Flan , flan flan or quiche dish (Pyrex Quiche/Flan Dish 27cm)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Pyrex Quiche/Flan Dish 27cm
Date:	07/12/08 (303 review reads)
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Advantages: good durable product

Disadvantages: hard to clean

Flan, flan, flan. Let me tell you about the Pyrex flan, or quiche dish. Not Pytex think that's a spelling mistake dooyoo.
Yes it's another Pyrex dish I have it was my mothers.

This Pyrex flan dish does not get used very often. I might actually give it to the charity shop when I get round to it, then again its useful it I am cooking for large numbers.

So what about Pyrex flan /quiche dishes? Well they are round flan dishes. They are available in 3 sizes 24 cm, 27 cm, 30 cm. I have the big one. 30 cm circumference about 4 cm in depth. When I make a flan or quiche in this I get plenty of slices out of it.

I do not just use this dish for flans and quiches though .I serve salad leaves in it, I make sponge puddings pm it too.
This flan dish is quite versatile really.

I could store this dish and contents in fridge or freezer. I can cook in it up to a temperature of 300 c. I can wash it in the dishwasher or in the sink by hand.
Uhh ohh washing up this is one reason why I do not use this prettily fluted edged flan dish. The bits get stuck in the fluted cleaning is not easy especially if there are burnt on bits.

Pyrex makes many glass cookware products out of borosilicate glass
they can withstand temperatures up to 300°, Pyrex dishes are very tough can be dropped and although if really dropped hard onto hard surface they will not break. Pyrex dishes make ideal wedding presents.
Pyrex dishes have a ten year guarantee with them mine, my mums must be at least 20 years old
You should be able to buy a flan dish from between £4 and £10 www.twenga.co.uk/dir-Homewares seem to have a large choice at fair prices. However you should be able to guy a Pyrex flan dish almost all department stores like John Lewis or Debenhams

I have just entered a competition to win some more Pyrex  at http://www.arc-international-cookware.com/en/produ cts/glass-cookware.php
Look at this site to see all the available Pyrex cookware too.

A little History.
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Glass made to withstand heat for the railway signals in 1912. In 1915 the first flan dish was made. Pyrex first made by American industrial glassmakers
Pyrex was first made in Sunderland in 1922. The glass developed from the method of glass made to make light bulbs.
This Pyrex ware developed to make life easy you can serve at the table straight from the dish the food cooked in. In

This website has lots of interesting info about Pyrexhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/seri es11/week7_pyrex.shtml, the good old BBC
In September 2007 the Sunderland Pyrex closed down and manufacture of Pyrex moved to France

Summary: A flan dish made of toughened glass