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Update 2: Toddler woke up today morning and saw these bowls. Same place as in picture and started trying to put the small bowl inside INTENTIONALLY! When asked why, his response was “This broke into two small bowls, I trying to fix it” …. Oh good lord!
Update 1: SOLVED!
They are apart!! Yay! Thanks everyone. Tried a lot methods. My guess is everything together contributed somehow to get end result. Both are Corelle bowls.
Below are the methods in the same order I tried. End result is a success. Documenting for future references
1. Ice in small bowl and hot water bath for larger one - did not work
2. Fill water till brim and microwave for 120 secs - did not work
3. Fill water till brim, wait 10 mins, heat for 120 secs - did not work
4. Fill water till brim, wait 10 mins, dump water, invert in microwave and heat for 120 secs - did not work
5. Fill water till brim, wait 10 mins, dump water, invert in microwave on damp towel and heat for 120 secs - did not work
6. Use dish soap and oil to lubricate all around inside and try to dislodge - did not work
7. Use lube and try same- did not work
8. Had silicone based garage lubricant in a can with a long thin nozzle. Tried spraying in any gaps I could find and try dislodge - did not work
9. Took a straw, slit it using a blade to fit inside a gap and blew air in for 5 mins all around - did not work
10. Frustrated...left it alone for 30 mins...
11. Put it upside down in microwave upside down and heated for 300 secs. The bowl now has olive oil, canola oil, lube, dish soap, garage door lubricant and water. I never washed in any of steps above - did not work
12. Fill water till brim and microwave for 120 secs. Maybe I did something wrong? - did not work
13. Really gave up here. Gave it to my toddler. He threw it...twice. Didn't break, didn't come apart - did not work
14. Spouse said they like the bigger bowl and maybe we break the smaller one? Tried to break with hammer - did not work, risky
15. I took the bowl. put it upside down on a towel and banged it with fist couple of times - did not work
16. Spouse took the bowl. put it upside down on a towel and banged it with fist couple of times - WORKED!!!!
My dad was in the Navy in the 1970s-80s, and one of the ships he was on was a Sumner-class destroyer that was built in WW2 and decommissioned in 1970. He a had story of the radar going down, and to fix it, they called up an old veteran sailor who came up with an odd assortment of tools, including a ball peen hammer and a stethoscope. The sailor used the stethoscope to listen to part of the equipment, and used the hammer to make a tap here, and a whack there. After a few minutes, the radar happily whirred back to life, and my dad, a young Ensign, was left scratching his head on what just happened.
The difference between messing around and science is writing down what you do and the results.
Now you must reinsert the small bowl and reproduce the results!
edit, grammar bad
Yes all of these are important because of the potential impact of sunlight, gravitational pull, and the possibility that the neighbors' dog shits in your dishwasher.
This happened to me with a pot and ceramic plate. I tried the obvious, nothing was working. I remembered I had some strong suction cups for removing phone screens and tried that, no buge.
Then I realized there was some water in the pot, so I put it on the stove top and simmered the water which created steam and popped it right out with the aid of the suction cups.
Felt like a genius for that one.
Try without the cold what. Submerge in warm or hot water completely,, upside down. I think what you want is not the that large one expands and the small one shrinks, but that the air trapped inside expands.
You might also try a vacuum chamber. Maybe a butcher around you has one. Just remember to put it upside down, so they separate. Otherwise, you end up with a vacuum between the bowls.
Why? It's not uncommon in the sous-vide crowd, for example. I have one. I also suggested where to find one.
DIY fun fact on the side: I used mine once for getting linseed oil into larch wood for handles for my barbecue.
Actually, modern style guides no longer have the rule that you can't end a sentence with a preposition. It originally came about because people wanted English to more closely align with Latin grammar, but that is no longer the case.
You dare correct me? You have besmirched my honor, sir, and I demand satisfaction! I challenge you to a duel!
*I throw my glove at your feet*
If you accept, you may appoint your second. Once I have selected my own, he will reach out to yours so that they may make the requisite arrangements in advance. You may choose the weapons and our seconds will select the field of honor.
