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Glass coffee cups with saucer keeping it classy

12/10/2013

Glass coffee cups with saucer keeping it classy

I'm trying these glasses this morning. Reminds me of another expensive brand coffee cup but these are thermal insulated. Not convinced yet - they feel a little fragile. They have a nice bowl shape to them, which is perfect for playing around with latte art, though I'm pretty misserable in that department - the latte art on my flat whites tend to require a bit of imagination to interpret; "Hey look, its Saturns 2nd moon, or a tulip, I'm not sure".

UPDATE: Seems they aren't as fragile as I thought - they've survived my general clumsiness and my dishwasher laziness - oh, and they look great while being a little bit different. I'm always nervous about fragile things - I smashed my fair share of kitchen items in the past, and I'm not even going to mention the time I smashed the tail light on my mums car as a 7 year old.

I've got three sets of these glasses to give away (I had four, but I'm keeping one for my own selfish needs!). You've got the chance to win one - just tell me in 5 million words or less (by leaving a comment below), one thing you have smashed in your lifetime. (bonus points for smashing world records, or ex boyfriends things etc). Winners announced in one week.

51 Comments

Jacob

14/10/2013 12:06:57 pm

My friends call me a horse because the say I've got hooves for hands. I've smashed more plates than I've had hot dinners.

Martin white

14/10/2013 12:09:08 pm

I have smashed a whopping sized t bone yummo

Johanna Parsons link

14/10/2013 12:09:56 pm

A perfectly timed question! Yesterday I smashed my marathon PB in the Melbourne Marathon - after nine months of injury I ran 2:49:46. My first drink to relax after the race? A coffee of course!

Josh

14/10/2013 12:15:10 pm

A bloke and me were having a ruler fight at work when one snapped and my mates face went white. I turned around to see one of my new dell27" monitors smashed.

I put my old 19" back in its place and no one said a thing.

KEN HERRICK

14/10/2013 12:20:29 pm

Ahh yes! Break the dishes once and you don't get asked again to help.

James Axisa - Bay Beans Coffee link

14/10/2013 12:22:22 pm

Hey Ken, That's cheeky!

linda teigland

14/10/2013 12:23:07 pm

I once boarded a plane in a hurry (our flight was delayed and we were rushing) and "tried" to put my overstuffed carry on in the overhead. The long fluorescent lights under the overhead bin soon shattered...much to the dismay of the passengers, attendants, clean up crew, captain....30 min later, boarding continued... :)

Kevin

14/10/2013 12:31:47 pm

I smashed into a car, at home, my home.. into my other car!

Shannon-Lee

14/10/2013 12:46:08 pm

The lounge room window... after taking a running jump at a beanbag, which took off straight through the window and I landed in the front yard lol! Needless to say beanbag were banned in my house after that effort.

John

14/10/2013 12:52:56 pm

I know this is a tenuous link but here goes. Was attending an afterhours meeting with my boss one evening when as we were walking in a guy rushed up and parked his classic (old) mercedes and went to dash into the meeting.
I tried to tell him that he had left his lights on but he treated me like he had stepped in something ugly and wouldn't listen. My boss helpfully suggested that if I wanted to be such a good samaritan I could go back and smash the headlights on the mercedes. (Tenuous link)
I didn't but it did give me great joy to see the same guy after the meeting stuck with a flat battery.
After this actions that responded similar ignorance or poor manners were known at work as "Mercedes defence!"

Robert

14/10/2013 12:58:31 pm

It wasn't me, but rather my 3yo. Smashed our iPad (dropped it on its corner on a tiled floor). Not such a biggie, it was an old model, and I wanted a new one anyway. We got the new one, and it lasted all of about three seconds before it was dropped and smashed...

John Metcalf

14/10/2013 01:01:15 pm

Yes, I have a set of the expensive brand name larger mugs and one has come out of the dishwasher cracked already. Maybe there is a fine line between fragile and non-fragile. I knocked a very expensive wine glass onto the carpeted floor today, it was still in the bubble wrap for protection .....it brake anyway (at the stem). I do like the look and shape of the product you have. What is the brand?

owen

14/10/2013 01:06:41 pm

I was putting my bag of coffee beans into the cupboard and slightly bumped an espresso cup. Thinking I'll close the cupboard before it falls out, I quickly closed the door. In doing so it smashed the cup against the shelf, taking a chunk out of my finger in the process...
The things we do for coffee.

