Kitchen

[house cat]

I can spend hours browsing ebay and other sites for vintage Pyrex baking dishes and fridge ware. I also love milk glass.

I'm slowly replacing my plastic stuff with it. I have to be very selective, due to lack of space and lack of money, but when I get the "right" piece I'm in heaven.

Does anyone else collect it?

[JamicaJammer]

No, too heavy/bulky.

[Linders Back]

I have some pieces which I will never part with. Didn't start out trying to ""collect it"". Most were shower gifts from back in the '60's or some of my Mom's old pieces.

I much prefer it to the clunky Temptations type bakeware or serving dishes.

[JamicaJammer]

And no lead paint poisoning problems like with Temptations!

[fbm2lsm]

I am an antique lover aand am always visiting different antique venues around here, Sounthwest VA. We just visited a mall that had a whole section dedicated to vintage Pyrex, so you are not alone. Love looking for antiques, enjoy your new to you purchases.

[Deadeye Daisy]

I don't 'collect' per se. I just happened to be an only daughter, so most of my Pyrex belonged to my grandmother and mother. I do have a few newer pieces, but still love and use my loaf pans (both the straight sided and flared sides), cake pans, pie plates, 6 X 9, 9 X 13 bakers among others. Many of my pieces date back to 1916.

Don't like the newer pieces, as they are made of tempered glass and are more FAR prone to breaking and shattering. My old Pyrex is made of borosilicate glass, unlike the Pyrex currently sold in the US. Just try to make something that requires preheating the pan. If you use the old borosilicate stuff, no problem. With the newer Pyrex tempered glass, it WILL break.

If shopping second-hand markets, you can generally tell the old from new by the trademark and also, the newer Pyrex has an ever so slight bluish tint, most noticable when you look at the pieces from the side where you can see the thicker bottom.

[DoneTryin]

I don't collect it, but I still have the 2-cup measuring cup that I bought in 1968 when I moved into my first apartment. It's been battered around quite a bit over the years & not a chip or crack anywhere, though the markings have faded.

[Daysdee]

I kept some of my Pyrex (from the 60's) when I started buying Temptations--just in case. I don't use the Pyrex now though as it isn't as attractive and too hard to clean compared to TT. I don't collect Pyrex or TT.

[bells4me]

I have a set of bowls & lids my grandmother gifted me in 1969. I pick up pieces here & there at yard sales for $1. I have quite a selection & use it all the time.

[chickenbutt]

I don't collect, per se, but I have quite a bit. Wow, maybe I DO collect.

Anyway, I have a set of Pyrex glass mixing bowls that I received as a gift somewhere between 30 and 40 years ago. They are the ones that are clear with little white flowers painted on, all around the middle of each bowl. They are beautiful bowls.

I also have a 1c, 2c, and 4c of the older Pyrex liquid measure cups. I like the old ones because they had the full 'D' handle, instead of the open handle ones they make now.

I also have a couple of the 9x13 rectangular baking dishes. One is the milk glass type one with red designs around the outside. I believe there are chickens on there and I cannot remember what else - maybe hearts I'm thinking (?). I'm pretty sure that one is vintage. I also have a purple clear glass 9x13 and 8" square. I'm not sure if those are the old Borosilicate or the newer soda lime glass. I have a feeling they are the newer stuff. But I've used the square on in a 450F oven many times, making cornbread, and so far so good.

I wish I knew how to determine what is Borosilicate and what is soda lime. Even though my measuring cups are definitely vintage, I still won't put them in the microwave or anything. I baby those. They are almost totally like new still. I got them years ago on ebay. I'm sure I had some of them back in the day but who knows what happened to them back then. I just don't like the new ones at all.

For storage-wear, however, I use mostly Lock & Lock. I have an extensive (massive understatement) collection of the plastic and quite a few pieces of the Borosilicate glass Lock & Lock. This brand is THE best, outside of vacuum sealing, for storage wear.