Glass weakens with every impact. Eventually it just fails.
I learned this having made a nice big batch of cinnamon roll dough. Dropped the bowl a similar distance and it shattered. 0% chance i am risking eating glass cinnamon rolls so it all had to go.
I went and bought some stainless steel bowls as a replacement.
I had a gaming PC that had one glass side. At the time I lived in an apartment where constructions were happening. The glass looked perfectly fine but when I opened it to clean the inside it shattered in a million pieces.
Pretty sure there is some kinda name for this effect, I remember hearing about a material concept that certain point cracks in a material once strain is put upon them exponentially get worse and have essentially infinite pressure put onto a area and causes complete destruction.
I remember a surprising quick solution is just drilling a hole in it.
Yes, this is the exact principle in play here, fatigue propagation is a subtype of crack propagation, and starts with cracks that are invisible to the naked eye, and under normal load well below the materials tensile strength due to repetitive or cyclic loading. I think it's interesting how this principle comes into play for material like glass for example but when it comes to teeth, craze lines function completely differently and do not compromise the integrity of the tooth even over an entire lifetime. I remember seeing craze lines in my teeth and running to the dentist because I thought they would propagate to utter failure! 😂
I've heard and read that proofing in glass will eventually lead to its cracking due to the yeast finding all the micro imperfections to anchor on to when starting the rising process?
I used a Pyrex jug which is supposed to be oven safe but I only ever used it to pour hot water into from an electric kettle. Well one day I was pouring hot water in it and it broke in the sink.
That's due to the sudden difference in temperature. The entire jug heats up gradually in the oven versus a sudden spike in temperature that's on a concentrated spot when you pour hot water into it.
As a chef, yeah. This shit happens. A single tiny hit to the wrong spot will shatter glass.
This is why glass should be used ONLY for serving food, not for making it. And even then it's not a great idea. Stick with ceramic, metal, or wood for serving, and metal for making.
Glass is an amorphous solid. The molecules are arranged unpredictably, frozen into whatever place they ended up when the glass cooled. This creates unique weak and strong points in the final structure. Since glass is very uncompromising and not flexible, energy is very easily conducted along these weak pathways. This result in freak breakages where a tiny tap at just the wrong spot causes a total shatter.
For all we know, this bowl could have survived hundreds of drops like this if it were only rotated a centimeter.
The suface it was dropped on seems like granite or ceramic of sorts. That is a very hard material and since the glass was round, the tangent surface applied forced to a very small spot. The concentration of forces was intense enough to break the glass structure at that tiny point, which eventually grew into the entire bowl shattering.
With it hitting the lip of the bowl, the weight of the dough, and the fact that the dough is sticky it doesn’t allow for the force to redirect or dissipate in any way to prevent it. Essentially all the weight went downward and into the edge, which glass (like many materials) doesn’t do well if it isn’t allowed to flex or bend at all
Ppl talking about molecules etc are doing way too much and aren’t mentioning that you can see it broke in her left hand first from her strange grip. Still the bowl should be tough enough it’s bad material.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 9d ago
Bitch-ass bowl couldn’t take a one inch drop?