why dont people drink hot drinks in a straw?

Question

hot drinks mean rum, whisky, beer, gin, etc....

Answer 1

You try it and you will know!

Answer 2

This is an interesting question now... why dont we... hmmm?

Well - I suppose one reason might be that to savour the drink, the flavor has to hit your palate in all the right places (that's way there are different types of glasses for drinking champagne or wine or whiskey) - which might not be possible with a straw.

And well, they do serve rum and gin cocktails with straws... :-D

Answer 3

I've never heard hot drink refer to rum, whiskey, beer, gin, or anything else like that, probably because I live in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, I do sometimes drink whiskey through a straw, but rarely. I only like straws if there is ice in my glass and don't like ice in my whiskey.

Answer 4

People don't drink hot drink through straw because straw is made up of plastic type of material so if you put straw in the hot liquid, after one or two sips straw will stick from inside so now you will face problems in sipping the liquid, this is the reason why people don't drink hot liquid through straw.

Answer 5

If you place a small volume of hot tea in contact with your tongue then the large thermal capacity of your tongue will cool the tea a lot and your tongue will heat up a little. This is essentially what happens when you sip tea. You pull in a certain volume of tea, this tea is spread out over the tongue and stays in contact with it for a second or so. In this time the tea cools and your tongue heats. However the heating of the tongue is relatively small because the heat from the tea is spread over a large area.

If you suck the same volume of tea through a straw, then because the cross sectional area of the straw is small the velocity of the tea in the straw is high so the whole volume of the tea rapidly hits, and heats, a small area on the tongue. This causes much greater heating of that small area and scalds the tongue. Exactly what the sensory effects of the scald are I will leave to our medical/biological colleagues.


Also, evaporative cooling cools the top layer of the liquid quite effectively. Sipping is a process that takes the liquid from the top, whereas with a straw you tend to get the hotter liquid from the center.

I hope that you find my answer useful for you :)

Answer 6

Ya your question is very nice. But i think if u take a sip of cold soft drink your teeth gets freezed and some times it starts paining. So straw is used in cold drinks. In hot drinks this phenomenon is not wroking so any one can take it with a sip without straw.

Answer 7

Straws were invented to drink out of bottled drinks. eg 7 up.

I have tried it while driving long distance.

Paper straws have wax on it, it will melt in hot drinks, use good quality plastics straws only.

Answer 8

they are not just used to it. also, when they drink rum, wine, or whisky, for instance, some likes to swirl it in a glass to smell the aroma before tasting it. you can't do that using straw.

Answer 9

I wouldnt know I dotn drink alchohol, but I do know drinking drinks, the flavor dose depend on the taste buds that the drink hits first, it changes up the flavor. Thats the best I can figure.

Answer 10

Ummmm I do. Saves the teeth from cofee and tea stains. Sheesh - the way I drink coffee I would have brown teeth in no time flat!

Oh, wait, you meant ALCOHOL!

Lol, okay, --- I STILL DO. Love tequila with a tiny straw.

Hope that helps. : )

Answer 11

It just would not taste the same with a straw!