Aggh Correll Dishware Shatters!

3oaks wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
:( I started off with a brand-new set and broke my first plate less then a week later.

If your talking about Corelle dishes, and contacted the Corning, they would have replaced the broken piece free of charge. That's what we did. :)

Well I would not have wanted another piece of that corelle I would have like to make Corning come out and try and get all the shards of glass up off the floor and ultimately from the paws of my dogs because it's almost impossible to get them all off the floor!! :B

Grease resistant?
Down here?

Pianotuna,

I am very leery of aluminum
It's the only metal not found in nature. Aluminum does not exist. It only comes into being after Bauxite is electrolysized. Same for plastic. I just don't trust putting hot food or liquid in contact with it on a continuous basis.

Look on the bottom of any pastic utensil including foam drinking cups. You will find an embossed triangle with a number in it - can you explain it's significance? It's a warning of some kind. Carcinogenic danger. I did price stainless steel tins and came up with @ $40.00 each for a plateç

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
:( I started off with a brand-new set and broke my first plate less then a week later. There are few things sadder than a Mexican/Chinese paper plate. Put a hotdog in it and it the plate resembles a hammock. I will check out the "Open House". Being single I always have leftovers to nuke. Scraps go into compost trash has to get hauled three miles. Put potroast on a paper plate then finding you ate part of the plate is no fun either :)

Get grease resistant paper plates and put it on your plastic plate. No sag and no plate to clean.

How about tin plates? A la Pie pan?

My patio was poured with a rough texture to avoid slipping when wet. I thought I had swept thoroughly. I hadn't. Dalia walked around in bare feet and the next thing I knew we were at the IMSS clinica in La Mira, where a doctor(a) dug tiny slivers out with pinpoint tweezers and strong light and lens. Dalia had kicked her sandals off the moment she set foot on the patio. Grandpa still feels like a jerk about that.

I knew I was in trouble when the second dish hit edgewise on a teak floor and shattered. I vacuumed, then scrubbed with a sponge. I had to throw the sponge away. There was no way to get the embedded splinters out.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
:( I started off with a brand-new set and broke my first plate less then a week later.

If your talking about Corelle dishes, and contacted the Corning, they would have replaced the broken piece free of charge. That's what we did. :)

All I can whimper is "Try and hold a filled plate with one hand". I was hoping for something about half the weight of ceramic. Plate: One and a half pounds. Food 8 oz. As a younger man I could do this. My body is decomposing. I was hoping to find good fairly lightweight NON ALUMINUM cookware like copper bottom Farberware. Good luck. A one quart stainless pot seems to weigh three pounds. If any of you want to sell your unneeded Revereware or Farberware cookware, I'll buy it with a Wells Fargo electronic check. Of course, shipping too!

Naio wrote:

pianotuna wrote:

I'd stick with ordinary ceramic plates.

x2. It will break into larger, less-sharp chunks.

X3
If you drop it on a ceramic floor there are teenie tiny shards all over and very hard to get up.

I threw out a whole brand new set of Corelle after one of my guests dropped a coffee cup and it exploded into a million pieces. Can't understand how they still sell that stuff or why anyone still buys it!:R

pianotuna wrote:

I'd stick with ordinary ceramic plates.

x2. It will break into larger, less-sharp chunks.

Hi Mex,

Corell is a prestressed glass product. It does shatter and leaves a LOT of tiny sharp pieces.

Ordinary glass plates do break but tend not to shatter quite so badly.

I'd stick with ordinary ceramic plates. Sometimes cheaper is better.

I find myself microwave cooking more and more and using plastic to cook in. It is hard to cook for just one person.