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Twitter, I need your help. I stacked a ceramic bowl into another one while doing dishes and now they are stuck. How do you remove the smaller bowl without breaking both of them?
Why am I so invested? I've tried to fix this for 2 days, and I cannot give up now.
Things I've tried so far and no dice:
warm soapy water
hot water on outer bowl, cold water + ice on inner bowl
oil on edges
microwave
aggressive shaking
WD-40
Will try next:
hair dryer
freezer then running hot water
Thank you for being as invested in this as I am.
Update: Bowls are currently in the freezer and thanks to the replies, I will not be running hot water on them!
Still no dice:
Freezer, then cold water
Freezer, then rubber mallet
Passive-aggressive comments to either/both bowls
Tap lightly onto the table
Still very stuck:
Cards, toothpicks, and straws not getting through to break the seal
Water submergence
Up next:
Long game of gravity
Dishwasher
Update: Still stuck
upside down, twisting inner bowl, tapping outer bowl
upside down, submerged under water, tapping outer bowl with mallet
hot out of the dishwasher
googled autoclave
Let us all rest tonight knowing these bowls will still be together tomorrow.
In the last 10 hours:
upside down, soap around the edges, overnight submergence
made self-deprecating joke about the sunk cost fallacy (not one chuckle)
thread, paper, knife around the edges
Still stuck.
Suction cup and pull. Think the only way to solve this is by applying force.
But a little too much force and one bowl (or both) - break.
Ceramic is pretty tough, most of the time. And by using a suction cup the force is applied to an area instead of a point. Though one of the bowls might fly off after getting unstuck. Got into a similar situation before, the contact area isn't nearly as big, still takes a huge amount of force.
Plan B: Oven. Not microwave. Upside down. (My guess: The water trapped between is providing adhesion and vacuum seal. Turning it into steam should solve the problem.)