How can I unjam my flan cases?

[PeteXXX]

Drop them on to the work surface from a height of 3cm.

Didn't work

 

[PeteXXX]

Are they apart yet @PeteXXX ?

Nope

 

[nickyboy]

I think one of your flan cases is going to have to make the supreme sacrifice so the other can continue to live on

The question is: which case has the greater moral fortitude to step forward and say "I am that case"?

It's like Sophie's Choice meets GBBO

 

[GJT]

I'm loving this thread I'd try WD40 down the sides and a plastic tyre lever

 

[jefmcg]

The question is: which case has the greater moral fortitude to step forward and say "I am that case"?

It's purely practical. If you are breaking one, it has to be the big one. You can hit that without risking breaking the other one. And you could put several fractures in the small one and still find it just as jammed in.

 

[sight-pin]

My OH is saying, squirt lots of washing up liquid on them then in a bowl of hot water worked for her.

 

[nickyboy]

It's purely practical. If you are breaking one, it has to be the big one. You can hit that without risking breaking the other one. And you could put several fractures in the small one and still find it just as jammed in.

So it's "sorry big fella"

I'm a little sad. I'd begun to empathise with their predicament

 

[classic33]

I'd have thought he'd seperated them, then gone to sleep. Seems sleeping on it may have been a bigger priority.

 

[roadrash]

@PeteXXX see post 21 from the much missed Vernon....
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/pie-plate-shocker.175395/post-3561209

 

[PeteXXX]

[QUOTE 4900155, member: 76"]I thought I would try and help by Goooooooogling the term "flan cases jammed together"

The results are very interesting. Try it @PeteXXX[/QUOTE]
Who needs Google when you have CC?

But I'll give it a go.. ta

 

[Yellow Saddle]

OK, purely for my own benefit. I had to figure this out.

The coefficient of linear thermal expansion of ceramics is very low. it is about 4 thousands of a millimeter per degree centigrade.
Assuming we can heat the bigger dish to 90 degrees C and cool the smaller one to 10 degrees using hot and cold water then.
Assuming ambient temperature of 20 degrees C then the big one will increase in temperature by 70 degrees and the small one decrease in temperature by 10 degrees.
The big one (200mm diameter) will grow to 200 plus 70 x 4 x 10^-3 = 200.28mm
The small one (190mm diameter) with shrink to 0.19 minus 10 x 4 x 10^-3m. = 189.96mm

The difference due to shrinkage/expansion is .32mm.

However, if the water method is used, it will have to be done upside down since the inner case will just sink down deeper.

I'm googling "upside down filling of a flat pan with water" as we speak.

No results so far.

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4900155, member: 76"]I thought I would try and help by Goooooooogling the term "flan cases jammed together"

The results are very interesting. Try it @PeteXXX[/QUOTE]
No nearly condescending enough. Try this next time http://bfy.tw/D71p

Oh, and thanks for the suggestion. So many delicious recipes for fruit flan, this thread and also this

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Tease a balloon in under the upper dish and inflate!

 

[Crackle]

Ants: About 4 of them under the top one and they should be able to lift it off.

 

[nickyboy]

At the risk of actually coming up with a sensible proposal...

Expanding foam? Seal the gap between the big and small cases. Squirt it in and then quickly seal the hole you've squirted through Dunno if expanding foam has the structural strength to do this sort of thing but might be worth a try?