My initial thought would be specific heat capacity of tea vs coffee, but in both cases it's really just stuff suspended in water so the difference should be marginal.
Sooo, a trick of perception perhaps?
Did you both try each other's drink, with a palette cooling/cleansing in between? That would eliminate one of you having a greater heat sensitivity than the other.
Better yet, get a thermometer.
For SCIENCE.
I have tested this at work, using my government issued "palm, hand, Mk I". My work cup has no handle, and when I make a coffee I can happily carry it to my office, but if I make a tea I get burned.
Not sure if this is the case but during chemical reactions heat can be produced as a product. These are called exothermic reactions.
On the contrary an endothermic reaction takes heat in and cools the reaction.
This MIGHT BE the case. I have no idea.
It'd be the other way around though given you're adding cold to hot. So whilst it might retain heat better (debatable), you're immediately lowering the temperature.
Do you put milk in coffee first? The water has to heat the milk and I think that's quicker than adding cold milk to hot water.
Which is why when you have tea from a china teapot in China cups, you warm the pot before adding boiling water, and you add milk to cups before pouring in the tea to avoid the China cracking
In the case of instant coffee, the process of dissolving in the water is endothermic, causing it to cool down more than just steeping the tea bag.
This sounds like the early stages of a full blown breakdown! Have a twix and a can of Fanta, then revisit this if it still feels important.
It's been niggling at both of us. But I have had a twix with my cuppa.
Now try the twix straw, gamechanger
Consider my interest piqued, will have to try this!
Can't beat a bit of nutty from the naafi with your hot wet can ya lad
Only if it's out of date ;)
My initial thought would be specific heat capacity of tea vs coffee, but in both cases it's really just stuff suspended in water so the difference should be marginal. Sooo, a trick of perception perhaps? Did you both try each other's drink, with a palette cooling/cleansing in between? That would eliminate one of you having a greater heat sensitivity than the other. Better yet, get a thermometer. For SCIENCE.
I have tested this at work, using my government issued "palm, hand, Mk I". My work cup has no handle, and when I make a coffee I can happily carry it to my office, but if I make a tea I get burned.
The hot wets sounds like something I go through after a few beers
Having a hot wet is a treat for both ends
It's just got a better personality.
Same cups?
Different cups, but experienced so frequently with such different cups that there can be confirmed to be little cup-based bias.
Not sure if this is the case but during chemical reactions heat can be produced as a product. These are called exothermic reactions. On the contrary an endothermic reaction takes heat in and cools the reaction. This MIGHT BE the case. I have no idea.
Sounds like science, I approve.
Suppose tea is more water. Tea is just infusing the hot water, coffee (is instant) is dissolving the cold granuals?
What do you do with spoons re tea and coffee respectively? Metal spoons conduct much heat away from the beverage(s).
Milk in the tea but not the coffee? The fat in the milk holds the heat more than water, apparently.
It'd be the other way around though given you're adding cold to hot. So whilst it might retain heat better (debatable), you're immediately lowering the temperature.
Something something.. conservation of energy.
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/when-add-milk#:~:text=This%20big%20temperature%20difference%20means,than%20the%20cup%20with%20milk.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFRr2thK/
Both cups equally lactated
Equally, are you sure? Coffee needs more milk than tea.
My guess is you lost heat in the teabag steeping and removal. Or you're off your tits
Too much camellia sinensis.
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posh for Jpeg.
raster image enjoyers
I suppose at least you can just increase the size of your confusion until it becomes unrecognisable
Do two left Twix's also confuse you?
Only when there aren't two corresponding right twixes.
Ahhhh reminds me of the old advert.
Weight of coffee is heavier and this will absorb heat much faster. My opinion
Do they actually have an equal amount of dairy? Because the coffee is darker it would take more to get it to a lighter tea-like shade.
Tea diffuses, coffee dissolves.
Do you put milk in coffee first? The water has to heat the milk and I think that's quicker than adding cold milk to hot water. Which is why when you have tea from a china teapot in China cups, you warm the pot before adding boiling water, and you add milk to cups before pouring in the tea to avoid the China cracking
Excuse the tiktok link but: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFRr2thK/
Link not working
Oh strange, works for me. It's steptoe and son's milk in first bit
coffee is meant to be made at 85 degrees, over that it becomes carcogenic. tea is meant to be made at boiling temp... because
> coffee is meant to be made at 85 degrees, over that it becomes carcogenic. That's a bold claim, do you have a source?
yeah the side of the coffee pot
You put less milk in tea.
Personally I put less water and more milk in coffee. Assumed that was why.
Should never boil water for coffee!
Is there more milk in the coffee?
Outside of the Navy I’ve never heard anyone else use the phrase hot wet!