There is function above the “storage” as well. Borosilicate goes from freezer to oven / microwave with much, much less chance of breakage.
I used to use lab quality that could go from direct contact with bunsen burner to rinsed in sink with almost no breakage.
I think only some modern pyrex is borosilicate, a chunk of it is just name.
Permanently Sealed that is.
Fresh.
and like all things locked in tupperware, if you forget about it, it is really going to stink when you finally re-open it.
Hey, whatever happened to Longaberger baskets? Their products were sold at similar parties.
I see, but again, not a concern for me. If im going to heat something stored, i put in in a pan on a stovetop, or use a dish or bowl in a microwave. 
(Which is not to say that I think everyone else should share my kitchen habits.)
Aww, crap. They actually had historical artifacts of different kinds of containers throughout history. And Tupperware manufacturing machines.
When I was a locksmith I bought 3 cheap Canadian Tire brand 1/8" blade long screwdriver for getting at awkwardly placed screws. I’d chip half of the very hard blade off every few months and kept returning swapping for new replacements for years, no questions asked.
I’ve never been afraid to pay for quality. Have cash to cover it most of the time (except for a car & home) and buy for the highest performance/reliability combination I can. This philosophy has rarely failed me and slows the impulse buying that we all suffer from.
Rubbermaid commercials had the edge, I think.
From their 2020 report, they value their brand name(s) at about $29MM – someone will certainly buy that out of the bankruptcy – SC Johnson or somebody – the name is certainly going to still be around.
I think it often depends on intended use. Sure, an average tinkerer in their garage might like high quality tools, but realistically they’re probably just as well off buying the cheap stuff. For the usage most people get out of them, it’ll still last a very long time! (And if you really only use it once every five years, you’re probably overpaying even on the cheap crap.)
My dad was a professional mechanic and did buy quality tools. When I was looking through his garage (like commercial level, not like the carhole attached to my house), I saw tools that I know had been in there since I was a kid in the early '70s and they got used a lot. I recently heard from my uncle who inherited the garage, or rather inherited dad’s half of the garage they had together, that he’s officially retired from his office job and is now spending a lot of time in that same garage working on tractors for the farming community in his area. I have no doubt at all that he’s still using many of the same tools.
They were trying to sell their Longaberger Basekt building a few years back, but reconsidered.
Should have guessed something was amiss when Tupperware ended the lifetime guarantee unless you had the receipt. No more replacing Nana’s vintage Servalier Canister set.
Have to say, I do like the stuff. I got Modular Mates in the pantry and those simple, stackable rectangular ones for the freezer.
Glass is glass, no?
So actually, no. Old Pyrex was borosilicate glass, and the new stuff is likely soda lime (at least in the US).
What was better about old Pyrex containers?
The primary difference of importance to cookware is that borosilicate glass is more resistant to thermal shock, meaning it is less likely to fail when moving from fridge to oven, etc.
I think some of the new stuff still is. I’ve heard that the difference in labeling is “Pyrex” (or maybe “PYREX”) vs. “pyrex”, but it’s not something I’d trust. I’d just go for something explicitly labelled borosilicate.
As someone who hand washes most plastic items, as opposed to throwing them in the dishwasher, those ridged Tupperware lids in the photo give me nightmares.
These days I prefer glass containers, but for plastic I really like the Ikea Pruta line, especially considering hand washing. They have nice rounded corners that make washing the interior really easy, and not a lot of fine ridges or details where food can get stuck.
That’s correct: all capitals – PYREX – means the old borosilicate type, and Pyrex means the newer, cheaper type.
Pyrex made in Europe is still mostly (if not all) borosilicate glass. If you visit the Pyrex site for the UK or France and such you can see they say their products are made with borosilicate glass.
Yah, that’s a very fair point.
A similar thing that I think gets overlooked is that there is an inherent efficiency in cheap products. Building something to last 100 years costs more materials, more engineering, and more manufacturing resources than building something poorly does. If the object in question is going to get very little use, or is going to be replaced in a couple of years anyway because tastes are fickle, then building it to last five generations is a waste of society’s resources.
There’s a balance there, of course. If things are too cheaply made, break all the time, and get thrown away, that’s an even bigger waste of resources. Somewhere in the middle is a sweet spot.
I always think about this at farm auctions, antique stores, etc. You see a cast iron cream separator or printing press, and marvel at how it’s 100 years old and still works perfectly. But, so what? That machine has been sitting idle for 75 of those years, so all the extra cast iron and fine craftsmanship that went into building it so well was actually a complete waste. Imagine if we built laptops that well. They would cost ten times as much, use ten times the materials, and landfills would still be full of perfectly working useless old computers.
Multilevel marketing stinks, especially for the poor ‘sellers’ who get stuck having to annoy all their friends and family with it.
