Why glass dishes can explode unexpectedly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2019
- Marina Hill says she is lucky she wasn't hurt when a brand-new glass mixing bowl spontaneously shattered in her Victoria home, seemingly for no reason. An expert warns that tiny imperfections, impurities or poor formations of glass can cause failures, as opposed to changes in temperature.
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We're all here because we just experienced this
Yesss
And all of you have no ideea what is tempered glass.
FYI: All car windows , bus windows, bathroom glass walls shatter in the same way.
Yep, I thought I could pour liquid bismuth into an ashtray. BOOM!
Nope, but it's making me scared of glass. Lol 😬
yup, other day simply touched a thick glass cup and loudest explosion i’ve ever experienced. had me praying to the lord thinking something supernatural was happening
This just happened to me half an hour ago. A glass bowl just exploded and kept cracking! It scared the hell out of me! Straight out of some horror movie
Instablaster.
Thats why im here lol a glass lid exploded
@@hannahmassengill130 same here
I thought it was paranormals activities
This just happened to me about a half hour ago. Set of 3 bowls. Two sitting together on a cupboard without doors. Big bowl just explodes out of the blue just where they've been sitting for a couple of weeks. Glass went into two other rooms, that's how hard the explosion was. Inexplicable !! Getting rid of glass bowls.
Imagine if that was a child standing over the mixing bowl cracking an egg or something. Oh my goodness!
Lord help our precious children!! 💜💜
Happened to me as a little kid ! I just wanted to help with the dishes and the glass bowl suddenly exploded in the sink :(
I’ve heard of newer Pyrex dishes exploding while in the oven but never glass just sitting on a counter. Weird
Yeah this is new to me as well. Never heard of this.
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@Cynthia Eng That just happnened to me yesterday...
@Cynthia Eng OMG..How scary. Glad to hear she wasn't injured.
@Cynthia Eng what can i use instead?
I just poured myself a glass of orange juice, left it on the counter and the whole thing just cracked in perfect halves. Watching this video makes me feel less crazy.
You just want attention 🙄
It's a true occurrence. I looked this up after having an IKEA pint glass explode. It shattered everywhere into a many pieces like this lady's bowl. It's different than when a glass drops and breaks. There were no chunks larger than 1/2" (1 cm). Insane.
Same like with me we bring glass from ikea
same exact thing happened to me. I come to kitchen and sink is full of tiny shards
Exact same thing happened with me today with Ikea glass!!
Ah thank God...there is no ghost involved!!
Ok, so I had these IKEA glasses for years and just last night I rinsed one out in tepid water and placed it in the top rack of dishwasher as I have done hundreds of times before. Minutes later heard what sounded like something fell on the flatware in the dishwasher, when I looked glass was everywhere.
@@Sniggudnhoj yeah this happened to my mom, she was in the kitchen and boom one of those large ikea glasses exploded with no explanation, actually looked like the glass was shot by a gun, thousands of pieces of glass smaller than grains of rice everywhere, near impossible to clean up
I looked into this a couple years ago when I was shopping for some glass baking pans.
Basically glass cookware used to be all made of borosilicate glass back when Pyrex was invented 100 years ago up until about the 1980s. Then the glass cookware manufacturers started transitioning to soda-lime glass which is cheaper but less resistant to rapid temperature changes. They temper the glass to give it extra strength, but it is still weaker especially if the tempering isn't done correctly. So now almost all glass cookware in the North American market, including Pyrex and Anchor Hocking, are made of inferior soda-lime glass.
In Europe however borosilicate glass is still common for cookware. For example European Pyrex is borosilicate glass. I don't know why that is, but it could have to do with government mandated standards being more stringent.
There are a few brands that sell borosilicate glass cookware in North America. Oxo makes some borosilicate glass baking pans, but the best source that I've found is Ikea. Apparently all of their cookware is made of borosilicate glass. I believe it is manufactured in Europe and sold around the world in Ikea's stores. So they make all of it to European standards, which means borosilicate glass. It's quite cheap too.
So buy your glass cookware from Ikea and send a message to Pyrex and Anchor Hocking that their product is crap!
