[Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

[Grace Cangialosi]

I realized, reading this, that I never hold a wine glass by the stem, but
always by the bowl. And I, too, was taught that you shouldn't look at the
liquid while you're carrying it; otherwise it's more likely to slosh and
spill.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...and now having looked at the experiment I have to ask.... does coffee
> have legs if it's consumed from a wine glass?
> Lynn
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> From: "Allan Carr" <allanc25 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 1:29 AM
> To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses
>
> Thinking about it a little late, I should have titled this Coffee Mugs vs
>> Wine Glasses.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Apropos of nothing much, I used to walk from office to office, or around a
>>> factory floor, with a coffee cup perpetually in my hand. From time to
>>> time,
>>> i'd spill some of the coffee. Now it comes out that if I'd kept my coffee
>>> in a wine glass, my tendency to spill would have been far less. It's
>>> proved
>>> by actual experiment by a South Korean physics student http://
>>> tinyurl.com/jh9yr2w
>>>
>>> I always thought the shape of the wine glass had more to do with sniffing
>>> the wine, but maybe stability is more important to people somewhat under
>>> the influence.
>>>
>>> However, it looks to me that both the cup and the glass are half full in
>>> the experiment. My coffee cup is usually full (it generally gets cold
>>> before I drink much of it) and my wine glass (at least with red wine) is
>>> less than half full. I think that's why I spilled far more coffee in my
>>> lifetime than wine, although if you add in all the wine glasses I knocked
>>> over on the table, maybe it comes out about even.
>>>
>>> Anyway, how many of you (like me) would have picked the wine glass as
>>> having less stable liquid, because of the way it sloshes around in the
>>> round container?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Allan Carr
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Allan Carr
>>
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>


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