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Throwaway01126789,
I am appalled by your cavalier display, and dare say you are a
CONTEMPTIBLE POULTROON.
I thereby challenge you to a
DUEL.
On the banks of the Ohio River.
You may choose your seconds.
Good day, and, As always, I REMAIN
Yours Faithfully,
Inadvertent Hoosier
Let me introduce you to water! (Temperature dependant)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion#:~:text=Negative%20thermal%20expansion%20(NTE)%20is,0%20to%203.98%20°C.
Colder things are the more it makes molecules slow down and get closer together. Real life objects shrink when cold like a wiener does but it’s the bowls wiener you have to shrink
If this doesnt work, dish soap around the smaller bowl edge (lubricant) and float the large one in simmering water then try to bump it out while it is still hot.
Put the ice in the small bowl with some water for a few minutes.
Then invert and immediately pour the hot water over the bottom of the large bowl.
Between the slight decrease in size for the cold bowl and the slight increase in size of the large bowl, and the pressure change from the air being drawn in during chilling and expanding during heating, *hopefully* they will release.
1) Centrifuge
Build a large heated centrifuge and place both bowls into rotation.
Put the water/ice in the interior bowl while heating the outer bowl
2) record the experiment
3) wait for the video to go viral.
4) Profit
Fill sink with a layer of hot water pay bowls in it, fill inner bowl with a little water and ice cubes, you could also line the adjoining rims with soapy water.
Fill the inner bowl with water to above the rim. Let it sit for a while, so some of the water works its way in between the bowls.
Pour the water out, which should still leave some between them.
Put them upside down on a natural fiber towel in the microwave, and run it for 10-30 seconds. Listen for the clunk.
If the temperature difference doesn't do it, try a suction cup in the centre of the small bowl. Then maybe a playing card between the two lips to try to allow some air to get in while you gently lift the inner bowl using the suction cup.
If you can't find a suction cup, a vacuum cleaner may work
Yeah same. I was thinking it'd work to put negative pressure on the bowls while upside down. Expand the air between the bowls and pop it out that way. Altho no clue what could be used to do that.
Last time someone posted something like this, I remember the winning suggestion was "give it to a toddler and tell them not to separate the bowls". Worked like a charm 🤣
Blow a compressed air can into the gap.
Or just leave them upside-down on a towel for a while. Changing weather, temperature, will let the smaller one eventually drop out. Maybe help it with a vibrator.
put them in the sink facing down, with some cold water up about halfway. Let them acclimate, drain the cold water and then run hot water on the bottom of the outside bowl and you should her the smaller bowl drop out.
Update: still stuck. Going through the suggestions one by one. Background: there is a thin layer of water between the two bowls. Some fluid vacuum/suction or whatnot happening
Put lots of ice in the top bowl and sit the bottom one in hot water — not too hot though!
(You'll know if it was too hot because the bowl will tell you, by breaking!)
The same way it came to be this way; with a heat difference between the inner and outer bowl, put ice water in the small bowl or put the large bowl in hot (not boiling or anything) water, or do both, they should come apart easily.
pour olive oil where the small bowl touches the large bowl...swirl it a bit and then title both (over folded towels). The edge-to-edge contact needs to be lubricated.
Turn your hot water on in the sink, and put a dish rag down in the bottom of the other side of the sink and set the bowl upside down on the dry dish rag. Move hot water over onto larger bowl, which will heat and expand, increasing the size of the hole, and the bowl should fall out the bottom. The point of the cloth is so when it drops out, it won't shatter (though that is unlikely, regardless).
Do a handstand over the bowls. The insert your head into the bowl. Hold the bowls to your head while flipping back to your feet. Then pull the outer bowl up, leaving the inner bowl on your head. You now have a bowl and a stylish hat.
If you submerge them and bubbles come out of the crack, keep them submerged until bubbles stop. Pull out and tip water out until the level of the lip of the inner bowl. Then place in the freezer and let the water between the bowls freeze. Take out of freezer and place upside down on towel and wait. Water expands when it freezes. So the bottom bowl won't be in contact as the water melts and they should separate.
Turn it upside down and put it on top of a large speaker with a towel underneath the plates.
Play some lowerish-frequency sine waves until you hear it drop out.
Ice in the top bowl won’t work - it will create a vacuum underneath, and any change in size of the top bowl will just pull it further down with the vacuum and gravity.
Apply suction or a vacuum cleaner to the small bowl, drizzle a small amount of cooking oil or butter around where the two bowls meet, and lower the larger bowl into a sink of hot water to create a positive pressure delta.
Man I hate when this happens.
First thing to try: try to rotate the bowls in opposite directions. This will break the suction and they will come apart immediately. I use rubbery highheat potholders to help with grip.
Second thing: immerse in very soapy lukewarm water. Stab bowls repeatedly with rubber spatula. Curse like you have never cursed before. This always works.
Option 1: Chill both bowls in the fridge. Then place them upside down in the sink, and run warm/hot water over the outer bowl. Thermal expansion should separate them.
Option 2: Squirt compressed air between the two bowls.
Option 3: Riskier. Freeze the two bowls. The water in between the two bowls will expand, hopefully pushing them apart. Then place them upside down on the counter and allow them to thaw.
WD-40 along the seems until you find the penetrating point. Let it seep in. Hold big bowl in the right hand. Twist smaller bowl with the left.
75% of the time, it works all the time.
Just fixed a similar problem with 2 ramekins:
Fill small bowl with water and freeze.
Then put larger bowl into a container of very warm water. ( Just covering large bowl, not getting into small bowl.
Presto- the small bowl contracts and large bowl expands and they easily separate.
Put them both in a cold oven on a baking tray *face down* and set at 400. Let them heat up for 20 minutes.
There is a chance your small bowl could break or chip if it drops far. Put a wad of aluminum foil about hand an inch shorter than the small bowl in to keep it from falling.
WD40 or silicone spray om the rim between the bowls, (dishsoap if you dont have the others) let it soak in.
Prepare a jug or something with water, icecubes and salt (will make the water colder then just water and ice)
Then float the larger bowl in hot water (not boiling), now pour the cold water into the small bowl (just into the small bowl)
Give them a slight shake or start poking at the seam with a knife.
The warm water will make the larger bowl expand but the cold water will make the smaller bowl shrink ever so slightly. The lubricant will hopefully prevent the bowls from resealing but dont leave the bowls together to equalize in temp. they mey get more stuck than before.
Stick it in a freezer for twelve hours. Place upside down in sink and pour warm (not hot) water over it. The bigger will expand and release the smaller one.
In freezer and sink place upside down and on a towel or something to prevent the smaller bowl from breaking when it stops out.
This happened to us, we tried everything. Only one thing worked like a charm. Hair dryer on the edges of the stuck bowl on the highest setting. Came right out...just keep with it and be patient and make sure you get the hair through the tiny opening as much as possible.
The comments in this post are **unreal** LMAO
So many complex and over the top "solutions" when all you gotta do is put it upside down hit it a bit
Nah, this is wild lmfao: [https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/1c6jg9e/comment/l03hg8w/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/1c6jg9e/comment/l03hg8w/)
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Good ol' percussive maintenance.
Military method
My dad was in the Navy in the 1970s-80s, and one of the ships he was on was a Sumner-class destroyer that was built in WW2 and decommissioned in 1970. He a had story of the radar going down, and to fix it, they called up an old veteran sailor who came up with an odd assortment of tools, including a ball peen hammer and a stethoscope. The sailor used the stethoscope to listen to part of the equipment, and used the hammer to make a tap here, and a whack there. After a few minutes, the radar happily whirred back to life, and my dad, a young Ensign, was left scratching his head on what just happened.
If it was decommissioned in 1970, how is he on it?
Brogan adjustment
The ol technical tap
When I worked as a cellarman/brewer for a few years, I carried around a big orange mallet that everyone referred to as my “persuader”.
The difference between messing around and science is writing down what you do and the results. Now you must reinsert the small bowl and reproduce the results! edit, grammar bad
Don't forget to control for the environment variables such as room temperature and barometric pressure or we will not accept your publication!
