CorningWare is renowned world-wide for producing premium quality bakeware. First introduced in 1958, it's a brand that generally evokes fond memories of puddings and porridge and tuna mornay. And decades-old wedding presents that are still treasured and much used to this day. The popularity of CorningWare can be attributed to the original glass-ceramic material, which meant it could be used on the stove top as well as in the oven. This is a unique feature still unsurpassed in the market today. During the late 1990’s, CorningWare introduced a rage of timeless ceramic stoneware called French White. This ensured the brand adapted to the evolving tastes of consumers who today place a premium on colour and designs. No doubt you have some in your kitchen, or perhaps your mum and dad, or grandparents did. 'Yes, I have one in that range,' wrote my friend, Jane, when I mentioned CorningWare on my Bizzy Lizzy's Good Things Facebook page. 'Actually I got it from my mother and it still going strong,' she added. My food blogger friend, Shirley, said: 'I still have mine, wedding gifted in 1985 and I still use it.' And Lucy, another blogger friend and fellow cook from overseas said: 'My dad used to leave porridge in the oven in a Corningware dish for our breakfast when he'd been on call all night. I have lovely memories of him caring for us even if he was asleep when we got up.' Still more fond memories from Liz O in Wingham NSW, who said 'I had a cubby house when I was a kid and I had miniature versions to play with'. And Nancy from Washington wrote: 'My mom used it when it first came out but she still kept her other favourite cookery. I like it for its versatility. I still have pieces that we have used for years.' I received two CorningWare stovetop coffee percolators when I was first married in 1978. I kept both and used them for many years. They were especially popular at my dinner parties back in the day and were great for making coffee, but also kept water beautifully chilled! I also have two treasured vintage pieces in the Spice O' Life range, which I use almost every day. And, thanks to World Kitchen, I also some much loved CorningWare etch (grass) pieces, some of which have featured here on Good Things over the last couple of years. CorningWare is still a market leader today, popular amongst home cooks, brides-to-be and consumers ranging in age from the young home starter to the empty nesters. It’s convenient same-dish baking and serving, whether for casual or formal dining gives CorningWare its universal appeal. There are three CorningWare ranges available from department stores and selected independent home stores across Australia:
And now for the giveaway...Thanks to the generosity of World Kitchen and CorningWare, I have a fabulous giveaway for readers of Good Things. Two lucky readers will each will a CorningWare prize pack containing:
Please see the collage below, which depicts the prizes. Total value per prize pack: $99.85! As you can see, CorningWare etch is beautiful and functional:
Details of the competition...To be in the running to win, please subscribe to Good Things via the box above RH side on my sidebar, (if you haven't already) and in the comments box below share with me in 50 words or less your favourite CorningWare memories and why you'd love to win a CorningWare etch blue cornflower prize pack.
The entries will be judged according to originality and creativity (chance plays no part in determining the winner), and the winner will be notified by email. Please ensure that you enter your current email address (one you check regularly!) with your comment/entry so you can be reached in the event you're selected as the winner. If the winning reader does not respond within 48 hours, Good Things will redraw the competition and select a new winner. Note: this competition is open to Australian readers only (with apologies to my overseas readers) and closes at midnight on Sunday, 6 July 2014 AEST. This prize pack is sponsored by World Kitchen and CorningWare®. Thank you for all the delicious entries. The competition is now closed and the winners were chosen by World Kitchen... congratulations to Andrea and Jodie.
silvia rogers
24/6/2014 05:51:05 pm
These cornflower blue dishes would compliment my large white casserole, i received as a wedding gift some thirty years ago, just nicely thank you, as the old wedding adage goes, something old something new, something blue....... 24/6/2014 08:28:57 pm
That pie plate is cute! I have a plain white one (different brand) and I love the fluted edges.
