Science tells us how to hold a coffee mug so you don’t spill coffee on yourself
Like this.
Presumably after spilling his own coffee one too many times, physicist Jiwon Han decided to see if there was a better way to drink his java. Han took it upon himself to test new methods to find a more efficient and stable way to hold a coffee mug, Nick Rose writes for Munchies. He recently published his findings in the open access journal Achievements in the Life Sciences.
“Rarely do we manage to carry coffee around without spilling it once,” Han writes in the study. “In fact, due to the very commonness of the phenomenon, we tend to dismiss questioning it beyond simply exclaiming: ‘Jenkins! You have too much coffee in your cup!’”
As it turns out, it’s not just klutziness that makes it hard to walk around holding a full cup of coffee without spilling everywhere—it’s partly due to the traditional shape of the mug. For starters, Han found that a coffee cup was less likely to spill the taller the mug was compared to the amount of liquid it held. Even so, that’s not exactly an ideal scenario for your standard coffee addict first thing in the morning.
Next research topic: How to drink from a coffee mug without spilling coffee on yourself.
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August 31st, 2016 at 14:44
This reminds me of how most people hold a Turkish tea glass.
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August 31st, 2016 at 18:53
oriames: Hope you’re safe and comfortable in Turkey. The news gets scary.
September 2nd, 2016 at 14:42
Thanks Jessica.
Doing well.. Life goes on. Public transportation was free all over Istanbul for a few weeks after the coup.
We’re in state of emergency now and to a Filipino that’s almost martial law which makes it equal to scary but it does remind me that I’ve already lived through something like this.