I was married in the 80's and got a set of Visions for a wedding gift. After burning most food I tried to cook in it for a month or so, I gave up and bought some copper bottomed Revereware, which I had for years and years. Visions was so pretty and interesting concept, but totally impractical. Thanks for the memory! I am enjoying your videos.

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.

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.

I have a little 7in vision non-stick pan that I thrifted. It has been one of the best non-stick pans I’ve used! Going on about a year with it!

I have two visions covered dishes. They work fine in the oven and microwave. I love my Corningware mm

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.

That cranberry color is lovely. Colored glass is making a comeback! And I hope cranberry color cookery is it.

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.

As a 90's kid I definitely remember seeing that stuff around. And we got some PARSNIPS!

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!

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.

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 🤣

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 :)

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

I still have my set from 84 or 85. Great video

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.:)

You can see through Pyrex Flameware too, it is for stove and oven too, and I have my grandma's flameware and replacement Visions frypan just like the one you hold up at 0:51. The thing I love about the visions compared to the flameware is I don't have have a heat diffuser for my electric range. I have picked up several pieces of the cranberry as well, and most recently a brown (fireside/amber) V-32 for only five bucks! Soaking is the key for black marks for me. I don't really use them to fry, I use my sunbeam non-stick skillet usually. but the pots are nice for gravy and veggies, boiling potatoes, etc. I have her and my mom's corning ware too. Love it all.

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

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

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.

I’ve similar pots from Luminare, made in France & I love them!

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 😍

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.

I still have and still use mine!

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.

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

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.

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.😊

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.

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).

i still have and use mine. i had the double boiler and have the saucepot and lid now

I love the cranberry grab it bowl and lid!

My Mom got some back in the late 1980’s and we still use it to this day.

I too thought it was pretty, but when I burned a few things in it & found it so difficult to clean, I put it in the goodwill box.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think we had a piece or two of that stuff growing up. It was ok, 👍

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve been watching for a set of the cranberry color without the anti-stick coating.

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.

I have a set I haven't used in years and found it difficult to keep clean.

Mom had these in the 80s, briefly...

I do like my vision cookware don't like to waffle bottom on the Skillet And on the small Skillet 🍳

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.

walmart has little pumice stones in the cleaning aisle. The pumice will make quick work of that burnt on carbon.

where can you get it in Canada

Ever heard about the law of headlines?

The vegeables look like parsnips

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.

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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!

I use my casserole every day ….. I microwave chicken legs for my pets

Definitely parsnips.

Those are parsnips

Pyrex Flameware

Parsnips

Parsnips.

I don't know if spell right parsnips

I used that stuff, one or two times, to make hamburgers. Wasn't that good, I seemed to burn stuff.

cranberry > amber

It never seemed like it was a good idea..glass has a poor thermal transfer characteristic. Also, the end vegetable might be a parsnip?

I used Visions cookware but abandoned it almost immediately. It took up too much room for how little I used it.

If they're still durable why do they scorch

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

Parsnips!

Parsnips!