Corningware

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<dt ><b>Glass-ceramic</b> </dt>

<dd ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceramic" title="Glass ceramic" class="mw-redirect" >Glass ceramic</a> is used to make products such as Corningware in the USA and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pyroflam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pyroflam (page does not exist)" >Pyroflam</a> in Europe, which have many of the best properties of both glass and ceramic cookware. While Pyrex can shatter if taken between extremes of temperature too rapidly, glass-ceramics can be taken directly from deep freeze to the stove top. Their near-zero <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_thermal_expansion" title="Coefficient of thermal expansion" class="mw-redirect" >coefficient of thermal expansion</a> makes them almost entirely immune to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_shock" title="Thermal shock" >thermal shock</a>.</dd>

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