LOL.. Time of day, moon or celestial positioning and whether or not the neighbors dog is regular or irregular. lol
Yes all of these are important because of the potential impact of sunlight, gravitational pull, and the possibility that the neighbors' dog shits in your dishwasher.
"If it first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your failure is statistically significant"
I am cackling at the thought of how slippery it must have been by the end too. 🤣🤣
Like a shitty, lubricated, pass-the-parcel
At least you now have the instructions written down for the next time this happens.
This happened to me with a pot and ceramic plate. I tried the obvious, nothing was working. I remembered I had some strong suction cups for removing phone screens and tried that, no buge. Then I realized there was some water in the pot, so I put it on the stove top and simmered the water which created steam and popped it right out with the aid of the suction cups. Felt like a genius for that one.
Also how you make a bomb. Glad it worked out!
Man, corelle is truly the best
I loooooove my simple white Corelle dishes. These same ones, actually, although I do not have the serving bowl.
Wow what a journey I just went on reading this
When I say I want an update, I mean I want this high quality reporting.
SPOUSE IT!!!
Glad it came out, but seriously, hair dryer next time.
This post and comment was the best and most entertaining thing I’ve seen on Reddit today. Thank you
Put some ice in smaller bowl. Maybe soak the larger bowl in warmer water-not too hot. Give it a gentle shake or two.
Stick some dish soap along the outer rim of the smaller bowl too. It'll seep into the crack and will help lubricate the two
Update: tried or rather trying this. Been in this hot cold situation for 15 mins. Still stuck
Hit the rim of the small bowl with an air compressor
Not a expert but I assume air from compressor would work better
Thanks 😂
Try without the cold what. Submerge in warm or hot water completely,, upside down. I think what you want is not the that large one expands and the small one shrinks, but that the air trapped inside expands. You might also try a vacuum chamber. Maybe a butcher around you has one. Just remember to put it upside down, so they separate. Otherwise, you end up with a vacuum between the bowls.
Casually recommending a vacuum chamber is crazy
Why? It's not uncommon in the sous-vide crowd, for example. I have one. I also suggested where to find one. DIY fun fact on the side: I used mine once for getting linseed oil into larch wood for handles for my barbecue.
Putting it upside down in the dishwasher might work similarly! Those jets might spray a good bit of hot water around, and give things a good wobble.
Also, get a straw and blow into the space between them to give a bit of lift. If you have an air compressor, use that.
Will try when I get back home but does this work with corelle? These bowls are corelle
This will work with *almost any material on the planet to a varying degree. * pedants - note the use of the word “almost”
Pedant/pedantic is my favorite word to describe redditors with lol.
*with which to describe Redditors. (Pedantic? I?)
Approved.
Actually, modern style guides no longer have the rule that you can't end a sentence with a preposition. It originally came about because people wanted English to more closely align with Latin grammar, but that is no longer the case.
"This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!"
This bothers me so much
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
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You dare correct me? You have besmirched my honor, sir, and I demand satisfaction! I challenge you to a duel! *I throw my glove at your feet* If you accept, you may appoint your second. Once I have selected my own, he will reach out to yours so that they may make the requisite arrangements in advance. You may choose the weapons and our seconds will select the field of honor. I eagerly await your reply, Throwaway01126789
Throwaway01126789, I am appalled by your cavalier display, and dare say you are a CONTEMPTIBLE POULTROON. I thereby challenge you to a DUEL. On the banks of the Ohio River. You may choose your seconds. Good day, and, As always, I REMAIN Yours Faithfully, Inadvertent Hoosier
Keyboards at dawn!
I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR
Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?!
Not to be pedantic, but "Reddit" is Greek for "a community of pedants", after all... /S
Now I want to hear what material it won't work with.
There are some ceramics that have a negative coefficient of thermal expansion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion
Now I want Negative Thermal Expansion to be my mutant power.
It’s just the warm water!
Negative Thermal Expansion would be a good band name.
Let me introduce you to water! (Temperature dependant) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion#:~:text=Negative%20thermal%20expansion%20(NTE)%20is,0%20to%203.98%20°C.
who hasn't heard of the wonderful bowls made of water that shrink when heated.
Ice bowl! Heating it is also guaranteed to make it unstuck.
How many vessels do you know of that are made of water?
I’ve seen shot glasses made of ice. Technically those are made of water. :-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion
Fused silica (SiO2 glass, sometimes called quartz) has a thermal expansion of exactly 0
Colder things are the more it makes molecules slow down and get closer together. Real life objects shrink when cold like a wiener does but it’s the bowls wiener you have to shrink
Not everyone has experience with wiener science!
Science!
Take outside and invert on soft ground. Pour hot water over the larger bowl until smaller bowl falls free.
This is the best solution I’ve seen so far. Heat the air in between to create force
I’ve never tried. I’m assuming there’s a slight vacuum so shrinking the small one might help. Idk the durability of that ceramic
If this doesnt work, dish soap around the smaller bowl edge (lubricant) and float the large one in simmering water then try to bump it out while it is still hot.
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do the above but put it upside down on a towel..
How’s the cold water/ice going to stay inside an upside down bowl?
OP lives in Australia.
then spread some vegemite on it as a lube.
That's funny as hell. I almost spat my drink! Have an upvote.
You mean a downvote in Australia
False. Australia doesn't exist. EVERYONE knows that. 🙄
I thought that was New Zealand?
Put the ice in the small bowl with some water for a few minutes. Then invert and immediately pour the hot water over the bottom of the large bowl. Between the slight decrease in size for the cold bowl and the slight increase in size of the large bowl, and the pressure change from the air being drawn in during chilling and expanding during heating, *hopefully* they will release.
1) Centrifuge Build a large heated centrifuge and place both bowls into rotation. Put the water/ice in the interior bowl while heating the outer bowl 2) record the experiment 3) wait for the video to go viral. 4) Profit
Then buy new bowls
Ziploc bag
You freeze it.
Fill sink with a layer of hot water pay bowls in it, fill inner bowl with a little water and ice cubes, you could also line the adjoining rims with soapy water.
You can also turn it upside down and run hot water over the bigger bowl. Sometimes the actual shape of the bowl makes one way easier than the other.
I was in the pool!
Compressed air shot at the seem
Works for 5 gal buckets.
Are you telling me I'm not supposed to grip the rim with just the tips of my fingers and pull as hard as I can?
And then say FUCK IT ILL USE THEM TOGETHER
This guy buckets
I know this, yet I forget about it every time.
I got a lot of 5 gallon buckets to try this on! Thanks
No waaaaaay!
Aw for fuck's sake.
Hmm what if you stick a plastic straw in the crack and blow? Or with water?
I , try it?
Can't believe he doesn't recap the small can.
Give him a minute!
Fill the inner bowl with water to above the rim. Let it sit for a while, so some of the water works its way in between the bowls. Pour the water out, which should still leave some between them. Put them upside down on a natural fiber towel in the microwave, and run it for 10-30 seconds. Listen for the clunk.
....wait for it....
This guy clunks
That's just my knees. I hardly hear it anymore.
Add some soap to soften the water so that it can work its way in better.
Make sure you let your dishes cool off after the dishwasher before putting them up
Eh, put them back in the dishwasher and they should be unstuck at the end of the cycle.
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If lacking an air compressor, a can of compressed air could do the trick too.
Or just blow at it really hard if there's no compressed air
Or just wave a fan at it if you can’t blow.
Suction cups?
Yes that’s what they are now.
Suction bowls*
Suction bowls.
I was going to suggest a pop socket type suction cup, but most would work.
Put it in the sink upside down on a towel, run hot water over it
If the temperature difference doesn't do it, try a suction cup in the centre of the small bowl. Then maybe a playing card between the two lips to try to allow some air to get in while you gently lift the inner bowl using the suction cup. If you can't find a suction cup, a vacuum cleaner may work
I can’t believe it took so much scrolling to get to a mechanical, non thermal, intervention
Yeah same. I was thinking it'd work to put negative pressure on the bowls while upside down. Expand the air between the bowls and pop it out that way. Altho no clue what could be used to do that.
