Fire-King Baking Dish

Hello Everyone,

I just looked at a post on here regarding fire-king glassware and I thought I might as well put this one up!
I bought this little baking dish a while ago at a yard sale for a couple dollars. I liked it because of the glass detail, plus I noticed it was a fire-king.
I'm trying to swap out my current modern bakeware with the vintage stuff because it seems like the older stuff lasts forever.
This dish looks like it has been around awhile.
I was wondering if anyone knows anything about this particular design? Age, Rarity, etc. I noticed the glass is tinted, is it the Sapphire Blue Fire-King or are my eyes just bad.

 

It is what collectors refer to as Sapphire Blue, which Anchor Hocking made under their Fire King brand from 1941 - 1956. People sometimes refer to the embossed pattern as Philbe. It is a casserole with pie plate lid. Not all that rare. Because the lid also doubles as a pie plate, it gets separated from the casserole, and people think the casserole either never had a lid or is missing the lid.

 

Thank you!

 

I have a few little Sapphire Blue casseroles with lids. They belonged to my Grandma. I've kept them because I think they're pretty neat looking, but I've never used them.

Is anyone familiar with the stories about some of these older glass baking items "exploding" right after they've been removed from the oven? I've read a few such tales, and I'm rather afraid to use any of mine!

 

This use to be a pattern that brought high prices. But a check of completeds shows this piece isn't selling that well.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...le&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

 

Not sure about a regular oven, but they do not do well in a microwave oven.
I destroyed a few pieces of jadite that way.

 

Hi,
I agree with Pat. I use mine in the oven and never had a problem. I use a lot of Fry from 1919 and never had a problem.
greg

 

I was so excited when I found this digging around at a yard sale... Ebay kinda ruins all the fun doesn't it?

 

The cereal bowl in this color and pattern is harder to find IMHO, so if you spot one at a sale for a good price pick it up as they tend to sell easily.

 

That sounds like some urban myth sheep whiz to me.
Some clownfart may have put it directly into water to cool it but I'm not even sure that would do it. Fridge maybe too but even then not sure.
I can't imagine an oven to room temperature change could possibly do it because whatever is in it will hold heat as well.

 

Among the many things my dear son “returned” when he gave up his bachelor pad in order to live with his girlfriend was a set of clear Italian glass tableware from the 1970’s. He liked it because it was thick & heavy, and the square shapes of the pieces were very modern looking. He knew from the start that none of it would be safe in the microwave.

His girlfriend said she couldn’t imagine having plates, bowls, etc. that couldn’t be nuked, so the set came back to me.

I understand that glass has its limitations & have no problem not microwaving any number of things in my kitchen.

This Pyrex thing, tho, still confuses me – not in terms of the microwave, but rather the tales of exploding baking/serving dishes & the like going from oven to table.

Perhaps it comes down to soda lime silicate glass v. borosilicate glass(?) (As if I have a CLUE about that!)

According to this article, virtually all of the reports of glassware failure were related to vessels made of the soda lime silicate glass.

http://techfragments.com/1608/exploding-pyrex-cookware/

It also says: Both World Kitchen (under the Pyrex name) and Anchor Hocking now use the soda lime silicate glass instead of the original Pyrex borosilicate glass composition.

How are you supposed to know what you have? (Age? Brand name?) Is it all just so much hooey???