Glass baking tray explosion

OK, here's another one for your amusement. The ultimate tensile strength of steel piano wire, which is an exceptionally strong form of steel, runs around 300,000 psi. The ultimate tensile strength of S-glass, which is the material used in high-strength fiberglass, runs around 680,000 psi.

This always starts interesting discussions.

And carbon nanotubes have tensile strength of up to 9,135,000 PSI.

(1 MPA = 145 PSI)

i

Who the hell bakes apple pies in casserol trays?

Blasphemey!!!!!!!

Gunner

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

in the 60s, I fried a lot of marbles .... made keychains with them - there were special holders for this purpose.....

Well, when they do not explode, the pies turn out to be quite yummy.

i

Here's an awesome webpage, a must read on the subject, from our usual authority.

Yabut....Square Pies????????

Geeze dude...you are in America now!!!

No need to make the Winter Palace Square Pie any longer!

Gunner

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Nope, it blew the unheated 1/2 off. The stacked dishes were on the electric burner on one end.

You does Apple Betty in casseroles.

Correct! But Apple Pie????

Yharggggggg!!!!

One supposes Iggy has a side of beets with his pie as well?

Gunner

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Of course. Everybody knows pi R square.

John Husvar wrote: (...)

So, that's *you*?

--Winston

BahRumpBump!!!!

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

The wiki article did say that only the US cookware pyrex is not borosilicate and does state that the European cookware is borosilicate so the French made stuff I bought a few months ago should be boro.

Mom has before. She normally makes round ones though.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

That green tint I see in the stuff at walmart had me thinking that the glass had changed. This thread confirms it.

I bought some lights for our ID/OD grinders since the existing fixtures kept having their lenses shattered when a wheel would blow. I had a choice of glass used in the new ones and I picked borosilicate. So far, after a few years, the lenses haven't cracked.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:20:29 -0700, the infamous "Michael Koblic" scrawled the following:

That reminds me of David Eisan's post on the Wreck (almost a decade ago; time flies!) about his kitchen incident.

--snip-- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking From: "David F. Eisan" Date: 2000/06/19 Subject: Power tools in the kitchen.

Dear All,

This afternoon I was foolishly left alone in the kitchen with a seemingly simple task, whip some cream.

It all started when I was attempting to whip some whipping cream into, oddly enough, whipped cream with a hand whisk, and it seemed to require far too much effort on my part. I am sure a Neander would be quite happy with a hand whisk, but I was looking for a Normite way to get this done.

Now I realise that most people have a power hand mixer, or what ever they are called, but I don't have one.

I started thinking, hmm, how much different could one of those things be from a router. All a hand mixer is, is a motor with a Jacobs chuck like socket for whisks. Now if you think you know where I am going with this, you are probably correct. I got out the dial callipers and the shaft of the hand whisk was exactly 1/4". Woo Whoo, first problem solved, I can use the standard 1/2" to 1/4" bushing. I go out to the shop and take my three and a quarter horse Hitachi M12V out of the router table and back into the kitchen. Using my 21mm and custom ground thin 23mm Craftsman wrenches, I chuck up the whisk. Next problem, speed. I measured the diameter of the business end of the whisk and consulted my router bit speed chart. It said I should use

18,000 RPM. The only question left was technique, clockwise or counter clockwise. Since I was doing an inside cut, I decided on the standard counter clockwise.

I fired up the big green monster. Good thing the M12V has a soft start feature, because even with my elbows braced on the countertop, this is a heavy and unwieldy router to freehand in the air, but the torque was still more than I was prepared for and I almost lost it. Okay, here we are, full power. There was a quick blur of chaotic white liquid filling the air and as the blur subsided I quickly realised the bowl that previously held two cups of whipping cream was now virtually devoid of cream. I powered down the router. My face, glasses and upper body were covered in cream, as were two thirds of the kitchen. My better half, alerted by the unusual tool noise and loud cursing coming from the kitchen, walks in to ask just what the hell I thought I was doing. I wipe off, change clothes and come back to explain myself and clean up a very large mess.

Once I explained what I was attempting to the young lady I thought was about to become my ex-wife (I could see it in her face, as she thought, I cannot believe I actually married someone this stupid, Dad was right), who is standing in front of me with a look of such total disbelief that I would have previously thought impossible to display, I was told that 18,000 rpm was a little too high an rpm for a whisk, and that a variable speed cordless drill would have been the correct choice of tool for this task. We were out of whipping cream at this point, so I will have to wait until after I have a chance to go to the store tomorrow to find out if the cordless drill works any better. Damm, now that I think about it, it would seem like the drill press is the way to go, then I could be just like Martha Stewart, Emeril or the Cute short blonde lady with the bob haircut who has two shows on the food network and have one of those big stationary Kitchen Aid looking mixer thingies, Hmmmm.....

Live and learn.

Thanks,

David.

May you live in Interesting Times - Ancient Chinese Curse.

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-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:34:32 -0400, the infamous John Husvar scrawled the following:

That and Prince Rupert's Drops are mine.

Agreed.

Ayup.

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw