WTH??? To say I am a little shaken is an understatement.

I was baking chicken tonight in one of my glass dishes, which I have used many times before with no issues. I turned the chicken over just 20 minutes ago when I heard a loud explosion from the kitchen. I ran there to find clouds of smoke billowing out of the oven. When that finally cleared a bit, I found the glass dish had exploded into a million pieces, leaving the chicken to grill on the oven rack. Talk about crazy.

So I did a lil research online to see if this has happened to anyone else. I find a bunch of sites with many complaints about glass bake ware exploding. The reason I am so shaken right now is because this has happened to people even just taking it out of the oven to cool. Extremely hot pieces of glass has damaged ovens, kitchens, and people. I can't help but think that when I'd gone in there to turn the chicken over, what would have happened to me if it had exploded right then and there. Or what if it happened when I was taking it out? I could have lost an eye or had major damages to my skin and body. The only warnings on these things is that you don't obviously take from hot to a cold environment without letting it cool first, or vice versa.

I am so thankful to God right now that I am unscathed and that my baby boy was nowhere around (not that he would be around a hot oven, but glass can fly feet away).

I don't think I will be baking with glass dishes anymore.