Not true, for many Ikea dishes. Their Oftast line is made from regular tempered glass.
My IKEA glass cup exploded a week ago
I came here because my IKEA glass cup exploded in my hand a couple of days ago. So scary because I was putting dishes in my dishwasher and usually my 2 years old helps with the process. Thank God this time she was eating dinner and wasn't there. Got rid of them immediately. Now I wanna throw all tempered class dishes.
@@denisam5344
As far as I know this would only happen when the glass is experiencing a rapid temperature change. If the surface was scratched previously this would also make it more susceptible to shattering when undergoing temperature change. The rapid temperature change creates stresses in the glass because parts of the glass are at different temperatures and materials shrink and expand depending on their temperature. A scratch creates a stress concentration at that point and is usually where the shattering initiates.
I've read about shattering happening when taking dishes OUT of the dishwasher - they come out of the dishwasher hot and they start to cool down in the cupboard - but not when going in to the dishwasher.
My guess is that your glass cup was made of tempered soda-lime type glass which is more susceptible to shattering under thermal stress.
For what it's worth, I've had an IKEA glass baking dish for a few years now that I use almost daily. It hasn't shattered yet going in and out of a toaster oven, and sometimes out of the oven and onto an enamel stove top surface. But I don't know what would happen if I took it out of the oven and put it on a wet counter or into a sink of water - I don't want to try. According to IKEA they are made of borosilicate glass and the glass is also fairly thick. So from my experience with this one dish, borosilicate glass has been durable.
My ikea glass broke into pieces last night. On the table. I woke up and saw it
Anyone here because it happened to them? I was just pouring juice on a jar and a tiny piece just ejected itself from the bottom of the jar and now my kitchen is wet with juice on the floor.
Yes a cup broke by itself in my kitchen
Phones explode
Ecigarettes explode
Glass explode too
I give up...
@Hector Aldozar wow so funny and witty that i forgot to laugh
*explodes*
I guarantee you Martha Stewart doesn't have any of these bowls in her five residences. :o)
"Glass shattering randomly is a CLEAR problem." 🤣
lmaoaoao
god dammit
I use metal bowls cause I don't shoot TV shows that require the upper echelons of heavy glass bowls.
This segment has some absolutely delightful matter-of-fact quotes lol
0:55 "Glass shattering randomly is a clear problem."
1:35 "Well, _clearly_ a bowl should not be _exploding_ ..."
I'm here because I kept recalling 10 years ago a drinking glass suddenly breaks in front of me. my first thought was it's weird and amazing because I witnessed it. and I also thought that it broke on it self because it's cheap and fairly thin but breaking on its own is just mind boggling.
Just happened to me about 30 minutes ago when I was washing dishes
Sent prices across the room
Same
It sounds like their not heat treating the glass properly or happened to make the formula for the glass incorrectly. Part of glass making is making sure there are no internal stresses in the glass, given if any are present it can cause the glass to break explosively if broken by accident or self destruct if the stresses are too great. I hope that they figured out what caused it, as thats a serious issue and liability if their not producing things correctly. Glassware is fine to use FYI, my mother has a nesting bowl glass set that has been with us since I was born and none have ever exploded or broken like that, even when we dropped them at points in time. Its just when bad batches occur and companies don't test and check their glassware is when we see this kind of thing occur.
Yesterday, my mom's glass explode in her hand while she was holding it. Literally explode into pieces. Thank goodness none of the debris get into her eyes as it was positioned quite infront of her face. Rn shes thinking it was some kind of spiritual think goin on 😅
Look like something wrong with thermal tempering process, so the internal stress of the glass did not fully release.
I remember when I was 4 years old, my uncle was drinking a glass of orange juice and the bottom of the glass literally just broke off. He literally just picked up the glass and took a sip and it just broke off.
That makes it even more enraging but the way you said it made me laugh a bit
This just happened to me yesterday with the largest Martha Stewart bowl in that same set. The entire thing just exploded and remained popping for several minutes afterwards. It could have been very dangerous if I had been standing closer to the bowl.
