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My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No one is going to mention that OP has a bowl specifically for ravioli?

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think it’s just a bowl currently full of ravioli

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      • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No issues with either one of these options tbh

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    • apex32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well how do you cook ravioli? In your fettuccine bowl?

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      • SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Pour it onto a dish rag and microwave it? I thought this was common knowledge?

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      • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        …in a pot?

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    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m confused why there is a plate involved at all.

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      • sartalon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would guess he had the plate over the bowl, while he was microwaving it, to prevent the little sauce splatters during heating.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hot air cooled, contracted, and created partial vacuum is my guess. Make it hot again and it will unstick, I bet.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was gonna suggest just running hot tap water over it for a few minutes until the air inside expanded enough.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or chuck it in the freezer!

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      • Rob1992@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And shrink the air more?

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cool one slightly while warming the other.

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    • echo@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Probably sit the bowl in warm water with ice on the plate. That will increase the pressure inside and aide in the separation.

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      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Would you want the opposite?

        I thought heading the bowl will expand it slightly and increase the suction, cooling it will shrink it and reduce it.

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      • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why would you want to cool the plate?

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, warm the whole thing to heat the air inside

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The McDLT solution

      youtu.be/nieB0VoRbVU

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  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Someone slept through physics class a few times.

    Heat and/or cold would be your friend in this situation.

    Personally I would just toss the whole thing in the freezer for the night, but there is a small chance that results in a broken plate in the morning.

    If you have an air compressor a blast of air right against the lip of the bowl would probably also pop it off.

    Other than that just run hot water over the bowl (or submerge it) and then get the plate cold while being careful to not have the hot water touch the cold plate or visa versa.

    Best of luck soldier.

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    • seejur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wouldnt be the opposite? What’s keeping the plates together is vacuum. What it needs is to heat the gas inside to make it expand and reduce the vacuum

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      • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Let me walk you through my 3 different answers.

        1. Shrinking the bowl and the plate at the same time might just pop the seal when left in the freezer all night. It would only take a couple Crystal forming in the right spot to break that seal.

        2. Blasting air into the seal could potentially resolve the pressure difference holding the bowl to the plate or force enough air into the bowl that it actually builds positive pressure inside and that pops the bowl off as well.

        3. Heating the bowl would get it to expand slightly and cooling the plate would make it shrink slightly so doing them at the same time could cause the perfect seal they have formed to shift enough that it allows the pressure to equalize/release.

        It’s less about heating the gas inside the bowl to reverse the vacuum and it’s more about breaking the seal that has formed in the first place.

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The plastic was fused to the glass some how. I pryed it off and salvaged the plate. Also, I already tried all of that.

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      • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh you melted the plate to the bowl lol. That’s kinda impressive. It does make me wonder if your bowl was not dishwasher safe to begin with. Things shouldn’t be melting/fusing in the dishwasher.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Put the whole thing in a pot of water and start bringing it to a slow simmer. This will warm the air inside, expanding it and breaking the suction. I got my stuck blender jar open this way, taking it out as soon as the first tiny bubble escaped and quickly unscrewing it before it could cool.

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  • sbf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hot ass water

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    • admin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can I use regulat hot water if I don’t have access to the ass water?

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      • LikeTearsInTheRain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, it must be from the ass.

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      • sbf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Nope. It has to come straight from the starfish

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ass water can easily made yourself. No need to get expensive store bought ass water

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    • tomcatt360@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Instructions unclear, bowl still stuck to plate, but is now covered in sexy posterior dihydrogen monoxide.

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      xkcd.com/37/

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    • tooclose104@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My water is too bougie and I can’t morally exploit it into poverty… Elevated plate it is.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why does he need to rob the hot water first?

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      • sbf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It had it coming

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  • FreeBeard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The power of suction is physically limited. That means it either isn’t suction or op is crazy weak. My guess is that the plastic melted (probably not from boiling Temp) or op is strongly exaggerating.

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Air pressure is insanely high compared to a vacuum

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      • FreeBeard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The pressure acts over the area of contact. For a perfect vacuum it would lead to ~1kN of force. This is the same order of magnitude our muscles produce. If you take into account that the vacuum results from cooling over such a small temperature interval the force can’t be too high.

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The power of suction is physically limited.

      Someone has never heard of Delta P.

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      • FreeBeard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s delta p and not fraction p. The difference between ambient pressure and inner pressure (at least zero) is always smaller than ambient pressure. Delta p is therefore limited.

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      • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The delta P you’re talking about has much much higher ambient pressure than what is the case here.

        And even underwater there is a limit to delta P.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      yeah it’s probably electromagnetic force holding it on there or something

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      • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s God.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How do you figure suction is very limited? You’ve never tried to pull a suction cup straight off, have you? I’m not talking about when suction cups have bad sealing surfaces and slowly leak to the point of popping off or peeling suction cups off from a corner, I’m talking applying it to a good surface and then yanking it.