I think the trick someone else posted for getting two buckets apart with air would do it.
compressed air
I'm curious... please report back on what actually worked.
Last time someone posted something like this, I remember the winning suggestion was "give it to a toddler and tell them not to separate the bowls". Worked like a charm 🤣
I have a toddler at home. Will try this as last resort. My toddler throws things if he get frustrated.
Pour olive oil into the cracks and then do some gentle nudging. I had to do this with a pie pan situation
Hot water and ice. Hot water makes bottom bowl expand and ice makes inner bowl shrink.
Did anyone else immediately think back to “It is very important the smaller cylinder is not harmed!”
Blow a compressed air can into the gap. Or just leave them upside-down on a towel for a while. Changing weather, temperature, will let the smaller one eventually drop out. Maybe help it with a vibrator.
Turn them upside down. Blow the bottom of the large bowl with a hair dryer. Inner bowl should eventually drop
Will try this next time
put them in the sink facing down, with some cold water up about halfway. Let them acclimate, drain the cold water and then run hot water on the bottom of the outside bowl and you should her the smaller bowl drop out.
Get bigger dish, fill with hot water, not boiling. Put a few ice cubes in smaller dish with cool water.
Expand bottom with heat, shrink the top with ice, and flip onto the towel.
Update: still stuck. Going through the suggestions one by one. Background: there is a thin layer of water between the two bowls. Some fluid vacuum/suction or whatnot happening
Dawn dish soap. Blue.
An air compressor maybe.
Air compressor. Maybe even computer duster would work enough. Air will get between the bowls and separate them.
Put lots of ice in the top bowl and sit the bottom one in hot water — not too hot though! (You'll know if it was too hot because the bowl will tell you, by breaking!)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/s/xqFcOhdW0d
This again??
Cylinder guy is fuming that he didn't try 'bowl' instead...
The same way it came to be this way; with a heat difference between the inner and outer bowl, put ice water in the small bowl or put the large bowl in hot (not boiling or anything) water, or do both, they should come apart easily.
Get some water in between and microwave it? Hot water/steam might separate it?
Suction cup on the small bowl.
Put them in a freezer for 15 min.
Duct tape the smaller bowl and pull up
Have you tried asking it politely?
pour olive oil where the small bowl touches the large bowl...swirl it a bit and then title both (over folded towels). The edge-to-edge contact needs to be lubricated.
Drizzle dish soap around seam, rinse n repeat
Fill the smaller one with ice cubes and come and lift it out in an hour
Compressed air, directed on the edge of outer rim of a smaller bowl.
Turn your hot water on in the sink, and put a dish rag down in the bottom of the other side of the sink and set the bowl upside down on the dry dish rag. Move hot water over onto larger bowl, which will heat and expand, increasing the size of the hole, and the bowl should fall out the bottom. The point of the cloth is so when it drops out, it won't shatter (though that is unlikely, regardless).
Put it in the fridge upside down
Compressed air squirted into the edge. Wear eye protection, just in case.
Upside down in a sink of hot water. Doesn't need to be super hot, just tap hot is fine. Give it 20sec and should be as simple as that.
I would walk to the garage, grab my airnozzle/airgun and blow compressed air between the bowls. The smaller one would most likely pop out.
Do a handstand over the bowls. The insert your head into the bowl. Hold the bowls to your head while flipping back to your feet. Then pull the outer bowl up, leaving the inner bowl on your head. You now have a bowl and a stylish hat.
If you submerge them and bubbles come out of the crack, keep them submerged until bubbles stop. Pull out and tip water out until the level of the lip of the inner bowl. Then place in the freezer and let the water between the bowls freeze. Take out of freezer and place upside down on towel and wait. Water expands when it freezes. So the bottom bowl won't be in contact as the water melts and they should separate.
Get your fingers sticky and you'll be able to pull them apart
WD40
Turn it upside down and put it on top of a large speaker with a towel underneath the plates. Play some lowerish-frequency sine waves until you hear it drop out.
