So, yeah, moving a tall, skinny container away from the center is generally ... vessel that's in the hot spots to dangerous levels, and glass can get very unhappy with uneven thermal expansion.

Specifically, the article argues that "elongation effect" – the common tendency to think that a tall, thin glass holds more ... sight to evaluate how much a container holds.

It seems that you can buy a four-foot-tall wine glass at Costco. Giant wine glasses aren’t a new invention, of course; this one, however, is vastly larger than pretty much every other giant wine ...