Product Description

Corningware French White 2-1/2-quart covered round dish. Includes 1-each 2-1/2-quart covered round dish. The recipe for a great dish starts, surprisingly, with a great dish! Corningware French White bakeware proves that when it comes to food preparation, few things are more convenient than baking and serving in one dish. With its classic, fluted design, French White oven-to-table bakeware imparts a traditional elegance that is a perfect complement to any décor. Versatile yet stylish, Corningware French White is simple, from start to finish!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4677 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: French White
• Brand: CorningWare
• Model: French White
• Released on: 2005-04-01
• Dimensions: 11.00" h x 4.00" w x 11.00" l, 3.50 pounds

Features

• Glass lids make cooking, serving, and storing easy and convenient
• Durable stoneware material designed for use in oven, microwave, refrigerator, and freezer
• Corningware material resists chipping and cracking
• Non-porous surface does not absorb food odors, flavors, or stains
• 10-year warranty

Amazon.com Review
Most of us have become masters of multitasking--answering phones, checking e-mail, and reading simultaneously, and Corningware follows suit with dishes designed for the microwave, oven, tabletop, dishwasher, and refrigerator. Corningware's French White bakeware combines the functionality of classic designs with contemporary styling. This 2-1/2-quart round baking dish is ideal for pastas, casseroles, or meats, and features a glass lid with an easy-to-grasp handle (but as with all Corningware and other ceramic or glass bakeware, you'll always need to use potholders when handling the dish or its lid). The dish itself has no handles; however, its impressive 10-year warranty (one year on the glass lid) more than compensates for this shortcoming. --Ariel Meadow Stallings

Customer Reviews

I am in love with the entire French White Line...
These are the best casserole dishes. A wonderful friend gave me a set as a wedding present over 5 years ago and I haven't broken even one of these wonderful dishes yet! They clean up easily and are perfect for soufflés or meat casseroles.

This one in particular is great for using for a cheese soufflé. Look for the oval dishes for lasagna and dinner casseroles.

Dishwasher safe and can be put in the freezer and microwave!

What more could you ask for? I am so pleased Amazon started to carry these items and just found them today!

~The Rebecca Review

It's stoneware, not pyroceramic Corningware -- that's why it breaks.
The original "French White" Corningware was made of Corning's famous pyroceramic glass, which could be used on the gas stove, put directly in the freezer, put under the broiler right from the freezer, and oh yes, also used in a microwave. And it was very unlikely to shatter if dropped. If you pounded on it with a hammer and nail you might have gotten it to break.

When World Kitchens bought the license from Corning, they decided to halt production of a line of cookware that would take anything and last forever, and dupe customers, especially brides, into thinking the stoneware "French White" was the same thing as the wonderful French White pyroceramic cookware previously available to their mothers and sisters.

The pattern is very attractive and can be used with any decor, and they do offer many sizes, but this stuff is not, repeat, really not, what people mean when they say "Corningware."

Le Creuset can do most of the above mentioned, but it being metal you cannot use it in the microwave. Stoneware cannot go on top of the stove, and repeated trips from the freezer to the oven will eventually cause it to craze and crack. And stoneware will also chip, and break if dropped, etc. Pyrex glassware cannot go on the gas stove although you can take it from the freezer to the oven, and also microwave it.

The only product which could do anything was pyroceramic, and World Kitchens has chosen to remove it from the market because it is "too good."

They have recently brought back a few of the old square shapes, with the Cornflower, or plain white, calling it "vintage," but the French White shape is not making an appearance yet. If you want it, email them and ask for it!

Meanwhile, get Le Creuset for cooking and roasting (yes it is expensive and heavy but it lasts forever and cooks beautifully), and reheat things in Pyrex in the microwave. Both will tolerate moving suddenly from freezer to heat source.

CorningWare Casserole Dish Needs Handles
This casserole dish is very versatile as is all Corning Ware but it really needs handles. With handles it would be about as good as it gets!