Beverley

14/10/2013 01:08:16 pm

Many years ago I hung up on our wall phone a little to forcefully and the phone fell off the wall

James Axisa

14/10/2013 01:11:01 pm

Hi John, we can call them Metcalfe brand, if you win a set :)

Dave Eggins link

14/10/2013 01:57:43 pm

I smashed my Dad's newly restored convertible beetle. Totally wrote it off!! Smashed my collar bone in the process too. And the other guy's car. Three things in an instant.

And I've smashed a few of our Bodum thermal coffee cups.

Jonathan C

14/10/2013 02:04:58 pm

I have smashed my big screen TV by a misfire of my air riffle. I am still saving up money to replace it.

Perry Johns

14/10/2013 02:37:03 pm

I smashed my right leg three days before my wedding

Mark Johnson

14/10/2013 02:37:40 pm

At the tender age of about 3 or 4, my mother wisely left me in the car at the top of a driveway as she ducked down to drop something off to the occupant. Somehow I managed to dis-engage the handbrake and the car (with me still inside) rolled down the drive and smashed through the living room window, destroying the both house and car.

James Axisa link

15/10/2013 12:30:25 am

no way! I did the exact same thing at the same age. Only difference was my brother trying to steer it from the back seat over the bench seat.

Glenn

14/10/2013 04:01:19 pm

It was 1977. I was...young. At a backyard Christmas BBQ at my Dad's boss' place. It was a big deal. Enough salads and home-made pavlovas on the table in the patio to feed a footy team.

Dad was on show. He handed me a bottle of Spumante champers to open for "the ladies" to show how clever his kid is. I think maybe it was the 1st bottle I had ever opened by myself. I pointed it away from me and the ladies and struggled to push the cork out with my kid thumbs...

SHH-POP!

The cork left the bottle and shot straight up into a big bank of fluorescent lights. A cloud of glass exploded over the table and everything on it. No one was hurt but all the food ended up in the bin. I still recall the look I felt from my old man...

Fong

14/10/2013 04:05:20 pm

The question should be what's left standing!

Mary-Ann

14/10/2013 04:15:10 pm

My commitment ring, into a cocktail punch bowl! Try explaining exactly why you are scooping cup after cup, without it looking like you are headed for one big hangover instead!

Wayne

14/10/2013 05:07:48 pm

My mother has, what was, a very expensive Royal Doulton fine china tea setting that was only ever brought out when we had visitors to our farm. One evening, (about 40 years ago) I decided the cake was too good not to try and pinch some so came in wearing my gumboots and possum skin hat with my Dolphin torch slung over my shoulder. Must have grabbed the cake and swung around to escape too fast and the trusty Dolphin torch swung out and sent one of the teacups flying into pieces on the floor. As a 10 year old I am not sure if I was ever forgiven but 40 years later I finally found an identical replacement advertised on the internet from a "oddments" warehouse in USA and gave it to my mother for her 70th birthday so the set is complete again. (Not sure if it has been allowed out of the box since the tea party 40 years ago!)

Paul

14/10/2013 06:41:06 pm

Work place injury on Wednesday night(working nights). Working on a machine, spanner slipped and I smashed my chin onto a tool taking a 1"x0.5" chunk out of my chin. 3mm deep and needing 4 stitches in emergency. Fun times!!!

Rachel K

14/10/2013 08:03:39 pm

I am vertically and horizontally challenged! That is, I am short and wide! This makes shopping anywhere there are shelves with products high up an even bigger challenge! Usually I can find a tall person to help me retrieve a product I am after on a top shelf but on this occasion I seemed to be the only one in the supermarket.
Looking up at the tin of champignons I needed for my stir fry I asked myself if I really needed them. The answer was yes! A quick look around and still no sign of a tall person so I proceeded to scale the shelf. With one hand on a higher shelf I stood on the bottom shelf and tried to reach but the damn champignons were not at the front and I still couldn't reach far enough back. Two feet on the bottom shelf and "bang, crash, opera" the bottom shelf smashed to the ground. As I tried to keep grasp of the top shelf it smashed to the floor along with a mountains of cans that somehow avoided my feet!
To my embarrassment a store worker came round the corner of the isle to see what the noise was and was concerned I was OK. I felt my face go bright red as I pulled a can of champignons from the wreckage and screamed, "Got them! You know you really should employ a "tall dude" for this sort of stuff" as I picked myself up and made a scurry to the checkout!