Tracey Noble
24/6/2014 08:48:13 pm
Many years ago a had a corningware pie dish that was sadly dropped and broken. I replaced it with a cheap pie dish, but it just isn't the same. I really have a hankering now to make lemon meringue pie in that beautiful blue pie dish. 24/6/2014 08:51:16 pm
I like the colours and the varied designs. Good value for money, too! Best of luck, everyone!
laura powers
24/6/2014 11:20:43 pm
These remind me of a dish my mum used every week when I was growing up not sure of the brand but very similar and many great dinners as a result. Lovely design and very good value for money
Julia Freeman
25/6/2014 12:31:46 am
I just have a crazy thing for blue china - I just love it! The pie plate and dishes are just what I need - my other dishes are dowdy and well used to bake home cooked goodness for my two boys who are eating me out of house and home ;-)
Well, I cannot enter the giveaway, but wanted to say hello, and wish good luck to all the contestants - I would love to have one of those packs, great giveaway!
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:33:04 pm
Hi Sally, thanks for your kind words! : ) 25/6/2014 02:24:05 am
This is great sort of contemporary and retro at the same time. I love the fluted pie plate. Corning ware isn't around as much as I assume it is with you guys, however my mother has a set from the 70s that is still used every day. GG
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:33:18 pm
So true, GG. 25/6/2014 04:05:59 am
My grandson just went into the Air Force and got Married what a gift to give them to start out there live's And how many first time meals will be made in the....
I'm old enough to REALLY remember Corningware. I was a very young bride and I received a set of cookware - remember when they had the pots and pans all white and beautiful? First try I burnt something on the 2-quart saucepan and I sat down and cried. Thankfully, my mother told me about soaking and my pan was good as new.
jody buhagiar
25/6/2014 12:30:45 pm
Reminding me when I was little and Nan would pop me up on the counter to help roll pastry! Getting messy and letting me lick the spoon is a fond memory that will last a lifetime. Just like Corningware, both timeless :D 25/6/2014 12:38:04 pm
Memories of my nanna's Life of Spice teapot and my mum's Blue Cornflower baking dishes with clear lids which I now have in my pantry. I'm falling in love with the new-age Blue Cornflower baking dishes and the blue is my favourite colour in bakeware right now. 25/6/2014 12:55:58 pm
Corningware always makes me think of my childhood in Canada. Winters were so cold, dark, and long, yet my mother, grandmother, aunts all had corningware and churned out the most delicious casseroles and stews. My favorite was always shepherd's pie with a thick layer of creamy mashed potatoes topped with lavish amounts of melted cheddar cheese. Delicious. :-) 25/6/2014 12:59:12 pm
i am not entering your contest because i have been blessed with your generosity recently, lizzy. but i have to say wow, i love the new design from corningware.
One Christmas Day, around 20 years ago, my brother made a seafood and rice gratin to bring along to the Christmas Day feast. It was his turn to make this family favourite qand he had made it in an oblong corningware casserole, ready to be reheated. As I was trying to juggle all sorts of dishes for the lunch, I left his seafood casserole on top of the stove, little realizing that the metal, electric hotplates were still on. After an hour or so, the dish exploded, shatterjng glass and seafood around every corner and surface of the kitchen. 25/6/2014 02:10:08 pm
I have never heard of CorningWare before... Is that bad?! :) Love the pretty blue though, my kitchen is filled with colourful cooking utensils and crockery. I think I did that to encourage me to actually cook. LOL! Hope you are surviving the blizzardy and cold Berra weather lovely and your on the mend. :) 25/6/2014 03:14:27 pm
Corningware is wonderful stuff! We don't have a lot, but what we have has been around for decades. Just like us. ;-) Impossible to break the stuff, at least the original ceramic ones.
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:33:58 pm
It is great, isn't it John! Thanks for stopping by!
Sophy Morley
25/6/2014 03:34:40 pm
Wow, it is lovely to see the Corning Ware range expanded. I have two much treasured pieces - both roasting dishes, one large and one small - given as wedding gifts in 1983. I love using bakeware that is functional and beautiful. It gives me an added joy to use them when I am creating delicious things in the kitchen. You can bring these pieces straight from your oven to grace your table!
kate
25/6/2014 08:07:28 pm
i looked at this and its my mums favourite brand!!i thought this is it.i have no money but will actually be able to stop my stress thats hounding me right now because its her birthday coming...ill enter this i thought surely someone like mum will give me all the luck i need to win her the most amazing gift.my mum,my angel,my superstar...she deserves this,needs it after all thats happened...and the right at the end i saw 'open to australia readers only!!!!!!!!!you know when something disheartens you sudeenly and your heart lurches into your tummy.that is me right now.
