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I have installed the 36" glass shelves and found them just a bit thin. They flex easily in the middle. I am sure it is tempered and probably be OK but it looks like I will be restricted to light stuff like wine glasses, I put a small 2 qt cast iron cookware in the middle to test, I am not comfortable with the flex it created.
It would be nice to have a glass shop make shelves about 1/8" thicker and a nicer finish job on the edges.
PoorOwner - I think people typically put pretty stuff that they want to be seen on glass shelves behind glass doors - things like glasses, vases, pottery or other artwork that is a nice accent to the kitchen or just plain nice to look at. I can't imagine putting cast iron cookwear on a glass shelf (in real life where that's where it's "home" would be). I've got several billy bookcases with glass shelves that I use for displaying/storing vases, pottery, glasses etc - and am really surprised by how much weight the billy glass shelves can hold! I think one of the keys with glass shelves is to have a somewhat even distribution of weight across the shelf.
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Hi Doreen, some cast iron cookware can be pretty too. I have attached a picture of the Staub enamel cast iron I recently bought -- too bad, no kitchen to use it in yet
I did some more tests it looks like it is better to put near the ends so it doesn't load up the middle of the shelf.
Glass shelves are tempered, but still only rated for about half the weight of the regular ones (21.5lbs vs. 43lbs). I would not put cast iron, however pretty, on them. Try a regular shelf with edgebanding to match your doors and it will look pretty and support the iron!
My Le Creuset Goose Pot lives in a drawer by the range- it's beautiful and empty it's easily the heaviest item in my kitchen outside of the countertops and the major appliances. I guess it never occurred to me to put something like that on a glass shelf as those are typically in shallow wall cabs and shallow wall cabs with glass shelves say "crystal and barware" to me. All the time. Sometimes I have to turn on white noise so I can't hear them saying it. Just sayn'. They have never whispered "cast iron"...
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