Simmyk

15/10/2013 12:52:53 am

One night after the intake of possibly slightly more liquor than I should have, I woke to a small kitchen (2m x 2m) with a slate floor totally covered in an Arcoroc dinner set.. the dinner set you couldn't break! Not just one piece, the WHOLE dinner set shattered to thousands of pieces.
I don't remember how it got broken but I remember how I was trying to clean up the mess, fell onto the floor, smashing my knee also in the debris that was the "unbreakable" dinner set.
Other casualties of the night included one of those multi photo frames and one shot glass, and total recall of the night.
On the upside I got a new dinner set, and I don't drink much anymore. My new vice being really good coffee!

Martin

15/10/2013 02:55:10 am

Smashed 4 potatoes last hight - they were yum

15/10/2013 03:09:24 am

Me. And it's always that one drink too many (not the copious drinks before that one drink too many)

Kaz

15/10/2013 04:25:00 am

I smashed the gym with unassisted chin ups and bulging abs :) then enjoyed a great cup of coffee ..... hopefully in new cups next time !

Trent @ Food Assault link

15/10/2013 01:59:54 pm

I was 18 and had my very first car, I was driving down Concord road looking at street numbers for the address I was going to when I slammed into a parked car.

I wrote off my car......funny part was I was going for an interview as a pizza delivery driver. Needless to say I didn't get the job lol

Sally H

16/10/2013 06:43:51 pm

Well years ago I was working a night shift on a busy Renal ward in the UK. We had a patient that was septic & needed to have her dialysis line removed. So I had volunteered to assist the Dr as I was curious about this procedure, having never seen it before.
Bad Move as curiosity didn't kill the cat but left me with a broken hand & tooth :o/
It was that hot, yes I hear you ask- in England?! It was our one day of Summer lol! Well with the Dr being so tall & me being a short arse - I was left tip toeing to watch. This paired with me comforting the patient - read them having my one hand in a vice grip. I guess that my circulation was cut off & I fainted! Smashing a bone in my hand & a tooth.
The best part was that I was due to fly out to visit my sister who was working a summer season in Crete, the very next day.
Despite me playing the Nurses card & begging, the ED Dr still insisted I had a plaster. So I spent a week in the Beautiful Greek Sunshine with a Bloody cast on.
It wasn't all bad though as the restaurant owners all thought I had smashed my scooter & so took pity on me - allowing me to partake in that Great Greek tradition of Smashing my Dinner plate after I had eaten :o)

Lindsay T

20/10/2013 01:56:38 am

My love of Red wine causes me to be "smashed"-but in a nice way. The remedy is the coffee. I can get smashed on that too- 2 big loves of my life. (after my wife & kids of course!)

Gaz

20/10/2013 02:00:20 am

I smashed a clean and jerk PB twice in one week! Once at the crossfit box I attend, the second time at a competition I attended that weekend!

Joshua Shuttlewood

20/10/2013 02:02:02 am

Between me and the kids I owe my wife about 1000 coffee cup/ wine glass but the worse one was when my eldest saw a champagne waterfall on TV and tried to copy it lost about 20 wine glass that day

Kevin Link link

20/10/2013 02:16:36 am

I repair things other people smash . I did drive over a water hydrant once which flooded a service station .

