Just happened to me tonight. It literally was an explosion, but the cleanup wasn't too bad after all.

So _how do they shatter????_ You had _one_ question to answer and you spent over 4 minutes not answering it!

I've been near tempered glass spontaneously shattering three times, once from glass plate, and twice from small glass bowels. The last time was about a dozen years ago, the bowel was about 4" square, and it was inside the cabinet when it came apart, the explosion knocked the door of the cabinet open about 3 inches, and dropped little squares of glass onto the counter top, and then the closer on the door closed the cabinet door.

I work at a double glazing factory where we toughen our own glass. Typically we see more glass shatter during winter due to the cold air in the factory, however we've also had double glazing units just "pop" so to speak when they're ready to be shipped off. I've had several pieces break over my head and I'm glad it's always been toughened rather than float glass. Regardless I still see my life flash before my eyes every time lmao

I was driving on the freeway this afternoon and my driver side front window exploded. Scared the absolute shit out of me! This makes much more sense now

Nothing in this video explains why this happens. I've seen someone smashing the glass with a hammer. That'll do it. But not a single instance of the glass exploding spontaneously. Poor reporting. Very little science. No conclusion.

Reason why I'm here: It happened to me. I have a large sheet of glass on top of my snake's tank because it has a screen top and doesn't hold the humidity. So I lifted the sheet up to move it so I could get him out to feed him, all I did was lift it. Suddenly there was a loud boom and the glass went everywhere! My mom thought I dropped something and heard it from the other room it was so loud. It literally went all over my room! My closet door was closed and it got in there, got all the way across the room, just everywhere! And some of the pieces were popping and jumping! It wasn't hot and it wasn't freezing, it was a bit more on the cold side, but not anything that should have warranted an extreme explosion. I've got work in an hour and my mom and I spent like two hours cleaning it all up.

I had this happen to me back in the 1980s when I was vacuuming my parents living room, and all I did was touch the glass door on my parents old entertainment center. It was something I will never forget because I didn't even push anything yet but it went pop suddenly thousands of pieces went everywhere. It's a weird situation.

A glass sitting on my counter literally exploded and cut my arm. I couldn’t believe it and didn’t understand what just happened. Shards and pieces were everywhere. Thank goodness it didn’t get in my eye. It scared the hell out of me

Huh KZfaq, I guess you really are paying attention to what I watch. This explains what happened with Matthias. I never thought it was a ghost but was curious on how this works.

I've had two completely different drinking glasses explode on me. The first one was in my hand when it happened. It contained orange juice and club soda from the fridge. I wasn't squeezing it or doing anything out of the ordinary. I had drank about half the glass and had just taken a sip when it shattered and pointy shards went everywhere, yet I remained unharmed. The second time it happened, I was sitting in my living room when I heard a loud pop and the sound of glass shattering from the kitchen. When I went to look, I found the empty drinking glass I had placed in my empty sink in a million sharp little pieces. In both cases, the only pieces left that were bigger than a quarter were the thickened bottoms of the glasses.

This happened to my living room table today

My glass chopping board randomly exploded today...then it continued to make a crackling sound and a couple pieces flew up. Scared the hell out of me...smh this video explained nothing

Back then, when I was five or six years old, I was taking a shower, when all of a sudden the window broke. The whole window came down and fell onto me and injured me badly. And to make it even worse, it also happened a second time months later. Well, I guess I just had REALLY bad luck!

This just happened to my shower door.

I just watched the Matthias video and got recommended this-

I'm sitting here at 2 in the morning on August 2 2019 and my tempered glass desk just exploded. My monitor is broken, my printer fell and my paperwork is covered in glass. It got into my bed and sheets. It was loud it woke my neighbor up. Jesus that woke me up.

Matthias tryna fund this like 😳

1:44 To prevent your tempered glass from shattering all over the place maybe a good idea to install peel and stick clear vinyl over it. If it shatters it should stay in place

On June 6/2018, I woke to discover the outside panel of my slider glass patio door shattered. The outside screen was closed and locked. That screen door is tight and is intact. The inside pane of the door is also intact and not damaged. Due to the fact that both the outside screen and the inside panel are intact, the only conclusion I can come to is that there must have been a manufacturing defect. Glad that You Tube could attest to, although it is a rare occurrence, it does happen! Thanks again You Tube!

