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Wash with cold water. Warm or hot water might ruin the coating.

This is why I worry about radiant heat from fires while camping or burning yard debris. Plastic lenses are usually opaque to IR and that means they're heating up even more than you might think.

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I once ruined the coating of my glasses by sticking my head into a hot oven to check a disk I was baking. The surface of the lens sort of blistered. From then on I removed my glasses when checking on food in the oven... I also try not to stick my head so far in also.

Chef tip: Take the item out of the oven instead of inserting your head into the oven.

Hanzel and Gretel hate this one simple trick!

Glasses are plastic lenses? I thought they were… glass. Am I wrong? Warby Parker and such are plastic?

They used to be actually glass, but now the majority are plastic.

For people with poor eyesight (like me!) plastic lenses are lighter and can have a higher refractive index, making them thinner than the equivalent glass lenses. Weight is the big thing though.

Another reason to consider glass lenses.

Unless they're completely plain lenses the heat could still ruin the oleophobic and anti-reflective coatings.

Can you even get glass lenses anymore? I don’t recall seeing it as an option the last time I ordered a pair but maybe since Zenni tends to focus on affordability they don’t bother offering the (presumably more expensive) option.

Yes https://lensfactory.com/ They are so much better.

Heh, its funny, whenever I see a video of an American with glasses, they don't have a reflective coating. I guess its too expensive over there. I have glasses which have reflective coating and photochromic coating. They're also made of titanium. Very light, despite being -4 or so. My wife has even worse than -4, and she enjoys the same. They're a tad more expensive, yes, and eventually the coating goes bad which with proper usage can be postponed for years (e.g. wear real sunglasses on beach).

Do they shatter when you drop them?

They might if you drop them hard enough, but I've dropped glass lenses numerous times and I've never had them shatter on me. Probably helps to have a sturdy frame with barrel hinges, too: https://shop.shuron.com/shop/sidewinder/

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