Visions Cookware: Was It Clearly Better?
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- Visions cookware debuted over 40 years ago and is unlike anything else -- it's see-through cookware.
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I bought a large set from Ebay. It's my only cookware besides one stainless steel frying pan, one cast iron frying pan and 3-4 Le-Creusrt dutch oven.
I’ve similar pots from Luminare, made in France & I love them!
Nice to see a video about Visions Cookware. We have had a pretty comprehensive set for years, and I love it. I don't think we have ever experienced any issues whatsoever, but it does require a certain adaptation in cooking. We have an electric stove and only use medium heat or less, and a thin wire heat diffuser. If you are someone in a hurry who likes to use high heat, you will be unhappy. I love that the same pot can go in the oven, the microwave, air fryer, and refrigerator! We also have PYREX, and Corning Ware. Love it all.
Fantastic. Great to hear that it has served you so well over so many years. And yes, like any cookware, the more intimate you are with it, I'm sure the better results you get. Thanks for watching and happy cooking!
I have a large visions covered short handled pot, similar to the one on the left on your table in your video, that I purchased in the 1980s. I use it to make my slow cooked tomato meat sauce for pasta, raviolis, etc. It’s on the stove for about 3 to 4 hours on a low gas flame, and it’s delicious. Some of the ground beef will stick to the bottom and it is tough to clean, but soaking and powdered cleanser with a scrubber sponge will get it off. Thanks for showing it on your video! While you don’t explain why Visions quickly lost sales, I imagine it’s due to the cleaning issue.
That recipe sounds delicious! Thanks for watching and happy cooking 😀
Thanks for the nostalgia. I got some in the 80's at an outlet mall and used it for years. I have the little soup pan, some small ramekins with lid (that doubles as a plate), and you made me remember that at one point I had the frying pan ( a curiosity). I still have them in the back of my cupboard- will have to bring them out and use them. The little ramekins are particularly useful for leftovers.
Thanks for watching! Glad to bring back some memories. Happy cooking 😀
Just bought a used 1.5l pot for $40! It's amazing, I think its Pyroceram ! Much better then Pyrex or borosilicate! Cook, eat, freezer, microwave, eat, all without ever taking the food out 😍
Right on! Enjoy!!
As a 90's kid I definitely remember seeing that stuff around. And we got some PARSNIPS!
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I had the entire Visions set for years and years and absolutely loved it! Had it the first year it was introduced and used it for the next 20 or so years. I think i ended up selling it at a garage sale after I dropped one piece and it broke into a zillion pieces (which wasn’t supposed to happen). It was ironic because pieces had been previously dropped without even a scratch. Turns out, it’s like Corelle, drop it EXACTLY right and OMG! Glass was EVERYWHERE. I was finding slivers a week later after having vacuumed at least 5 times. I wouldn’t be able to use it today as I cook with induction and I will never go back to anything from induction. I have cooked on wood stoves, gas stoves, electric element, solid element, glass electric…and none of them hold a candle to induction. But, I made a lot of memorable meals in my Visions cookware. It is true you had to relearn how to cook in it.
Wow! Well it’s so good to hear they served you well for so long. I did drop a piece of CorningWare in the garage once and same deal - shards everywhere. Otherwise, I use it daily. Happy cooking! 🙏
The same will happen if you drop a Corelle plate. Don't ask me how I know.
I still like Corelleware, as it's light, and thin, and tough. But yeah, when it does break, it produces thousands of razor sharp shards that's you'll still be finding 20 ft away from where it broke, years later.
That cranberry color is lovely. Colored glass is making a comeback! And I hope cranberry color cookery is it.
I have used PYREX and corningware my whole life. It's great and easy to clean.
Visions....two pots exploded on me, cleaning the pans was a nightmare until I figured out to shove them into our GE P7 oven on the three hour cleaning cycle.
The lids are 'only' PYREX, by the way.
I don't know anybody I hate enough to wish this stuff on. It's nearly as awful as pyrex made of soda-lime glass.
