Pitching dried yeast into cold wort

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The storage instructions indicate keeping the packet of yeast at 4C or below…
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Lallemand recommends dry pitching their yeast
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I wouldn’t have been concerned pitching a lager yeast into wort at 14C or lower, I was pitching an ale yeast with an operating range of 18C-25C so was not sure what might happen pitching at a wort temperature below the range, hence the post.
 
I've read that it's better to pitch yeast into a colder temperature than you intend to ferment at. Not sure if that's wet or dry, but it's to avoid thermal shock or somesuch.

How cold are we talking? I take yeast out of the fridge for a few hours to get to pitching temperature. Your method just sounds like a more gentle example of that.

Yeast is pretty resilient, so reckon you'll be ok.
It also allows for the extra few degrees which the yeast can supply through the heat of exothermal energy. I tend to pitch my yeast 17-18C. I had one recently which went up by 11C from the set temperature. I will add it was on heating mode and the fermenter was well insulated.
 

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