UPDATE PLEASE. I must know the fate of the dishes.
OP pls….
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.
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
Well how do you cook ravioli? In your fettuccine bowl?
…in a pot?
But which pot?
Not my oatmeal pot, or the spaghetti pot
Definitely not the macaroni pot
These jokes about different pots for each meal are funny until you live with a hoarder for awhile who must have enough pots to cook each food in its own (even though they use the same pot or pan for everything they cook). Ugh it sucked lol
I’m confused why there is a plate involved at all.
I would guess he had the plate over the bowl, while he was microwaving it, to prevent the little sauce splatters during heating.
Hot air cooled, contracted, and created partial vacuum is my guess. Make it hot again and it will unstick, I bet.
I was gonna suggest just running hot tap water over it for a few minutes until the air inside expanded enough.
Or chuck it in the freezer!
And shrink the air more?
Yeah, everyone knows that ceramic has more thermal reactivity than air, so the plate will slide right off /s
Cool one slightly while warming the other.
Probably sit the bowl in warm water with ice on the plate. That will increase the pressure inside and aide in the separation.
Would you want the opposite?
I thought heading the bowl will expand it slightly and increase the suction, cooling it will shrink it and reduce it.
Hot air expands and cold air contracts. You want the air in the bowl to be hot so it’s not creating negative pressure.
I did not think of that, thanks!
Its the same thing that happens with fridges and freezers. But they have become better at equaling the pressue.
PV=nRT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law
Change in temperature (T) means a change in volume and/or pressure
The air inside is what is causing the vacuum heat the air, expansion, less vacuum. Cool the air, shrinks, more suction.
Heating both likely the smoothest solution.
Thanks! I had not factored that in
I could be wrong, but I really believe heating the bowl is the correct answer.
Why would you want to cool the plate?
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.
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.
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.
Air pressure is insanely high compared to a vacuum
The pressure acts over the area of contact. For a perfect vacuum it would lead to ~1kN of force. This is the same order of magnitude our muscles produce. If you take into account that the vacuum results from cooling over such a small temperature interval the force can’t be too high.
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1kN is equivalent to lifting 100kg… 220lb for our imperial friends… I don’t think I could put that much force on a plate and bowl I was trying not to break
yeah it’s probably electromagnetic force holding it on there or something
It’s God.
Could god microwave a ravioli bowl so hot even he couldn’t pry the plate off the top?
The power of suction is physically limited.
Someone has never heard of Delta P.
It’s delta p and not fraction p. The difference between ambient pressure and inner pressure (at least zero) is always smaller than ambient pressure. Delta p is therefore limited.
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.
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.
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
were you able to free the raviolis
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.
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
Can I use regulat hot water if I don’t have access to the ass water?
Why does he need to rob the hot water first?
I’m gonna need an update when OP does the hot bowl trick, I wanna know if it worked
Like, a bowl is stuck to a plate?
Put the bowl in warm water, put ice on the plate. It’ll release within a few minutes
Plastic bowl. Squeeze it.