I had some Visions back in the day. I remember that the glass was problematic in that it transmits the heat instead of retaining it. So even over a relatively moderate heat, things were sticking and scorching in the pan instead of browning. That's probably a good thing when boiling water, but when cooking fish or eggs, it's disastrous. I always suspected that's why they later added the nonstick layer to the bottom of some of their products--because of all the complaints that food was sticking and burning.
Yep, I imagine you’re right! I tried cooking eggs in the pan and it was a mess, lol.
@@IWantToCook I can only imagine!
This is so cool! I have that little dish and lid with the matching handle. I had to run to see if it was Visions, and it was. I bought it at Goodwill along with another small dish and lid. So far, I've only used them in the air fryer. Good episode!
Thank you! I hope the Visions continue to serve you well 😀
I have one of those visions frying pan, it is all true, including the cleaning part :) Also I have the small pot w the handle, I use it for oatmeal pretty regularly :)
I bought a new set of it in the mid '80's for when I moved out to my first apartment. I liked it ok but the skillet with the waffle design on the bottom was a nightmare to clean. I eventually got rid of the whole set and went to metal cookware. I am now a fan of Corningware because of your videos. My wife and I got a nice set for our wedding in '91 that we really never used but I now realize what great cookware it really is and am loving how versatile it is
Wonderful! I’m thrilled to hear that! Thank you so much for watching, and happy cooking 🙏
Love the vintage cookware videos! Thanks for sharing about if we should find some or not, I think I might just stick with the Corningware and Pyrex
Good thinking & thanks for watching! 👍
Do you use Corning Ware on the stovetop? If so, then Visions is made of the same ingredients and features the same general performance. It actually may heat a tiny bit more evenly than ordinary CW.
My grandma had a set and cooked in them on thanksgiving. lol…I use the clear glass baking pans. (Can’t remember the name). As for cleaning, I use an sos soap pad with hot water on my steel pans and the glass pans. Sos pads are steel steel wool, but they don’t scratch the pans. Thank you for bringing back great memories with these visions.:)
Great to know on those SOS pads! I’ll try those. Thanks for watching and happy cooking 🙏
Try boiling water and baking soda for 10 minutes.
I love parsnips!
I do not love Visions cookware.
But I love Corningware! Just wish it didn't scratch up but now I have Bar Keepers Friend to maintain my CW. That works like a charm.
Awesome! I’ve also found those magic eraser cleaning pads work wonders on CorningWare, indeed “erasing” those stubborn metal markings. 👍
I still have and still use mine!
I still have my set from 84 or 85. Great video
Thank you! 🙏
My Mom got some back in the late 1980’s and we still use it to this day.
Wonderful! I think ALL of our moms did 😀
It has not fizzled out but one if my favourite go to daily cook pots especially the bigger pots & sauce pans
I love the Le’Claire lids as you can cook on the stove with it… Very Versatile & healthy
My Mom swore by Visions & she was a Registered Nurse😉
I take my straight from the fridge to the stove everyday
I’ve almost burnt my kitchen for almost 4 hours the post was Amber Red Hot the pot survived that disaster to be used daily once again
It clean out with soaking & time
I definately love using Visions everyday & the journey has been just lovely & positive all the way
Thank you so much for sending me this link on Vision pots. Indeed very educational. May i know if Corningwares and Visions can be cooked on a ceramic cook top? Thank you one more time for your kind advice.😊
Yes, they should work just fine on ceramic, as long as the element itself that heats the stove is electric or halogen, vs induction. Hope that helps!
I have a set of this but have not used it in years. When I did cook in it I always used a heat diffuser (trivet) to evenly distribute the heat. Visions seemed to be best for cooking/boiling liquids, heating sauces etc....than frying, searing etc...They were a short lived trend in the 80's and 90's then fell out of popularity. I also have a complete cookware set of the ceramic Corning Spice Of Life. They cook much better than Visions. For every day cooking I use stainless Revere Ware. I bought every piece in the last line they had before they ceased production in 2018. At the time I had no idea that Revere would be discontinued.
Wonderful, and very smart of you to pick up that Revereware. It’s so good! I still use my vintage Revereware all the time. 😀
i still have and use mine. i had the double boiler and have the saucepot and lid now
My mom had Visions cookware in the late 80s. I was a teenager and learning to cook. I hated it. The worst part was, she got rid of Sears Maid of Honor in favor of it!
