Corning Ware

Q: I just signed in and I'm curious to find out if anyone here owns any Corning Ware, Spice of Life cookware. I own two pieces, one is a 1 quart square baking dish with lid and a 3 quart baking dish with lid. I have always used it for baking dinner although under the handle of both pieces it says: stovetop, oven, microwave. I would not be afraid to use it on the top of a gas stove, however the stove I'm using right now is electric and I'm scared to put it on the heating element. A long time ago, I split a large cast iron frying pan in half by heating a tortilla in it on an electric hot plate so I don't want that to happen to my Corning Ware. I love my Corning Ware and I want to cook with it on the stove top. Are any of you cooking on an electric stove using your Corning cookware?

A: Pretty impressive that you broke a cast iron pan in half. It probably had something to do with putting the cold pan onto an already hot plate. Heat them both up at the same time. That's my guess, anyway.. Signed in? I just checked the RFC membership list, and you aren't a registered user. Non-members can view the traffic on RFC, but you shouldn't post anything. I can understand why you don't want to register -- some people are uncomfortable giving out their Safeway membership card number -- but them's the rules! You could always get an extra membership card and use that one for registering, if you're concerned about identity theft, although I've found that when other people use my card number I get offered more discount coupons. I wonder whether, like Pyrex, the quality might have deteriorated over the years? And, actually, as I typed "Pyrex", I started wondering whether the difference there is between Pyrex and Pyrex-like materials? There's an interesting thing that happens when you put metal utensils on an electric hot plate that has an exposed CalRod heating element. The hotplate electricity can short-circuit itself on the metal pot. To see this, put an aluminum pie pan on that hot plate and watch for sparks. Rule: no electrically conductive ware on that type of hot plate without an insulator in between. OK to use iron on electric hotplates with ceramic tops, though. You might have created bands of intense heat in that skillet's base, and that promoted the cracking. Corningware should be ok. My mother used that stuff on her electric stove all her life. BTW; a gas flame is much hotter, I think, than an electric heating element. Anyone got any numbers on that?

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