Question about Breaking Bad

[james_davis_nicoll]

What was that transparent frying pan Jesse was using made from?

Comments

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Ah! That explains a lot. Corning seems to be self-destructing, if much less explosively than the new temperamental glass.

[dsrtao]

Some of their products are doing well: fiber optic glass, flat-panel TV glass, cellphone glass. Others, not so much.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Corning is actually doing fairly well, last I heard. They sold off the housewares line because it was a low-margin commodity field, to focus on high-tech (and high-margin) stuff like touchscreens, fiber optics, and ceramic filter substrates. They've been an R&D-focused company for decades, but R&D doesn't add a lot of value to pots and plates.

(Disclosure: My father is a recent-retired Corning researcher.)