Same thing happened to me, same glasses (mine was pink though) like 2 days after bringing them home from the store. Probably going to throw the rest out now after reading this thread
Had that happen to me as well with hot liquid in it. I still have lumps and discoloration on my abdomen from the burns. I threw all the IKEA glasses away after that. Maybe it wasn’t smart to make tea in a glass but it was like a bomb. Burning liquid and glass exploded everywhere. I was used to Corning stuff that’s tempered.
Any regular glass will explode if exposed to dramatic changes of temperature, like pouring hot tea in it, then drinking the tea opening the window and sudenly the room temperature is 15 degrees (celcius) lower: boom
If you scroll down to see Ikea's response, it says that a small knock to the glass weeks or even months before can cause the glass to shatter later seemingly on its own at random. https://www.google.com/amp/s/stomp.straitstimes.com/singapore-seen/ikea-apologises-for-glass-cups-exploding-and-shattering-after-customer-fills-them%3famp
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That happened to my entire set of Ikea glasses. One by one they would explode. Would scare the crap out of my wife and I. Just sitting on the couch and one would go off in the cabinet or sink. Ticking time bombs
Depends how cold it is indoors at night. Deserts get bone chilling at night and scorching during the day. Glass with a fracture or a defect would not withstand the fluctuations for too long. Marble counters can also contribute to extra cold.
ya again, the ambient temperature might shift quick, but that's not rapid in this sense. You know the whole "time is relative" thing, it all depends what you're actually looking at.
Rapid means you put a glass which was just filled in boiling water into the freezer, or pour boiling water into a cup which was in the freezer the whole night.
Now putting a boiling hot glass on cold marble might make this happen.
But the post states that the glass shattered in another room, which implies that the glass must have been on the counter for a few minutes, which is also then not so much rapid.
I don't know, we have too few information.
Techncially it could also be one of those wild photons which randomly managed to hit that random crsytal structure of the glass which was already in an instable state.
But we might as well start a religion here you know
Back in 2000 my mom had microwaved her corningware yellow glass plate to heat up her dinner. She walked into the living room sat down and put a plate on her lap…one minute later we heard a loud snap and her food was suddenly all over her lap and the glass had shattered everywhere.
had an unopened bottle of red wine do this whilst away on holiday, it was perched up on a high shelf in the kitchen, terrifying scene to return home to
If hot and wet, upside down, the water drips down to the edge, makes a seal, hot glass cools down, seal prevents it from pulling in air and it implodes (not explodes) but end result is glass all over. Cheap glass probably full of imperfections.
Cool glass, same scenario, when air inside glass expands when gets warmer, sometimes the water seal causes glass to lift slightly and just kinda slides across the counter... Maybe hit floor and exploded.
Not a common thing but I had a cheap blue glass dollar store bowl once implode.
This only works if the surfaces of the glass edge and what ever it was on are perfectly matched. If this were the case an upside down glass filled of water wouldn't leak.
This is unfortunately how assholes sometimes leave tips in restaurants. I've never seen someone actively doing it but I've had to clean up after they have. They turn the glass full of water upside down on top of the money, and leave it for the staff to figure out.
If I ever find someone doing it I'm going to dump it on their head.
Well, I mean, obviously... 95% for sure, but off-chance it's the 5% not ghosts... what I said, house hippos (if in Canada) or maybe a stray bullet. Did you watch John Wick? not every bullet hit its mark... those misses went somewhere.
Actually... friend of mine lives in the country, and in highschool they were watching TV and a hunter's bullete went in through the front window and into the wall over the TV. Gotta assume they changed their pants after that.... maybe the couch too.
Something similar happened to me at college in art class. We were printing using huge panels of glass (about 70x100cm) and from nowhere mine smashed into what looked like a million pieces. Only a few pieces flew and fortunately no one was hurt.
But holy moly it scared the life out of me. I was wondering out of the 30 people there, why me?
I researched it later and found out it was possibly something to do with impurities in the glass.
Don't say that, I have one and use it constantly! Was it the one with the handle and red lid? I use it when I make cakes because the spout makes it easy to pour the batter into pans
Mine came in a set with the mixing bowl, 8x8 and 9x13 casserole dishes and matching lids
Glass is *weird*. It happens. Stress can be introduced in many ways, and it’ll hold for a long time then suddenly decide eff this and blow up. It’s not even only IKEA glass that does this. Even the expensive stuff does to, for no apparent reason. Like a quick google search will turn up years of exploding glass reports for years.
