A soft drink bottle seems a good choice - they're designed to handle pressure.
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Try buying it in a tin can, not a bottle.
Otherwise, put the bottle in a wooden crate, and with some foam material between.
Something like this would probably work.
Perhaps put the bottle inside a vacuum sealed bag, and then wrap in padding.
I hadn’t thought of this, this might be what I end up doing.
~~AI slop: the handle loops dont make much sense—specifically the right one.~~
~~Actually, i change my mind. I think it's just awkwardly positioned. Real photo?~~
Nah, fuck it. I'm doubling down: the fasteners holding the handle to the case arent the same and the left one is missing half.
It's just a pun.
It's certainly a difficult one, it's missing many of the tell tale signs.
I think what's tipping me off is the focus.
The entire briefcase and its contents is in focus but surroundings at the same depth aren't
This has got to be the packing, not the bottle. I have never heard of a bottle being shipped that suddenly broke on its own, without impact with its environment being the issue.
I should’ve mentioned the sauce is only sold by a restaurant who doesn’t package it with any sort of seal — it’s just thrown in a plastic bottle and sold that way.
So the bottle doesn't break, it just pops open? This still sounds like a packaging issue. Maybe unstopper / squeeze / stopper the bottle, so it's got negative pressure. Maybe replace the cap with some other more permanent type of cap (one that doesn't have a little flip-top, if the ones they're including do, just a solid cap and then ship the flip-top one alongside it)? IDK. How is it coming apart in transit? It's not literally the plastic bottle breaking, is it?
Right, it’s just popping open on top where it connects to the flip top lid.
I’ve tried just throwing a plastic layer between the lid and the bottle (like Zip-Lock bags) but that didn’t help much.
I was thinking of using a glass airtight container or glass jar but I’m worried about it cracking in transit.
You just need to have as little air in the container as possible, it's the air that expands as it good up in elevation. If it's glass, fill it all the way. But plastic that you can squeeze all the air out of seems better if you can keep it sealed tight. Piece of tape over the flip top?
Why not just replace it with a cap that isn't a flip-top? Screw it on tight, squeeze the bottle slightly before putting the cap on so there's a slight negative pressure. That would be my first thing to try.
If there is no gas bubble in the bottle, it cannot expand due to pressure - liquids are incompressible.