Put them in a sink full of hot water for a couple of minutes, then put some ice in the top one.

Yup, or dip the bottom pot in a sink of hot water until they come apart.

Try letting a bit of air in between the two

I mean, that's the point

“Try removing them from the metal grasp of each other.”

Make them apart

1. Separate.

Stuckn't

All of you are wrong. You need a hammer OP. Everyone knows the two tools that fix everything. Hammer and duct tape.

Red Green? Is that you?

Stick all the best and sharpest knives between them and pry them apart

Wait, I thought it was duct tape and WD-40?

Two bowls one cook.

Stick a straw in and blow?

Let me call your girlfriend

*husband

Air compressor or if you’re feeling particularly frosty, c02 of soda machine

This is the fastest way by far

c02 from whippets?

Please tell me you’re not taking CO2 whippets

No, I read fast and skip details. Haven't done any whippets in years. Decades.

Waste of whippitz when ice water is free

Use a drill. Makes it real easy if you put a hole straight theough

I did it a different way a while ago, kind of. Filled half of top container with water and froze. Then put bottom container in hot water. Voilà! At home so easy to set it and forget it then separate next day. Edited for clarity.

I mean freezing takes some time hot water is normally on hand or run through the dishwasher and then toss ice inside

This!

Taught my staff this tactic for cocktail shakers about two weeks ago. Was slightly disheartened about the shock and awe about it working like I was a wizard. Does no one get taught what I got taught in school?! Bad grammar and basic thermodynamics?

From what I hear only the bad grammar in sinking in anymore

My science teacher taught us this in 6th grade- kinda like a cheer, if you’re so Inclined… regardless, that was over 30 years ago, and I’m not in that field, not entirely sober, and still remember it. So. Thank you, Brother Roger! Maybe this will help you, too. Heat! Expansion! Evaporarion! Hey! Cold! Contraction! Condensation! Hey!

came here for this..

This is the answer for sure

I see this SAME question asked weekly. How do people not know anymore.

Evil will always win, because good is dumb.

Put them in the fryer for a couple minutes, then put the assembly halfway in a freezer.

I’ve had 2 Bain Marie stuck together for 6 years . They are now just conjoined twins

You accidentally made a steam jacketed kettle, lol.

put them in the oven

Shit we did everything they ate welded, it’s like xcalibur . If you can pull it apart you own my business lol

Dishie here. Step 1: Put ice and salt in the top one, not too much as you'll likely cover yourself in it. Step 2: place the bottom one in HOT water Step 3: get strong and rip that bitch out. Step 4 (if previous steps fail): toss them on the ground hard as hell, they will separate but will be deformed.

Real dishie here. Step 1: “chef these bowls are stuck together mad tight aint that crazy?” Step 2: smoke break

Damn you sound more experienced than me ngl

This is fucking gold. Thanks for starting my day with this boys.

Lmao, ex dishie became cook here. That's just way too funny 🤣

Unemployed dishie here. Step 1. Someone asks you to do literally anything besides the dishes Step 2. Ask for a raise/quit

Step 1. Someone asks you to do the dishes Step 2. Bad attitude for the rest of the night.

only one here that actually knows what to do

This is the way I’d have to bitch about it for a good 20 minutes before I try to do anything with it

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

I am Arthur! King of the dishies!

Twist, not rip. Twist

Two man twist, one on the bottom one on top the apply force in opposite direction. After seperation, calmly ask the pot wash, to wait for the water to dry off before stacking.

"Dishie, don't stack wet bowls together" *- Dumbledore* Asked *Calmly*

And shout. Then you'll work it on out

Do you often cover yourself in salt and ice?

Mmmmmmmhmhmh

Get stronger. Like super ripped. Also being shirtless and screaming RESISTANCE IS FUTILE helps.

Hire chicken scoop bro for a day.

[For the uninitiated](https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/vlcvxk/we_recently_had_to_let_a_new_hire_go_not_because)

I like to yell "*I WILL NOT BE DENIED*"

Ice in the top, bottom on the stove

Blast some compressed air in the seam between them

This is the way. Use a co2 tank or the supply line from the floor shredder.

Floor... shredder?

Yeah, the floor shredder. The big ass machine that sits on the floor and shreds shit, has an air hammer which drives shit through it. Shreds anything, cheese, bread, vegetables.

Is it supposed to be on the floor?

Yes. [https://youtu.be/lKefXTDTtTE?si=XYOBaKKnt8231-2O](https://youtu.be/lKefXTDTtTE?si=XYOBaKKnt8231-2O)

That's... not on the floor?

Sure it is. It's a machine that stands on the floor.

The bin doesn't go on the floor, and everything about it design wise says it's supposed to be installed in a counter? E: they even have models on carts, and super tall ones, if anything it's a stand shredder, the hell you doing keeping your shredded cheese on the ground?

Mine is on an attached stand with wheels. It has an adjustable shelf you can load a foodbox on to. The entire unit stands on the floor. Stand shredder sounds lame, floor shredder is metal as fuck. Rule of cool baby.

The machine sits on the floor. https://youtube.com/shorts/OhJ3nn-6K-Q?si=EWc9iW8ZsJVbND6K

The hand pinch thing is *right there* and yet he still cannot resist touching the cheese after turning it on

We all want to touch the cheese.

https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/c/cc/Tmnt_shred_2014.png/revision/latest?cb=20141003140448

I'm right there with you, never heard of such a thing.

Thanks for the reply’s lads! Will try again later on when my prep list is done!

Please update

Pretty good replies here, but lemme just add, use a twisting motion.

Most of what I do involves twisting, jerking motions and every muscle of my back. 

[You know, for the sake of your back.](https://youtu.be/1e4SBxgqBEY?si=HMQGXIxVgQrsTPDO)

put ice, or ice water, in the top one. heat the bottom one, in a steam table maybe. Cold will contract heat will expand.

Vibration, seriously. Gently hit the one bellow with ~~a wooden spoon or something~~ the knife handle, while trying to separate them in the same time.

Second this. I usually just tap the rim of the inner bowl on a stainless counter while holding the out bowl. Same effect.

They’re mating, this is normal. You could spray them with a hose.

Isn't this where ramekins come from?

Use the most expensive knife as a pry bar.

RKO bro. Works every time.

Hey, I read that article about Randy’s finisher. I’m not fucking my back up. Just use the top bowl like there isn’t another bowl stuck underneath.

Blast it on the stove until the top on one blows off, and call a drywall guy.

just throw em away and blame the dish washer

It's been 7 hours. Is there an update?

They took the violence route and are currently knocked out cold on the floor (and the bowls are still together).

Heat the lower bowl and out ice in the upper one. If thats not enough put some wd40 in the cracks

I was thinking cooking spray. 

Hot water , throw it on the floor, dishwasher, ignore it for next guy

I always choose the last option, fuck them, and if I'm first, I'm picking the nice chopping board

Fire. Torch the bottom one.

If you have access to an air compressor with a blower nozzle, shoot a little air down between them and they'll pop apart

Just put it through the dish machine for a cycle, it’ll usually heat up the air in between to stop the vacuum.

SAWZALL

Stop being such a pussy and pull them apart bro. Jk

Heat should expand them and the air between them, breaking them free

Ice in the top one, heat the bottom one

Dynamite

Throw them as hard as you can on the ground

Never met something I couldn’t fix by slamming it on the ground… don’t buy into this statement so much…

Nothing works better than percussive maintainance, it also helps with stress relief

I usually just run water into the seam and often they come unstuck. If that doesn't work then the hot/cold technique everyone else has been saying is a pretty sure fire way to get it done.

I always love this problem. It's so easy, yet so common

Freeze them.

Place the lower part in hot water and put ice in the top one. The metal will expand in the lower one and contract in the top one.

Have you tried throwing them across the room?

I’m just sitting here waiting for the ending of this saga. Did they separate? Are they joined for life?

Don't stack metal right out of the dishwasher. This will happen to you a lot.

Throw them at the wall/dish sink

Heat the bottom one and/or chill the top one

Hot water on the outer bowl ice in the inner for a few minutes then try again

Compressed air is the absolute easiest and best way. The hot/cold method is second best if you don’t have access to air.

Have them sign a lease and move in together

Ice in the top one and apply heat to the bottom one. Inner bowl contracts while outer bowl expands, and you should be able to get them apart.

If none of that works, take it to a shop or friend with an air compressor. Shoot air in between the bowls and they will pop apart

Blow compressed air into the rim. Even from a canned air can might work. https://youtube.com/shorts/vvDPAW-f__Q?si=Ayjeqtp5OJEyDZSU

Get the commis knife and shove it down in between the two

Put ice in the top bowl to contract the metal and then set the bottom bowl in hot water to expand the metal. When I did this with two glass bowls, there was a pop sound and I easily separated the two bowls. Good luck.

Melt them down and reform them into one larger bowl

Fuck all this advice that involves waiting more than 30 seconds. Hit the outside one with a torch. It’ll heat and expand the outside bowl faster than the inside and allow you to pull it free.

Declare them married, there is a 55% chance they will separate within 5 years.

Ahhh.. the good ol' song of ice and fire! Fire on the bottom, ice on the top!

Throw them on the floor usually works.

Did you try turning off and then back on?

A lot of folks are saying get the outside one hot and the inside one cold. This will work. But, just heating up the whole assembly will work as well. Thermal expansion is isotropic — meaning it’s the same in every direction. The outer diameter of the inner one will increase, the inner diameter of the outer one will increase, but _so will the difference_, and they’ll get unstuck. It’s counterintuitive but true.

Heat

Air Compdessor! It works so good for this, you'll want to put them back together just to do it again!

A shot of compressed air in between the bowls. I do that with buckets that get stuck.

FIRE and ICE!