I had a tea cup and it dropped on the floor, picked it up and it seemed okay
but the moment I did use it it shattered in a million pieces,
some of them ended up almost 7 yards away, these cups are great but once you drop them or scratch them don't trust them, these pieces can end up in your food or what ever is around.
We just had a juice glass explode in our cupboard today. It sounded like someone had thrown a glass across the room, and it literally shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces. We’ve had these glasses for a few years and we’re now debating if we should throw out the rest of them.
What did you do with it? Put it in the oven?
This happened to me too!!!! I was washing the dishes and as I was holding a glass cup (I was not even putting any pressure on it) it just broke and cut my finger, making a huge mess in the sink with pieces of glass everywhere
Yesterday 5/28/2023 my glass bowl was on the counter with COLD meat loaf, and it just exploded into a million pieces. It was not in the oven. It was not in the refrigerator...it was just sitting on the countertop for about 2 hours.😢😢
How does a glass bowl explode while it's cool just sitting on the bench?
Heat and cooling cycles if you worked in a pub a glass washed pint glass cooled down you grab it with warm hands will make them explode glass is unpredictable if it's a worn out glass even more unpredictable they can explode when somone is about to drink out of it yet glass iphones even tempered glass like these are will just explode age of the glass heat and cooling cycles very scary
It's caused by poor manufacture of toughened glass. Part of the treatment uses heat, but if the cooling is not handled correctly there is a massive stress built in to the glass. It takes only a small impact to cause the dramatic failure.
Murica is blaming Iran for this.
Thank to Marina and CBC for bringing this to the public's attention.
I had a massive glass table top (1m+ long and 1-2cm thick) EXPLODE beside me while I was playing the computer. It split the glass into a thousand pieces and if it weren't for the mirror sitting in front of it I would've been injured. It sounded like a bomb going off and I imagine I'll still find fragments months if not years later. What a freaky phenomenon...
I had a glass pan that did the same thing my living room and kitchen area is one space my daughter was sitting right there it I put it down and it exploded luckily none of us was hurt but I would never buy anything glass again for our own safety!
My TEFAL Glass cover lid was on the counter for the past few days unused, this morning I put the stuff in the microwave to heat, and as soon as a pressed "START" on the microwave, the glass lid cover exploded into tiny pieces, and kept making shattering sounds. Crazy straight out of some supernatural movie
I never had any such issue with my old pyrex but a recently purchased pyrex dish exploded in my oven.
I had one do that recently. Apparently, Pyrex was bought a few years back.
This has happened to me and it was a shock especially while eating breakfast
Back in 2004, my mother was home alone sitting in the dining room, when a drinking glass reposing in the cupboard exploded, sending shards flying all over the place. We were still finding them all over the kitchen weeks later.
Just tonight a glass cup extremly exploded like a bullet near my mum she is bedridden , just half an hour after nurse finished given mum medication she uses to fill up that exploded glass cup with a water for mixing pills. Really unbelievable !!!
I hope this isn't due to cutting costs. Too bad we can't embed some cheap stuff into the glass so that if it were to shatter, it'd shatter like a windshield and stay in its place rather than actually explode.
This just happened to me. I heard a load bang and I thought something fell but then I looked at our pot which still had the pot cover on it and it was cracked. Then a few seconds later glas went everywhere. 😬
Material science experts on silica want to chime in? I’m thinking exterior tension combined with a micro fracture.
Due to impurity, wrong phase change, or improper handling of finished product.
Just when I was thinking of buying glass cookware 😨
If you can understand Russian, there's a bonus episode of "Nu, Pogodi!" that mentioned about unstable, exploding glass made by certain glasswork companies responsible for the fiasco.
I didnt randomly find this video, I searched it up because this just happend with a cup that my GF’s cusin just hold in he’s hands, its exploaded, and that without expose it to cold and heat.
This has happened to me so many times with both crystal and glass, today my luxury crystal shaving bowl exploded as if explosive powder burst from its center cutting me all over in 30 different places, my hand is embedded with crystal its awful .
😯😬
If you put something cold in a container, sometimes it can expand, causing an explosion. Science! Scary, but cool!
