Old Corelle has lead in it

Well then, I should be dead along with the kids, one of my Corelle dish sets is from 1976.

As a snarky pre-gay boy interested in the finest of everything, my eyes, and finely tuned radar for class expressed in material items, instantly clocked the horror of Corelle. But I also recoiled from the touch. Corelle is hideous to the touch. One can tell it is a toxic substance, uniquely American, forced upon the hoi polloi, the perfect match to their garbage argo-chemical industrial food.

I don't eat.

Lead is sweet?

What is sweet?

Gay men admitting they purchase no-taste white trash Corelle. I'm **SHOCKED**

You'll get me to stop using my Shadow Iris Corelle when you pry it from my cold, dead, lead-filled hands.

Jesus -- what WON'T kill ya anymore?

RUSKA by Ulla Procopé of Arabia Finland, R7.

They actually say pre-2005.

[Quote]“If you own Corelle® dinnerware from before 2005, consider removing it from your kitchen cabinets due to concerns for high levels of Lead. Corelle® recommends using their pre-2005 dishes as ‘decorative pieces.’

Unless a shelf of that heavy ceramic drops on your head. Then you're dead.

Are you interested in a set? I have two and I'm downsizing. Low 6 figures.

OP - After 20 years do you really think it would make a difference now?

Pffft. Amateurs.

I didn't even think Corelle existed before 2002. I think some people are confusing it with Corning ware.

Corelle started in 1970, r13.

I don't like the feel of Corelle. I never suspected it was toxic, but they always felt like kiddie dishes.

Just how many kiddie dishes were you fondling back in the day, R15?

All things Corelle...

I grew up eating off the set in R14.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...

I guess she'll die.

Its actual name is Spring Blossom, r18. I think collectors renamed it Crazy Daisy. Did you have the matching Pyrex pieces?

I didn't have it -- my mother did. And no, I don't think so.

As an adult, I had a later set -- maroon trim...? I don't remember. Definitely pre-2005, though. I think one of my exes ended up with it.

Is modern unleaded Corelle still virtually unbreakable?

Yup

R21 yes and it's still an abomination, too.

R23 I don't know why they can't just stick with plain white.

Only the decorated dishes are problematic because of lead. The plain white ones are safe.

Sometimes it pays to be plain.

I can't believe the prices they charge for this absolute garbage dinnerware.

I'm really shocked that Corelle was using lead glazes for the last 50 years. Lead leaching from ceramic glazes is not some newly discovered risk.

Also, they're calling items from 2005 "vintage" now? Is vintage just a synonym for "used"?

Nothing says "CHEAP" like the feeling of a Corelle piece of shit dinnerware in your hand.

R28 Corelle is not ceramic so no glaze. It’s glass.

I'm surprised the vulgarity and Shane of using the stuff hasn't already killed of its fan base.

*and shame

Corelle is tough but it will shatter in the right circumstances. Had an ex who owned a set and I dropped a plate on ceramic tile and it didn’t just break - it shattered and splintered into a thousand plus pieces. Impressive.

Lead in corelle? This is why straight me are so stupid

It's just the painted Correlle produced 2005 and prior. The painted kind with decorative elements - the paint used for the decorative elements is what has the lead in it.

Those of us who grew up on plain white undecorated Correlle, are perfectly safe.

Oh and I think the decorations were usually on the outside of the pieces, too, not where you would be eating from.

Doesn't change the fact that Corelle is trash R36

Why is indestructible dinnerware trash?

It's preserving the environment.

Whoever the Correlle basher is in this thread (r37) we get it, you think it's trash. Did you get molested by a set of Corelle when you were growing up or something? Cause your constant criticism of it seems fueled by something other than your alleged "good taste".

R39 their unmentionable relatives served Kraft Mac and cheese with Oscar Mayer weiners to them on Corelle once.

The Corelle basher is desperately trying to hide her working class roots. We see you!

I am R27, R29 & R37 only and haven't read all the replies but am happy to hear others have reacted the same way I have over this trashy, cheap dinnerware.

I'm no snob, my dinnerware is simple, Gibson Home pure white from Bed Bath and Beyond, but Corelle is still trash and is not indestructible,

R42 that looks much more breakable than Correlle. It's just ceramic. Enjoy the edge chips!

I do like Correlle because it's difficult to destroy. The only thing I don't like about it is that it has a weird feel to it in my hand.

Also, Miss Thing here is bashing Correlle as low class when Gibson Home dishware is (also) sold at Walmart.

"Corelle" has one "r", not two, dear(s).

That set if 5 years old. Not one chip or broken piece. I also said I wasn't a snob, asshole, R44 and got it at Bed Bath and Beyond. I'm sorry that you even know what Walmart sells, as I wouldn't have a clue because I don't shop there. And good luck paying hundreds of dollars for pure shit dinnerware. Cheap, cheap trash, feels like shit. Just awful.

R45 the ultra rich user Correlle, not Corelle. But most don't know about it, for reasons well known to them.

