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How glass measuring cups are made.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...348#post150603
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...718#post139938
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...978#post120102
Something to ponder.
My younger sister still has a Pyrex measuring cup that our grandmother used which is virtually identical to one you can buy today I have no Idea how many years our grandmother used the cup She passed away in 1965 when I was just 11 years old but I remember her making cookies cakes pies she made the best pies I've ever tasted and the measuring cup was ever present.
So my question would be were the cups made by the same or similar machines some 50,60 or more years ago? I've often thought of the generation just prior to mine as having been the smartest generation. They came up with ways for repetitive duplication while later generations have only managed to convert to more automated higher speed machines mostly based on ideas and machines from bygone eras
Frank
I've still got my mum's Pyrex 2 cup...the lettering is getting a bit light now, and it's got a couple of chips...she got it in '49 as a wedding gift! I, too, have vivid memories of her using it almost daily as I grew up. Cheers
Jim
Just as a reminder, OLD "Pyrex" was borosilicate glass. They sold off the consumer products division so "Pyrex" just became a brand name for "stuff". The glass-like items are just soda glass now.
However, the laboratory "Pyrex" stuff is still borosilicate.
It's like how mecurochrome was banned for having evil toxins. So, now you can buy a brand of wound treatment called Mecurochrome(tm) that is essentially the same as Bactine with food coloring added.
Thanks for that, mate! I just spent 20 min down a rabbit hole learning about borosilicate glass and Corelle's 'licensing' of the Pyrex brand...With 2 measuring cups and 6 various sized baking dishes, I'll treat it with proper respect and not be slapdash in handling...cheers
Jim
There was a television ad from the 60's happiness is cooking with Corelle, And another one that said it's not china, its CorelleQuote:
Originally Posted by Beserkleyboy
When my youngest graduated from College I gave her 3 crates of various sized beakers test tubes a 5 tube centrifuge and a box of valves some lengths of tubing and a Bunsen. She said dad I'm going to be teaching the 2nd grade not high school. chemistry. Well you can always set the stuff up at home and create the world's most elaborate coffee maker. She still laughs about that 20 years later
Frank, Too funny! We use Corelle plates and bowls in the caravan, light, strong, easy clean BUT, they will not survive falling from the o/head cupboards in motion!...And the colour/pattern we had was no longer current....so...whole new set...Cheers
Jim
For survival you need the old Melmac dishes those things will almost survive being run over by a trainQuote:
Originally Posted by Beserkleyboy
Yea, bulletproof, but the modern Melamine dishware was deemed too light (?) and too plasticky...
AKA "Boonton Ware" madw in Boonton, NJ it was the next town over from us when I was a kid. We had some but not a lot coffee cups and some plates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I remember one year at the local fare they had a demonstration, they were hammering nails with a coffee cup!
My wife just handed me this bowl, we have a few that we use all the time. She's had them since she was a kid, so it's older than most people on this forum.
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That's it!
Those tough plastics result from products made for severe institutional use, such as prisons. Also found on military ships, for entirely different reasons; they clean easily and do not burn, emitting toxic fumes.
For many products, thermo-set is still superior to thermo-plastics.
I have my grandmother's 'pyrex' measuring cups and blue flower corning ware ten piece set that she apparently bought when they landed here from Poland in the late forties, I use the stuff just about daily and it still looks like new.
