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Oct 19, 2021 at 17:11 comment added doneal24 @Clockwork Is this the age-old question of milk-before-tea or tea-before-milk? Bone china is more resilient than many people think.
Oct 19, 2021 at 16:03 answer added Graham Place timeline score: 0
Oct 19, 2021 at 16:03 comment added Andrew Morton @Clockwork If a housemate was to pour boiling water into a moulded dimpled glass pint tankard, it would break along the mould line. (No attempt was made by the housemate to replicate the experience.)
Oct 19, 2021 at 2:56 comment added Scott Seidman scomedy.com/quotes/3147
Oct 18, 2021 at 22:51 comment added Glen Yates @FuzzyChef I assume OP means "unsafe" in the realm of a TCS food (Time/Temperature Controlled Safety) of which milk definitely is one. Putting cold milk into hot coffee would raise the temperature of the milk into the danger zone and plausibly, if left there long enough then bacteria could grow. But what must be remembered is that the safety of TCS foods depends on both time and temperature, so pouring cold milk into hot coffee should be safe as long as you drink it in a reasonable time.
Oct 18, 2021 at 19:03 comment added Clockwork @CaveJohnson I'm not entirely sure, but I remember something like this: if you pour a hot beverage into a cup, then after emptying it you pour a cold one into the (now hot) cup, then it might crack or break because of the sudden temperature difference.
Oct 18, 2021 at 18:13 comment added Sneftel @Clockwork There is no plausible mechanism for that which would be potentiated by adding cold milk to hot coffee.
Oct 18, 2021 at 17:38 comment added Cave Johnson I've been told that eating/drinking two things with large temperature differences (i.e. ice cold water and hot soup) is detrimental to your teeth. But I haven't found anything online to support that. Perhaps that could also be what led to this question?
Oct 18, 2021 at 0:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackCooking/status/1449888059504435207
Oct 17, 2021 at 20:18 comment added Clockwork @FuzzyChef The most likely result I could come across was the fact that some people have more trouble digesting milk, and mixing it with coffee makes it even heavier on the stomach, although for many others (like myself) it's not a problem.
Oct 17, 2021 at 17:53 comment added FuzzyChef "Someone" is pranking you, I think.
Oct 17, 2021 at 14:30 answer added Stefan Haustein timeline score: 17
Oct 17, 2021 at 14:09 comment added Clockwork @FuzzyChef Someone told me that mixing hot coffee and cold milk causes a chemical reaction that creates some kind of toxin, although a cursory search didn't wield any result.
Oct 17, 2021 at 14:01 vote accept Enrico Tuvera Jr
Oct 17, 2021 at 12:22 history became hot network question
Oct 17, 2021 at 10:37 answer added user141592 timeline score: 28
Oct 17, 2021 at 10:21 answer added moscafj timeline score: 49
Oct 17, 2021 at 0:27 comment added FuzzyChef What do you mean by "unsafe"? Food poisoning? Cause a hot coffee explosion? Something else?
Oct 17, 2021 at 0:14 history asked Enrico Tuvera Jr CC BY-SA 4.0