IKEA Serving Bowl Sets Man's Grapes on Fire

By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

June 23, 2017

 A man found himself in the middle of an unexpected science experiment in Sweden after he set his bowl of grapes in the sun. Richard Walter says he was outside near his Blanda Blank stainless steel serving bowl from IKEA when he noticed his grapes were on fire. "'How is that possible?' I thought. Then I saw there was one intense point where [the sun] hit the twigs, and that's where it started." 

His friends wanted proof, so Walter posted a video on Facebook of a piece of paper starting to burn after he placed it in the bowl in direct sunlight. For its part, IKEA tells the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet that it's taking the information "very seriously" and investigating how this could happen.

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