R46 actually I googled it before I posted to see what it was made of, to see if it was just ordinary breakable ceramic made overseas, and it was. I also noticed it was for sale at Walmart, in the section they put close to the exits because they're not afraid of anyone trying to steal it.

Someone seems a bit triggered!

"I bought my cheap Chinese crap at Bed, Bath and Beyond, not crummy Walmart!"

My mom has been serving us meals on Corell Butterfly Gold pattern dishes and bowls for over 50 years. Guess it's too late now!

R50 it's ok. Obama told me a little lead paint won't hurt you.

You can say what you want R49. You defend this trash, you've already lost but are too stupid to know it.

Go get her r39

Love my plain white Corelle, the only thing that bugs me is the edges are not uniform. Look at a stack side-on and they're subtly warped.

R52 it makes you Google up photos of trash dinnerware and call forth erudite appellations like "stupid".

Spending minutes of your life posting about things you hate to people "beneath" you.

OMG!! I'm the OP of the tread linked at R17!

I donated that Corelle set just a few months ago.

R39 asked “Did you get molested by Corelle”?

Lmfao!!!!

[quote]I also said I wasn't a snob, asshole, [R44] and got it at Bed Bath and Beyond.

Anyone who can bear the smell of those places has earned her right not to be called a snob.

My mom had the bowls at r19. I wonder if she still does, she never throws anything away so they must be somewhere, if they didn't break by now.

There is more than one Corelle basher. I started it early at R2 then gave it a rest. It does feel like garbage and the designs are awful. It really is trashy. On the other hand, I really like Melamin. And I like tin. And I have large sets of Italian and French glass dinnerware made for the working classes. Arcoroc Duralex and Bormioli. Nothing fancy at all but the designs are perfect and the glass feels normal in the hand. So its not a question of folie de grandeur.

Isn't melamine what the Chinese baby formula manufacturers were putting in their product to add "protein" bulk, back a dozen years or so ago?

Hey r60 lick my asshole for dinner

Melamine will eventually poison you.

And I am assuming you are French, because anyone who uses "folie de grandeur" definitely has at least one such "folie" if not French.

I also like buffalo china and I have a very rare set of milkglass dinnerware that consists of exact replicas in size and style of Buffalo China, with the red rim. Its indestructible. I've had it 40 years and use it all the time.

I wouldn't send a lifetime eating off melamine but its a great material for picnic and camping dinnerware.

I would like a set of that vintage mildly radioactive glassware, whose name escapes me.

I love Corelle. The only people who think it’s trash are insecure posers who think their preferred lowbrow brands are better. Corelle, especially the plain white style, are durable, lightweight and practical for everyday casual usage. I despise heavy, clunky plates and the white plate shows off food beautifully. As much as I wish I could eat off of fine china everyday, Corelle plates are microwaveable (unlike plastic melamine, shudder) and dishwasher safe.

Incidentally, when traveling abroad to visit family back in the day, relatives would always ask for Corelle. It was considered quintessentially American and therefore, a status symbol.

Uranium glass. I have some French and English Uranium glass. I keep it in the attic most of the time but will occasionally display it around Halloween.

That's neat, r67. I hope it's not too pricey by the time I get a few pieces of it.

Miss. Ellie gave me and Gary a set when she bought us our house in Knot’s Landing in 1979. #concerned

We ate off that pattern at R52, and there was diagnosed lead poisoning in the family. We thought it was the plumbing, though. Lead is nothing to joke about, it's implicated in my late brother's behavior problems.

There is a lot of pressed uranium glass. It was an industrial production, not artisan. In English you can find it any flea market or on line. Sowerby is one manufacturer.

I think its appalling Corelle/Corning put leaded products on the market in the late 20th Century. its so cynical. They had to know. I think there should be class action lawsuit to get to the bottom of it.

Here is what Correlle had to say about it, r72:

[quote]“Corelle dinnerware has come in many different patterns over the years since it was first introduced by Corning and continued with Instant Brands, and many vintage/legacy pieces have become cherished collectors’ items. Before 2000, and before tighter lead content safety regulations, a small amount of lead was an ingredient in the decorating process of many household products. Given the recent demand for use of vintage products every day, we are further investigating pre-2000 Corelle products to confirm they comply with today’s safety standards – and whether it’s okay to use pre-2000 product as everyday dinnerware."

And here's the final statement from their FAQ on their website:

[quote]All Corelle® stoneware products and glazes are made of clay-based materials and glazes used throughout the industry. Decorations, if present, are made from low-lead enamels and fired at temperatures exceeding 1000 degrees F, which binds any heavy metals both physically and chemically so that their release is minimized.

[quote]The current limit for presence of leachable lead in order to satisfy certain requirements is no more than 0.100 ppm (1 tenth of one part per million) when obtained under test conditions. At no time have Corelle Brands results exceeded levels permissible under the guidelines mentioned above (which are believed to be the most stringent in the world).

