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I was going to mention the whole hot water thing but bowsac beat me to it.
You can use luke warm water or ever just above freezing water and it will work almost as well without having to worry about the temperature differentials causing damage to stuff.
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@GabeLakmann @Griffith @Turkleton I've broken old pyrex taking it out of the hot dishwasher and hitting it with cold water. It sucks but even well made tempered glass will eventually fail. I've since learned to crank the water up to max temp and get it warm before I add any, then I turn it to cold as I start filling, dump and refill with proper filtered water to cook.
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@BowsacNoodle @Griffith @GabeLakmann @Turkleton one time my gf at the time turned on the wrong burner on the stove which happened to have a pyrex dish on it I realized her blunder and quickly took action grabbing a pot holder and moving the pyrex over to the wooden cutting board. Unfortunately I had just finished cutting tomatos on the cutting board so it was wet and the pyrex fucking exploded. Pieces went all over the kitchen. :brain1:
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@BowsacNoodle @GabeLakmann @Griffith @Turkleton Also did you know that Pyrex and PYREX are not the same thing? Real PYREX can actually take a bit more abuse. Most of what can be bought by the plebs is Pyrex brand.
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Damn, you wouldn't think that a little bit of cold tomato juice would have that much of an effect.
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@GabeLakmann @Griffith @BowsacNoodle @Turkleton TMYK :blob_laughing:
It even sounded like an explosion. A lot of energy was released very quickly lol. She was across the room and I think she even got hit with a piece of shrapnel. Luckily neither of us were hurt and it wasn't too bad to clean up.
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I did not know that until I used real pyrex glass in a laboratory setting and I think you're right that most people probably don't know that either. I sure didn't until somewhat recently.
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Wow.. yeah, you are very lucky neither of you got hurt. I've never actually seen glass explode like that but have heard about it from people a few times.
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@feld @Griffith @GabeLakmann @BowsacNoodle @Turkleton This is what my nerdier than me friend taught me. I always just assumed they were the same thing.
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@thatguyoverthere @Griffith @GabeLakmann @BowsacNoodle @Turkleton I don't know why Corning has chosen to license out "PYREX" and "pyrex" separately, but somehow they did and they get away with it.
Original Pyrex was borosilicate.
In the 1980s when this nonsense started we end up with:
PYREX, if you can still find it, is borosilicate glass
pyrex, which you'll see in most stores in USA is now soda-lime glass (shatters from thermal expansion)
tbh this should be illegal. Highly misleading.
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@feld @thatguyoverthere @BowsacNoodle @GabeLakmann @Griffith @Turkleton
soda lime? what? its carbonate?
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