A drink needs reheating so they use a convenient household equipment to reheat it. How controversial. How sacrilegious.
I am not sure about coffee, but heating water in a microwave may result in superheated water, which is above the boiling point without boiling. This can be quite dangerous, as it might start boiling at any time. In chemistry you usually put a boiling chip in the water when heating it in a test glass to avoid this.
Doesn't this only happen with pure distilled water though?
Might be. I am actually not quite sure about this
I'm pretty sure it also has to be contained in a pressure chamber too. If it's not, the steam just disperses into the atmosphere along with the excess heat.
It shouldn't happen with coffee, superheated water requires there to be nowhere for the bubbles to form but even tap water normally has enough minerals dissolved in it for that to not be a problem.
Would be really rare with coffee since there would be a whole lot of nucleation sites, that is the dissolved coffee itself plus bubbles.
Even when I'm heating water in the microwave, it's just habit that I tap the mug or peck with a teaspoon before having it near my face.
Instead of reheating it, put a little ice in it and call it an iced coffee.
It definitely tastes worse but I think it's still fine. Also it's partly a punishment from having forgotten to drink it in the first place 😔
You don't have to punish yourself for forgetting something! You deserve nothing of the sort.
Don't kink shame me
Ice coffee is not the same vibe as hot coffee at all. I can drink hot coffee black, for instance, but I need sugar in ice coffee.
Try maple syrup in the iced coffee, total game changer! It's pretty much the only way I drink it now.
I don't know if this was supposed to be a rebuttal or if you're just sharing what you like in your coffee, but maple syrup is literally sugar.
Not a rebuttal, just saying if someone needs sugar in their iced coffee that maple syrup is a really good option
Gotcha, personally I don't like it as I find it takes on a burnt flavor. I love maple syrup on lots of other things though.
Still not the same vibe as hot coffee, but I’ve never thought of maple syrup in coffee. Sounds tasty!
I mean how else would you reheat a cold coffee?
You wouldn't. You'd make new coffee. Not trying to be condescending. I literally wouldn't reheat coffee because if it's been standing long enough to get cold, it no longer tastes good.
I don't think what you said was condescending, it just sounds wasteful to me tbh. I'm not throwing it away just because it got cold and it doesn't taste fresh anymore.
People do shit like that but then they bought the brown coffee filters instead of the white ones so they're still saving the environment 🙄
It's about creating less waste for me and not really about saving the environment. I just don't like to be wasteful.
It was a general comment on the duality of people's attitudes towards environmentalism. Didn't really mean to aim it at you specifically.
Oh, my bad.
Ah, so it's a sort of punishment for yourself for not drinking it while it was hot? You made it, so now by god you'll drink it? Maybe invest in an insulated cup or thermos then. 😂
Not really, it would just feel like unnecessary waste. Though I did make a comment about punishment as a joke.
People are heating up coffee in microwave? TIL.
A drink needs reheating so they use a convenient household equipment to reheat it. How controversial. How sacrilegious.
I am not sure about coffee, but heating water in a microwave may result in superheated water, which is above the boiling point without boiling. This can be quite dangerous, as it might start boiling at any time. In chemistry you usually put a boiling chip in the water when heating it in a test glass to avoid this.
Doesn't this only happen with pure distilled water though?
Might be. I am actually not quite sure about this
I'm pretty sure it also has to be contained in a pressure chamber too. If it's not, the steam just disperses into the atmosphere along with the excess heat.
It shouldn't happen with coffee, superheated water requires there to be nowhere for the bubbles to form but even tap water normally has enough minerals dissolved in it for that to not be a problem.
Would be really rare with coffee since there would be a whole lot of nucleation sites, that is the dissolved coffee itself plus bubbles.
Even when I'm heating water in the microwave, it's just habit that I tap the mug or peck with a teaspoon before having it near my face.
Wow that’s nuts, didn’t know that was possible.
How hot are you microwaving your stuff?
I swear this ruins the coffee
Instead of reheating it, put a little ice in it and call it an iced coffee.
It definitely tastes worse but I think it's still fine. Also it's partly a punishment from having forgotten to drink it in the first place 😔
You don't have to punish yourself for forgetting something! You deserve nothing of the sort.
Don't kink shame me
Ice coffee is not the same vibe as hot coffee at all. I can drink hot coffee black, for instance, but I need sugar in ice coffee.
Try maple syrup in the iced coffee, total game changer! It's pretty much the only way I drink it now.
I don't know if this was supposed to be a rebuttal or if you're just sharing what you like in your coffee, but maple syrup is literally sugar.
Not a rebuttal, just saying if someone needs sugar in their iced coffee that maple syrup is a really good option
Gotcha, personally I don't like it as I find it takes on a burnt flavor. I love maple syrup on lots of other things though.
Still not the same vibe as hot coffee, but I’ve never thought of maple syrup in coffee. Sounds tasty!
I mean how else would you reheat a cold coffee?
You wouldn't. You'd make new coffee. Not trying to be condescending. I literally wouldn't reheat coffee because if it's been standing long enough to get cold, it no longer tastes good.
I don't think what you said was condescending, it just sounds wasteful to me tbh. I'm not throwing it away just because it got cold and it doesn't taste fresh anymore.
People do shit like that but then they bought the brown coffee filters instead of the white ones so they're still saving the environment 🙄
It's about creating less waste for me and not really about saving the environment. I just don't like to be wasteful.
It was a general comment on the duality of people's attitudes towards environmentalism. Didn't really mean to aim it at you specifically.
Oh, my bad.
Ah, so it's a sort of punishment for yourself for not drinking it while it was hot? You made it, so now by god you'll drink it? Maybe invest in an insulated cup or thermos then. 😂
Not really, it would just feel like unnecessary waste. Though I did make a comment about punishment as a joke.