Etdlahq Memorial Bar - your shelter from forum crashes
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We could as well go to the other planet where people have fun with flourine and go to cool concerts as well.
I guess you probably don't want to know an astrologer's definition of a metal.
I agree. Tea doesn't go well with toothpaste.
Now you are getting nerdy here yourself, aren't you?
BTW, I would actually like like to see a few videos about burning tea with fluorine. You can burn a lot of things with fluorine that you probably already consider as ashes.
Mentioning Newton's Cooling Curve was a bit misleading then.
It's only obvious if you keep things simple enough, but I agree that's a matter of common sense.
Does @LozHinge the Unhinged have any common sense?
yep hard work!
I am going to go out on a limb and assume that the temperature you want your tea is cooler than the temperature you achieve once you've added milk to hot tea.
Working on this assumption you should wait for your tea to cool down to a temperature just above the optimum range, and then add the milk to cool it the rest of the way. This is the fastest way of achieving the optimum temperature of tea.
LozHinge the Unhinged
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Now we are getting somewhere!
What are your assumptions concerning the temperature the milk has been stored at, how long it has been out of the fridge and room temperature?
I have been told that people from Australialand consider room temperature to be somewhere in the region of 40deg C. Is this correct?
LozHinge the Unhinged
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*I could swear …*
Nah. He would never appear in a thread that is currently discussing tea. I'm seeing things.
Nah. He would never appear in a thread that is currently discussing tea. I'm seeing things.
@LozHinge the Unhinged: He is omnipresent, that is just commong sense. Though since you haven't got any sense you wouldn't know.
Also start experimenting with your tea and milk and find out for yourself instead of asking silly questions.
Also start experimenting with your tea and milk and find out for yourself instead of asking silly questions.
You could always just wait for advances in technology that automatically add the milk at the appropriate time and deliver the tea to you at whatever temperature you specify. Until then, however, you will have to continue to struggle through it.
Perhaps you should invest some time into doing tests yourself? Make a chart with starting temp, temp when adding the milk, final temp. Do multiple runs, changing only 1 time interval each run. Then you can post your results and we can verify them.
I think I'll just have a coffee instead.
Perhaps you should invest some time into doing tests yourself? Make a chart with starting temp, temp when adding the milk, final temp. Do multiple runs, changing only 1 time interval each run. Then you can post your results and we can verify them.
I think I'll just have a coffee instead.
OK, I think this finally needs a serious reply. The best way is to wait with pouring in the milk until it would make the mix have the desired temperature right away.
As said, I'm ignoring things like the shape of the cup, change of surface of the mix, change of heat conductivity and heat capacity, general relativity, coriolis force, flat earthers etc.
LozHinge the Unhinged
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Your way sounds exhausting.
I would rather just engage the resources available on a forum devoted to a computer game from the turn of the millennium
*cue argument over whether the end of the millennium was 31 Dec 1999 or 31 Dec 2000*
Vildecor agrees with me that you should figure it our yourself and experiment.
I'll have some water instead with the freakingly hot temperatures we are having here in Belgium I need to keep well hydrated.
@krischan: You forget to mention you'll also be ignoring the phases of the moon and young earth creationism, those are to specific to lump in with etc.
As to your millennium debate. Will we use the strict usage (there is no year 0, so the 2nd millennium is from start 1001 to end 2001) or the general usage (it's cooler to celebrate when it ticks over to 2000, though only 999 years have passed in this millennium).
I'll have some water instead with the freakingly hot temperatures we are having here in Belgium I need to keep well hydrated.
@krischan: You forget to mention you'll also be ignoring the phases of the moon and young earth creationism, those are to specific to lump in with etc.
As to your millennium debate. Will we use the strict usage (there is no year 0, so the 2nd millennium is from start 1001 to end 2001) or the general usage (it's cooler to celebrate when it ticks over to 2000, though only 999 years have passed in this millennium).
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Only in winter. Jokes aside - room temperature is normally considered between 20C and 25C.
Speaking of temperature, nothing used to annoy me more than "Standard temperature and pressure". Working in the Oil and Gas industry, everyone has different definitions. It actually got to the point where i'd specify flowrate as m3 @15C, 101.325 kPa(a).
Rather than Sm3.
The other annoying thing was people that worked in Imperial, rather than the strictly superior metric (from an Engineering point of view, metric is way way way easier to work with). I can understand the argument that Fahrenheit is more 'convenient' for ambient temperature as it has more sensitivity.
moot point LoD came out in 2001 which could be loosely regarded as turn of the millennium under either argument.
but for the sake of argument I am on team 31 Dec 2000.
LozHinge the Unhinged
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LoD? What is that? I am intrigued.
Of course you are.
Colour me 32,000 shades of surprised.
It is even more complex than that. Milk exposed to UV light (irrespective of the temperature) can very quickly develop a "cardboard" taint that is clearly detectable even in tea (or coffee). Given enough time, the UV light can trigger autooxidation that begins to break the milk's fatty acids into aldehydes and ketones that make the milk taste rancid.