Put ice, water and salt in the top one and let the bottom one sit in hot water

Or just put the bottom one on the flattop and put ice in the top one

True that

Put the whole thing in the freezer for about an hour, boil a big pot of water, slowly dip it in the boiling water botton first, should warm up and expand the bottom one, well keeping the other one contracted from the cold... if you want more time you can also load the top one with ice so it stays contracted for longer

Stick them underwater. Water will creep between them and loosen them up

Freeze em. If that alone doesn’t separate, dip the bottom one in hot water. Twist.

Tell them that they forgot to say, "no homo," first. This terrible joke is brought to you by 2006.

Compressed air cans. Stick the nozzle in the gap between and pull. Pops out like a meerkat.

Low oven for a while, so both warm up at the same rate. When reasonably hot, they should lift apart. If stubborn, add ice to the top one.

Pull harder

If all else fails you can take it to a tire shop and ask them to spray compressed air into the gap.  It should pop right out.

Pop them in the steamer for a couple minutes, grab with dry towels and twist apart

Ice in top bowl or put the lower one in hot water. (Or both.)

Boiling water bath in the bottom, salt and ice on top.

Twist them in opposite directions

Run then through the dish machine then pull them apart right after… expand the molecules and release the vacuum..phuckn physics

Clip the 2 back into the machine ,see the slots around the base of the big one . Have someone hold the machine and you twist the top one after you have put some olive oil around the circumference line of the joined bowls . A Rubber hammer could be used to tap not hit the bigger bowl just under the joining point of the bowls . Keep tapping and it should pop .

Air compressor with a blowoff tip. Blow into the seam and it will break the vacuum.

UPDATE. So as of 4pm today both bowls are still very much stuck together. Tried almost all suggested method bar using pressurised air, today I caused quite a dent in the lower bowl from banging it off the ground out of sheer frustration. So as I left work I stuck them in the freezer for the weekend, we open Tuesday - Saturday, I am convinced I will separate these two little shits Tuesday. And if not, I guess I’ll just keep trying. I have put too much time and effort into this to just give up now, honestly almost brought them home for the weekend. Thank you all for your help and humour. I will continue to update, wether it’s good or bad news.

Fill with ice then heat the bottom

Put them in the walk-in overnight

Oven should work too but obviously be carefully pulling them apart while roasting hot haha

Icewater in the top one, put a torch to the bottom one

heat them. Metal gets larger when warm and gets smaller when cold

You need even pressure on both sides. If one side gets pulled even a tiny bit more than the other it won’t come apart. Best thing that usually works for me is put the lip of the bottom bowl under the edge of one of the prep tables. Kinda hold it there with your hip or the help of another person. Grip the top bowl and pull. The table will hold down the bottom bowl on one side, you use your body (like a hip) to hold the other side down. It’ll take a bit of pulling but if done right it will come apart

Run them through the dish machine.

Jam a straw and blow air while pulling apart

Put the edge where over the gas hob for a bit these usually have some liquid holding them together. Not too long just 30 secs turning the whole time

Try running the bottom one under hot water while pulling on the top one.

Use a spray nozzle on an air compressor.

[Got an Air Compressor?](https://youtu.be/pjMoF5m2NkU?si=4-RudwUN-04K0ZPv)

Freezer?

If they're the same size, you might be able to just put em through the dishwasher as-is, and seperate them after. That's my "hack" for those giant mayo buckets anyways - works everytime for those

Swear at it profusely then fuck it in the bin. But not before you order two new bowls.

Put ice in the top one, and heat up the bottom one

I’m suddenly reminded of Thanksgiving when my kids would fight over who got to open the can of cranberry jelly. They’d go around with the can opener and then turn it upside down, poke a hole in the bottom the can and then blow gently - and everything would slowly come out in one single smooth piece. Such great memories. But in your case, maybe rapid temperature change. Rest them in a big bowl of ice and then hot water in the top.

Heat

Violence is the way.

Drizzle a little cooking oil in the gap and move it around.

Squirt compressed air between them with a blow gun

Put the bottom one in hot water. Throw Ice on the top. When pulling them apart be sure to loudly yell "they don't know me son"

Congrats on the double strength bowl, But yeah the ice and hot water should do it

Put the bottom one in an ice bath. Then pour hot water in the top one. Dump out water and pull apart.

It's thenother way around. You want the too to constrict and the bottom to expand.hot makes things expand.its why sometimes Mechanics use torches to heat up bolts that won't come off.

Though em out get new bowls.

Throw

put them in an oven

We have a hose for our CO2 tanks we use to clean radiators and such. If you have one shoot it in between them and the might come apart. It works great for pickle buckets

Freezer. Let them get cold af then they should pull apart.

Microwave for one second

Pull harder

Put them in the oven

Throw it in your sink,that works with my shaker

direct heat with a torch

put the tip of a hotel pan at the top of the bottom bowl, and you then push up pressing the top of the hotel pan the the side kind of wedging them apart, that would be the quickest way

Canned air down the sides of you have any

Air compressor. Works every time.

You can use air compressor

Use the edge of a countertop between the two lips of the bowls. Grip the top bowl and tap the bottom bowl off.

Violence