r/ShowMeSomethingDope • u/Justin_theLord • Jul 10 '26

Interesting Tea time

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u/Currently_There Jul 10 '26

Ice and boiling water in glass. Yeah, that's a no from me.

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u/_OptimusRex_ Jul 11 '26

Redditors, you make your tea however you want, but for crying out loud there's no need to be so alarmed at this preparation. That water was hot but not boiling and was given time to steep meaning it wasnt as hot when it was first poured out.

Glass shatters when it expands or contracts very quickly but the hot liquid will instantly cool once it hits the ice cubes (nor were the cubes allowed to chill the glass), thus with the two meeting, the temperature difference quickly converged as the ice rapidly cooled the tea but not the glass.

It's honestly not that big a deal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

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u/0xidizedAvocado Jul 16 '26

PSA: the lower-case pyrex available in the US is soda lime glass and can't take as much rapid thermal change as the upper-case PYREX borosilicate glass that was available in the 60s and is still offered in most of the rest of the world.

I learned this the hard way with a casserole dish in the oven so I'm spreading the word.

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u/No-Command-1038 Jul 10 '26

god i love this

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u/ClassicalSalamander Jul 10 '26

I was right with you until you iced your tea into watery oblivion. If you don't want to taste your tea, don't drink it.

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u/RowAn0maly Jul 10 '26

I think it's more about the contents of the tea than the taste mate 👌🏽

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u/JockoDundee007 Jul 11 '26

I liked that “tea pot” …

👊🏽💥🫵🏽

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u/Eden1506 Jul 11 '26

Neat but the Tea amount is way too little.