Posted on 11/07/2014 6:30:58 AM PST by Fenhalls555
S. Donald Stookey was a young scientist researching the properties of glass when in 1952 he put a glass plate into an oven to heat it. But the oven malfunctioned.
Instead of heating to about 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, the oven shot up to more than 1,600 degrees. Stookey expected to find a molten mess. Instead, he found an opaque, milky-white plate.
As he was removing it from the oven, his tongs slipped, and the plate fell to the floor. But instead of shattering, it bounced.
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My father in law invented the technique for putting the cute little blue flowers on the corning ware . He was a scientist (ceramic engineer) at a research center. I wonder if this scientist worked at the same research center my fil did.
A contributor to the Good Life. Thank you, sir.
I was referring to their biological origins.
My grandfather, a French speaking Cajun, would never eat a casserole. He called it pig slop, like when you scrape all the unwanted food into a pot to go feed the pigs.
“there goes my idea for a book.”
I had the exact same thought when I first came across the Bible.
My “best” dishes are pristine white Corning ware. They do discolor after a while. They also can break,leaving behind thousands of microscopic shards.
I still have, love and use my Corning Ware and now about to buy more for the holidays. I’ve been meaning to see if it was still sold anywhere, and this post inspired me to do so.
My father mailed every one in.
Wound up with a setting for eight after buying just one plate.
“I also inherited 2 Revel copper-bottom sauce pans Mom bought in the mid-1950s.”
I think they are REVERE not Revel. My mother left us a couple too. Stainless steel with a copper overlay bottom to more evenly distribute heat.
Receiving of friends will be at 3:50 for 40-45 minutes.
Most are zirconium based ceramic matrix and titanium oxide ceramics matrix based.
Very expensive materials but very tough and unrepairable. If it breaks, it goes into a grinder to be recooked.
That took me a second to figure out.
I’m sure he’ll be buried in a non-stick coffin...
We had that thingy!.....................
LOL!!................
The name is still visible on the bottom — they are Ekcoware.
Revere may have sold them or manufactured them under the Ekcoware brand.
“Wound up with a setting for eight after buying just one plate.”
How many siblings do you have?
Revere cookware. On a quiet night , you can hear them calling out “The Pyrex are coming! The Pyrex are coming”.
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