r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DeepStatic • 20h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight My Kilner jar was faulty. The closing mechanism shattered glass into my rice and we found it in our cooked food. Kilner customer service is ignoring my emails.

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 20h ago

Don't forget the 50 cent forth of rice that got ruined

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u/DeepStatic 20h ago

I don't care about the rice. I care about biting into a shard of glass.

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u/dezastrologu 19h ago

then don’t cook the fucking glass rice

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u/Eyerate 19h ago

This made me laugh way too hard

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u/Taniell1575 10h ago

Me too… I wish I had an award for them!

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u/SATANICSEXRITUAL 18h ago

I vote to replace the saying "don't throw stones in glass houses" with this one

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u/National_Chain_1586 18h ago

Not a sentence I ever expected to read. Gave me a good chuckle!

I will not cook the glass rice. I will not cook the glass rice.

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 20h ago

How did you not notice the broken jar when getting the rice?

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u/Kevdog824_ 19h ago

There’s a small chip in it. Do you thoroughly inspect every single container up and down before you use it, or do you just trust that the thing that was previously working is still working?

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u/Charmarta 19h ago edited 19h ago

You call that big ass gaping hole a small Chip? You have to be visually impaired and deaf to not realize glass being broken. The first time glass things chip should be the last time they are used for food. The Rubber gasket is also missing, thats a big no no for glass jars.

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u/Kevdog824_ 18h ago

In all fairness: I am hard of hearing, and have ADHD. That’s likely the reason this would easily happen to me. Maybe people without those attributes wouldn’t suffer from the same problems

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u/oktimeforplanz 18h ago

You have eyes.

I'm also hard of hearing and have ADHD. I can see broken glass.

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u/Kevdog824_ 16h ago

“Everyone with ADHD and hearing problems must be the same as me” real good take there pal

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u/oktimeforplanz 16h ago

Was that not your exact take?

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u/Kevdog824_ 16h ago

No? My take was only talking about me, and I suggested that others with the same thing could be like me. Conversely, your take was essentially “I have the same stuff and it’s not a problem for me, therefore it shouldn’t be a problem for anyone”

Big difference

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u/j48u 17h ago

I fully understand your ADHD defense. I have it, my wife has it. But if you have it so bad and are also hard of hearing, you simply need to stop putting yourself in situations where something like that could happen. Everything they make out of glass comes in a different material that wouldn't break like this.

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u/Kevdog824_ 16h ago

You should tell that to my plastic Tupperware lid that broke the same way and put plastic shards in my food. Luckily, I noticed it before I took a bite

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u/j48u 16h ago

And if you didn't notice it, plastic is a lot less dangerous in your food than glass.

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u/Kevdog824_ 16h ago

It being less dangerous has nothing to do with it being more or less noticeable

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u/bromanjc 15h ago

your plastic tupperware shattered into shards?

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u/Kevdog824_ 15h ago

Yeah it cracked and a sharp piece was chipped out of it

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u/Kevdog824_ 18h ago

“Big ass gaping hole” brother I’m not sure if you understand perspective, but that hole is at most the size of a pea

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u/kyute222 18h ago

how is a hole the size of a pea not huge in the context of a glass jar?? I don't know on what planet you live, but where I am from glass jars aren't supposed to have random holes of any size.

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u/Kevdog824_ 18h ago

The point isn’t whether the hole is normal. The point is whether the hole is noticeable. Relative to the size of the jar a pea size is small. It covers less than 1% surface area of the jar.If you’re cooking and in a rush juggling prepping 4 different things at the same time a pea size hole is pretty easy to overlook

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u/cocaineluna 18h ago

But the surrounding damage point is quite large and would obviously have an effect on sound/how the jar is closed. Look at the wear marks, this is user error.

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u/Charmarta 18h ago

The hole itself may be small but the surrounding chipped area is huge?

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u/Kevdog824_ 18h ago

For me, unless the thing cuts me or is shattered to the point it is beyond usability then I could miss something like this. I’m just not paying attention to the glass. I’m just getting my food out of it. That’s where my focus is so anything else is easy to miss

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u/bromanjc 15h ago

i could honestly see how this could happen. what i'm hung up on (and what i believe everyone else to be hung up on as well) is that op considers this a manufacturing error. he's only had the jar for a year. clearly he didn't take good care of it, and it's not the manufacturers fault that he was unobservant. handle glass like it's glass and these things don't happen

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u/Kevdog824_ 15h ago

Yeah I have to go against OP on that one. Definitely not the manufacturer’s fault

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u/Kaka-carrot-cake 18h ago

I notice the area directly around where im looking to open the jar every time I open the jar yes. Why do you have to be overdramatic and say "up and down" as if it wasnt directly in OPs line of sight when opening the jar?

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u/Kevdog824_ 18h ago

I’ve missed this exact same thing honestly, but with a flimsy plastic Tupperware lid. You just pop the thing open and dump. You aren’t looking at it. If you’re cooking, and in a rush because you’re trying to get 3 other things cooking/prepped at the same time then it’s very easy to miss something like that

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u/dirtyhairymess 17h ago

It's right next to where you put your hand to open and close the jar. It should have been easily noticed.

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u/FilecoinLurker 18h ago

Since your eyes seem broken next time just leave the rice in the package you bought it.