ETA: forgot to say, those are parsnips
Oof, that’s rough! I wouldn’t want to learn to cook on this stuff.
I love the cranberry grab it bowl and lid!
I was given a set of Visions cookware as a wedding gift in 1985. I didn't even know how to cook then, so it probably wasn't the cookware's fault that nothing turned out very well. I still have one of them -- It's my onion bowl.
Honestly, it probably WAS the cookware's fault, at least in part. Visions was notorious for sticking and burning in dry applications.
The great thing about CorningWare is that it looked nice enough to serve directly from on the table, so one less thing to clean after dinner.
Yes!! Fridge to stove/oven to table for the win!
I bought the cranberry non-stick when it came out. You are correct, you do not want the non-stick, it does not last, then you have cookware you either can't use, or you ingest Teflon as it slowly flakes off. I never had issues cleaning the cookware but I don't know if it was what was left of the non-stick coating or what I tended to cook at the time that saved me from that issue. I liked the looks enough and I'd buy it again (sans non--stick).
Good to know! I don’t use a whole lot of nonstick even today; I shudder at the thought of trying to use the stuff from 30 years ago today.
Yep, I still have some in my kitchen and just as you mostly for liquids and soup. But I remember well in the 80's living in L.A. and my friends coming over to see them in action in my house. I was funny to see their expressions after we'd say (Made in Brazil) their jaw would drop. They thought Brazil was only a Jungle and Tarzan and Jane lived out there....lol 🤣
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For cleaning burned food stains use spray oven cleaner. Let it sit for an hour then use a plastic Scotch pad to scrub off. Easy.
Thanks for the tip!
My grandma used to have these. And those look like parsnips!
Back in the 1980's that that line came out, HATED the amber color of the cookware. HATED it then and now. Glad I have a simmer burner on my gas cooktop that has very low BTU setting not only to gently melt chocolate without breaking it but to hold it all in a single cause pan "All Clad" is my go to.
Nice! It’s hard to go wrong with All-Clad, and I’ve found it easily worth the price. 👍
you failed to mention glasswares as one of the safest materials to cook that's non-reactive to acidic foods, does not rust, does not leach bad chemicals pthalates to food. they're great for soups, saucy food, sauces and baking. they're beautiful as leftover storage in the ref. my only gripe is that i have to be gentle with them compared to cast irons hehe
All great points. I mentioned some of those attributes in my CorningWare video, but yes, those are true about Visions, too. Thanks for watching and happy cooking!
I have several pieces of the Visions cookware that I purchased in the 80's and the reason I don't use it, is exactly what you stated. It is a BEAR to clean. Even the pots - I remember making oatmeal one morning for my kids and I didn't have the burner on hot and man o man, it scorched the bottom of the pan. Took me forever to clean it after letting it soak all day. I think that was the day I packed it away and went back to my beloved Revereware, lol.
Oooh, I love Revereware! That stuff still shines up like new 👍
@@IWantToCook Sure does! Just love it.
next time, try a pumice stone. I've used it on burnt on carbon in a pyrex rectangle. It didn't scratch the pyrex, and it cuts right through the carbon.
@@monkeyb1820 thanks, I'll give it a shot.
My revereware and Saladmaster are the best!
I remember seeing commercials for visions. I can't remember if my mom bought a pot or just talked about it because she just did not think they were safe. I want to say she did though. She was much happier with her corning (I have hers and use it all the time) and cooking with that. I don't think I would be interested in collecting it at this time as I think corning is much nicer.
Yes, I have to agree. I use CorningWare every single day, often for serving. Visions, only occasionally. 👍
Never had any, my friend did, but he didn’t keep it very long. It would be no use to me now, as I have an induction cooker.
I think we had a piece or two of that stuff growing up. It was ok, 👍
I’ve been watching for a set of the cranberry color without the anti-stick coating.
Nice! Yeah that’s pretty rare, and unlike CorningWare I don’t see much Visions when thrifting.