Someone should send this to Matthias

I worked in a restaurant where tbe glasses would sometimes shatter from just touching them.

This happened to me at 5am this morning it was the loudest thing ever

Here because that just happened with a salad bowl as I set it down in the sink. It literally exploded‼️ I’ve had this bowl for years - big enough to mix a salad in, small enough for single portion. Shocked me into a whole ‘other’ feeling reality. Tanx for the info, and to KZfaq for platforming this important piece of info.👋☺️

My glass tv stand just exploded. My tv stand has 3 layer of glass bottom middle and top. The top one exploded and my tv fell over. It happened after I turned my tv on about 5 mins later it exploded scared the shit outta me. It exploded and I had 6 cuts on my feet one is pretty deep just feel real lucky glass didn’t fly in my eyes

It's very rare, which is why it happened to me twice.

It's just happened to me, my glass cup just exploded out of nowhere, I was trying to sleep so you can imagine what hassle it was, I'm glad it happened at a safe distance.

I bet people just fart and it breaks due to the pressure change in the room

Our High-End Glass Shower Door did that too, just past summer (2020). If there is a small crack or chip somewhere, it will crack on its own if the temperature fluctuate. *NOTE:* After cracking big pieces... The smaller pieces will continue to break like there is energy in them. It went on for about 30 minutes afterward.

Happened to my PC's side-panel, I've opened it dozens of times to swap in things and it just finally decided to explode one day when I was putting in a new video card. Was under warranty luckily but... Felt like a dingus when I looked down and my feet were covered in glass.

"Combust"? Lol, try harder.

The tempered glass sliding door window on my mom's old dodge grand caravan cracked while on a road trip. Was incredibly loud, but held together. I thought the person next to us shot at us.

It happened to one of my window today with a loud noise. It was scary!!!

Mine just combusted today, lived at the place for 10+ years, just in the range the video said.

My very expensive glass coffee table I bought from Nordstrom imploded in the middle of the night...it woke up like heavy thunder.

Happened last night, I'm in Australia. Sounds like a fucking shotgun blast

lol didnt expect to see someone makin a bong in this video but eh good suprise

I had a toaster oven where the glass shattered after a few months of using the oven. I found out later the manufacturer was recalling that model of oven over failing glass.

Been Tempering Glass for 20 Years. Tempered glass is done the same way Metal is tempered. The difference is the molecular reaction to the process. When glass is tempered the edges and corners expand and contract weakens it on this points. If the glass shatters like that it means, the piece had excess of weak points. Usually created on the cutting and edging process. We supply 87% of glass used on building and housing. All this process is tented in our Research And Development Laboratory.

I had a empty glass French Press sitting undisturbed on the kitchen counter explode. The shards travelled long distance and when cleaning up the center of the damaged decanter was pulverized almost powder like glass. I was freaked. Thank God no one was near. I thought I had a poltergeist in the house.

Was washing one of those expensive ceramic frying pans back in 2010 and the thing cracked into 2 pieces in the sink while I was washing it. Was always extremely careful handling it. Called the manufacturer and the guy told me what happened was impossible. Bunch of nonsense, things break, no matter what. Pan had a lifetime warranty so they sent a new one.

the glass breaks because of immense temperature differences, when the tempered glass is poorly made it can break because the inside expanse because of heat while the rest of the glass stays the same volume.

Employee who broke it: "I swear it just randomly exploded"

This happened with me...I was absolutely surprised...I kept looking for clues of how the glass just randomly exploded.

glass explodes because: it was manufactured cheaply and the surface tension is bigger than the inner material tension.

so pissed my rear windshield is fuckin shattered

My brothers tempered glass desk just suddenly exploded on him, pretty horrendous, this is why you should use wood or other more solid material. Glass should be reserved for windows, even plastic is better in most cases if you want it in bathrooms or even a PC case, easier to clean too.

When 2 sheets of tempered glass are nearly touching the positive and negative ions or particles can interact in a bad way by causing one to shatter. My Dad had a TV shop yrs ago and back when tvs were huge and heavy, companies would put a thick slab of tempered glass in the box to help protect the picture tube (still makes no sense to me). Anyway we'd have many of these and would use 2 or 3 on our coffee table, side by side. A fellow TV shop owner told my Dad how one of his coffee table glass covers shattered and they discussed why it happens. I was a kid and had to try it myself. Sure enough it shatters 1 of the 2 pieces. It has to be done very slowly and be nearly touching. It's not easy to do it right, but it can be done.

