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I never quite got how so many cultures serve tea in glassware. I tried doing it as a kid and got scolded because I was told the hot water would make the glass break. (It's not like I had the glass in the freezer beforehand, so...) What's the secret? Are the glasses just really thick?but my brother and I had tea exactly the way we would get it every morning whenever we took a trip to India: hot, mixed with lots of milk, and served in small glasses
mōdgethanc wrote:I never quite got how so many cultures serve tea in glassware. I tried doing it as a kid and got scolded because I was told the hot water would make the glass break. (It's not like I had the glass in the freezer beforehand, so...) What's the secret? Are the glasses just really thick?but my brother and I had tea exactly the way we would get it every morning whenever we took a trip to India: hot, mixed with lots of milk, and served in small glasses
mōdgethanc wrote:What's the secret? Are the glasses just really thick?
Naava wrote:mōdgethanc wrote:What's the secret? Are the glasses just really thick?
No, but if you pour any hot liquid into a glass too quickly, it will (or may) crack. So the secret is to be careful. My parents have these kind of glasses for glogg and I was always told to put only a little of glogg in before adding the rest, so that the glass has time to warm up. I think pouring tea from a height has the same idea?
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vijayjohn wrote:Naava wrote:mōdgethanc wrote:What's the secret? Are the glasses just really thick?
No, but if you pour any hot liquid into a glass too quickly, it will (or may) crack. So the secret is to be careful. My parents have these kind of glasses for glogg and I was always told to put only a little of glogg in before adding the rest, so that the glass has time to warm up. I think pouring tea from a height has the same idea?
Well, when you pour tea from a height, that also helps cool it down as air passes through it before it lands into the glass (or pot).
Meera wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Naava wrote:mōdgethanc wrote:What's the secret? Are the glasses just really thick?
No, but if you pour any hot liquid into a glass too quickly, it will (or may) crack. So the secret is to be careful. My parents have these kind of glasses for glogg and I was always told to put only a little of glogg in before adding the rest, so that the glass has time to warm up. I think pouring tea from a height has the same idea?
Well, when you pour tea from a height, that also helps cool it down as air passes through it before it lands into the glass (or pot).
My family and I always pour tea in a glass and never from height, and I have never had one break.
mōdgethanc wrote:Maybe the time that the tea spends sitting there while it's steeping makes a difference?
Well, I'll be dipped in shit! It never occurred to me that thick glass would break more easily because of that. I guess that says something about my sorry knowledge of physics. And it's kind of neat that there may be a grain of truth to the myth about the spoon too. What I'm wondering is: would it make a significant difference if the spoon were cold?Naava wrote:I had to google it, and I found a conversation in Finnish. A nickname polymath says there that when pouring hot liquid into a glass, the inner side of the glass warms up faster than the outer side, which creates tension. This tension may crack the glass.
Polymath also says that thick glass breaks more easily, because the heat conduction through thin glass is faster than through thick one.
I tried google again and found this conversation. (This time in English.) There's something about the spoon, too.
Oh, the irony!Oh, I forgot my tea in the kitchen while just googling what happens if you pour tea in a glass. Sometimes I really wonder how my memory works.
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