I had a glass pan explode after pulling it out of the oven years ago. I won't buy glass nothing anymore.... I actually was washing a glass cup in hot soapy water in my sink and it busted and cut top of my hand open between my thumb and index finger. I had to get stitches... Never ever will I buy anything glass. Not coffe tables not end tables not nothing😳😬
Juice glass purchased in 1978 by a relative JUST did this in 2022. So loud. Glass flew at least 8 feet across the room. Can this happen w something that old? Obviously not a manufacturing issue
Had 3 of my glassware exploding last week which led me to this video. So no supernatural element involved 😁
My glass door fridge expolied suddenly the upper door glass ..I m still worried why it happened
The glass top on my hob just exploded out of nowhere, glass was sprayed absolutely everywhere.
4:45 AM 2 of us heard a sound (very loud) other 2 didnt (i dont know how) A large thick glass sliding door just decided to explode in a million pieces
It should be for a reason
Our pint measuring cup exploded at 1:20am. I never heard anything but my husband had. What a mystery! Thanks for the video.
We've had some glass mixing bowls for 20 years but they started doing it so we're replacing them. But brand new ones? yikes.
I'm looking this stuff up because a Pyrex bowl shattered in our cupboard for no apparent reason. It hadn't been touched in over a week. Very weird.
Just happened to me an hour ago. I'm having a glass of wine in between cleaning the carnage. Cannot believe the spread of the shattered glass. It was like a bomb went off.
I think what happened was, the bowl was punishing her for buying a Martha Stewart bowl when she could just grab some cheaper version of the same thing.
I had a drink of cranberry juice before going to bed, I left the glass cup there next to my bed, then A shattering sound woke me up, before getting up and checking I was thinking to myself, ok am I hearing things? Did my mind just made that up? Why glass though? I turned on the light and the glass was shattered in perfect pieces only from the bottom of the cup and the rest of the top was still intact. Now I’m here.....happy to know it wasn’t some paranormal activity going on, a haunting experience.
When I was about eight, me my brother and my aunt were just sitting in the living room on a sunny day. Out of nowhere, I started to hear, and it's hard to describe this, but I guess a magnetic charging sound ? Idk, but emediately after an adjacent vace just exploded. We were all shocked, and my aunt thought me and my brother did some prank to cause the vase to explode. I just went with assumption that the vase absorbed too much sunlight? I have no clue
We were eating and heard a bang from the kitchen. I thought something had dropped in the sink but hubby didn't notice anything amiss. When i went out to wash dishes the corelware cereal bowl had shattered. I pulled that thing out of the garden and it was at least 20+ years old. I think i should play TAPS for it. Glad we were in the other room for it shattering though, two rim chunks went across the room.
Just had this happen to my measuring mixing bowl with handle I've had for over 20 years.
I have just been to Morrison for coffee with my mum. the coffee cup just literary just exploded. So scary.
Cos you have hidden telekinetic powers. Believe in yourself broski.
Baahahaha! So demonic tho
@@classicrockcafe eleven? Telekinetic powers is from super star, where she likes a movie of a girl that gets possessed by a demon and avenges all her bullies, thats why mary katherine gallenger likes the movie in the movie!
I was scraping a mixing bowl quickly with a metal spoon when it exploded. Luckily, cake batter kind of kept the glass from flying everywhere.
Mine was a glass kept in the showcase, sitting there in two pieces.. 🤔 Weird..
This just happened to me that’s how I got here! I ordered from Macy’s
frequencies....
what I don't understand is how it took the glass to get all the way to the customer before releasing that stress, and in most cases the day the customer brought it home or within a couple weeks. Shouldn't it have released the stress during transport after it was manufactured? Surely it received more shaking around etc than getting to someones home where they take care of it
Watching this with boiling heat ramen in my glass bowl. I feel uncomfortable.
This happened to me. A glass up almost exploded in my face thank God my face was turned the other way
Also, not by itself but we have broken two pieces of Corel. If you use a ceramic knife to cut food on Corel, it will break.
Ok thank god my home dosent need an exorcism I was so freaked out my glass randomly exploded I was like wow violent Casper 🤣
this happened to my mom earlier today
This happened to me with a glass cup it had been here for some time no cracks then just boom and glass pieces were still popping
Look up tampered glass. All your car windows are like this.
