Why does corelle explode

Most dishes will break into several pieces, but my Corelle broke into so many microscopic pieces and dangerously sharp shrapnel, frankly, I am getting rid of all of mine. I would rather have cheaper ceramic plates, that when they break, will not break into a kagillion pieces! The explosive sound of the dish breaking, and the distance to which it scattered was very scary! I wonder if our armed forces could shoot Corelle plates out of a cannon at the enemy.

Imagine the casualties and damage this would cause! Like shrapnel bombs they would be! I frankly think Corelle should get their act together and make a safer REAL none shatter plate, and not these dangerous ones they try to pawn off to the public as safe.

Imagine if you accidentally dropped a Corelle plate while your small child was near by. Very scary!!! Although I think I cleaned up all of this shattered plate, but I bet I will be finding shrapnel for years to come! Lily Darcey. Yup - same story here! Just walked in with the kids to find that a Corelle bomb went off on my kitchen floor cat knocked over a plate.

These dishes are history!! On Oct. I dropped a small Corelle plate, beside my left foot, on the linoleum floor at my sister's house.

It exploded like a bomb and sounded like one too and shards and chunks went everywhere. I was wearing my sandals and the force of the explosion drove 2 pieces of glass into the side of my foot. We were able to see the end of one and get it out but the other required a trip to the emergency ward.

The Doctor on call told me has seen quite a few injuries from these dishes. He also told me he was glad I came in as glass will migrate through the body and will they will never find it. You can then run into some serious medical issues. These dishes are not only dangerous, but the company advertising borders on fraud. Sure, they don't break, they explode!

All I could think of was what might of occurred if I had dropped one of my Corelle plates on my granite counterops - close to my face and eyes.

All my dishes are now in the local dump, where they belong. Do not take them to Goodwill or give them to somebody. My question is why this is being allowed to happen and why they are still being sold.

I have the same experience with an old Corelle bowl. I've heard that they explode like that only because the crystalline structure of the material has changed as they age and they become under stress like tempered glass. The new ones should not break nor explode. You mentioned your dinner wares are like 30 years old.

Perhaps you should find out from Corning if they are will to replace your whole set. Each piece of your 30 year old dinner ware may have turned into a time bomb. Last night my six year old twin daughters and I were at the kitchen table doing homework. I had hand washed 4 of my Corelle soup bowls and left them to dry on the drying rack on the counter by the sink. We heard a loud crackle sound and turned to watch as one of the Corelle Bowls basically exploded into the air, sending shrapnell all over the kitchen!

Almost like it was possessed! Thankfully we were not in the range of fire. During the past year, I have lost a Corelle serving bowl that was dropped on my wooden kitchen floor and chatered in tiny pieces all over the kitchen similar to the above picture. I lost a rimmed bowl and another soup bowl by also dropping them. Various pieces on the rest of the set have been chipping around the edges.

Buyer beware: this product is dangerous! My bowl also exploded with the same force and tiny pieces flew everywhere too, just like Marlene's pictures. I must tell everyone to avoid Corning's dinnerware! Thanks Marlene for starting this blog. It helps to know my incident was not rare. Its good to know my exploding dish was not rare. We'll choose ordinary breakable tableware over these time-bombs. Our family's safety is too important to be using "Corelle Bombs". Please warn your friends and family, for safety sake.

From Vancouver,BC. I can't believe I found this site. I was putting away my Corelle soup bowl, which is at least 20 yrs. Really scary to see. I've had Corelle for years, and broken my share of it. Today at dinner an oval serving plate shattered, just sitting on the table. No one got hurt, luckily. They're my favorite dishes, but I hadn't realized they could explode without warning. I just found this site after a startling experience yesterday.

My duaghter and myself were making dinner and hear a loud TINK sound. We couldn't figure out where it came from or what it was. When it came time to serve dinner I opened the kitchen cuboard to get a plate and found that the top plate had exploded into tiny shards. This cuboard was at eye level. Thankfully this occurred behind a closed cuboard door. I now plan on getting rid of the remaining plates and will by a different product.

