My old favorite cobalt blue glass coffee cup finally bit the big one after years of use. Got a crack in the bottom, probably from years of sitting on a coffee warmer all the time.

I immediately set out to replace it. One does not simply "just go on" after losing a favorite coffee cup.

Ebay was helpful in this regard, and I bought a set of 4, so as to prevent future states of cuplessness.

These came with a note that said "THE GLASS FACTORY RECOMMENDS PLACING SPOON IN CUP BEFORE POURING HOT LIQUID INTO MUGS!!!"

"What a retarded urban legend", I thought, as I proceeded to pour fresh coffee into my [room temperature] mug, only to watch said mug split apart, leaving me with 2 chunks of cup, a counter full of coffee, and that horrid still-caffeine-free feeling.

No, I didn't put a spoon in, first.

Neither did I put a spoon in the old cup that lasted for I don't know how many years getting hot coffee poured directly into it.

I say the spoon thing is just a cover for either A) shoddy workmanship or B) the piss-ignorant notion of using non-tempered glass in a COFFEE cup in the first place.

Now, having Googled this, I know that there are plenty of smug fucks out there who say "I always use a spoon and my cups don't crack". Well, since cups hardly every crack in the first place, that doesn't mean much. I'd like to hear from someone who DID use a spoon and their cup cracked anyway, thus falsifying this suspiciously unscientific wives tale once and for all.

Any takers?

And please don't talk to me about how "the spoon acts as a heat sink". That would only help cool the coffee and "protect" the cup if you poured all the coffee down along the length of the spoon to cool it. Why not just recommend putting an ice cube in the coffee pot to cool it off instead? It'd be even more effective, since the specific heat capacity of ice is 5 times that of iron.

Posted by: Harvey at 06:49 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
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