We bought this item, and yes, it keeps your liquids cool or warm as advertised.
There is a slight problem with this:
It has a glass bulb inside that allows it to keep the liquid warm or cold, but it is not securely fastened. I didn’t realize it was anything other than a normal pitcher (my wife bought it) and so I opened it up as I would any other pitcher, and the glass bulb fell out, exploded and glass shards of every size flew all around my kitchen and into my living room.
Now, I can chalk this up to user error, and if this doesn’t bother you, and you feel that you will know how to use this better than I did by all means buy this product.
Just don’t do it ignorantly and DON’T DO IT IF YOU HAVE KIDS. It broke at waist level for me and I had jeans on so all I did was get wet and have glittery shards of glass sticking to my jeans, but if it were an 8 or 9 year old it would’ve been at face level and we’d be heading to the emergency room. My kitchen had dozens of big nasty cut you open style shards, and a ton of tiny little glass dust that will just abrade your skin as well as splinters. It took me half an hour to clean up the mess left.
If it had been fastened better, or if it had been covered with some kind of reinforcing material, it would have been fine. So yes, it was user error, but at the same time it shouldn’t be that difficult to use a pitcher. Bodum, Keep it Simple, Stupid. The glass broke in a way that even normal glasses don’t break, it’s a thin glass covered in a silver film, like a halogen bulb.
On the bright side, the kitchen needed to be cleaned and now it is.
That is the way all thermoses were made at one time. It used to be so annoying when water got between that glass liner and the walls of the thermos. It was a great happening when they started to use styrene in the thermoses for the insulation. Those glass liners broke so easily. One little knock to the thermos and you’d have to give it a gentle shake to see if the glass liner had shattered.
I have some Bodum glasses, the double walled variety. Just smashed one this weekend, it was full of juice and I accidentally knocked it off the counter. It smashed to smithereens, serious shardage, sparkly, sharpened micro bits were everywhere. What a mess, I soaked up the wet with newpapers, tried to scoop up the glass, and had to use a broom in the wet mess. Then mop and sweep again.
If you are really concerned about this being an unsafe product, you can send a complaint to the CPSC using this form. Honestly, the way you describe this, I would do so - could be a problem that requires a recall. They can’t know until you let them know.
Yea, this wasn’t a liner. It was a weird glass bulb inside of it that when I pulled the top off it fell out. The glass both because of its smoothness stuck to everything, and because of it’s sharpness stuck IN everything. So I simultaneously had to get shards out that were sticking into my counter as well as wipe up the wet shards.
I am not exaggerating AT ALL. It literally exploded into a million pieces that shot all over the room.
Basically the bulb attaches to the top, where there is a cap in the middle of the top that you screw and unscrew to open and close it. Then the top is on it like a normal pitcher. I pulled hte top off, not the unscrewable cab, but apparently the bulb was attached to the top and thus came out but then fell off. If it were glass liner that just broke and thus ruined the usability of the product I’d be annoyed, but not too concerned.
I feel somewhat vindicated because my post about this is the ONLY review on Amazon.
I’d suggest notifying the Consumers Union as well as CPSC – they tend to get more publicity out about defective and/or dangerous products. And thanks, Erek – you may have potentially saved some child’s life, or at least prevented blinding or disfiguration, with this thread.
I had some IKEA drinking glasses that did just that. I don’t know what it is, but there is a specific kind of glass that some companies use (also happened to a vase I had) that doesn’t merely shatter, but self-destructs with a room-sized blast radius into countless tiny razor sharp slivers. If one of these ever broke in a carpeted room, you’d probably have to rip out and replace the carpeting, or look forward to years of finding them slivered into your bare feet. :mad: