[complaintdept]

Corning used to make these bowls (called "Grab and Go", I think) that were very difficult to break. You could cook in them, eat out of them with utensils that damage normal ceramic (like a Ti spork), and probably throw them out of your kitchen window onto cement and they'd be fine. They sold off the patent to some other company that couldn't afford the production and quality went way down -- I think prod required intense heat and/or pressure. Sad times.

[bombcar]

Sounds like the Pyrex story - apparently "old Pyrex" is well regarded and desired, "new Pyrex" is crap.

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...

[tdeck]

The new company is called Corelle and they make a pretty durable range dishes and bowls out of the same material. I don't think I've ever broken one by dropping it, however if you drop a ceramic knife blade onto one of them the Corelle will immediately fracture for some reason.

[rpdillon]

Corelle is legit, anecdotally. Have had a set of Corelle since 2004, have yet to break a single item. Mostly, dishwasher cycles are slowly eating away at the edges of the plates and bowls, but given its been 20 years, I'm OK with that. I'm not like the guy mentioned in another comment that throws his dishes onto the counter and into the cabinet, though.