Visions was also dangerous to use. More than 35 years ago I used a Visions pot one day to heat veggies for a dinner. It exploded like a bomb. Glass and veggies were strewn all over the kitchen. It was a big mess that took several days to clean. I kept finding shards of glass all over the kitchen. My pot must have been defective.
Oh, my! That sounds horrible.
@@IWantToCook That was the last time I used Visions cookware. I threw away the whole set after that happened. Thankfully, I had stepped out of the kitchen and was in another room when the pot exploded. I just heard a "pop" when it exploded.
That’s user error. Been using them for 30yrs only one that broke was the frying pan when I dropped it
@@evilmidge9840No, it’s not “user error”. Any defect in those pots and heating can cause them to explode like that. Could either be a manufacturing defect or a tiny chip nobody noticed.
Cooking in glass and ceramics is always going to carry the risk of things like that, especially pieces as brittle as Visions.
the breakage is user error, not defective pots lol. check them for defects before using to prevent these types of scenarios.
The double boiler looks potentially interesting, except I don't like ever use a double boiler.. Otherwise, I'm really enjoying my carbon steel and have no extra space!
When I moved into my first apartment in 1988 I bought a set of these. The baking dishes and casseroles were fine (still have a couple) but the sauce pans were awful and I threw away the skillets after about six months of scrubbing out stuck on foods and burning things. Not good pans at all.
Mom had these in the 80s, briefly...
I have a set I haven't used in years and found it difficult to keep clean.
Try Barkeepers Friend with a green and yellow scrub sponge and/or a magic eraser pad. I’ve found between those two I can make CorningWare glisten again.
Interesting; I had no idea it was vintage! I have one purple (not cranberry) 2 qt pot that I got from Goodwill. I got it because it looked cool and needed an extra pot that size, but my favorite cookware is a tie between All-Clad and Chantal (both stainless steel). I don't use the Visions one much because I have an old electric coil stove and the recommendations for that are to use a heat diffuser. That means I have to dig out one of those every time I want to use it. I would probably go with all Chantal if it cleaned up just as easily as All-Clad, but that is one area it isn't quite as good. But All-Clad is so big and clunky that it loses a point to Chantal; hence they come out in an even tie.
Sounds like a nice setup. Both All-Clad and Chantal are great in my book. I believe the Cranberry Visions debuted in 1992. 👍
Visions never needs a wire diffuser, that's only for ordinary glass like Pyrex Flameware. Visions will handle any heat source except induction (though there are models with a magnetic layer made specifically for those cooktops).
@@JohnTFolden Thank you; I'll use it more now!
@@DrValerie800 You are very welcome. There is a slight learning curve depending on what you use the saucepan for... but as a general rule, Visions absorbs and retains heat longer than just about anything but cast iron. So preheating and lower temps should be used.
@@JohnTFolden Thanks John! I mostly do soups and sauces in it. I do all the high-temp stuff in cast iron or stainless steel.
where can you get it in Canada
Hi there! While a fellow Canadian might have even better recommendations, I would try thrift stores or a resale site like eBay, Etsy, etc. If you want to buy new, you can go to Corelle.com and look under the Visions product page.
My mother used to cook with this. Like you said, when it was time to wash the dishes, I HATED it. It was such a pain.
Yes! Ugh 😑
I bought a vision frying pan, thinking it would work like a non stick surface. Unfortunately I had only a gas cooker using bottled gas, using that pan I found I would have four little hot spots in the Vision pan, one above each burner flame, very little heat anywhere else in the pan. As you said it was also almost impossible to clean. I eventualy just threw it awa as a completely useless waste of space.
I do like my vision cookware
don't like to waffle bottom on the Skillet
And on the small Skillet 🍳
walmart has little pumice stones in the cleaning aisle. The pumice will make quick work of that burnt on carbon.
Good to know!
I had one small pot, and it was just awful. Even when you tried to heat milk, there would be hot spots where the milk would burn and stick. The conductivity was just awful. I think it was best used as a double boiler.
Those look like parsnips.
One issue I have seen with Visions cookware. If they have been abused, by someone who liked to literally toss things in a sink, they can fragment in the oven or one the stove top. I've seen it twice, both to the same person. The pots kind of exploded in a small area and fell into shards. It was a mess.
