Fun with Pyrex - and the thrift store

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Yesterday I went to the grocery store with a seemingly innocent mission. I needed a casserole dish. Dear Partner wants to make chicken casserole and though we have a Pyrex baking dish it's about fifteen by ten inches and shallow. Good for cooking the carniceria's Magic Marinated Chicken over rice but little else. So I went to the store. The kitchenware selection was usually good. But they had NO deep dishes. Cookie sheets, shallow pyrex, cake pans, griddles, skillets, serving dishes, pie pans... no casserole dishes, no Dutch ovens, nothing over two inches deep. I was all ready to be mad at the store managers, till I went on the Corningware and Pyrex websites. The only things that were remotely like what we wanted were over fifty dollars! I went to Amazon. They always have something. Nope - the only thing close to what I wanted was a vintage piece that still wasn't quite right. But it gave me an idea. I went to the thrift store. What luck - it was half off everything in the store! At first I didn't think I'd find what I was looking for - then I found two beautiful Pyrex dishes, a round one and an oval, that perfectly suited my needs. I also found brand new cake pans at $2.50 apiece after discount, and a new bathroom scale. Brought them home, cleaned out the Pyrex, and it's sparkling new looking. Let's hear it for vintage stuff!