Cooks outdated and new love to gather classic Pyrex. The colourful glassware pulls double obligation as sturdy cookware and vibrant kitchen decor. Since fashionable Pyrex typically makes use of vintage-inspired patterns and colours, it may be difficult to inform the distinction between outdated and new. Right here’s the straightforward approach to inform if a bit is true classic or fashionable Pyrex.

What’s the distinction between outdated and new Pyrex?

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Classic Pyrex has followers for sensible causes: It’s harder than fashionable Pyrex.

All Pyrex cookware, outdated and new, is constituted of tempered glass, which stands up properly to excessive and low temperatures. You may bake casseroles within the oven or pop a meal within the freezer. Tempered glass is sturdy, but when cracked, it breaks into bigger items than strange glass, making it safer (and simpler to scrub up).

Within the U.S., fashionable Pyrex cookware is constituted of a kind of tempered glass known as soda lime glass, which isn’t practically as sturdy because the glass utilized in older items known as borosilicate. Extremely powerful, borosilicate has one particularly notable superpower: the flexibility to endure sudden shifts in temperature. Classic Pyrex can go straight from freezer to oven, whereas fashionable Pyrex have to be introduced at the very least to fridge temperature beforehand. Classic Pyrex may deal with the rising, shifting temperature of a preheating oven, whereas fashionable Pyrex glass ought to solely go right into a secure, preheated oven.

Don’t low cost fashionable Pyrex, although. In case your cookware breaks, examine your mannequin quantity to make use of the corporate’s beneficiant guarantee.

How will you inform if a bit is actual classic Pyrex?

The key is easy—examine the emblem. If the model identify is in all capital letters, it’s classic Pyrex. If it’s all lowercase, it’s fashionable.

The place do I discover classic Pyrex?

In all places! Enjoyable, collectible classic Pyrex is straightforward to seek out at nearly any vintage retailer, however you’ll pay the next worth. Scout thrift shops, Goodwill or storage gross sales for the very best offers. If a bit seems a bit worn, it might nonetheless be value grabbing as a result of you possibly can simply take away scratches from Pyrex. And in case you’re searching for a specific sample, search on eBay or Etsy.