If you were married in the 1970s, as Don and I were, you might very well have received a set of Butterfly Gold Pyrex bowls like these …

I’ve long been proud that 46 years later, I still have an intact set. Although I recently noticed they were starting to lose their color … due no doubt to going through the dishwasher thousands of times.

So I rubbed a wet paper towel on one of the bowls. With very little effort the paint/glaze came off of the larger bowl, the one that has surely gotten the most use over the years …

That led me to do a little web surfing to discover the name of the design, where also I discovered some eye-popping prices, albeit for vintage bowls more gently used than mine …

Then I searched “color fading on Pyrex Butterfly Gold bowls” and happened across these headlines …

Fortunately, none of the posts were from mainstream media and Snopes debunked the lead issue to boot …

But still … whatever is flaking off my old bowls can’t be good. All that by way of saying I’m making cookies in new mixing bowls this year …

Here’s hoping they last as long as my first set!