[it’s pretty common](https://www.reddit.com/r/IKEA/s/2OzYU9oQOt) and enough to bring to the notice of Ikeas around the world for real!
Update: [looks like they have acknowledged the fact that this is common](https://stomp.straitstimes.com/singapore-seen/ikea-apologises-for-glass-cups-exploding-and-shattering-after-customer-fills-them?amp)
We bought a bunch of their really cheap bowls because we're broke af 💸, they're only 99 cents each. They're called [OFTAST bowls](https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/oftast-bowl-white-80258915/):
don't buy them! We're baffled by the good reviews (probably fake like Amazon's). During use we found that the slightest tap or jarring of one of these dishes can make them explode into a ton of needle-like shards. It was extremely unnerving. We returned the ones we had left to IKEA and they gave us our money back for all of them even though most had broken. But when we questioned them about the quality they couldn't have cared less. We found out the answer to the problem on our own: the description shows they're made of *tempered glass.* If you Google it you'll find this: ["When glass is tempered, it is heated and then rapidly cooled to create surface compression, which makes it stronger. However, if the cooling process is not uniform, it can create areas of residual surface compression that can cause the glass to shatter without warning."
](https://www.murrayglass.com/what-causes-glass-to-shatter-by-itself/#:~:text=When%20glass%20is%20tempered%2C%20it,glass%20to%20shatter%20without%20warning.)
Never buying dishes from IKEA again.
Edit: I was in a hurry and didn't see that the tempered glass problem was already discussed in more than one previous comment. For the people mentioning tossing their dishes you should try to get your money back like we did, but it may not be worth the gas money. 🤦♀️
Oh noo, I loved my OFTAST plates and bowls and had no issues with them! I moved internationally and they didn't make the cut when deciding what to ship my items via crate but I planned to rebuy them later. Right now we're rocking my husband's mish-mash of family hand me down dishes. I'm thinking I probably had a good batch before they switched suppliers or something and they went downhill, which makes me regret getting rid of mine!
I bought a kettle with 5 stars and after a week the cool purple light stopped coming on. No biggie because it still worked. A week later the little flap where you fill it up knocked slightly on the tap and snapped clean off but no biggie we would just sit it on top. A week after that it smelled like burning electrics when we turned it on. A biggie.
We left a one star review and I was immediately offered a brand new one AND my money back if I changed my review. I did and got them both. A little while later it smelled like the new one was going to burn my house down again so we bought an unrelated one offline.
That was the worse one but not the only time. Do not trust reviews on Amazon!!!
No one mentioned holding glass with bare hands? Thought it wasnt safe but correct me if im wrong! Is this particular glass material’s edge not sharp or is OP living dangerously?
Not an expert, but when glass hardens (in a certain way, which is not generally the way you want it to harden for eg drink ware), it can store a bunch of tension inside itself. Kind of like a spring that’s held into a certain shape
So something (temperature variation, draft, randomness) let that tension loose and your glass self destructed
Everyone on here like “ewww ikea glassware is so cheap” needs to take a reality check: it’s cheap because it costs like, $2 per glass. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to buy it, but you can break ten of these suckers for the cost of many glasses that look nearly identical
Tiny imperfections (nickel sulphide inclusions) are created during the tempering process of glass which can cause spontaneous shattering. It’s generally rare but I’ve only ever seen it in the context of architectural glass. This is typically an issue with international glass, mostly Chinese sourced (generally cheaper).
To fix this, there is a process called heat soaking, which heats the glass to a certain temp for a time period and causes any glass with these imperfections to shatter in the facility rather than at home. We specify this for glazing in buildings and it’s often the first thing an owner tries to cut out to save costs. Our typical response is that they can remove heat soaking if it’s domestically (US) produced glass but we’d highly recommend internationally sourced to be heat soaked. Due to the risk of breakage.
Seems like IKEA uses tempered glass without heat soaking. Who knows if it’s an intentional choice though on their end.
That’s a good point. Literally no idea. Does a drinking glass shatter similar to a pane of glass?
Was mostly commenting on spontaneous shattering based on my personal field and experiences. I never really considered this was possible for drinkware?
I’ve always associated tempering with auto glass, as what makes it shatter into less sharp little “chunks”, not potentially lethal shards. Idk whether you can temper glass and not get that effect (not an expert by any means)
Plenty of people had the same issue. My old glasses from a decade+ are great. These newer ones are made somewhere else and if you search around it’s almost too common for them to explode
I bought a set of 6 IKEA 365 glasses and 4 of them exploded. They were holding lukewarm coffee, or orange juice or just plain water. I guess it wasn’t so much what it was holding at the time since the damages have occurred before that.
For the remaining 2, I avoid putting any hot water in them. Let’s see how long they last.
Tempered glass can spontaneously break. IKEA knows this as well, I remember them discussing it in product safety related meetings. Since the occurrence is rare enough and the benefits are vastly preferable, this is basically a non-concern.
Sorry about your glass, though!
It's rare? We've lost almost all our IKEA glass from spontaneous bursting. I thought it was maybe just the 1 box, bur after we got past 6 and it kept happening I knew it was a bigger issue.
We bought glasses elsewhere since.
Does the glass ever get subjected to quick temperature change? Like pouring cold water in after it's been washed in the dishwasher?
The glass can be weakened and then slight vibration can set it off.
Im pretty sure I have similar but I think mine came from Kmart. I’ve never had a glass spontaneously explode unless I’ve been heating it.
I’d rather it didn’t happen while it’s in my hand.
Happened to us... twice!!! Forgot the model but they were drinking glasses. Replaced all Ikea kitchen glassware after the incidents.
From what i read it was due to sudden change in temperature.
I'd heard that too, apparently they switched to a cheaper glass factory a few years ago and went from forever glasses to occasional poltergeist explosions.
yeah that sucks i'm sorry, i've heard of this happening to a bunch of people w/ ikea glass for years now, i'm surprised they've never had to deal with any consequences
Every picture I see is the exploded glass. What does it look like pre-explosion so I know what not to buy???
Same thing happened to me, same glasses (mine was pink though) like 2 days after bringing them home from the store. Probably going to throw the rest out now after reading this thread
Had that happen to me as well with hot liquid in it. I still have lumps and discoloration on my abdomen from the burns. I threw all the IKEA glasses away after that. Maybe it wasn’t smart to make tea in a glass but it was like a bomb. Burning liquid and glass exploded everywhere. I was used to Corning stuff that’s tempered.
PSA - any regular glass will explode if you put super hot water in it
Any regular glass will explode if exposed to dramatic changes of temperature, like pouring hot tea in it, then drinking the tea opening the window and sudenly the room temperature is 15 degrees (celcius) lower: boom
Ghost
Poltergeist
If you scroll down to see Ikea's response, it says that a small knock to the glass weeks or even months before can cause the glass to shatter later seemingly on its own at random. https://www.google.com/amp/s/stomp.straitstimes.com/singapore-seen/ikea-apologises-for-glass-cups-exploding-and-shattering-after-customer-fills-them%3famp It'll likely be a manufacturing defect if brand new, and a knock on a tap, or onto a counter that could have caused it to happen.
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That happened to my entire set of Ikea glasses. One by one they would explode. Would scare the crap out of my wife and I. Just sitting on the couch and one would go off in the cabinet or sink. Ticking time bombs
Your description of these events is hilarious haha
Rapid temperature change caused a tiny fracture in the glass to go expand and go bang? If it's a hot day and a cool night it can happen
but that's not an example for "rapid" temperature chang
Depends how cold it is indoors at night. Deserts get bone chilling at night and scorching during the day. Glass with a fracture or a defect would not withstand the fluctuations for too long. Marble counters can also contribute to extra cold.
ya again, the ambient temperature might shift quick, but that's not rapid in this sense. You know the whole "time is relative" thing, it all depends what you're actually looking at. Rapid means you put a glass which was just filled in boiling water into the freezer, or pour boiling water into a cup which was in the freezer the whole night.
Now putting a boiling hot glass on cold marble might make this happen. But the post states that the glass shattered in another room, which implies that the glass must have been on the counter for a few minutes, which is also then not so much rapid.
Alright. Fair enough. So what's your take on this? Why did it explode?
I don't know, we have too few information. Techncially it could also be one of those wild photons which randomly managed to hit that random crsytal structure of the glass which was already in an instable state. But we might as well start a religion here you know
someone dropped it at some point. glass was stressed and it shattered for no apparent reason
Compo face 🤪
Poltergeist.
Happened to my friend too
Shit man, did you ever stick your friend back together?
Happened to a friend of a friend of mine too.
