Two baby milk jugs stuck together, help!

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1. Have you tried washing up liquid around the rim where they’re stuck?

   Or try freezing the jugs for several hours / overnight. Sometimes the extreme cold will contract them enough to break the seal.

2. Tap the bottom one on its side on the edge of a counter top – it should release it. Used to work for pint glasses!

3. On the hot/cold water did you stand the bottom in hot and pour cold in the top?

4. Do you have a favourite out of the two?

5. Hairdryer on the bottom one.

6. Can you add water to the bottom one and then put it in the freezer, It should pop the top one off.

7. Fairy liquid and water

8. It’s imperative that the cylinder is undamaged.

9. Have you tried to twist and pull in one motion? Give it a little welly but not too much. About the same force you’d use to open a stubborn jar!

10. Put them in their sides then gently tap them on the counter

11. I got a tea pot lid stuck at an angle in an expensive Cornish ware teapot in a holiday rental – I used olive oil and very gently jiggled the lid and managed to unstick it.

12. One must die so the other may live

13. WD 40

14. Two baby milk jugs stuck together?

    Obviously, the bra is too tight.

15. Lift them up so the bottom one is suspended from the top one (over a cushion), and then gently tap the top one (I’d use a camping mallet, or if you know a friendly doctor a reflex hammer). Ice covered with water in the top one. Gentle taps over a long time. Don’t put them down until you pour out the ice water and let it regain room temperature

16. I need updating what happens

17. Fill top jug with icy water for a bit. Tip water out, then gently tap the jugs against the counter top, around the part that they’re jammed, whilst rotating. Worked for pint glasses when I wax a bar wench…

18. No idea, but good luck!

    The number of people investing time and energy in this pleases me 🙂

19. If you don’t update this with the result I will be crestfallen

20. Have you had any luck I feel invested now!

21. It’s hammer time

22. What normally works for me is to blow really hard into the gap between them.

23. If there is a gap where the spout is and we’re trying anything, coca cola in the bottom one, grind up some Mentos, start filming, add Mentos, hold on.

24. Have you tried gently tapping the base of the bottom one with a rolling pin? Pots sometimes stick together when I’m firing wood kilns, and we tap them with random bits of unused wood until they separate.

25. Top one looks cheaper/more generic and it already has a chip in the spout. I think we know who the better sacrificial candidate is

26. WD40, leave to work for a few minutes first.

    Or fill something with hot soapy water and lie them on their side in it so gravity isn’t working against you.

27. OP, we need updates!

28. The solution is obvious. Drill a hole in the base of the top cup, use as normal. Mega-cup!…with spout. I didn’t say it was a perfect solution.

29. I’d have smashed them both already.

30. THANK YOU EVERYONE, THE JUGS ARE APART!!

    The freezer thing worked. Boom flippin boom. I dried all the oil/water/ice off by leaving in the airing cupboard then put in the freezer for an hour. A bit of wrestling, a small clunk, and they separated. Glory be!!

    We can now pour dainty amounts of milk once again and all is well with the world.

31. Help, step-jug. I’m stuck!

32. At first glance I thought the bottom one had holes in it and thought “that’s a pretty useless jug, isn’t it?”

33. I came to this thread late and am thrilled to hear the jugs are separated. 

    Please tell me you have put them back in the cupboard separately this time and NOT stacked.

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