They said it’s a danger to people who “leave food in too long”.
So people who forget about their food and let it ferment is what I am thinking.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd go with fermenting yams, or spinach as it were. It's all in there...
Posted on 05/01/2026 3:05:33 AM PDT by Puppage
Thermos is recalling more than 8 million jars and bottles following three reports of permanent vision loss due to problems with the stoppers on the containers.
The recall applies to about 5.8 million Stainless King Food Jars and 2.3 million Sportsman Food & Beverage Bottles, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission report.
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They said it’s a danger to people who “leave food in too long”.
So people who forget about their food and let it ferment is what I am thinking.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd go with fermenting yams, or spinach as it were. It's all in there...
“So people who forget about their food and let it ferment is what I am thinking.”
Friday is trash day at BBB333 manor — went through the ‘fridge this AM and emptied out some oldish stuff in Rubbermaid containers, some a bit ookie!
We don’t use thermoses here but I san ‘see’ (pun intended) I would have a problem in the long run.
How do people lose an eye from a thermos?
I really find it hard to believe that someone is looking directly at the thermos stopper when opening it such that it ejects directly into their eye and permanently blinds them. I guess stranger things have happened.
But I just looked up the statistics that show that about a couple hundred people in the world are blinded each year due to a cork or bottle stopper ejection injury so I guess it does happen.
8.2 million thermos bottles that were made in China will be replaced with 8.2 million thermos bottles also made in China.
Dorky title. I expected to open the thread and read that the product was releasing a gas that produced blindness, or some such. A compression propelled cap? Ok.
One April we baked a chicken in a covered speckled roaster.
The girls cleaned up and we went off to our plans for the day.
In August there was a giant explosion in the pantry which is a 10 by 6 room.
Opened the door. What a horrorshow s.ell.
Girls had shoved the roaster and its remaining chicken contents onto a shelf.
Where it fermented for months in the summer.
I cannot begin to describe...
Took a while to clean up....
One April we baked a chicken in a covered speckled roaster.
The girls cleaned up and we went off to our plans for the day.
In August there was a giant explosion in the pantry which is a 10 by 6 room.
Opened the door. What a horrorshow s.ell.
Girls had shoved the roaster and its remaining chicken contents onto a shelf.
To deal with later.
And they forgot.
Where it fermented for months in the summer.
I cannot begin to describe...
Took a while to clean up....
Keep it.
It sounds to me like if you just treat it like a radiator on a car that’s been running, and don’t open the thing while it’s under pressure you’ll be just fine.
So many of these recalls are people not being intelligent how they treat the product at-hand.
Next recall: coffee mugs
‘Cuz there’s no lid to keep you from dumping hot contents into your own lap.
It’s getting to be just about that stupid.
A simile marred only by the fact that the thermos bottles in question don’t give warning of the danger by either circumstance, or by being hot to the touch.
But you have done a fine job of expressing the “This has never happened to me, so I find it inconceivable that it could happen at all. LOL!” viewpoint.
Buy a soda in a plastic bottle sometime, and look at the threads on the cap. There are slots in threads to relieve pressure when you remove the cap, which is why people aren’t blinded by soda bottles every day.
I had thought those were just to make injection molding easier. I'll chalk that up as my thing to learn today.
I don’t doubt it’s happening, but — good gravy — is not like we’re dealing with advanced technology, here. How can people be so simple as to get ambushed by their own thermos?
What a crazy story...
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