The word glass evokes a mental picture of my wineglass that I handle carefully because it would shatter if I dropped it, but there are several forms of glass.
There are the baking dishes that I slide into the oven and pull out a thirteen-by-nine devil’s food cake or a meat loaf for supper. Pyrex is a brand introduced by Corning Inc., in 1915, initially for a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass used for laboratory glassware and kitchenware. It was later expanded in the 1930s to include kitchenware products made of soda-lime glass and other materials. Its name has become famous for making rectangular roasters.
While I was stirring the recipes up, I used a Pyrex measuring cup featuring gradations in both U.S. and metric units to put in the proper amount of ingredients.
If you’re like us, you eat your meals from Corelle tableware. I like it much better than the plastic set of dishes I obtained with Green Stamps, a grocery store premium, when our kids were growing up. It comes in many patterns, is light weight and doesn’t chip easily like the cheap, tableware we had when we were first married, but it does break. I still have remnants of our first set. I got curious about what the Corelle was made of. A little research told me it’s Vitelli, a tempered glass product consisting of two types of glass laminated into three layers. It was introduced by Corning Glass Works in 1970, but it is now manufactured and sold by Corelle Brands. A couple of my casserole dishes are also Corelle.
Sometimes plastic has taken the place of glass but we still refer to the items as glass. The tumblers I put on the table for water or milk are nearly unbreakable. Saves replacing often as the glass beverage holders broke easily.
Do you know more about glass now than you did?