My tea is bleeding through the hairline cracks in this ceramic mug
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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that’s a pencil holding mug now
This mug is probably only a few heat cycles away from completely shattering in your hands.
That’s not good to use. That means it never gets clean, but is frequently fed with moisture. Dirty and toxic. Don’t drink from that mug.
That cup is not safe to drink out of anymore
You probably shouldn’t buy mugs made out of sponge going forward.
He’s dead, Jim.
Mold loves this one weird trick.
Never drink out of it again, sorry.
Reminds me of a song…
“As my tea-jar gently weeps”
2 things, the cup is a ticking time bomb and will explode in your hand one day randomly, the other being that the mug is absorbing water so even if it didn’t explode, it has probably started grow9ng toxic bacteria inside of the cracks in the mugs, it is uncleanable
r/moldlyinteresting
I was at home for Christmas and poured myself this tea, and then about 10 mins later I noticed my hands were getting sticky if I touched the mug. In the photo you can tell how much tea I had in this mug by how high up the liquid starts coming out.
Really bizarre, I had no idea this can happen.
This is not safe from a bacterial point of view also. You should not drink from mugs with cracks on them because bacteria grows in the cracks.
Stop microwaving your non microwavable cups. 😋😜
For fuck’s sake, OP. Tell us you aren’t going to drink from that abomination again. We need closure.
I just noticed a crack in my beloved coffee cup this morning… out it goes 😢
Your mug is dead, son. Accept it.
time for a new mug lmao
That’s what’s known as “crazing” and basically means the glaze that keeps the clay safe for liquids has broken down. The mug should not be used in this state, as unfortunately it means that liquid is seeping into the clay, which leads to bacteria growth. At this point the mug should only be used for display purposes moving forward & not for food consumption.
A shame, it’s a nice mug, but now the space inside the cracked glaze is a breeding ground for bacteria and you’ll never be able to get it clean again. Time to retire this one before you give yourself botulism.
Is like to know what’s even holding that mug together.
If you haven’t tossed it already… Well, I would avoid drinking from that. IIRC ceramics aren’t considered to be safe if the glaze is compromised, which this definitely seems to be. It can have toxic components beneath the glaze, not to mention the bacteria that could grow in there from beverages soaking into the material.
That’s literally just mold, not tea
That does not seem sanitary….
Stig-mug-a(?)
Stig-matcha(?)
idk, i gotta work on it
Almost certainly not tea. Notice that there’s drops coming out of the handle, where no tea could leak from. Do you put this dish in the microwave?
I had a similar effect happen by accidentally placing a stoneware mug in the microwave empty. There was no liquid involved, it was the trace amounts of moisture still in the ceramic vaporizing and escaping under extreme heat.
If I’ve learned anything from reddit, it’s that you definitely shouldn’t sit on this mug to take a shit.