Yikes! Sounds like a good word of caution.
And that is true for Pyrex and Corning Ware, as well. If you toss it around or are rough with it and damage it then you shouldn't continue to use it as it may break.
@@JohnTFolden I've never has this issue with older Pyrex or Corning Ware... but I will keep an eye open for that potential issue. Thanks!
On the other hand.. chipped or cracked Pyrex and Corning Ware make good plant trays or parts for craft project.
@@shadowpulpfan1810 I’ve never had the issue with any of it, but then I don’t bang my stuff around. ;)
Visions and CW are made of the same material though. So they have mostly the same strengths and weaknesses.
@@JohnTFolden And that is my issue. I like round corner Visions and CW. Unfortunately the best of it is second hand now and you never know what you are getting. The Vision pans I saw 'pop' weren't mine, thank heavens. It did put me off Visions for years.
I've gotten in the habit of starting all non-metal stove top ware with a flame tamer, especially if the contents are chilled. Once the heat has evened out I consider removing the tamer.
Really nice discussion. Cheers!
Parsnips!
Ever heard about the law of headlines?
Pyrex Flameware
Yes, very rare I believe. I would love to find some of that stuff when thrifting. It has eluded me all these years.
Those are parsnips
Parsnips
Parsnips.
Definitely parsnips.
I remember my sister wanted it and at first she loved it but then we realized food stuck like crazy. Try season a glass frying pan, good luck!
Exactly! Not so much luck there, in my experience, thus I recommend sticking with metal for sautéing, frying, etc.
The vegeables look like parsnips
I don't know if spell right parsnips
Those look like parsnips. I don't like parsnips. 😝
Also, try to avoid Goodwill. The CEO and other higher ups are well paid, but not the employees. I also find them expensive for being a thrift store.
Goodwill takes the "thrift" out of thrift store, but adds nepotism. The one in my area has 50% of on Saturdays for the color tag of the week, and I still think some items are expensive for beingused.
I use my casserole every day ….. I microwave chicken legs for my pets
cranberry > amber
I used that stuff, one or two times, to make hamburgers. Wasn't that good, I seemed to burn stuff.
Oh I can only imagine how bad those might have stuck to the pan. Some footage I had to leave on the cutting floor for this video was me attempting over easy eggs in that skillet. It was a disaster, lol. 😂
@@IWantToCook yeah, it was the early 90s when I moved in, with my first roommates ever. It was their stuff.
It never seemed like it was a good idea..glass has a poor thermal transfer characteristic. Also, the end vegetable might be a parsnip?
If they're still durable why do they scorch
I believe it’s a matter of heat distribution and conductivity. They just don’t heat or conduct as well as a good quality metal pan like the All-Clad I used. That, in turn, can lead to uneven cooking, as seen in the meat.
Scorching is user error, not a problem product
Visions itself doesn't scorch at all. You can't damage them with heat. However, if you use the wrong fat/oil or have the temps too high then you will burn your food.
@@JohnTFolden it scortches on the bottom of the pans against the heat. Isn't that what he was referring to when saying it's difficult to clean
@@21972012145525 he's referring to food that was burned onto the pan (typically happens when the heat is too high). This can be easily removed with Dawn and baking soda.
The heat produced in a residential kitchen can not harm Visions itself. It will withstand heat up to 800C and has a thermal shock resistance of around 450C.
I used Visions cookware but abandoned it almost immediately. It took up too much room for how little I used it.
More like you have no clue how to cook in them.
You have your flames way too high, and you never fry anything dry. All of which you did. You’re a perfect example of what NOT to do with them.
I use Visions exclusively, zero sticking & easy clean up. Ya, if you don’t cook in them properly, you’re gonna hate cleaning them
I’m glad you have better success. Note that I oiled both pans before cooking, but next time I’ll try lower heat. Thanks for watching and happy cooking 👍
People have been cooking in these for 50yrs with no issues, and the pyrex version even longer. There’s a learning curve just like any other cookware. Take the time to learn to use them
Parsnips!
Parsnips!