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Pyrex

[ pahy-reks ]

Trademark.
  1. a brand name for any of a class of heat- and chemical-resistant glassware products of varying composition used for cooking.


Pyrex

/ ˈpaɪrɛks /

noun

    1. any of a variety of borosilicate glasses that have low coefficients of expansion, making them suitable for heat-resistant glassware used in cookery and chemical apparatus
    2. ( as modifier )

      a Pyrex dish

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Pyrex offered the first temperature-resistant glassware to consumers more than 100 years ago.

Whether it’s the resurgence in the mid-century modern aesthetic, a collective obsession with all things vintage, or the fact that many believe in its superior quality, there’s no denying the enduring appeal of Pyrex.

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With the introduction of Pyrex, home cooks could now prep, cook, serve, and store their favorite dishes all in the same bowl.

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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pyrex continued to produce new colors and patterns for its glass at an impressive clip.

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Those initial colors were selected by Lilla Cortright, head of the Pyrex test kitchen.

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Season the venison with salt and pepper and put it into a nonreactive bowl such as a Pyrex dish.

To cleanse our palettes, we sniffed chopped watermelon, cucumber and canned corn held in Pyrex containers throughout the lab.

Break out the Pyrex—the casserole, America's classic hard-times dish, is hot again.

It has been found that it imparts a violet red tint to the pyrex tubing after the latter has been used for a few combustions.

Butter a square Pyrex pan and put in the graham-cracker dust to make,a crust.

Over the whole pour some melted butter, cover the casserole, (or pyrex plate) and put it in the oven with a low fire.

The two bounders stood there, encased in heat-resistant pyrex pants, expecting the natives to make things hot for them.

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