I wish to also add that I am thankful to see these Temptations threads are active because others need to beware as to what happened to many of us when we used them, and no matter how many times posts of this nature are deleted the dangerous imperfections will prevail, because the truth is out there and cannot be silenced.
My experience was not only limited to one pattern.
I purchased many different Temptations patterns and sets, enough to fill 3 breakfronts which were quite wide and tall. (Now they have my made in England Royal Albert Old country Roses and Moonlight Roses porcelain dinnerware, and many different accompanying serving pieces, along with my beloved Mom's gorgeous Lenox China dinnerware and serving pieces).
I believe the crazing and cracking explosions are being experienced due to the ill manufacturing of Temptations items overseas. They are well known for not having any health and safety standard guidelines, and this has been discussed on the News and in the Newspapers.
Perhaps their way of production standards are either non existent or perhaps much lower than ours here at home.
What I do know is that these imports of Temptations can be dangerous to use when they crack straight from the oven filled with hot food, and then also crack from being refrigerated with salads, and then passed around the table to dinner guests.
"Burns and cuts are serious issues from defective products which house food and are used to cook and serve with".
*Another thought is what if they are already defective and we cannot tell?
We place food inside and the item chips into the food, so besides the dangers of the item cracking and having breakage exploding issues when being handled or cooked with in the oven, what about the issues from these defective pieces and actually biting down on some hard chips from the product which is now also in the food being served?
That is what I thought about...... and taking my experience, my guests experience and everything under consideration I to adhere to the better safe than sorry, and one burned twice shy approach, and destroyed them all with a hammer and trashed them all.
(BTW I would never donate any of my vast Temptations collections even though they cost me plenty $ and many still looked brand new and unused, as I just could not take the chance of never knowing if others used my Temptations pieces, and got burned or hurt).
For some reason I never trusted Temptations to use in the freezer, so for that I used my own Corning ware, which I never had any problems with, and also inherited my beloved mother's sets of Corning ware too.
All the Corning ware were made int the U.S.A., where we have rigid standards, and they were policed often to ensure they meet our high U.S.A. standards. NOw many of those pieces are also foreign imports.
China and other foreign imports seem to be throw away cheap products, and many of their items have proven to be dangerous on many levels reported to the public world wide, and even deadly to many of our pets, and consumers alike.
Seems that many foreign places have no government safety guidelines in place and they are just selling everything and anything to make $ not caring whether the items can cause harm or death to pets or human beings.
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