Sarah F

20/10/2013 02:50:54 am

Hi James!
We lived in a rental with a glass cooktop many years ago. As my now husband and I had only just moved in together, we had a mishmash of belongings, amongst them were a set of old cooking pots - the type with a layer of aluminium in the base, between two layers of steel.
One day I was boiling water in one of the aforementioned cooking pots, when friends came over and I got distracted...we ended up outside talking.
When I finally came back inside, the water had boiled dry, and the pot had super-heated to the point of melting the aluminium in the pot, which was leaking all over the glass cook-top. In a panic I turned it off and walked across the kitchen to find something to clean it up, when suddenly the entire glass surface exploded!
I was incredibly lucky to have walked away...and also very lucky that the landlord never asked how the glass happened to explode...... ;-)

Dave Morgan link

20/10/2013 03:13:03 am

Just last week my one year old smashed the glass jug of our blender. I bought another one the next day. 24 hours later he smashed the new one! Going for a third next week!

james wilkinson

20/10/2013 03:16:59 am

My brand new bodum double walled glasses were smashed by my porta filter when it flew off during extraction... never got to use them obce!

Chris Russ

20/10/2013 03:35:24 am

I remember when our first child was born, I bought a really nice flower vase my wife had pointed out some earlier. It became the piece you saw when you entered the house. An ill timed bounce when playing catch spelled the end of that vase. A new one was bought just before our next child. It got smashed not long after when cleaning. It's never been replaced. I don't want to make the hat trick!

Mike

20/10/2013 03:43:26 am

I was showing off my unbreakable drinking glasses to my freinds by dropping one on to the floor and it broke in to a thousand pieces!

Stephen

20/10/2013 03:46:55 am

When I was dating my wife she invited me to her house for dinner. I made coffee in a large coffee plunger and stired the coffee with a metal spoon, which smashed the glass, pouring coffee everywhere. It was a lovely plunger and cleaning up the coffee grinds wasn't fun. She still married me though.

Simon S

20/10/2013 04:28:27 am

1. Me: jogging to work, manhole cover caved in, I disappeared, laptop and phone smashed.

2. Others: I visited the remote village of Sulina in Romania, only accessible by boat so only two cars in village. I'm sure you can guess what happened.

3. Didn't touch wood: Commented on a forum last week discussing fragility of these glasses how my two thermal espresso glasses had lasted ages. Guests over yesterday...

Marius

20/10/2013 04:41:14 am

As a child, I often visited my aunt. She was an ace cook and pickled and jammed just about any edible thing you can think off. She had a cupboard in the kitchen filled with every delicacy you could think of!

I was maybe 4 years old an had my eye on a bottle of canned Guava's. The adults were busy playing cards and no-one responded to my request for some guavas so I thought it appropriate to get some myself. Accidentally pulled the whole cupboard over as I was climbing up from one shelf to the next. Needless to say, I ended up with few large bumps on my head, 2 years pride and joy in syrup and broken glass on the kitchen floor and 4 hours of cleaning up!

They did take me a bit more seriously after that incident.

Luke Loop link

20/10/2013 05:15:31 am

I smashed mum's vase playing footy indoors with rolled up socks.

Carl

20/10/2013 06:31:19 am

What have I smashed recently?
2 darn expensive thermal glasses from another brand.. (starts with a B..)
NOT HAPPY JAN!!!
Very frustrating when you spend a fair amount of money on some nice glasses and they don't even last a week!

Cheers,
Carl

Chriss.S

20/10/2013 07:56:14 am

Plates and lots of them (I'm Greek)...
P.S was thoroughly enjoying your coffee which i ordered and my coffee machine broke no coffee for 3 weeks !!! in rapairs .. if thats not enough i can smash more plated :-((

lea young

20/10/2013 09:29:16 am

Years ago I borrowed my boyfriends almost new car and whilst reversing out of his driveway i reversed into his work van. Did a fair bit of damage to both vehicles and he did a Basil Fawlty on me !!!!

joe

20/10/2013 12:42:53 pm

ok the worst thing I have broken was my neighbours window with a cricket ball it went through the bathroom window and through the shower screen while he was having a shower the ball did not harm him but I think the shock took a few years off his life

Linda

21/10/2013 12:41:56 am

Smashed my Monday morning blues reading all these fantastic comments - Thank you everybody

Dusty link

21/10/2013 11:23:45 am

I arrived home in the dark from town after driving up a very wind range, on opening the passenger door to retrieve my bag, the bottle of Jim Beam black cherry, which i purchased and sat on the seat rolled out the door hit the side step and smashed all over the concrete, I wanted to slurp it up.

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