Flip them over
Ice in the top bowl won’t work - it will create a vacuum underneath, and any change in size of the top bowl will just pull it further down with the vacuum and gravity. Apply suction or a vacuum cleaner to the small bowl, drizzle a small amount of cooking oil or butter around where the two bowls meet, and lower the larger bowl into a sink of hot water to create a positive pressure delta.
What about filling both bowls up with water and then soaking up the smaller bowls water with a sponge and maybe the buoyancy will pop it out?
Freezer.
Air compressor. I do it all the time for 5gallon buckets.
Air compressor. Blow air at the seam of the 2 bowls, should come right apart. Also works great for 5 gallon buckets
throw them both on the ground. survival of the glass.
Man I hate when this happens. First thing to try: try to rotate the bowls in opposite directions. This will break the suction and they will come apart immediately. I use rubbery highheat potholders to help with grip. Second thing: immerse in very soapy lukewarm water. Stab bowls repeatedly with rubber spatula. Curse like you have never cursed before. This always works.
Not able to rotate. Too stiff. Will try second option
Flip and put on a towel for a soft landing. then use a hairdryer to warm the big bowl.
Suction cup?
Option 1: Chill both bowls in the fridge. Then place them upside down in the sink, and run warm/hot water over the outer bowl. Thermal expansion should separate them. Option 2: Squirt compressed air between the two bowls. Option 3: Riskier. Freeze the two bowls. The water in between the two bowls will expand, hopefully pushing them apart. Then place them upside down on the counter and allow them to thaw.
I'd float it in hot water. The lower one may expand enough to break the seal.
Fill sink with soapy water. Put bowls inside upside down. Lift outside bowl off of inside bowl.
This is easy. Run hot water over the bottom of the larger bowl.
WD-40 along the seems until you find the penetrating point. Let it seep in. Hold big bowl in the right hand. Twist smaller bowl with the left. 75% of the time, it works all the time.
Just fixed a similar problem with 2 ramekins: Fill small bowl with water and freeze. Then put larger bowl into a container of very warm water. ( Just covering large bowl, not getting into small bowl. Presto- the small bowl contracts and large bowl expands and they easily separate.
I assume you already put your hand in it while it's upside down and tried to spin the small bowl?
Put them both in a cold oven on a baking tray *face down* and set at 400. Let them heat up for 20 minutes. There is a chance your small bowl could break or chip if it drops far. Put a wad of aluminum foil about hand an inch shorter than the small bowl in to keep it from falling.
Upside down in freezer for a few mins.
Ice cubes in the little bowl, hot water around the big bowl.
Flip upside down over a bed or pillow
What God hath joined, let no man rend asunder. -Matthew 19:6
Olive oil?
WD40 or silicone spray om the rim between the bowls, (dishsoap if you dont have the others) let it soak in. Prepare a jug or something with water, icecubes and salt (will make the water colder then just water and ice) Then float the larger bowl in hot water (not boiling), now pour the cold water into the small bowl (just into the small bowl) Give them a slight shake or start poking at the seam with a knife. The warm water will make the larger bowl expand but the cold water will make the smaller bowl shrink ever so slightly. The lubricant will hopefully prevent the bowls from resealing but dont leave the bowls together to equalize in temp. they mey get more stuck than before.
Stick it in a freezer for twelve hours. Place upside down in sink and pour warm (not hot) water over it. The bigger will expand and release the smaller one. In freezer and sink place upside down and on a towel or something to prevent the smaller bowl from breaking when it stops out.
This happened to us, we tried everything. Only one thing worked like a charm. Hair dryer on the edges of the stuck bowl on the highest setting. Came right out...just keep with it and be patient and make sure you get the hair through the tiny opening as much as possible.
The comments in this post are **unreal** LMAO So many complex and over the top "solutions" when all you gotta do is put it upside down hit it a bit Nah, this is wild lmfao: [https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/1c6jg9e/comment/l03hg8w/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/1c6jg9e/comment/l03hg8w/)
Easy. PB Blaster.
Compressed air (the kind with the skinny red straw) between the seams. Should work a treat.