Wearing glasses is annoying when you're eating something hot
 

And same with my sunglasses in the morning after a cold night. They get all fogged up. What can you do to prevent this?

You can get anti-fog fluids at almost any well stocked sporting goods store but if all else fails you can always go to your local auto repair shop and buy the anti-fog spray made for windsheilds. I'm not sure about the smell or it's toxicity but it should be interesting to hear what happens either way.

Buy contacts.

Either that, or *Gasp* put down your glasses while eating? :)

you usually have anti-fog fluids for visors on helmets too, might look into that, those are generally cheaper and you get bottles that are way smaller :)

Be sure to read any warning labels tho, you wouldn't want it to react with the glasses and leave a film or worse.

I had the same problem when I used to wear glasses, but luckily I saw the light and got contacts. But, like Nisses suggested, why not just take off the glasses while eating? heh.


it does remind me of a visit to the Philippines back when I was in seventh grade and still wearing glasses. I was in my uncle's air-conditioned car from the airport to my grandparents' house, and the second I stepped out of the nice and cool car, a wave of hot air basically punched me in the face and my eye glasses fogged up completely and my nose started bleeding. looking back, that must have been a pretty hilarious sight.

I hate when it -35º and my glasses are so cold that it feels like they are cutting into my flesh. Or the fogging when opening the oven to pull out supper.
Thank god for contacts.

Why not take off the glasses while eating? You guys must not look at your food. I prefer to be able to see what I'm about to put in my mouth - that's why I wear contacts.

This almost never happens to me, for some reason, and I've worn glasses for decades. When it does, just push them up on top of your head. Whatever you're eating will cool down enough in a couple of minutes to stop causing problems.

As for contacts: some people are for contacts, some aren't. I never liked things on my eyeballs. Also, with glasses I never get a bug in my eye!

Get little windshield wipers installed on your glasses.

Speaking of the whole Contact Lenses vs Glasses debate; has anyone else noticed that when they are wearing contacts they can cut onions with impunity?

Before I got contacts I would cry like a little girl every time I would even touch knife to onion. Now I cut, hack, chop and yes, even french onions with nary a tear. They're like little gas masks for your eyes.

suffer it, surely it can't happen that often as to be a serious problem and if foggy glasses is all thats bothering you, then you are a very lucky person

I think we should invite the_marq to cook us all dinner. Would be a sight, seeing somebody french an onion :D

My biggest glasses problem was that I work in a very clod part of the ship. My avionics workcenter has to be kept air conditioned to about 60F with very low humidity or the electronics get too hot or moisture condenses inside and they'd be ruined. So we all walk around the shop in jackets all day. Well, when the ship was in the Persian Gulf this past summer, as soon as you open the door to go out into the hangar bay and the hot humid Middle Eastern summer WHOOSH my glasses fogged up. I got little sympathy from anyone though, as I worked in an air conditioned space all day and they sweated their asses off in the hangar bay. Oh well. I'm getting my PRK on Feb. 7 and fogged up glasses will be a thing of the past (or the very distant future).

-Mikey

Ski shops sell anti-fog cloths for googles. They aren't 100%; but they work reasonably well for glasses.

I'd guess the people who are saying it's no big deal haven't experienced this problem...when I wear my glasses, they get completely fogged up for quite a while if I eat or drink something hot, or walk into a warm room from outdoors when it's cold. This means that I'm unable to move or do anything much for minutes at a time. Now, I wouldn't say this is an "serious" problem, but it's significant enough to make a difference in my day. I guess I'll be trying those anti-fog cloths if I ever have to go back to wearing glasses again.

Rain X makes an excellent defogger that will work with plastic and glass lenses alike.

Carry around some tissues so you can wipe off your glasses. I just use my shirt.

Of course, I use my shirt too but they just fog up again.

This is getting silly. :hmm:

When we went to play paintball my mask kept getting fogged up in a similar fashion. One guy said if you rubbed a bar of soap on the inside it would fix it. Another guy said they made some spray-on stuff that prevents it. None of those are very practical though. I'd just take the glasses off I guess.

---I just close my eyes, and keep eating...she's never complained yet...:D

There are a lot more things annoying about glasses than just that. Unfortunately the same holds true for contact lenses as well.

Asta!!

I got sick of fogging when I played golf in the morning and finally got contacts. Now I love them and can't imagine life with just glasses.

I find that there is practically nothing annoying about contacts, all things considered. Maybe I'm not using mine correctly :confused:

You're my new favourite. I now have to get contacts.

The only time I ever have problems with glasses fogging up are whenever I go indoors
after being outside in the extreme cold for an extended period of time, usually the fog
goes away before I even reach my room at home or at school. With food, don't keep
your face right over the damn steam! This could probably happen with contacts unless
you close your eyes, it's just smoke condensing on your lenses.

Other than that, you could also happen to have a kinda cheap pair of lenses, since
a better pair are usually quite resistance to alot of fog-producing things, among
others.

Yes it is terribly annoying. I get my glasses cheap - real cheap. I would like to get contacts again or get used to my old ones since they're still functionable. I had rigid contacts before though and haven't been in the mood to acclimate to them again. I did find that cutting onions and every other activity was less irritating to my eyes.

They have contacts now that you cannot feel even after you've just put them in. Also when I had rigid contacts I had a fly fly into my eye, hit my contact, and bounce off. Never hurt or bothered me - didn't even feel it. It was creepy to know the thing had just hit my eye though and I hadn't felt it. Wierd but not painful. Someday I'll go back to contacts.

I'm in to my second month of wearing a new kind of extended wear contact that is working out really well. Of course, I'm in the basement and too lazy to go 3 floors up to where the box is to get the name for you... Anyway, there is a minimum amount of oxygen that your eye needs to get that varies according to the authority you ask, but these transfer 6 times the worst case estimate!

My optmtrst has been a die-hard anti extended wear guy until these came out. You don't even know they are there. Lots of other points to make, but since most of the answers suggested contacts, I thought I'd mention these. Your doc will know what they are.

I dunno. I can't feel my contacts at all. And when I take them out and put on my glasses, there's always that one little spot that won't come off.