Pessimistician has impressed me with the details of his plot to murder kegs in bed :yes:
Here's a question that those slackers in the OTF failed to answer about four years again. (No, that is not too long to hold a question-asking related grudge).
If I want to drink a cup of coffee with milk in it (cafe con leche or cafe au lait) as soon as possible without scalding myself, should I:
1. Put the cold milk in straight away and then wait for the drink to cool down.
2. Wait for the drink to cool down a while before adding the cold milk.
A mass with higher temperature than ambient will cool at a rate known as Newton's Cooling Curve, which IIRC, is an exponential function, something like x to the five-fourths power. Being a positive exponential, greater than one, it is obvious to me that the rate of cooling will slow over time. Thus it seems evident to me that your drink will be at a cooler temperature after, say, five minutes if you add the cold milk at the end of the five minute interval compared to adding the cold milk at the beginning of the interval.
Can someone please review this and provide expert advice? As I say, those OTF'ers were very wooly-headed about the issue.
In the interests of full disclosure, I originally asked the OTF a similar question about a cup of tea - what a mistake to make! Blah-blah-earl grey blah blah warm the tea pot blah blah loose leaf blah blah tea bags blah blah ... seriously, stfu about lapsang souchong already. :yes: