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Does Your Family’s Century-Old Pyrex Still Rule The Kitchen?

(via NPR) In 1915, an advertisement proclaiming, “Bake in a glass!” appeared in the pages of Good Housekeeping. Corning Glass Works

(via The Atlantic) The magic of cooking at 350 degrees isn’t magic at all, but chemistry. It is, for example,

(via TED Ed) Teflon was in the spacesuits the Apollo crew wore for the moon landing, in pipes and valves

Where you find cooking, you find fries. Most fries are initially cooked in factories—McCain Foods (the largest producer of frozen