I just picked up a glass cup off the dish rack and it just exploded on my hand and shattered into pieces good thing mostly feel onto the sink
This happened to me, too!
My anchor tupperware and cups randomly explode while in the cupboards. I can't find an answer.
What causes it to turn blue?
I kept a glass bowl on floor after washing it,,after 2 hours it suddenly explode while I was studying....and worst part is- I borrowed it from my relative on the same day😭
Just happened to me...I thought someone must of shot through the window with as much noise as it made...Pieces flew 8 feet from where the bowl was sitting...!!! Might decide I like something other than glass bowls after that!!!!
Ok so ik one thing my mom was cooking and she put the glass pan on the stove it was heating she took it off and set it on the counter the glass exploded it’s because heat it always does that also ik that for sure because I seen it happen very own eyes and no joke the glass goes everywhere
This just happend to me, i was eating and suddenly my glass of milk exploded
Oh my God this just happen to me. I wish I would have seen this
This just happened to me about 10min ago 😂
I was sitting in my kitchen awhile ago doing hw and out of nowhere I hear a loud pop in the kitchen almost sounding like a gun shot I ran out of the kitchen crying cuz I had no idea what had happened. My mom goes to check it out and she says it was the glass lid of a pot that had shattered. Super scary and loud noise.
it's the aliens!!
LOL
This is crazy.
The fact that that are reporting on broken dishes? Ya def crazy
@@AlanaBananaCanada News channels often report on products that have problems. They also report on safety recalls of products. It's to raise awareness.
This just happened to me, grown man trying to enjoy some bourbon when a glass explodes in the next room. Tears of fear in my eyes, but Im going to enjoy this bourbon! 😂
Just happened with a random beer glass, had it for half a year.
Yep same happened here a Ikea glass violently exploded in my cupboard
Yo I just had this happen to me I was sitting on my bed after I got myself glass of milk and we had this cup for a while and then I drink out of it and I'm done drinking it good thing I drank all of it too I said it on the table and it randomly exploded can you imagine how much milk would have went everywhere 😂😂😂😂
I can easily imagine a glass full of milk
This happened with my 2 Pyrex dishes so weird 😳😳
After all this, they never told us why.
My brand new Marquis by Waterford “Raymond” large Crystal bowl just exploded on my dining table.
Maybe this is why my mom keeps her old pyrex dishes because newer glass even pyrex is cheap made
I just had a glass container with soap explode on my bathroom counter. thankfully I was downstairs. It sounded like an explosion!
Very interesting
So um.... if it did explode then why didnt it explode at the store shelves? I am wondering.
Pyrex and similar type glass will do this from temperature change. She may have brought them from out side on a hot day and brought them inside and it was very cool. That's my two cents.
Something often needs to trigger the explosion. Tempered glass is under extremely high temperature and simply placing it on the counter can cause it to trigger.
Because everyone now hates Styrofoam and plastic packaging I find a lot of products are packed for shipping less securely than before. Being nested like her bowls were, is one way I remember Corning strictly advised against for my Visions as impacts from other items of the same substance were the most likely thing to damage the product.
Mine were boxed with a sturdy molded plastic spacer to keep the glass lid from touching the large 5L Dutch oven. Now plastic has been replaced by pieces of serrated boxboard.
Luckily I kept my plastic spacer. This woman's set of bowls probably didn't fare well on the drive home inside the box after all the previous jostling around since leaving the factory. Placing the nested set on a solid counter, likely cooling from the hot bumpy car ride was just that last bit of stress too much. POW!
This just happened to me!!
My roommate’s glass Pyrex pan was set on the electric stove after she took it out of the oven. One of the stover eyes she set it on gets hot when the oven is on. We were just chatting and suddenly the glass exploded. After looking at the Pyrex instructions, we determined it was likely due to her placing it on the stove, especially on top of that heated “eye”. This video just makes me even more concerned about owning glassware .
Yes that’s true, and that happened to me once, but my Duralex glass bowl exploded sitting on the sideboard-after I had washed it-an hour after I had washed it.
Would you expect anything less from a product branded by a criminal?