A glass of cup broke in my kitchen by itself

Imagine taking a shower with a tempered glass door and it just explodes on you.

3:35 lol anybody notice middle fingers spray painted

The glass has an imperfection somewhere in its manufacture. It’s happened to us with a glass door.

Anyones with a car window exploded outwards

Our rear window on 2017 Ford Transit campervan spontaneously exploded yesterday while I was laying down (it about gave me a heart attack). Luckily we have custom magnetic window blinds because my face was about a foot from the window. Ford has been incredibly irresponsible about covering the replacement of the defective window, even though we provided pictures and a video shortly after it exploded with the sound of the glass continuing to crack.

Anyone else getting this recommended to them after Matthias’ video? 🤣

My dad has a display case in my basement that has old Detroit Tigers old stadium stuff. And one time I went down there and glass was every where.

This literally just happened to us last night. We heard what we thought was an explosion or firework from outside. Come to find out this morning, it was one of the glass shelves from inside our fridge. I spent the entire morning throwing away perfectly good food and cleaning large and miniscule glass shards out of everywhere. : (

I had a tempered glass desktop and it just broke yesterday with a loud bang and glass shards everywhere

This happened to me with a very well known cookware set! The hot lid for my quart pan shattered and pieces explodes into the next room! I couldnt believe it!!!! Very glad it shattered into small pieces‼️

i think this mightve been what happened bc today in my one class the glass tabletop just like exploded it was so scary

This happened to me earlier this week. It sounded like a bomb explosion when my 5ft diameter kitchen table glass top exploded

It happened to me a few yrs ago. The top shelf on my entertainment center (about 5' off the ground) loudly exploded for no reason. It scared the ____ outta me! I looked at the ceiling and thought something had fallen thru and couldn't believe there was no hole, then I looked down and saw the mess - I was still picking up pieces of glass several months later - it was everywhere!

Hi, I just had this experience early this morning. I heard a bomb early this morning, my IKEA table exploded on its own, scaring me. I live alone in my house and never did anything special with it. I went to IKEA and they treated me like a liar. What can I do in this case? I am In France. Please help.

Today our car window broke randomly while in a funeral, such strange

My car moonroof shattered yesterday while I was at work. No projectile damage... just a shattered piece of glass sitting above my head while I drive. Saturday is apparently now, pick a part day.

I remember a Pyrex dish making a high pitched noise and suddenly exploded. I had pieces of glass in the kitchen, dining room, and my office. I put my arm up right before the explosion. I had to pull tiny fragments out of my arm with tweezers.

My bathroom scale just exploded. It was a little weird til I saw this..

Well this just happened in my bathroom, it sounded like an explosion and glass was scattered more than three meters from the shower. I would hate to be in the shower when something like this occurs.

The painted middle fingers on the car window in the background @ 2:27

My computer case has a tempered glass side panel that randomly shattered one night. Scared the living hell out of me and made an unholy mess. I'm a little timid about putting the replacement in once it's shipped to me!

I had this happen to me with a customer car. I was sitting there about 30 feet away eating lunch, and the side window just randomly popped like you had hit it with a hammer! Either way, it was in my possession and I had to eat the cost of a new window

Was sitting there doing nothing, and my glass cup (thick glass cup) cracked on the inside. Loud AF and you can't even feel the crack because it's cracked on the inside.

My crockpot lid was shattered this morning when I woke up to check on my duck. It was ok in the middle of the night. I had this crockpot for about 2 years and took excellent care of it. I have always cooked larger birds over night especially for the broth. My neighbor's glass broke in his oven about a year ago. So yes, something needs to be done about this.

Few days back my uncle was eating and the plate broke into pieces , today my pottery vase broke too ! It's weird because no body was in the sitting room , plus it didn't fall or anything it just broke spontaneously

So how and why exactly it randomly shatters?

My mom had a 1" thick round glass table that exploded - she was around 15' away and still received cuts on one of her legs. If she was sitting at the table, it would have resulted in major injury or could have killed her.

Yesterday, My stove with tempered glass explode but luckly my kitchen is ok

Use to work doing temper glass for 3 years the reason is that who ever put that glass in the oven didnt have the right temperature so the glass doesn't temp right and quality didnt do right inspection and let the glass go.

