About Anchor Hocking
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Our glass bakeware is dependable, durable, and versatile.
Made from soda-lime silicate glass (a modern improvement over borosilicate glass bakeware), our glass bakeware is:
DEPENDABLE
Bakes evenly, retains heat so it keeps food warmer for longer & cleans easily.
DURABLE
Glass will not warp or stain.
VERSATILE
Bake, Serve & Store; Clear glass allows you to see what is baking.
TEMPERED TOUGH® GLASS
TEMPERED SODA-LIME SILICATE BAKEWARE IS SAFER
Anchor Hocking has been manufacturing tempered soda-lime-silicate bakeware for nearly 40 years. Prior to that time, annealed borosilicate glass bakeware was the standard.
100% recyclable tempered soda-lime silicate (70 SiO2 CaO, 15 Na2O) is stronger and more durable, and breaks into relatively small pieces (some may be larger), generally lacking sharp edges and shards when it does break. Anchor Hocking’s thermally-strengthened soda-lime-silicate glass bakeware is fully suitable and safe for oven use. It is thermally treated or tempered to more than double the mechanical strength of annealed borosilicate.
Anchor Hocking’s tempered soda-lime-silicate has equal to or greater thermal shock resistance than annealed borosilicate glass. Tempered soda-lime-silicate has resulted in significantly fewer failures and, most importantly, fewer severe injuries than annealed borosilicate over decades of use. Indeed, reports of glass bakeware breakage filed with the CPSC markedly declined after the change from borosilicate glass to tempered soda-lime-silicate glass.
Annealed borosilicate glass bakeware is substantially weaker against mechanical breakage caused by dropping, striking against hard objects, and the use of sharp utensils. Further, when borosilicate glass breaks, it breaks into larger, heavier pieces of very sharp glass, creating a significant risk of severe cuts, punctures, etc. Significantly, Anchor Hocking experienced a greater than 90% reduction in its replacement rate due to breakage during the first 10 years of tempered soda-lime-silicate production.
