Just found out the 'vintage' Pyrex I bought for $8 is one of the toxic ones

I grabbed a pink Pyrex bowl at a flea market in Austin last weekend for a steal. Got home and looked up the pattern number on the bottom, turns out it was made before 1970 and has cadmium in the paint. That stuff can leach into food if you bake with it. Anyone else ever check their thrift store Pyrex for safety warnings?

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sandraflores7d agoTop Commenter

The garage shelf treatment is real, my friend keeps her rainbow stack of vintage pyrex on a high shelf strictly for decoration now. It's wild how something that looks so pretty can be secretly dangerous if you actually use it for cooking. We're basically paying good money for toxic decor and calling it a win.

jesse_williams6211d ago

Friend of mine found a stack of those green gooseberry bowls for dirt cheap and didn't find out about the lead until after she'd baked a casserole in one. She said a few friends still treat that story like it's a ghost story at camp.

charles44211d ago

Honestly that "ghost story at camp" thing is too real. @jesse_williams62 my buddy had a similar scare with this old yellow mixing bowl his grandma gave him. He made a batch of chili in it, and then his wife looked up the pattern online and found out it was packed with lead. Now he says the bowl sits on a shelf in the garage like a warning to anyone who thinks vintage is always safe.