"for the glass to combust" - i never realized glass was combustible.

The fact that the first glass manufacturer guy said "it breaks...but ultimately it's not gonna harm anybody" HOW?? IT'S RANDOMLY BROKEN GLASS DUDE.

"When eleven screams loud as hell"

You don’t think “what in the world happened?” when the sound happens right next to your ears, you think “I just got shot”

should have that sturdy windshield on our pcs

happened to me, glass shower panel exploded and shot across the bathroom leaving indents in the back of the bathroom door! Landlord did not believe me when I told him and refuses to replace it.

I am terrified at broken glass since I was a baby, I got a cut from the glass, and it really hurt. I hear glass were thin back than they can easily break.

Yep the tempered glass top shelf of my tv stand just randomly exploded today for no visible reason after owning for 4 years. Luckily the tv fell backwards against the wall without damaging it. The only other thing damaged were my feelings.

This happened after moving my tabletop from my cold trunk to my heated room. Was hell to clean up lol

I just had a tempered Duralex glass shatter into thousands of tiny fragments. I was wiping a counter and the glass may have been gently nudged into another item on the countertop. It exploded in my face and tiny shards flew into my face. I was ok but in the clean up process I had to finally use packaging tape to clean up all the tiny sharp fragments and glass dust!

Just happened to me, sounded like an explosion and we were quite scared an intruder had broken a window. The glass door of our 2 year old daughter's shower exploded spontaneously, fortunately it happend almost at midnight because I can't imagine that happening with her showering. No one got hurt but with those chunky shards also came lots of tiny glass pieces that you can't see but shine in the light, they start cutting your fingertips and better yet, if you're naked and right in front of the glass when it explodes it could be dangerous.

Also when it exploded, a shard hit my eye and my eye was blurry for a couple hours

Dang and i thought i had some random power to make things break or explode... my dreams were shatterd like the glass from my rice cooker lid.

This just happened to me rn... explosion is scary af

They forgot to tell you that the outside layers are heated but not all the way through! If a rock comes up and chips the surface and happens to chip it 1/2 way through, when the center is exposed to air, that is what causes it to break in a million pieces! The other thing they forgot to tell you is the exposed edge is the most vulnerable! If you slide a frame-less shower door too hard and it smacks the center bumper causing it to lift off the top track and the bottom edge hits the metal sides, that door will break!! Also the problem with the heavier tempered glass like 3/8 or 1/2 inch is when they break, they do the same thing, (crack into many small pieces) but because of the thickness and weight, the pieces stay together in bigger chunks ( 4 to 6 inch chunks ) and when they fall 3 to 5 feet, they can do a lot more damage to your body then just little minor cuts and abrasions! A side note, don't use your towel bars as handicapped bars to lift your self or support your weight cause the holes in the glass make it weaker their too! My recommendation is to have a framed shower! It still looks nice and you're only dealing with 1inch of metal that covers the sides. Never have I heard or seen a framed unit with no holes blow up spontaneously! It's always the frame - less ones!

one time i was drinking soda in a drinking glass when i was 5 and i set it on the table and then it just shattered but the weird thing was in my old house i always had some sort of connection with the dead. i would always tell my mom about the old man in the hallway or the girl in her bathroom and the slit eyed guy. i remember one time my mom went to work and my brother my dad and I were playing with those little race cars and i just looked down the hallway and started crying. i told my dad “tell him to stop” and i made him turn the light on. the guy was the old man and i feel like spirits did that to make that glass shatter

There's no such thing as a "water bathing" to cause the glass to break if there's a flaw in it. There is a process called heat soaking, that can cause spontaneous breakage to occur during the process, which subsequently reduces the likelihood of spontaneous breakage (of tempered glass) in service. I think that's what she meant to say.

Haha I work at a glass cutting and tempering plant this happens alot at least 3 to 4 pieces a day

I was on a bus standing. All of a sudden the glass exploded. I thought Somebody hit the window but we looked and didn't see anybody who could have done it. No bullet holes either. Very strange.

My ikea glass with room temperature water exploded into my face while I was drinking from it. I'm legit traumatized.

Happened in our house last night in a cabinet with glass sides. Very loud explosion and glass bits spraying. Glad no one was near it when it happened! Now I want to have the shower doors removed and get rid of our glass tables!

Yup, i've had tempered oven doors explode, it's odd lol