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• alternategait@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also aluminum is super great at conducting heat! which means your drink will rapidly move toward whatever temperature it is.

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Great at conduction, but with not a lot of thermal mass, meaning that actually your drink will usually just make whatever it’s touching (your hand, often) super cold or hot.

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    • alternategait@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a two way street. Your hand is reciprocally warming the drink.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We’ve been storing and drinking beverages in aluminum cans for like a century now and this hasn’t been a big problem.

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, for sure. Though if you drink it fast enough, it won’t warm the drink noticeably before it’s gone.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I used to make, consume and share a lot of frozen beverages. I had a set of aluminum cups that I loved, but everyone else hated them because they started frosting over as soon as the frozen drink was poured in. My then girlfriend, now wife, would only use them with a towel wrapped around them for insulation.

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oof. I think I lean more toward her side, to be honest. I don’t like having cold hands.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you’re sitting in hot bleachers, the cooling effect on your hand or forehead is pretty nice, and you’re gonna drink the drink before it’s warm anyway. Hot is more of a problem unless you’re cold enough to be wearing mittens.

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  • MisshapenDeviate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I have some and they 100% require a koozie/beverage sleeve.

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  • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Most people think “oh, cup so cold, my drink stay cold!”

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?

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• atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Capitalism baby! If nobody buys your environmentally friendly aluminum cups they won’t do much good, and people are more likely to buy a product with “luxurious” feeling packaging. They’re likely still a net benefit vs plastic solo cups, but the market leads to perverse incentives.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  those aluminum cups make milk taste fantastic. also taste colder for some reason.

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