[Q] Why is my coffee cup hotter than my cofee?

[Michaelangelica]

Why is my coffee cup hotter than my coffee?

 

Two questions really

Sometimes you zap your coffee in the microwave and then get third degree burns on the coffee cup handle, while the coffee is not that hot at all.

 

How come some pottery becomes blisteringly hot when microwaved and others mugs, cups etc don't?

 

It's all clay--dirt with pretensions-- in the end isn't it?:)

[Buffy]

Because it's got metal in it! Can be in either the pottery or the paint, but it's exactly the reason they tell you not to put metal objects in your microwave, and more importantly but less often heeded: to "use microwave-safe containers."

 

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go, :)

Buffy

[Michaelangelica]

So, you mean we are digging up Western Australia, railing it hundreds of miles to then ship it thousands of miles to China, then the Chinese cleverly disguise the iron ore as mugs and ship it back to us?

[Buffy]

Worse, if it's from China, it's probably lead in the paint! Here in California anything that might potentially have lead paint on the the ceramic has to have a sticker on it warning you about it.

[Michaelangelica]

Worse, if it's from China, it's probably lead in the paint! Here in California anything that might potentially have lead paint on the the ceramic has to have a sticker on it warning you about it.

You can tell by the 'feel' of the pottery whether it will heat up or not.

It feels 'lighter'and 'less dense' somehow. if that makes sense.

 

i was going to make some lumblitty remake about led giving you raindamage and ledding to the fall of Westerns but i sought better a bout it.

[GAHD]

might not be lead. A whole mess of pigments in glazes are derived from metal oxides.

[Buffy]

might not be lead. A whole mess of pigments in glazes are derived from metal oxides.

 

That's true: I took my daughter and a friend of her's to one of those "paint your own pottery" places last year and she painted a coffee mug for me, but just like Michael's the darn thing heats up like crazy in the microwave, so it doesn't go in there any more....

 

OTOH, <conspiracy_theory>China knows they can't beat us militarily, so they're busy trying endless ways to poison us, and take over our electric grid</conspiracy_theory>.... :)

 

Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works, B)

Buffy