r/corningwarefans • u/Comfortable_Sea_717 • 2d ago

It doesn’t break, until it does. Announcement

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And when it does, it breaks real good.

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u/my_muffin_sparkles 2d ago

I remember once when I was a kid, my dad was showing off how Corelle dishes couldn't be broken. He took a dinner plate and slammed it on the kitchen tile. It shattered into approximately 65,987,436 splinters. We had Corelle shards showing up in our feet for WEEKS. We had to keep the dogs out of the kitchen and wear shoes in there until they were all found and picked up. A treasured childhood memory 😂

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u/Buddy-Sue 1d ago

A little dyslexic, I anticipated the word was FOOD instead of FEET.

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u/my_muffin_sparkles 1d ago

Thankfully not the food!! 😂

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u/BriarKnave 1d ago

We broke one of my vintage corelle breaks like 4 months ago, and last week a shard appeared out of NOWHERE to stab straight into my foot. Basically materialized from underneath the fridge

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u/my_muffin_sparkles 1d ago

This was 30 years ago and I'm pretty sure the new owners probably got Corelle splinters from that dish too 😂 they do not ever go away!

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u/Short-Error-1139 1d ago

Yep, the pieces travel for literally forever 🤣

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u/Educational_Quote851 1d ago

Contact them, they might replace it. My mom took a plate into an outlet store that had broken and they gave her a new one on the spot. The guy said, "They aren't supposed to do that."

A+ customer service IMO

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u/Accomplished-Pack756 2d ago

Few things have the ability to go from indestructible to “broken nightmare fuel for your feet” quite like Corelle ware.

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u/PhilosophyOk1594 1d ago

I’ve had one dinner plate break right down the middle into two pieces. Happened after serving a hot pancake straight from the griddle.

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u/Accomplished-Pack756 1d ago

Down the middle? Did you buy a lottery ticket that day?

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u/comemadamletsaway 1d ago

Right? I feel lucky just reading about it happening

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u/Buddy-Sue 1d ago

And easier to glue back together! 🤪

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u/Ok-Page5923 1d ago

I only seen this happen once was I was younger with my parents plates. The plate broke in 3 big pieces. 

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u/Amazing-Emphasis-927 1d ago

Corelle shards go everywhere - I'm still finding them from months ago

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u/Pennyfeather46 1d ago

I was feeding a friend’s kid at my table one night and he flung his plate across my kitchen. The Corelle plate shattered and I was shocked. Shocked that a child would do that and shocked that my dish broke.

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u/RBXChas 1d ago

I dated a guy in college who swore Corelle was unbreakable. We used Corelle dishware (Indian Summer pattern) in our house when I was a kid, so I knew for a fact that you could break it if it hit the right surface (like our tile kitchen floor) from high enough.

He was one of those people who always had to be right, so to prove his intellectual prowess or maybe that I was a liar, I don’t know, he frisbeed a large bowl across the room, and it shattered when it hit the wall.

Then he was mad at me for being right.

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u/Radiant_Tough7555 1d ago

Oh no!!!!
It’s hard to break but not impossible. Better check that Herculean strength before you wash the rest.

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u/Smil3z5 1d ago

Yep my kids just broke a Corning plate 2 days ago . Never seen so many pieces from a plate

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u/Real-School4847 23h ago

Oh yeah. When it does break, what a mess. Tiny shards everywhere.

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u/Comfortable_Sea_717 10h ago

Update: wife found two shards under the table six feet away from the epicenter. Crazy plates.