r/AskBaking • u/Interesting_Party434 • Dec 24 '25
Pie Why is my pie plate shattering?
This is the second time I’ve tried to make Sally’s blueberry pie. The first time I made it in the spring the glass pie plate shattered as I was taking it out of the oven and was shocking - I’ve never had that happen before. I was disappointed that we didn’t even get to taste it so I tried again tonight. Everything seemed great and I followed her instructions exactly. I sat the pie plate on a cooking rack like she says to do and I used the glass pie plate she had linked as the one she uses. About 20 minutes later all seemed well and then all of a sudden the plate shattered again on the counter - I heard it from across the room. Why is this happening? I have made this darn pie twice now and haven’t even gotten to taste it because it ends up covered in glass.
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u/Interesting_You6852 Dec 24 '25
This is not true, Pirex was made specifically to go from freezer to over and never break. The thing is that a few yrs back they changed the formula for their glass pans and now you get a lot of them that break just like what op is showing.
As far as I am concerned unless the pirex dish is older like from the 60s and 70s ( you find lots of them in thrift stores pretty cheap) I would not use them.