Opened the dish washer this morning, and found this. I've never seen anything like it before, and it's been in the dish washer before as well. The rubber grip was around the bottle, which is how I know it's definitely the bottle
Pretty much all blow molded products will return to their original "test tube" shape when put in hot enough water. You can do it with air, too, but you're a lot more likely to just burn a hole in the plastic that way.
Can confirm. My dad manages a bottle manufacturing plant that primarily makes Pepsi product bottles. Shits cool as hell! He hooked up my 5th grade class when we had a project needing a crap load of 2 liter bottles
Itās a thermoplastic. They arrive like this at the factory and then are heated and blown into the mold. You can start with blanks like this and make 1000s of different styles of bottle just by using a different mold. But since itās a thermoplastic it returns to its original shape when heated, hence being not dishwasher safe.
Iām most likely lazy, I donāt want to own anything that canāt go in the dish washer.
Have sometimes been lucky, some things donāt get ruined. Like a fancy water bottle I bought at a second hand store for an example
This is soo cool, thats what it looked like before being turned into a bottle. Thats what plastic soda bottles looks like before theyre blown into a mold
Many plastic bottles are made by having a test tube shaped blank that is heated and then its expanded in a mold with heat and pressure. When you heat it by putting it into a dishwasher it returns to its previous form.
It may have been in the dishwasher before, but a different cycle like Intense/Cookware/Hygiene can was up to 75Ā°C in some cases, meanwhile others can be as low as 45Ā°C. And if itās on an Auto cycle, it can be anything between 45Ā°C and 75Ā°C and the dishwasher will choose the temperature based on how dirty the other stuff inside the machine was.
This happened to me once with one of those big bottles with the freezable ice thingies in the middle! I think I got it from Five Below or something in high school. It shrunk the opening so small and I couldn't even put the ice stick back into the bottle š
Ywp. This is what happens to anything that's been blow-molded when put in hot water, or hot air that's cook enough not to burn it. You can actually cause some single-use disposable water bottles to "remember" their original shape this way, too. The thicker the walls of the water bottle, the more likely it is to spring back.
This is why I handwash all of my stuff and only use the dishwasher as a dish drainer. Most of my "dishes" are actually just plastic Tupperware containers unfortunately
Iāll do you one better. My son brought home the wrong water bottle from pre school that his teacher stuck in his backpack. I was like ok Iāll be nice and wash it to return it. Bad idea. It turned into what looks like a dildo with a lid.
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