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Can you put glass in a freezer?
yesman2012
24-06-2014
I want to freeze some orange juice in a pint glass, but would freezing cause the pint glass to crack?

obviously I won't fill up the glass, I'll leave enough room for the juice to expand, but still, would the freezing effect damage the pint glass?
SeasideLady
24-06-2014
I don't know about an ordinary drinking glass, but my husband used to store miniature bottles of vodka in our freezer - it didn't freeze and the glass didn't crack.
smudges dad
24-06-2014
To be on the safe side, put it in another container so if the glass breaks you don't have bits of glass in the freezes. I remember (many years ago) someone putting a bottle of wine in the freezer at a party and me finding it a week later. The glass had cracked so we broke it off, made sure there were no splinters and passed round a chardonnay lollipop. It said serve chilled.
Pixie Queen
24-06-2014
When the liquid in a glass freezes it will expand this is why people will find the cork popped on a bottle of wine they have put in the freezer to chill and they forget about it. I keep vodka in the freezer(if it's a really nice one) and as vodka has a very low freezing point it doesn't freeze solid so the glass doesn't break. I think putting orange juice in a glass and freezing it should be fine so long as you leave enough expansion room and don't seal it.

ETA Lots of people pop casserole dishes in the freezer and they don't break.
Victoria Sponge
26-06-2014
Originally Posted by yesman2012:
“I want to freeze some orange juice in a pint glass”

Can I ask why?
i_l_yx
27-06-2014
No don't do it! DH put a normal drinking glass in the freezer filled 3/4 with water. It cracked badly not even 3 hours later and broke completely when we got it out the freezer.
chopsim
28-06-2014
Empty glasses are fine but i'm not sure about glasses with liquid in them. Theoretically the liquid will expand towards the area with least resistance...ie the open end of the glass.
dgi_m
28-06-2014
Hoegaarden are doing a promotion with their own freezeable glasses:

http://hoegaarden.com/freezinggame/?
norbitonite
04-07-2014
Originally Posted by Pixie Queen:
“ETA Lots of people pop casserole dishes in the freezer and they don't break.”

That's a different type of glass (borosilicate?) that is made to withstand extremes of temperature.
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