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Getting a Handle on Handles - Corningware Detachable Handles
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Shane "Culinary Alchemist" Wingerd
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20%22Corningware%20Round%22%20was%20released%20in%20Spice%20O'%20Life%20and%20Merry%20Mushroom%20through%20the%2070s.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EYep,%20as%20far%20as%20I%20know%20this%20is%20the%20only%20%22White%22%20handle%20ever%20produced%20by%20Corning.%20%20I%20have%20heard%20rumors%20that%20the%20original%20P-10-HG%20and%20the%20A-10-HG%20came%20in%20white,%20but%20I%20have%20NEVER%20seen%20one%20in%20person,%20nor%20have%20I%20even%20seen%20a%20picture%20of%20one.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EWhere%20is%20your%20Corningware%20Detachable%20Handle??%3C/p%3E){kind=link}