Serve
Carafe and tumblers
$77.00
Borosilicate, so it takes boiling water and ice.
| Material | Borosilicate glass |
|---|---|
| The number | Borosilicate, 1 L + 4 |
| Care | Dishwasher safe. Borosilicate takes thermal shock; it does not take being knocked off a worktop. |
| Reference | TBL-CARAFE |
| Availability | In stock, ships next business day |
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In detail
Ordinary soda-lime glass cracks when the temperature changes quickly, which is why a jug of iced water can craze and why nobody puts hot tea in one. Borosilicate has about a third of the thermal expansion, so the same carafe takes boiling water and a tray of ice.
One litre with four two-hundred-and-fifty-millilitre tumblers that stack inside it for storage. Thin-walled, which reads as delicate and is actually the point — less glass between the hand and the drink. Dishwasher safe. It is thermally tough and mechanically ordinary: it will not survive a worktop edge.
The one limitation worth stating: no ceramic body survives a jump from freezer to hot oven, and this one is no exception. Everything here is oven-safe from cold and freezer-safe on its own; it is the transition between the two that cracks a glaze, and no vitrification prevents it.
Why this one. Water absorption under half a percent is the whole argument. It is a single laboratory number, it is rarely published, and it separates a service that still looks like this in ten years from one that crazes, stains and holds a smell inside twelve months — at the same price, in the same shapes, on the same shelf.
