Posted: 3/5/2012 2:25:12 PM EDT
Has anyone ever broken a piece of Corelle glassware?! The stuff utterly VAPORIZES into thousands of razor sharp pieces of ceramic shrapnel.  I have never seen anything like this.
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It's designed so that when it breaks, there's no large piece that can stab you.
"Tempering creates balanced internal stresses which cause the glass, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass |
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Broke it in a big stack before. Parents had cupboards that opened from both sides. Big stack of 3 different sized plates, and a push into the cupboard, after washing, and they all went out the other side and fell close to 6 feet onto the hardwood floor. What a fugging mess! Only about 1/2 of the largest plates broke so may 6 or 7 but it was all over the kitchen. |
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Wow, how did you manage to break it? Drop on to tile floor. I did that once at a Waffle House. I accidentally swept it off the table and it hit the tile floor flat. The damn thing blew like a gernade!  This... is exactly what happened. There are pieces on the other side of the next room, and the fall was from waist height. |
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Wow, how did you manage to break it? Drop on to tile floor. I did that once at a Waffle House. I accidentally swept it off the table and it hit the tile floor flat. The damn thing blew like a gernade! When I was younger I manged to break the vacuum container in a Thermos. That thing really did explode. 
This is what it goes in. |
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Wow, how did you manage to break it? Drop on to tile floor. I did that once at a Waffle House. I accidentally swept it off the table and it hit the tile floor flat. The damn thing blew like a gernade! When I was younger I manged to break the vacuum container in a Thermos. That thing really did explode. http://cdn3.explainthatstuff.com/vacuum-flask-metal-inside-container.jpg This is what it goes in. I broke a metric ton of those as a kid, they should at least make the outer shell water proof so your milk doesn't fuck up the rest of your lunch. |
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I just bought some Corelle dinnerware, based largely on the reviews saying that it was really hard to chip or break. It is. I've been using it all my life, and I've only seen one broken plate. Never a chip. Beats the hell out of Stoneware. You must be smoking crack. I have had Corelle my entire life and they chip all the time. Of course . . . I am using my parents old stuff, whatever lived through 8 kids.
It is not ceramic as the OP states, it is glass. Good stuff, but it will chip and break. Not easy to break, but the aforementioned stack drop will get them. They have outlived two sets of glasses just while I have been married. |
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It's designed so that when it breaks, there's no large piece that can stab you. "Tempering creates balanced internal stresses which cause the glass, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass Well, they fucked up, because Shattered Correle is entirely composed of jagged shards. |