NBS BIF #17 Hints and Hauls: Subaru Drivers Won't Keep Us From Our Magic Water Breakfast

Well, continuing a trend around here, I also suffered a BIF-related injury involving blood yesterday, although nowhere near as serious as @jonphisher 's.

This injury also involves a callback to earlier in this very thread!

So waaaaaay back when (I'd say at least four years ago), I got a bottle of Dave's Coffee Syrup as a "local food item." Pretty sure @tasterschoice62 was my sender.

I was trying to clear some space on my fridge door shelves (I have a lot of hot sauces!), and decided, "You know what? I think I can safely part with this one at this point." After dumping out what little liquid remained, I found a number of medium sized sugar crystals inside (they looked like glass), and some crystallized sludge at the bottom.

I did what I could, then filled the bottle with hot water and let it sit in the sink, hoping to perhaps melt some of the crystals. I'm big on recycling, and if I could get this thing cleaned out, it would be better than tossing it directly into the trash.

After dumping out the water, there were a bunch of crystals left, so I picked it up to show my partner. Unbeknownst to me, the entire bottom of the bottle stayed behind in the sink - like, it completely sheered off while sitting there, without the bottle shifting at all. I felt a little something in my hand, and was like, "Huh. Was there something stuck to the bottom?"

That's when I saw the glass bottom sitting there in the sink, mocking me. I cut my hand on a four-plus-year-old broken glass bottle of Dave's Coffee Syrup.

 

I have not. Coincidence? I'll let you be the judge.

That's right!!! I never did get to try that beer lol. I greatly appreciated your entirely unnecessary and out-of-the-blue attempt to replace it, too.

 

No, it was from the tap ... but our tap water runs very hot. I'm always concerned about hot water into glass; I think in this case, it was probably the expansion of all the crystals pushing against the glass, rather than the glass itself (sounds like what happened to you, as well).