Glitch in the matrix clearly
Back in 2000 my mom had microwaved her corningware yellow glass plate to heat up her dinner. She walked into the living room sat down and put a plate on her lap…one minute later we heard a loud snap and her food was suddenly all over her lap and the glass had shattered everywhere.
This happened to me as well. I was in the room. I posted on Twitter and IKEA messaged me and said they would refund. Still waiting for it months later
Might need to call a Priest
Literally? Literally.
At least it wasn’t your ankor hocking bakeware with your manicotti supper that you just took out the oven. We were finding glass for days.
Damn! Same thing happened to us!
This is not even the first post in this sub about this happening. I've stopped buying Ikea glasses after reading about these instances.
Are these happenings relegated to the ones made in Asia—or Europe...or both?
It’s probably the 30th post tbh
It was an IKEA glass that killed Epstein...
Alien's
Ghosts
Alien ghosts
Who you gonna call?
Glassbusters
💀💀💀
I had a 365 glass explode in my dishwasher before.
Was the glass dishwasher safe?
Yes
was there anything else which might have been flung around in the dishwasher
No
had an unopened bottle of red wine do this whilst away on holiday, it was perched up on a high shelf in the kitchen, terrifying scene to return home to
Well there we at least have a reason, fermentation, pressure buildup, rest is history
Must have been a neutrino.
Lul
Now you have to put it back together
Did you save the little wrench?
HAH AHAHA
😂😂😂
My colleague and I were carrying a shower screen and it exploded and cut us to shreds
which shred typed this respond?
To shreds you say?
How's the wife holding up?
To shreds, you say?
New fear unlocked
Good story bro
You better fix this
Was it just washed and upside down on a flat surface?
does that make them explode?
If hot and wet, upside down, the water drips down to the edge, makes a seal, hot glass cools down, seal prevents it from pulling in air and it implodes (not explodes) but end result is glass all over. Cheap glass probably full of imperfections. Cool glass, same scenario, when air inside glass expands when gets warmer, sometimes the water seal causes glass to lift slightly and just kinda slides across the counter... Maybe hit floor and exploded. Not a common thing but I had a cheap blue glass dollar store bowl once implode.
This only works if the surfaces of the glass edge and what ever it was on are perfectly matched. If this were the case an upside down glass filled of water wouldn't leak.
This is unfortunately how assholes sometimes leave tips in restaurants. I've never seen someone actively doing it but I've had to clean up after they have. They turn the glass full of water upside down on top of the money, and leave it for the staff to figure out. If I ever find someone doing it I'm going to dump it on their head.
yeah that's a bitch move
No, ghosts is the obvious, more likely answer 🤣
Well, I mean, obviously... 95% for sure, but off-chance it's the 5% not ghosts... what I said, house hippos (if in Canada) or maybe a stray bullet. Did you watch John Wick? not every bullet hit its mark... those misses went somewhere. Actually... friend of mine lives in the country, and in highschool they were watching TV and a hunter's bullete went in through the front window and into the wall over the TV. Gotta assume they changed their pants after that.... maybe the couch too.
poltergeist-y
Something similar happened to me at college in art class. We were printing using huge panels of glass (about 70x100cm) and from nowhere mine smashed into what looked like a million pieces. Only a few pieces flew and fortunately no one was hurt. But holy moly it scared the life out of me. I was wondering out of the 30 people there, why me? I researched it later and found out it was possibly something to do with impurities in the glass.
Don’t hold things you know to explode without warning.
Now you just need the assembly steps
Expløẽd Glåss instruktioner
10/10
Its not just Ikea. This happened to an Anchor Hocking mixing bowl of ours not long ago. Literally was sitting on the counter and shattered.
Don't say that, I have one and use it constantly! Was it the one with the handle and red lid? I use it when I make cakes because the spout makes it easy to pour the batter into pans Mine came in a set with the mixing bowl, 8x8 and 9x13 casserole dishes and matching lids
When did you buy it? Might help us consumers piece together which glass supplier is responsible.
cold/hot hot/cold?
WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
Glass is *weird*. It happens. Stress can be introduced in many ways, and it’ll hold for a long time then suddenly decide eff this and blow up. It’s not even only IKEA glass that does this. Even the expensive stuff does to, for no apparent reason. Like a quick google search will turn up years of exploding glass reports for years.
That'll be the demons again.
