Re: [Phys-L] [Phys-l] A look into the future...

[Jeff Bigler <jcb@mit.edu>]

Indeed.  My father is retired a retired mechanical engineer who spent
his career working in the consumer division of Corning Glass.  One of
the failed products was a Corning Ware frying pan with an aluminum
coating on the bottom.

His take on this, and all other Corning Ware stovetop products was that:

1) Glass doesn't conduct heat.  Why would anyone want to use it on a
stovetop?  Or for that matter, why would anyone put their food inside an
insulating glass-ceramic pot with an insulating glass lid and then
expect the oven to heat it effectively?

2) Why would anyone buy a $15 (in 1980s dollars) glass frying pan with
an aluminum coating when they could buy a reasonably high-end stainless
steel frying pan with a nice thick bottom for the same price?

Jeff Bigler



On 10/14/2012 9:52 AM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> Corning-ware is a rather poor conductor -- An invention whose time had not come, tho perhaps the most popular.  
>
>
> bc uses mother's 30 year old corning in the microwave.
>
> With these handles:   (after  --not during!)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nrxWocNDc
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>
> On 2011, Mar 01, , at 08:57, Bill Nettles wrote:
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> > I thought it was interesting that the guy was scrambling eggs in a metal bowl.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
> > bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Lapinski
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:58 AM
> > To: tap-l@lists.ncsu.edu; phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> > Subject: [Phys-l] A look into the future...
> >
> > A friend sent this to me recently. Corning is developing "Gorilla
> > Glass"
> > that nay someday change the way we use technology in our lives...
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
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Jeff Bigler
Lynn English HS; Lynn, MA, USA
"Magic" is what we call Science before we understand it.