Nothing can kill you and your appetite like swallowing glass fragments in your food. After a woman inadvertently ingested shards from her glass Tupperware, she warned against using them.
Glass Tupperware PSA
“I recently took a trip to the ER because I swallowed glass that had shattered and fallen into one of these storage containers,” Arizona-based TikToker Tori Colli (@toricolli) says, showing over 984,000 viewers a round and rectangular glass container.
Before the incident, she thought it would be easy to spot a glass piece in food. Now, her perspective has changed. “If you think you would notice it, you actually surprisingly wouldn’t because of how glass is reflective,” she explains. “The chipping was on the edge.” Then, the content creator provides three tips to prevent this from happening to you.
Check the edges
“Run your fingers over the edge of all of your food containers,” Colli says, demonstrating this with one of her rectangular ones. Then, she proceeds to repeat it with the curricular one. “I did that and found more containers that had chipped.”
Search for borosilicate glass Tupperware
If you want to continue using soda-lime glass tupperware, the content creator recommends an alternative.
“Look for borosilicate glass,” she says. “That’s a stronger glass.”
Indeed, borosilicate glass is much stronger than commercial glass because it’s made from boron oxide. According to Kopperko, it’s a white powder composed of the semimetallic element boron. Unlike regular glass, which can shatter when exposed to extreme temperature changes, this glass is harder to break.
“I did some research and found some brands on Amazon that are really well rated that use borosilicate glass,” she says. For those who prefer to use a different material, she recommends stainless steel. “The other option would be to do a stainless steel storage container, but obviously, I don’t think you can put that in the microwave,” Colli adds.
Do not use the microwave for glass Tupperware
Lastly, the content creator wraps it up by not repeating this mistake. “Moving forward, I’m just not going to heat up my food storage containers in the microwave,” she says. “It can manipulate it.”
Viewers rushed to check their glass containers
Because of Colli’s medical emergency, many ran to their kitchens only to discover that their glassware had cracks.
“Thank you. I just checked all my containers and found a couple chipped ones,” one viewer shared.
“Girl WHAT all of my glass containers are chipped,” a second echoed.
“My Pyrex have been the best. I have had issues with other brands and recently got IKEA and they’ve been REAL chippy. I actually loved getting the IKEA ones cause I was able to pick them out at the store, literally like you said but looking at them all in every crevice. To say I was upset is a huge understatement. I LOVE my stainless I got from thrive market YEARS ago but they don’t make [them] anymore,” a third revealed.
“My Tupperware chipped on the edge too! I have the same ones,” a fourth commented.
What Amazon alternative does she recommend?
In a follow-up video, Colli revealed the options available on the e-commerce site against a green-screen background. First was a Cuiselect stainless steel collection. Next was a borosilicate glass food storage container from EcoEvo. “These are food storage containers. However, they are made from borosilicate glass versus the pyrex that I have,” she shared. In addition to normal glass, there is another material to avoid.
“The ER doctor did say the no.1 thing they would not recommend is plastic food storage containers,” the content creator recalled. “Heating plastic is one of the worst things you can do because it could leach microplastics into your food and body.”
How did this happen?
“Story time on how I wound up in the ER for swallowing glass,” she started her original clip while prepping her coffee. From there, she dives into the story. “I’m eating leftovers out of a glass Tupperware. I take a bite and it is crunchy,” she said. “I spit it out and I see pieces of glass. Part of the edge of the Tupperware has fallen out.”
Immediately, she felt something was off. “It feels like something is in my throat,” she described. “I get up, and I feel a shooting pain in my stomach.”
After she told her husband to call emergency services, she fainted. Once the content creator woke up, her husband escorted her to the car, and she passed out again. However, the couple drove the short distance to the hospital.
“They were like, ‘We can do an X-ray or a CT scan, but if it is not larger than a quarter, it is very difficult for us to potentially retrieve it or show up,'” Colli recounted the ER doctor saying. “‘Very small pieces if they’re not extremely sharp, like a tac or a needle, it’s unlikely for it to pierce or puncture your organ.'” Instead, she took the doctor’s advice and let the glass pass through.
@toricolli 3 TIPS to AVOID this is if u use glass containers or glass straws?
♬ original sound – tori colli
The Mary Sue reached out Colli via email and TikTok comment as well as pyrex’s parent company, Correlle Brands.
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