Duralex 1025AB06/6 Picardie Water Glass without Filling
Duralex 1025AB06/6 Picardie Water Glass without Filling Mark, 160ml, Pack of 6
Tempered glass.
Thanks to the hardening process, the Duralex glass is particularly shockproof.
Dishwasher.
The glasses are suitable for cleaning in the dishwasher.
Microwave.
Duralex glass can be used in the microwave.
Thermal shock
Duralex glass is able to withstand a temperature shock of 130°C. The products move from freezer to microwave without any problems.
Weight: | 158 g |
Brand: | Duralex |
Model: | 1025AB06A2111 |
Colour: | Transparent |
I bought these for drinking red wine like they do in France ! They were great value are fairly robust ( I have a terrible track record with glasses!) and are fine in the dishwasher. They remind me of glasses we had at school many , many years ago and I thought they would be good glasses for kids to get them used to handling them.
As a child, drinking water from a sturdy little glass at school lunch, the name on the bottom of the glass could be read when one looked inside.
Forty years later, in a little bar in a remote French village, the same name, in the bottom of the same glass.
Twenty years later, when the last of the cheap tumblers finally broke, there was never any question, which glasses to buy.
I was just waiting for that glass to break, so I could buy the correct ones.
They will probably outlast me.
Somehow, we were sent glass glasses, not plastic glasses. We liked the heft, weighted feel which makes them stable, less likely to be knocked over. The wide mouths make them easy to clean, all the way to the bottoms when something yuck dries up down there. Instead of a curvacious body shape, the faceted, conical body is easy to hold, even with soapy, slippery washing up liquid. They nest well in stacking or side by side (up/down) on the shelves.
A good shape for espresso as it flairs slightly at the top which helps catch the coffee below a porta-filter. The glass (at the sidewalls) is around 2-3mm thick which is perfectly fine. I actually discovered these glasses in use at a big coffee shop in London Bridge so if they survive commercial use then they must be sufficiently sturdy for light use at home. At this price point I would consider them good if they lasted 6 months.
As an added benefit of being slightly thinner, the specific heat capacity is reduced and so less heat is removed from your coffee which is important for maintaining your intended flavor profile.
All in all, these are clearly well made, stylish and more than sufficient for espresso use. Highly recommended.
These glasses arrived well packaged in their box, all intact. They are chunkier and thicker than I expected, but the upside is that a year on they are all still intact. They also haven’t turned cloudy in the dishwasher yet, hurrah. The rim is slightly flared out so they JUST fit in my dishwasher cup rack, which is pretty standard sized (most annoying when items are too big to fit in the proper section!). The glasses are stable and they are the perfect thirst quenching size for a cold summer drink, where you don’t need to decide on more ice/less juice or vice versa. The glasses are stackable, though with quite a large amount of the inner glass sticking up, so make sure you have enough height in your cupboard if you know you’ll need to stack. Can’t think of anything else useful, so, I recommend these glasses if you don’t mind them being quite heavy and chunky.
I was taken back to my youth when I unpacked these glasses,as these are exactly what we used back then.I can recall my Mum filling these with orange juice in the 1950’s,although we had to have carrot juice after the War,YUCK!!.
We also used these in Grammar school,I can see them now all lined up on the trestle tables in the dining room.
Thinking back to those times,my Mum treasured those glasses as unless you had the ration coupons you couldn’t buy any more,assuming that our local Grocer had these in stock.This grocer sold everything you could think of,so different from today!He used to stack the glasses in the shop window,in a sort of pyramid shape,it was a wonder to behold as how they didn’t all fall down I will never know.Kids then,loved to window shop as we had so little compared to kids today.
Anyway,nostalgia apart,these glasses are truly excellent and very strongly made.Also as one other reviewer stated,they are so comfortable in the hand.
So go on,spoil yourself,a truly bargain buy and the nostalgia comes free :)!!