My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.
My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.
Update: it took time. And then a quick pry with a knife. Saved the dishes. Ravioli saved too but for raccoons outside probably lol. What I learned about physics....sheesh.
UPDATE PLEASE. I must know the fate of the dishes.
It has been 6 hours since OP created the ravioli black hole that will eventually consume our planet. I think of all the wasted years I spent worrying as oblivion heads my way.
OP pls….
OP responded that he microwaved bowl and plate, and that some plastic melted and fused them both.
@Theo@lemmy.world - can we get an after picture?
edit: context: https://programming.dev/post/28471691/16271644
I don't think I'm your guy haha. I do not have a ravioli bowl unfortunately.
Thank you! I was WAY too invested in this!
No one is going to mention that OP has a bowl specifically for ravioli?
I think it’s just a bowl currently full of ravioli
No issues with either one of these options tbh
Cool one slightly while warming the other.
No, warm the whole thing to heat the air inside
The McDLT solution
Put the whole thing in a pot of water and start bringing it to a slow simmer. This will warm the air inside, expanding it and breaking the suction. I got my stuck blender jar open this way, taking it out as soon as the first tiny bubble escaped and quickly unscrewing it before it could cool.
Hot ass water
Edit: Clarification: Poor hot ass water on it or dunk it in hot ass water
Edit 2, electric boogaloo: This is dependent on the material, according to my mother
Instructions unclear, bowl still stuck to plate, but is now covered in sexy posterior dihydrogen monoxide.
My water is too bougie and I can't morally exploit it into poverty... Elevated plate it is.
Why does he need to rob the hot water first?
It had it coming
Someone slept through physics class a few times.
Heat and/or cold would be your friend in this situation.
Personally I would just toss the whole thing in the freezer for the night, but there is a small chance that results in a broken plate in the morning.
If you have an air compressor a blast of air right against the lip of the bowl would probably also pop it off.
Other than that just run hot water over the bowl (or submerge it) and then get the plate cold while being careful to not have the hot water touch the cold plate or visa versa.
Best of luck soldier.
Wouldnt be the opposite? What's keeping the plates together is vacuum. What it needs is to heat the gas inside to make it expand and reduce the vacuum
Let me walk you through my 3 different answers.
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Shrinking the bowl and the plate at the same time might just pop the seal when left in the freezer all night. It would only take a couple Crystal forming in the right spot to break that seal.
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Blasting air into the seal could potentially resolve the pressure difference holding the bowl to the plate or force enough air into the bowl that it actually builds positive pressure inside and that pops the bowl off as well.
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Heating the bowl would get it to expand slightly and cooling the plate would make it shrink slightly so doing them at the same time could cause the perfect seal they have formed to shift enough that it allows the pressure to equalize/release.
It's less about heating the gas inside the bowl to reverse the vacuum and it's more about breaking the seal that has formed in the first place.
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The plastic was fused to the glass some how. I pryed it off and salvaged the plate. Also, I already tried all of that.
The power of suction is physically limited. That means it either isn't suction or op is crazy weak. My guess is that the plastic melted (probably not from boiling Temp) or op is strongly exaggerating.
How do you figure suction is very limited? You've never tried to pull a suction cup straight off, have you? I'm not talking about when suction cups have bad sealing surfaces and slowly leak to the point of popping off or peeling suction cups off from a corner, I'm talking applying it to a good surface and then yanking it.
A shoddy 4.5" suction cup from Harbor Freight is rated at 80lbs carrying capacity for glass, which happens to likely be the same material as the dish (corelle), judging form the thinness. The bowl is probably plastic and had weight on it while these were hot and wet after washing. Please, let me know if you can lift an 80lb dumbell from the end with a single hand with ease.
The difference between ambient pressure and inner pressure is always smaller than ambient pressure. Delta p is therefore limited. The force comes from Delta p times contact area which is constant.
I sadly don't know your units of mass but as I said a perfect vacuum over an area such as the Bowl is as strong as a muscle. The Ravioli will in no world produce a strong vacuum so muscle will win in most cases.
@FreeBeard separates evacuated Magdeburger hemispheres by hand.
/s
it's a bowl, it's like trying to pick up a gold bar, how are you meant to get ANY leverage on it without using a knife or something?
By "ravioli bowl," do you mean it currently has ravioli in it? If so, put it in the microwave for increments of like 30 seconds.
Pick which one to save and which one to sacrifice. Smash the sacrifice with a hammer to free the other, break them both and realize this is just so like you and every single thing you try to do starts with a half baked plan, then goes off the rails and ruins everything until you've nothing to do but pick up the pieces.
I'm the kind of person who reads step 1, does it, and then goes on to read step 2. I'm happy I'm not OP.
The mildlyinfuriating part is that OP hasn’t posted a resolution.
an hour of prying
After that much work you should leave is as-is on your coffee table as an art/conversation piece.
Hey, if you're using the hot bowl trick, make sure you pay attention to it; if you leave it to get hot and forget, it will be even harder to unstick it because the escaping hot air inside will make a partial vacuum when it cools down.
I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I'd use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won't be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you'll get inevitably some air in... Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.
As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.
Can also use knife
I feel like this would cause a mild explosion. Not based on any real science, i just imagine that if it's stuck that good there's gonna be a more-than-satisfying pop when those finally separate, lol
That said, i really like your solution ✨
Implosion and very very mild, but technically yes
congrats you now have an elevated plate
I'm gonna need an update when OP does the hot bowl trick, I wanna know if it worked
I pryed it open with a knife. Eventually. And wasted the ravioli.
I have no idea what I'm looking at. Wth is a ravioli bowl? A bowl made specifically for ravioli?
Bowl of ravioli, my bad
Microwave it on its side.
Plastic bowl. Squeeze it.
Heat it to make the air expand
That bottom bowl looks plastic, just push on the side gently to try and break the seal around the other dish.
did you melt it?
Reminds me of when I tried doing some cocktails with a boston shaker (two metal tins). It's pretty easy to get those stuck - since metal bends it's probably easier to get then unstuck than a ceramic bowl, but the cocktail is probably ruined after you have been trying to get the tins unstuck for a couple of minutes. Plus the potential spillage.
I don't know if you did that, but for anybody struggling with those:
You're supposed to put them together at an angle, so that the outer wall of the tins forms one straight line from top to bottom. Like this:
To open it you take them into one hand, hold them on the side where they form the straight line. Then take your other hand and gently smack against the part where the both tins connect with your palm
Here:
Since tin tins are hard to break (though not impossible I can tell from experience) you could also use a hard surface and more force if needed.
If they're still stuck, let some warm water run on where they connect and try again. Although the drink might get watery if you take too much time.
Can you slide the bowl across the plate far enough to allow air to flow into the bowl and "break the vacuum"?
Make it cold, then hot. Work smarter, not harder.
Well it already got cold, hence the sticking together in the first place. All they need to do is get it hot again.