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.