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Take a well known, respected brand; remove all the things that made it respected, sell shoddy replacements instead (and throw the name at everything else it might stick to); and when you've milked it dry, walk away from the debts.

I wish I could still easily buy real borosillicate glassware.

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Are modern instant pots actually shoddy? I haven't looked at the legal documents but maybe the problem is making a product that is durable and doesn't need replacement resulting in no recurring sales.

Edit: I bought my instant pot after the buyout and it seems great and as if it will last another 10 or 20 years

Yeah I think the quality actually increased.

We had an instant pot from before the purchase which stopped working. But Instant Pot replaced it for free some time after the acquisition and the new one works significantly better than the old one and has lasted much longer as well.

They were referring to Pyrex when talking about "shoddy replacements", not Instant Pot (although they didn't specify this in their comment, so confusion is very understandable).

Very much so. NFI what "instant pot" is; i suspect it bears little resemblance to "instant coffee". I miss the "visions" cookware tho.

It's an electric pressure cooker with some additional features. Pretty handy.

You can still buy borosilicate Pyrex. PYREX (uppercased) is still made borosilicate, where pyrex(or Pyrex) is not.

thanks for that tip, i have PYREX measuring cups bought over 20 years ago that are still going strong, but this is good to know if i ever need to replace them with the same quality product.

Yup.. If I go search for Pyrex on Amazon Spain, I find the real borosilicate stuff made in France since 1922. They never decided to cheap out on the materials.

I don't think it's this easy for people in America: https://lifehacker.com/that-viral-pyrex-brand-hack-is-horses...

You can. Oxo is borosilicate. They're pretty easy to find online or in store.

> I wish I could still easily buy real borosillicate glassware.

Tons of it on amazon or with a quick google tbh. I buy a lot of Simax glass.

> I wish I could still easily buy real borosillicate glassware.

You can, in NA and ANZ at least. Last I looked “lock & lock” storage containers were still borosillicate instead of soda lime. ISTR that there are a few other similar and easy available options.

North Africa and Anterior New Zealand?

ANZ is often Australia and New Zealand

What has happened that makes borosilicate glassware hard to get?

There has been a good deal of rumor and fake news about Pyrex and the products they make. Snopes tried to set the record straight in 2009: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exploding-pyrex/

the complaints about formulation change or difficulty in deliberately purchasing borosilicate aren’t rumor or fake news, the formulation change is half of what snopes lists as the truth, and that’s exactly what is being claimed above.

the fake news part is china,china,china, and the unresolved part is whether or not this formulation change happened to more than coincide with any sale. which snopes won’t touch, because that could sure get messy without receipts. but isn’t that the root of the rumor?

snopes is to fact checking what fox or cnn are to news. any fact checking is coincidental, and not the primary purpose of the site.

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