      A shoddy 4.5" suction cup from Harbor Freight is rated at 80lbs carrying capacity for glass, which happens to likely be the same material as the dish (corelle), judging form the thinness. The bowl is probably plastic and had weight on it while these were hot and wet after washing. Please, let me know if you can lift an 80lb dumbell from the end with a single hand with ease.

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      • FreeBeard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The difference between ambient pressure and inner pressure is always smaller than ambient pressure. Delta p is therefore limited. The force comes from Delta p times contact area which is constant.

        I sadly don’t know your units of mass but as I said a perfect vacuum over an area such as the Bowl is as strong as a muscle. The Ravioli will in no world produce a strong vacuum so muscle will win in most cases.

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    • BullishUtensil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      @FreeBeard separates evacuated Magdeburger hemispheres by hand.

      /s

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres

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      • FreeBeard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        These are 50 cm wide half spheres. If you find that comparable to the situation in the picture your appetite must be enormous.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s a bowl, it’s like trying to pick up a gold bar, how are you meant to get ANY leverage on it without using a knife or something?

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    By “ravioli bowl,” do you mean it currently has ravioli in it? If so, put it in the microwave for increments of like 30 seconds.

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  • Red_October@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pick which one to save and which one to sacrifice. Smash the sacrifice with a hammer to free the other, break them both and realize this is just so like you and every single thing you try to do starts with a half baked plan, then goes off the rails and ruins everything until you’ve nothing to do but pick up the pieces.

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m the kind of person who reads step 1, does it, and then goes on to read step 2. I’m happy I’m not OP.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The mildlyinfuriating part is that OP hasn’t posted a resolution.

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  • WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That really sucks.

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  • LimpRimble@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    an hour of prying

    After that much work you should leave is as-is on your coffee table as an art/conversation piece.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OP you monster, we need resolution.

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  • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I’d use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won’t be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you’ll get inevitably some air in… Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.

    As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.

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    • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can also use knife

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I feel like this would cause a mild explosion. Not based on any real science, i just imagine that if it’s stuck that good there’s gonna be a more-than-satisfying pop when those finally separate, lol

      That said, i really like your solution ✨

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      • False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Implosion and very very mild, but technically yes

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  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hey, if you’re using the hot bowl trick, make sure you pay attention to it; if you leave it to get hot and forget, it will be even harder to unstick it because the escaping hot air inside will make a partial vacuum when it cools down.

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  • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Assuming its empty, i would take the grog oggah boogah solution of smash the blue plastic bowl down the edge of your countertop. Something will give sometime.

    Otherwise, did you try twisting the bowl super hard? Torque is typically a more effective force than pulling for friction.

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  • softcat@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    were you able to free the raviolis

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  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    congrats you now have an elevated plate

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m gonna need an update when OP does the hot bowl trick, I wanna know if it worked

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I pryed it open with a knife. Eventually. And wasted the ravioli.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Drill a small hole in the bottom of the bowl to equalize the pressure.

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    • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Trepanning is the solution to many of life’s problems.

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      • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped me.

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Now that is a great idea /s

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m so glad you used the sarcasm mark or that would have gone completely over my head.

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  • Trihilis@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have no idea what I’m looking at. Wth is a ravioli bowl? A bowl made specifically for ravioli?

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    • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bowl of ravioli, my bad

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Heat it to make the air expand

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Microwave it on its side.

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like, a bowl is stuck to a plate?

    Put the bowl in warm water, put ice on the plate. It’ll release within a few minutes

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  • liquefy4931@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Plastic bowl. Squeeze it.

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  • Archangel1313@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just smash. It will be satisfying.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That bottom bowl looks plastic, just push on the side gently to try and break the seal around the other dish.

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  • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    did you melt it?

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Reminds me of when I tried doing some cocktails with a boston shaker (two metal tins). It’s pretty easy to get those stuck - since metal bends it’s probably easier to get then unstuck than a ceramic bowl, but the cocktail is probably ruined after you have been trying to get the tins unstuck for a couple of minutes. Plus the potential spillage.

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    • Lupus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t know if you did that, but for anybody struggling with those:

      You’re supposed to put them together at an angle, so that the outer wall of the tins forms one straight line from top to bottom. Like this:

      Tin tin shaker fixed at an angle

      To open it you take them into one hand, hold them on the side where they form the straight line. Then take your other hand and gently smack against the part where the both tins connect.

      Here:

      Image

      Since tin tins are hard to break (though not impossible I can tell from experience) you could also use a hard surface and more force if needed.

      If they’re still stuck, let some warm water run on where they connect and try again. Although the drink might get watery if you take too much time.

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, I did those. What helped me was using very little pressure when putting the tins together, barely enough to create a seal. Some guides suggest pushing them together with a smack to create a seal, which is rather counterproductive when your issue is not being able to open it quickly.

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You could try to get a fillet knife between them, if the hot water trick won’t work.

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