THanks to all for sharing your stories otherwise I may have put this to fluke or a one time thing. Thankfully it's only the slight bleeding and clean-up hassle, I have read about major medical problems, specially when it enters the body. I told my children to unload the dishwasher and a stack of the plates fell and shattered into a million pieces shooting at least 20 to 30 ft.

We also had to take the kids to the ER because the glass cut my son very badly. Glass was in my daughters eye. We are so lucky they are ok because when I looked at the kitchen blood was everywhere and glass!

I was unaware of this danger, and have thrown out what was left. Very dangerous! Thank you to everyone for these posts. We have been having trouble with our Corelle plates and bowls and thought it was just us. They started shattering for no reason - they are not misused - and the stories noted here have convinced me to toss the lot and start fresh with something else. The shattering has happened to both old and new. The last straw happened moments ago when my daughter started screaming - she was eating goldfish crackers from a small fruit nappy and was traumatized when a shard came off the lip of the bowl.

She was simply sitting there with the bowl in her lap. She's 5. She looked down, saw the 1. I'm embarrassed that I didn't toss them months ago.

So much for Corelle's reputation - I'll be telling everyone I know not to buy them. Thanks again for all the info in the posts. Halifax, Nova Scotia. I found this by looking for the name of the plate I just broke. The bowl I had dropped onto the counter and the same thing happened, thousands of pieces everywhere. I will never buy a Corelle dish again. Dishes break from time to time no matter what the brand; accidents happen.

It's not worth keeping these around with this kind of mess. Thanks for the post! Today my Great Dane somehow broke a small corelle plate. I could not believe how many pics of glass there were all over. My husband and I were and still are dumfounded on how the Dane broke the plate. When we arrived home from work we tried to break another one.

We were practically whipping them on the floor and nothing happened. After reading this site i realize the plate could have been handled in just such away Great Dane teeth.

So thank you all for your comments. And dogs beware!!!! Lets accumulate more useful information here! Don't recall any breakages in the first couple of decades, but several in the last. Also a large white bowl ex. BTW, if one breaks while the dishwasher is going it totals the dishwasher, the glass chews up the water-pumping mechanism.

My corelle shattered also. After talking with 20 or 30 other women about the issue we determined the one thing we all had in common was that all of our peices were older corelle and we used our corelle in our microwaves. Someone said it never happened to them but they don't use their corelle in the microwave. It's not just the old ones. Newer ones have been reported to break in this explosive manner too.

I must admit though, I have used mine to heat a dinner in the microwave. That is one of the ways they are supposed to be okay to use though. Just no broiler or stove top use. I came across this site after googling "Corelle Plate shattered".

The same thing just happened to me. It positively exploded all over the kitchen and into the living room. I've never witnessed a plate explode like this and am very grateful my baby wasn't crawling around when this happened. Thanks for doing this. In the early 80s, I was standing beside my lovely white Corelle salad bowl, which was in the dish rack, long after washing. For no reason I could imagine, it suddenly exploded. There was no temp change, no blow to it, it was just sitting there.

I was just standing there. It seemed very spooky at the time. Good to read that other people have also witnessed this. WE just had a Corelle bowl explode when our 11 year-old son accidentally knock it out of the cupboard. It exploded into thousands, maybe millions of very sharp shards, with one hitting him in the eye. Fortunately for us my wife is a PA and she was able to see the shard with medical microscopic glasses and remove it before it caused any permanent damage.

If you own these dishes you need to throw them away NOW!!!! They are dangerous and the Consumer Product Safety Commission needs to do their job and protect the consumer by forcing Cornell to pull these bombs from the shelves. I could not find this anywhere on their website and was also not instructed when speaking to customer service about the delayed refund. I was putting dishes away out of my dish drainer. It took over an hour just to get it all up!

I couldn't move when this happened because I was barefoot, so my husband swept his way close enough to hand me the broom. This happened to me in the 80s but when the plate hit the floor it did the same thing but the glass kept jumping in different directions, it was like something out of a horror movie!!

I figured because it was old. Not to mention pets!! And I'm guessing you, like me are here because you too had a bad experience. Recently during dinner a plate slipped from my nephew's hand to the floor and broke into several pieces. If this is the quality of product Corelle offer to Indian market then it's unethical. India is just for market expansion. What about quality and brand name?? Quality product should be shipped to India and all 2nd and 3rd world countries.

It's a request, our government has open the market to assure better lifestyle and living standard of its people. We buy these products in hope that they will be better than the local brand but incident like this suggest otherwise. I bought the last set of Corelle dishes at Walmart.

I did not like the pattern even, but my family always had China and Corelle. I do not like heavy plates. When I opened them up, glass was everywhere. The only thing not broken was one blue cup. It took hours to clean. I have chronic pain and wasn't planning on cleaning. My hand was cut. I wrote Corelle. Not looking for anything but to vent and make sure no one else had this happen.

Only mentioned my handicap because it was hard to clean up. I received an email asking for pictures and a receipt. No "Are you OK? I called and I was told I needed to send pictures of the glass I spent hours cleaning off my floor and kitchen table. I am 50 years old. In my day, when Corelle was a high quality brand, this rep would be fired. Again, she did not ask if I was alright etc. When I said "You aren't normal people. Normal people don't see dollars over human beings.

Shame on you Corelle. I have had Corelle dishware for 30 years. Corelle dishes are unbelievably dangerous. Once they drop they shatter to tiny shards of glass. Some minuscule pieces are impossible to see!!! This is very dangerous for babies and pets. I freak out every time a Corelle dish explodes. I am finally throwing all my Corelles in the garbage.

Should be taken off the shelves!!! I feel I have to report on the Corelle dishware that is not suppose to break. After two dishes that had fallen and broke into a million pieces. I am blessed that no children or my dog were near the break because pieces were thrown everywhere in small slivers. It took quite a while to clean up the dish to make sure we got all the parts.

I will not put another Corelle piece of dishware anywhere in my kitchen. Last night a Corelle dish fell out of the dish drainer onto a wooden floor and exploded sharp pieces 15 feet in every direction.

It didn't fall that far and the floor isn't that hard. I spent an hour carefully cleaning it up and still suffered several cuts on my hands. Several years ago, while rinsing a bowl I bumped a the faucet and it exploded the same way. I ended up at the ER for several sutures in my fingers and still have no feeling in one finger! I don't care what the company says. It very dangerous and should be banned. I would never have Corelle dishes with children.

After last night I'm done with Corelle! We now have our second set of Corelle dishware. There is a distinct difference with this second set Purchased when our family grew through the years. We bought Corelle because my family always had Corelle and it lasted and was known for its durability. Well, this second set has been quite a disappointment Lots of chips and broken plates and bowls through the years. I am happy to have found the reviews from other consumers confirming my decision I will not be purchasing any Corelle in the future.

Decent dishware is now dangerous dishware. It is surprising to me that no lawsuits have been filed yet I'm a long time fan and customer. But just today my 6 year old was sitting with a Corelle bowl in her lap. The bowl had strawberries and blueberries in it, and it just cracked into three pieces. She didn't drop it. No these aren't new dishes, can't even tell you when I bought them.

But the fact that it was just sitting there and it broke. I began purchasing Corelle this month as a first time customer. I thought they were somewhat pricey and went to the 'Outlets', to compare costs. Holy moly! The prices at the 'Outlet' store were twice as much as those in the local store. There must have been 30 or more dish patterns and types of dishes. This just raises manufacturing costs One more thing, I actually took a set of dishes back when I realized the coffee cups were ceramic material.

If I wanted ceramic, I would have gone ceramic. A 13 month old mug cracked at the handle. Once upon a time you could count on the quality and service of Corelle and today was disappointed when they denied replacement.

According to "Sharon" in the customer service department of World Kitchen, which is the sales department of Corelle, mugs are manufactured in China, therefore mugs are not covered by the "Corelle" brand. I have used Corelle dishes and cookware since it was invented. I rated it a 4 instead of 5, because I learned that the current production of Corelle has a "watered down" version of materials in manufacturing, probably "made in China".

This may open up the possibility of explosion in a very hot microwave. I understand that the modern versions are less safe to use in the microwave, but I like the lightweight and break-resistant qualities of the dishes, which of course, go from oven to table to refrigerator. The appearance and versatility of the product make it a staple in any kitchen. I heated up some food for 45 seconds.