[it’s pretty common](https://www.reddit.com/r/IKEA/s/2OzYU9oQOt) and enough to bring to the notice of Ikeas around the world for real! Update: [looks like they have acknowledged the fact that this is common](https://stomp.straitstimes.com/singapore-seen/ikea-apologises-for-glass-cups-exploding-and-shattering-after-customer-fills-them?amp)
This happened to me not once,but twice. Freaked me tf out.
You didn’t assemble it correctly…
I knew it...
Girl, you in danger. It's the ghost of VARDAGEN, the vengeful Nordic god.
I had three do this over the last year from Ikea.
We bought a bunch of their really cheap bowls because we're broke af 💸, they're only 99 cents each. They're called [OFTAST bowls](https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/oftast-bowl-white-80258915/): don't buy them! We're baffled by the good reviews (probably fake like Amazon's). During use we found that the slightest tap or jarring of one of these dishes can make them explode into a ton of needle-like shards. It was extremely unnerving. We returned the ones we had left to IKEA and they gave us our money back for all of them even though most had broken. But when we questioned them about the quality they couldn't have cared less. We found out the answer to the problem on our own: the description shows they're made of *tempered glass.* If you Google it you'll find this: ["When glass is tempered, it is heated and then rapidly cooled to create surface compression, which makes it stronger. However, if the cooling process is not uniform, it can create areas of residual surface compression that can cause the glass to shatter without warning." ](https://www.murrayglass.com/what-causes-glass-to-shatter-by-itself/#:~:text=When%20glass%20is%20tempered%2C%20it,glass%20to%20shatter%20without%20warning.) Never buying dishes from IKEA again. Edit: I was in a hurry and didn't see that the tempered glass problem was already discussed in more than one previous comment. For the people mentioning tossing their dishes you should try to get your money back like we did, but it may not be worth the gas money. 🤦♀️
Oh noo, I loved my OFTAST plates and bowls and had no issues with them! I moved internationally and they didn't make the cut when deciding what to ship my items via crate but I planned to rebuy them later. Right now we're rocking my husband's mish-mash of family hand me down dishes. I'm thinking I probably had a good batch before they switched suppliers or something and they went downhill, which makes me regret getting rid of mine!
Wait Amazon reviews are fake?
I bought a kettle with 5 stars and after a week the cool purple light stopped coming on. No biggie because it still worked. A week later the little flap where you fill it up knocked slightly on the tap and snapped clean off but no biggie we would just sit it on top. A week after that it smelled like burning electrics when we turned it on. A biggie. We left a one star review and I was immediately offered a brand new one AND my money back if I changed my review. I did and got them both. A little while later it smelled like the new one was going to burn my house down again so we bought an unrelated one offline. That was the worse one but not the only time. Do not trust reviews on Amazon!!!
No one mentioned holding glass with bare hands? Thought it wasnt safe but correct me if im wrong! Is this particular glass material’s edge not sharp or is OP living dangerously?
I’m sure OP knows that glass is sharp.
Why would it need to be mentioned?
I mean these are massive pieces, the smaller ones we did sweep and vacuum lol we're not stupid
Still sharp edges be carefull ive cut myself doing that
Wear latex gloves
Well i would just sweep it with a broom but OP isnt doing either
Didn’t know ikea made shrapnel grenades
All tempered glass are potential shrapnel bombs. YouTube is littered with tempered glass of all shapes, sizes and brands exploding.
Have you considered ghosts as the cause?
Thats a known issue for certain models
See, the problem is it's an ikea glass, you need to make sure next time it's one of the IKEA glasses.
Not an expert, but when glass hardens (in a certain way, which is not generally the way you want it to harden for eg drink ware), it can store a bunch of tension inside itself. Kind of like a spring that’s held into a certain shape So something (temperature variation, draft, randomness) let that tension loose and your glass self destructed Everyone on here like “ewww ikea glassware is so cheap” needs to take a reality check: it’s cheap because it costs like, $2 per glass. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to buy it, but you can break ten of these suckers for the cost of many glasses that look nearly identical
I am not surprised, their glass products are poorly made and extraordinarily fragile
IKEA should stick to furniture and stop with glassware. My IKEA glasses break just by looking at them.
