I get a daily dose of Craft Gossip (email newsletter), and in today's was a link to Real Simple Magazine's New Uses for Old Things article. #28 is using a coffee maker to melt chocolate by putting a bowl on the hot plate. In the photo, they have a New Dots in orange. Putting Pyrex on a heating source that would heat it unevenly is disasterous! Wouldn't it be just as bad on a coffeemaker??
Goodness, I don't want to find out if that method works or not! I love my Pyrex too much. The surface may be too hot (for the Pyrex and for melting chocolate), but what's wrong with melting chocolate over a low-temp on the stove, or using a double-boiler?!
ReplyDeleteThis is a disaster waiting to happen! Someone should contact the magazine so they can put a disclaimer in the next issue! From what I've read about exploding pyrex, I think someone could really get hurt!
ReplyDeleteok I admit it is bad advice, sort of. It would be fine if you'd use a heat diffuser. I use my Flameware on my electric stove with a diffuser and nothing ever broke.
ReplyDeleteI'd think it would be fine to do that actually. What would be the difference between that and using the actual coffee pot, which is probably thinner and cheaper glass? They are both heat resistant and a coffee maker isn't really hot enough to do any damage to the bowl nor would it heat it unevenly like an electric stovetop could since the plate evens out the heat like a diffuser.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with using a microwave??? :) I swear, sometimes these magazines spend way too much time thinking up dumb things to fill pages.
ReplyDeleteI may be mistaken, but I think the Flameware and the bowls may be a different recipe of glass. ???
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