Set my plate on the counter and walked to my fridge. The plate exploded into so many tiny pieces. Shards and slivers of corelle everywhere.

Luckily my dog, who was standing by the counter, wasn't hurt. But, I had to comb his fur with a lice comb to remove all the glass from his fur. I spent a long time sweeping and mopping and sweeping and mopping, trying to get all the shards. This is for Laraine of Clermont, FL. I also have had my Corelle bowls to have a problem with small shards of glass peeling off the edge. It started after I like you started using a Bosch dishwasher.

I had a Kenmore before without this problem occurring for 13 years. Could it possibly be the related to the dish detergent? I have been using Finish Powerball as recommended by Bosch. There is something propulsive about it, unlike a regular drinking glass. And the shards are not like those of when a glass shatters--they are curved and stringlike. I tried to copy some of the images online--I have one but it is on my old camera, as I complained to Corning last year about how dangerous this was.

I went into Woven Flame blogspot and read the thread--really interesting, and just like my experience-- she writes "Even after what was left of the plate was laying scattered about my home, it continued to pop and ping and crack into smaller pieces!

I was hit in the hands, forearms, neck and face by many of the tiny shards. I felt like I had been handling Fiberglas insulation. Some of the deeper scratches actually bled. Sort of hurts and itches.

It's a wonderful place and wonderful staff. We'd go up once a year for meetings or classes. Wow, I never thought I would have to be afraid of my dishes. I only have a handful left but they get a lot of use. The thought of shards in my eye though might send them away. I've never owned corelle plates but have had a few friends post their experience with exploding dishware.

I threw ALL of mine out yesterday. If you read Woven Flame's blogspot, you will really be nervous to keep them. In one photo, it was apparent the pieces had traveled across two rooms. Oh well, I can go add 20 items to the "what did I throw out today" thread! Part of the reason I posted was that I was putting the bowl down for my terrier to lick. Both dogs were standing right there, and both dogs' eyes were right there in range. This used to be my go to dishes or the dogs and cat, due to it being "unbreakable.

Appears to be those made later in the production life after purchase by the new company. We have had Corelle since it was begun mom had it earlier and only once or twice broke a piece by dropping and it did not shatter.

Now I have white dishes from Cuisanart I think and they are fine. Hubby has only broken one so far. I have Correlle. Can't stoneware and China have lead in it?

Isn't glass much less likely to have anything that will leech out? I choose glass for that reason originally mostly it's also very easy to clean. I guess one could replace it with plain clear colored glass dishes? But since I have no problems with my Correlle That's a good question, about the lead.

I don't know about the lead issue with stoneware. I had these! My mom collected them, had probably every piece it seemed we had an outlet and gave them to me.

They weren't my style, I like modern styles but kept them for years out of sentiment to childhood and that they were hers. When we moved here, my mom, the hoarder, talked me into giving them away. I actually wish I hadn't, they are still sentimental to me. Now, because they are old and not well, guess what we have? Corelle, so my mom can lift it. Ugh, I hate Corelle.

The Corning Museum seemed to be the only tourist attraction on the long drive to my college, I have been there more times than necessary. But going once, it is interesting. I wonder why there hasn't been a massive recall? I've heard stories like this before.

I don't know either but I had a friend who got these little test strips and she went around testing a lot of the dishes at wal-mart and Target and most that she posted about had some amount of lead in them. She was on a really big anti-Made-In-China kick.

I had to quit reading her blog, she pretty much was afraid of everything. I just read the commentary on the Woven Flame blog site. It threw shards for several feet. The explosion was loud. I was amazed at how tiny and sharp the pieces were. Everything was at room temperature for hours.

I have no explanation. Just this weekend, my daughter was sitting at the table with her friends. Her half eaten dinner had been sitting in front of her for over a half hour and was at room temperature. No one touched the table or the plate, but the plate exploded right in front of them.

For the most part, it shattered in place with only a portion of the shards hitting the kids. Although, one of them was talking and got a chunk of it in his mouth!

I see that this unusual occurrence has indeed happened to others.