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<DIV><BR>"Beach Runner" <Bob4Health@hotmail.com> wrote the following to
scjm:<BR><BR>>> "Corningware" is a very wide product line that includes
many diverse<BR>> products. The unique product, Correll is rather unique.
Correll was<BR>> originally produced by accident, when an oven lost control
and went<BR>> exponentially higher than it was supposed to. It produced a new
material<BR>> with unique characteristics.<BR><BR>> The surface tension
was much stronger, making it very non-reactive.<BR>> In fact, it is nothing
like glazed dishes. It contains much internal<BR>> energy that makes in
non-reactive and thus, doesn't interact with food<BR>> or chemicals. While
the bonds that keep it non reactive are strong,<BR>> when it does break, it
explodes. <<<BR><BR>.</DIV>
<DIV>Thank you to RMB for posting this. I have indeed noticed that
my Corelle plates, when they fall on my tiled floor, do not just
break, but shatter in a million pieces and scatter all over the kitchen.
I.e., they explode. Fascinating. What I want to know though,
is not whether you can kasher Corelle, but something different: do you
have to tovel Corelle? </DIV>
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<DIV>Every year or so I go off and buy a few new bowls and plates
to replace the ones that have exploded in the course of the year, and then
I don't let anyone use the new ones until I get around to tovelling them, which,
depending on how many Avodahs there are in my inbox to read and respond to, can
take a while. My husband says that Corelle does not need tevillah but
I think they are at least safek glass and therefore insist on tovelling
them, usually along with a few metal things (to replace the odd spoon and
fork that accidentally got thrown in the garbage in the course of the year) in
order to obviate any shailah of whether safek glass needs a bracha when
tovelling. Shattered plates and discarded silverware tell you more
than you probably wanted to know about my housekeeping skills, but at least I am
conscientious about halacha -- or try to be. Truthfully, even if you tell
me that my husband is right, I will probably continue to tovel Corelle, but I am
curious what the olam thinks.<BR>
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