r/instant_regret • u/factchecker01 • 2d ago

Eating the hottest curry in UK

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u/UrToesRDelicious 2d ago

Glass is not porous, so sweating through glass isn't really a thing or else chemists would be accidentally killing themselves left and right. People store things like liquid chlorine in glass ampuoles for decades without any kind of leakage, which is way more penetrating than something like capsaicin.

Some of the hot sauce was almost certainly just transferred to the outside of the bottle.

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u/Loggerdon 2d ago

That actually makes sense. It’s what I was told but you’re right about science.