Ceramic Cups Stuck Together

Chill from the ice cubes causes the top cup to contract while heat from the hot water makes the bottom cup expand.

Ceramic cups stuck together.

Pour the ice cubes out of the top cup. Everyone knows what it s like to pull two nested glasses or measuring cups out of the cabinet and find they re stuck together. I poked around on the internet for suggestions on how to get them apart. Attempt to pry the two cups apart with your hands.

You can use this to separate the glasses. So i have a tumbler closer to a pint glass than a highball glass that somehow got stuck in a ceramic coffee mug. Remove the bottom cup from the hot water. I ve tried everything that i didn t think would break both vessels freezing heating hot soapy water olive oil but nothing seems to work.

So i tried putting some soap inside and twisting a bit tried some water oil. Pull the two cups apart twisting them while you pull. On to the topic somebody put a thin glass inside a porcelain cup and it got stuck there. Most commonly glasses get stuck together when they are stacked immediately after they are washed.

Step 4 grasp the top cup with one hand and the bottom cup with the other. Understand how glass responds to heat. Here s an easy way get the two of them apart without any risk of. If the two cups remain stuck together repeat entire process.

Step 3 remove the bottom cup out of the hot water and pour the ice cubes out of the top cup. Dry the wet plastic cup with a towel. Hold the stuck together cups in this position for three minutes. Glass expands when heated and contracts as it cools and this is sufficient to stick glasses together in some cases.

It got wedged in and no amount of gentle twisting or maneuvering would dislodge it. One suggestion was to spray pam around the rim of the bottom bowl no luck. Another suggestion involved dipping the bottom bowl in hot water and putting ice in the top bowl no luck. Again i was scared to force it too hard in case it would snap in my hand and cut once more.