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:35:31 pm
Dear Kate, I'm sorry that I cannot offer this giveaway to overseas readers... CorningWare is quite well priced, so perhaps it may be something you can save up for. Thanks for popping in. 25/6/2014 11:05:42 pm
I agree that Corningware is completely timeless. Like you, I grew up on Corningware with my mother baking for us every day and bringing out her Corningware dishes for the cooking process. I love the blue colour and for nostalgic reasons, have continued to make that the prominent colour in my kitchen xx 25/6/2014 11:08:31 pm
Oh how I wish I could enter this competition. I love corningware and have favourite dishes which I use every week and have a friend who has 4 peices I would really love to have but alas she never falls for my whimpering. She never uses hers, they are just for display so I keep telling her how I could put them to much better use. We always joke and say that she will leave them to me in her Will one day.
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:35:52 pm
Mandy, how wonderful! Thanks for your kind words xo 26/6/2014 12:19:31 am
I like them all, but I have a thing about fluted edges...just beautiful.
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:36:07 pm
So true, Ela, I find them beautiful too! 26/6/2014 01:18:03 pm
Being new to Australia, I have never got the opportunity to try out Corningware before. I would like to win this prize pack to experience the goodness of Corningware and also start dishing up traditional Aussie dishes 26/6/2014 03:01:09 pm
It's all about the patterns. Split Pea & Ham Soup served & stored in Mum's Cornflower square casserole. It's mine now & I still use it regularly. I also have the Cornflower coffee & tea pots as well as the Primavera lasagne. What I don't have is a pie dish! 26/6/2014 04:49:02 pm
The first thing that comes to mind when I think Corningware is the time I dropped my sister's beautiful lasagna dish, broke it and declared I would buy her another. I'm sorry at the time I didn't buy myself one as well. That's where the oblong baker comes in. Isn't this design gorgeous? Hi Liz, I love CorningWare. I bought 2 casserole dishes when I moved out of home at 21. They were pretty expensive at the time, though I most certainly have got my money's worth for they are still going strong. I don't remember the pattern name - they were white with a little blue flower on them. Coincidentally, I have most the the series of your give away. I love it. The only piece I think I haven't got is the pie dish.
Vanessa
27/6/2014 09:07:44 pm
I remember the roasts and veges mum cooked in the CorningWare, 28/6/2014 06:37:21 am
My mother had very little Corningware - maybe none at all - but my Aunt Rae used it all the time and, for those memories, I am very nostalgic. I do like the newer designs a lot.
Lizzy
28/6/2014 02:36:31 pm
Yes, so do I, David : ) 28/6/2014 03:32:00 pm
My mother’s CorningWare collection features their vintage ‘La Marjolaine’ print. She always used them to serve with and while I always thought it was because they were pretty, it’s probably because it meant one less dish to clean later. I don’t have any CorningWare to call my own and would love some. 1/7/2014 12:33:58 pm
There is a young girl name Sue
Ellen Schwab
1/7/2014 06:36:57 pm
My Mum seemed like an unpaid corningware promoter when I was young. She cooked everything in them and would tell us at great length how good they were. I think it rubbed off because I remember asking for a dish for my 18th birthday (normal 21st century girl behaviour, right?). I bought a CorningWare casserole dish over 10 years ago. It travelled all over the UK and made it back to Australia safely. Unfortunately the lid didn't survive being thrown out of the cupboard by my toddler! The first thing I'd make if I won, is lime delicious pudding!
Lizzy
3/7/2014 02:01:20 pm
Hi Alex, thanks for your entry... are you in Australia or London?
Jill Macmullen
5/7/2014 05:38:30 pm
My mouth was watering, 6/7/2014 12:13:25 am
Oops, cancelled my subscription by mistake ... It was sudden death.
Lizzy
6/7/2014 12:57:02 pm
Have you renewed it? 6/7/2014 02:26:32 am
I don't really remember, but I am sure Mum, and Grandma, had some Corningware, but I never had any - my ex husband did most of the cooking (he was fussy and liked his cooking better than mine) but now he is gone, I would love to have some - so my Grandkids can remember the yummy stuff I will cook in mine :) Comments are closed.
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