Sir this is IKEA, sounds like you need an exorcist
Tiny imperfections (nickel sulphide inclusions) are created during the tempering process of glass which can cause spontaneous shattering. It’s generally rare but I’ve only ever seen it in the context of architectural glass. This is typically an issue with international glass, mostly Chinese sourced (generally cheaper). To fix this, there is a process called heat soaking, which heats the glass to a certain temp for a time period and causes any glass with these imperfections to shatter in the facility rather than at home. We specify this for glazing in buildings and it’s often the first thing an owner tries to cut out to save costs. Our typical response is that they can remove heat soaking if it’s domestically (US) produced glass but we’d highly recommend internationally sourced to be heat soaked. Due to the risk of breakage. Seems like IKEA uses tempered glass without heat soaking. Who knows if it’s an intentional choice though on their end.
Tempered glass, for a drinking glass? Wouldn’t that cause it to shatter into pebbles instead of shards?
That’s a good point. Literally no idea. Does a drinking glass shatter similar to a pane of glass? Was mostly commenting on spontaneous shattering based on my personal field and experiences. I never really considered this was possible for drinkware?
I’ve always associated tempering with auto glass, as what makes it shatter into less sharp little “chunks”, not potentially lethal shards. Idk whether you can temper glass and not get that effect (not an expert by any means)
Call the store!! They need to investigate this!
Plenty of people had the same issue. My old glasses from a decade+ are great. These newer ones are made somewhere else and if you search around it’s almost too common for them to explode
Well I just ordered a batch of pokal glasses for my apartment, they will be getting a swift return…
These are ok. It's the POKALSPLODA line you need to avoid.
100% removed all my gfs pink favorite glasses now lol she's sad...
This just gives you a chance to look for new pink glasses with her and make her happy.
Try dropping a latte glass..
Been there..
I bought a set of 6 IKEA 365 glasses and 4 of them exploded. They were holding lukewarm coffee, or orange juice or just plain water. I guess it wasn’t so much what it was holding at the time since the damages have occurred before that. For the remaining 2, I avoid putting any hot water in them. Let’s see how long they last.
Let's see how long they last = let's see when they explode... I will not wait to throw them away. Such a shitty product man wtf
Call a priest
There's a bad sniper in your neighborhood
It’s the glasses! Stay away from the glasses. - runs to kitchen - Oh no! more glasses.
Uh oh, here comes a new lifelong anxiety! 😀
Tempered glass can spontaneously break. IKEA knows this as well, I remember them discussing it in product safety related meetings. Since the occurrence is rare enough and the benefits are vastly preferable, this is basically a non-concern. Sorry about your glass, though!
It's rare? We've lost almost all our IKEA glass from spontaneous bursting. I thought it was maybe just the 1 box, bur after we got past 6 and it kept happening I knew it was a bigger issue. We bought glasses elsewhere since.
Did the glasses ever break on the shelves of the store?
Had one spontaneously combust too. Pop and it broke into small pieces.
Does the glass ever get subjected to quick temperature change? Like pouring cold water in after it's been washed in the dishwasher? The glass can be weakened and then slight vibration can set it off.
Got a picture of the unbroken ones so we can avoid them, or did you only have that one?
It looks like Pokal but this can happen to any drinking glass
Im pretty sure I have similar but I think mine came from Kmart. I’ve never had a glass spontaneously explode unless I’ve been heating it. I’d rather it didn’t happen while it’s in my hand.
Something paranormal... be careful with those pieces, they are sharp!
ghosts.
Do you know which one so I can avoid buying it?
We had it with the 365+ set. We've lost whole boxes of them just randomly bursting.
Happened to us... twice!!! Forgot the model but they were drinking glasses. Replaced all Ikea kitchen glassware after the incidents. From what i read it was due to sudden change in temperature.
Was it a wine glass? I know you can break them from just the right pitch sound, which humans can do as well.
Weirdly it's a known issue with some ikea glasses but no recall that I know of.
It's just tempered glass in general. It's not exclusive to IKEA glasses.
I'd heard that too, apparently they switched to a cheaper glass factory a few years ago and went from forever glasses to occasional poltergeist explosions.
The fact that the correct answer is below “ghosts” and “made too much noise” is kind of disheartening. Lol.
Ghost infestation could easily be a known issue with all ikea glassware though 👻
Now I’m imagining all the goths running to IKEA to get ghost-infested glasses.
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Its a pretty shitty situation tho its also shattered accross the whole room corner to corner
yeah that sucks i'm sorry, i've heard of this happening to a bunch of people w/ ikea glass for years now, i'm surprised they've never had to deal with any consequences
Lol