what is Corning ware made of? Like those Corelle dishes?

[Anonymous]

Corelle and Corningware are two totally separate things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had Corelle growing up and it was really, really difficult to break but when it did, it shattered into a billion pieces. I'd still recommend it, though.

That's actually the design of tempered glass.

In a regular glass plate fracture, the force follows a few lines and so it is a lot easier to break but when it does you get a few large pieces and some shards. Tempered glass distributes the forces through the entire piece, but if the force is strong enough that means it breaks everywhere.

[Anonymous]

I've had my Corelle set for 20 years and love them. But the shattering is a pain, though. For the first 15 years I didn't break everything. Then I got a kitchen with tile floors and on average we manage to break 1 dish a year.

[Anonymous]

I've had my Corelle set for a year now and I absolutely love them. I have a tiled kitchen floor, and silestone counters, and I haven't managed to break a plate yet.
I have service for 16 and the stack of dinner plates is about half the height of the 10 Pfaltzgraff plates I replaced. DH and I tried to pick a set that wasn't going to date as quickly as our previous set.

We got the Japanese Cherry Blossom set.

[Anonymous]

For the kids and pool dining, I use melamine plates. They have lovely ones at William Sonoma that look like Italian ceramics. You cannot microwave them, though. My sister has arthritis and loves her Corelle dishes for their light weight. However, as others have stated, when they break, they shatter into a hundred shards. We're still finding little pieces here and there a year later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had Corelle growing up and it was really, really difficult to break but when it did, it shattered into a billion pieces. I'd still recommend it, though.

I want to know if this is boNE china?
Made out of bone?

[Anonymous]

Bone china is not made of bone. It's made of a very fine clay found in special locations like Japan and China, the places of it's origin. Wiki "Porcelain". Bone china is porcelain.

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Anonymous wrote:I've had my set of Corelle for about 15 years. I have service for 16 and have not broken one yet. 6 years ago, we built a home with ceramic tile floors and granite countertops. Almost everything that gets dropped breaks. But not the Corelle. I have dropped a Corelle plate from 5 feet to the floor and it did not break. I'm not saying it is unbreakable, just that it's very hard to break. We love it. In fact, we love it so much that several years ago when we decided to stop buying paper and plasticware for parties, I went on E-bay and found service for 40 of Corelle (we can add our daily use for service for 56) and we've used that for parties ever since. They work great.

That said, our kids are only about a year old, so we haven't tested this with them. They are still using plastic infant dishes, so we'll see as they grow what we end up with.

My 3 year old eats off of Corelle , no problems. He drops (note I said drop, not put) his own dishes in the sink and helps put away dishes, no problems. Like you we ordered a big set of winter white from Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had my Corelle set for a year now and I absolutely love them. I have a tiled kitchen floor, and silestone counters, and I haven't managed to break a plate yet.
I have service for 16 and the stack of dinner plates is about half the height of the 10 Pfaltzgraff plates I replaced. DH and I tried to pick a set that wasn't going to date as quickly as our previous set.

We got the Japanese Cherry Blossom set.

We replaced Irish stoneware and it is so much lighter and takes up less space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corelle and Corningware are two totally separate things.

Yep though they share some patterns since they were both made by Corning brands.

[Anonymous]

Keep in mind the original post of this thread is from 2012.

[Anonymous]

This is the second old thread about Corelle that has been revived in the last two days. It's not a problem but it appears that someone is doing some research on the product.

[Anonymous]

Read up on Corelle explosions, some of them spontaneous.

I bought some used at a thrift shop, then learned how countless miniscule and larger shards fly everywhere and I got rid of them.

[Anonymous]

W my mom used Correlle when I was a kid. First set never broke, second set broke maybe one or two. It did NOT shatter into a billion pieces—more like 3-4. Those dishes survived a rowdy family of 7 kids and were only replaced because my mom wanted a new pattern after like 15 years or something. The first set was around when I was born, so I don’t know how old it really was, but the second set came when I was a teenager.

In my twenties, I worked in a Dansk store. Stoneware is the brightest colored but most fragile. Most durable (but least colorful) is porcelain. It’s quite sturdy.

[Anonymous]

We got Corelle for our kids - have been using it since our youngest was three and it's great! We just bought the plain white ones since some of the other patterns are really cheesy. My kids have dropped things and slammed them on the counter and so far they haven't broken anything. I, on the other hand, broke a plate in half a few weeks ago. Oops!