Went antiquing a week and a half ago. We were going

[applegrove]

to a rural place that is so jam packed with stuff their inside building has been condemned and you can only shop in the piles of stuff outside. Last time I was there was 26 years ago. I had found some Pyrex nesting mixing bowls like my mom had when we were growing up: yellow, green, red, blue. I could not afford them. So I told my family I was going to look for them there again as we drove. Got to 'Rideau Ferry' Antiques and asked the guy in the booth outside if I could go in. He asked what I was looking for. I described the mixing bowls and he said "we sometimes get them in". He went inside and came out with three bowls. I bought them right away for $65 dollars. I was tickled pink.

My sister reminded me of that story today. I thought colour? COULD BE LEAD. Sure enough one link told me they were worth over $300.00 if they were in good condition. The other link:
https://www.creativegreenliving.com/2015/10/how-bad-is-lead-in-vintage-pyrex.html?m=1

more lead in the paint than one can believe.

So out they go to the garbage. Bye bye!

https://flic.kr/p/2pSqPXi

[AllaN01Bear]

1. i have some of those bowls but the glaze is turning to black , they were my moms .

[applegrove]

3. Black does not sound good. Be safe.

[Ocelot II]

2. Can you retrieve them? Pyrex doesn't contain unsafe amounts of lead.

https://discover.hubpages.com/games-hobbies/does-vintage-pyrex-contain-lead
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vintage-pyrex-contains-unsafe-levels-of-lead/

I'd be dead by now if they did - I've been using inherited old Pyrex bowls for 50 years or so now.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. anti ad blocker nag ware employed . i do not turn off my adblocker for anyone.

thanks though.

[Ocelot II]

5. Neither article triggered my adblockers.

[applegrove]

6. They don't talk about the paint in that link you gave me.

I want to be safe. Since my nieces will be going through my home when I die I would not want them to keep them for themselves. I suggested my sister keep then for display at her farm, where she has other heirlooms on display including an iron whisk that could stir gravel from my grandmother on my dad's side and some iron irons from my grandmother on my mom 's side. I suggested she keep them for display with a note on them that they contain dangerous amounts of lead and she said a note could get lost over the years.

So thanks for the suggestion but I'll have to buy some bowls elsewhere.

[ms liberty]

7. But the paint is on the outside and you're not cooking in the bowls, you're serving cooked food

Which is contained inside of the bowl and is therefore safe because it doesn't touch the painted surfaces. Please don't throw them out, there are plenty of us who would love to have this set - put them on FB Marketplace or something!

[Ocelot II]

8. Exactly! I've been using my old Pyrex bowls for decades.

The paint is on the outside where it doesn't touch food (assuming there really is lead in the paint in the first place). I'd love to have more of those bowls, I use mine all the time.

[applegrove]

9. They are nesting bowls which means anyone who has them will

put one bowl inside another so there is paint inside the bowls all the time. At least 40,000 ppm lead and up to 100,000 ppm. That is huge and way above what is safe by many many times. It means 10% of the paint is lead. If I give it so someone else what assurance do I have that they will not be inherited and then put back into use by someone who does not know? I can't. It is deflating and I am sick about it but they've got to go.

[ms liberty]

10. I know exactly what they are; my mother had a set of them

As well as a set of the square/rectangular storage dishes with lids in the same colors. I grew up and still use a bunch of old Pyrex. Yes, they're stored in nesting position, but in all the years I saw them used in our and then my sister's homes, they never scratched paint off each other when nested. It took a dishwasher to ruin them.
My Amish Butterprint dishes don't go there!

[applegrove]

11. Still 10% lead is too high.

[diva77]

12. Reminds me of FiestaWare - radioactive ceramic dishes

https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/ceramics/fiestaware.html

A friend of mine had a Fiestaware plate & a geiger counter -- sure enough, the dish triggered the counter

[applegrove]

13. Oh that is scary. I once hiked up to Bow Glacier

in Banff National Park. We stayed the night there. It was beautiful but there were pools of water of various colors on the glacier. I thought they looked pretty but not potable. Years later they did testing on the glacier and found nuclear fallout from of all things Soviet nuclear testing in Siberia back in the day. Don't know if those colored puddles were related. I thought I was so far away from human touch on that glacier but they are obviously not immune from the garbage humans spew.

[diva77]

14. That's scary! Plus the tragedy of not knowing whether the beautiful colors were due to

nuclear fallout or not -- that's twisted!!