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BS: The nature of tea
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Subject: BS: The nature of tea From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 11 Jun 12 - 06:32 AM Why is it that if when you are working, a mug of tea gets cold very quickly, but if you are in a hurry to get out it never cools down? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: GUEST,Manuel Date: 11 Jun 12 - 10:17 AM Will keep turning this brain teaser around in the graying cohune a bit, SPB. But, for now, let me say this. Since tea is an absolute necessity while deeply concentrating on my work, I have reconciled myself with the inevitability of drinking it long after it has reached room temperature. I have even found a name for a cup of tea at room temperature. I call it a Morrison! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: frogprince Date: 11 Jun 12 - 10:41 AM It's just the same with coffee, fellers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: Nigel Parsons Date: 11 Jun 12 - 11:26 AM I've heard of tree fellers, but never coffee fellers! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 11 Jun 12 - 11:28 AM I forgot to add that my original posting is curtesy of CamPot The campaign for real (pots of) tea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 11 Jun 12 - 12:21 PM What you need is a mug with removable insulation. Insulation on while working; off at other times. Simple! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 11 Jun 12 - 01:01 PM Sometimes we go to McDonalds (I know, I know...) and their tea is absolutely scalding hot. I'm always gasping for it too, but my clever husband found the solution. He takes it over to the ice dispenser and pops a couple of lumps in. Sorted! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Jun 12 - 08:11 PM To answer the original question, it's because time is a subjective human construct while tea and coffee are absolute universal truths. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: Joe_F Date: 11 Jun 12 - 08:22 PM I have long had a fantasy of a sealed sheet-metal ball (or mug lining) containing a nontoxic substance whose melting point precisely equals the ideal temperature of tea or coffee. To determine that, you go to the shop, stir a free cup of tea with a thermometer till it cools to that point, and then buy accordingly. When you pour in the tea, the stuff melts until the tea is lowered to its melting point. Thereafter, it gradually solidifies, maintaining the tea at that temperature. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: frogprince Date: 11 Jun 12 - 09:07 PM Joe, you're either a genius or barking crazy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 12 Jun 12 - 05:29 AM I still maintain that the cooling rate is inversly proportional to the time available to drink it. There is a whole branch of maths here - temporal calculus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 12 Jun 12 - 05:31 AM due to the cooling rate being linked to not time passing, but availble time left. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 12 Jun 12 - 05:39 AM Wood's metal melts at about 70C. A bit toxic, but the beneficial properties of tea should nullify that. You could have it in the shape of a tea spoon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The nature of tea From: Jack the Sailor Date: 12 Jun 12 - 10:51 AM What you need is a mug with removable insulation. Insulation on while working; off at other times. Simple! Add to this a largr thermal radiating surface and a small solar powered cooling fan and I think you may have a solution which does not require "Game of Thrones" level metallurgy. |