[quote]Tests for the presence of heavy metals are conducted for Corelle Brands by internationally certified, third-party laboratories under strict conditions, by trained technicians, and using atomic absorption spectrophotometry analysis following carefully monitored preparation. These steps are necessary to minimize any possibility of contamination or false reading during preparation, testing or analysis.

There was a Corelle Amish butterprint pattern to go with the collectible Pyrex pattern, but I've *never* run across a piece.

The Pyrex...

OMG. I thought the picture I posted at R52 was horrible, but that Amish set really displays the cheapness of Corelle. Also, my mother did buy the set that I posted at R52, but it was the 70s, maybe early 80s and had enough sense to realize it was trash pretty quickly and dumped it at Goodwill or Salvation Army.

Still you R55

Lead in glassware poses no danger

It does if you eat it, r79.

[quote]but that Amish set really displays the cheapness of Corelle

It wasn't sold as elegant china, r77. It's whole selling point was it being unbreakable...perfect for families.

Hah I actually like the pattern in r75/r76. It's cute and kitschy.

The final statement from Correlle is so carefully worded so as to not provide any information, but it sounds like the initial statement was basically admitting that there were small amounts of lead in the decorative bits used in Correlle prior to 2005. I do remember the lead standards getting changed.

But then Correlle's final statement doesn't say there is NO lead in the products, but is very carefully and weaselly worded to state that the decorations have lead in them (or did prior to 2005) but they likely won't leech into food in amounts enough to exceed the safety standards.

I think the testing that the person did who accused Correlle of using leaded materials must have just tested whether the product contained any lead or not, and found that it did. The whole "leechable lead" thing is Correlle admitting that yes, the products did/do (?) have lead in them but they've always been under the cutoff for leechable lead, even after the standards were changed.

I think you have to read both statements together to get the true picture, which is that products prior to 2005 had lead in them, but newer products do not. But either way the amount of lead in the product that was at risk of being eaten was negligible.

We received a set of Corelle as a wedding present many moons ago. Our set had one simple rust-colored stripe around the rims, with the rust color covering the outside of the coffee cups. It was a gift from my in-laws. A friend was helping us unpack the gifts and said "Unbreakable huh?" and threw a plate onto the kitchen floor breaking it immediately.

My own folks gifted us with the Franciscan apple blossom pattern.

Guess which set of folks gave our kids McDonald's freebie Happy Meal toys for their birthdays.

OP- I’ve been buying Corelle for years. Fortunately I’m a KLUTZ. I’ve broken so many plates and bowls over the years that nothing is more than 7 or 8 years old.

I thought the only appeal of the stuff was that it is indestructible (or practically so), such that if you were to drop a piece onto the hardest of floor surfaces, it would bounce right back into your hands in perfect condition?

Surely no one buys Corelle thinking it's attractive? The texture is peculiar, something, an ever so slightly oil feel married with a smooth matte finish. The appearance varies with time and the accumulation, I assume, of microscratches, but that odd feel to the stuff is there whether new or old.

I'm not a Hyacinth Bucket sort of gay about Mother's beloved Lenox or Royal Doulton or whatever. Most all of it is dreadful and, well, Hyacinth Bucket sorts of prissy, but damn the stuff is ugly. Like given away at the gas station ugly. In my family there was a sister-in-law who loved it because she was a klutz and dropped everything, and couldn't be bothered handwashing anything with gilt edging or that required extra care. She was a bit blowsy in appearance and erratic in her housekeeping, allowing things to accumulate (to appall my mother, probably) and then launching into a cleaning campaign of epic scale thought sought to order and clean everything to molecular levels. She was black sheep and I was the other and we always had a connection for that bond, but that Corelle stuff was terrible. The weird 'plink' when you touched a fork to it... Probably at peak Corelle, my mother was given a small set of the stuff and we used it for a week. She hated it because it looked cheap, a sort of mutton dressed as ugly lamb glass pretending to be porcelain or china. Dislike of Corelle was a rare point of harmony of opinion with my mother.

I'm a snob in that if you're going to be pissy about your china patterns, have something really special, something avant-garde, or classic simplicity, or some crazy antique pattern that you find entertaining, or have a simple, even dirt cheap classic, Duralex, or Chinese restaurant ironstone that you maintain is the bee's knees. Giving some thought to something you use almost every day of your life seems natural to me, but I know most people give it no thought at all. But Corelle is nothing but awful. To defend it is akin to defending 1970s orange shag carpeting, or 8-track tapes.

[quote] A friend was helping us unpack the gifts and said "Unbreakable huh?" and threw a plate onto the kitchen floor breaking it immediately.

What an asshole!

Corelle salad plates are the PERFECT successor to the fabled Le Menu frozen dinner plates made of melamine.

I love the simple "Classic Café" in red.

Whenever we had guests over to the trailer for dinner, Mama always had me set the table with the good Sunday Corelle instead of the everyday Melmac.

Melmac? But it was destroyed when everyone plugged their hair dryers in at the same time! Billions were killed!

We used Chinet!!!