ChrisL Posted April 20, 2018 Share #1 Posted April 20, 2018 Met someone at a Starbucks this morning, ordered a LG coffee with a little ice in it to cool it off. Barista: Ice on the bottom or the top? Me: Can you keep it in the middle so it melts faster? Barista: Now you are being a smart ass.... She was serious?!?!? It matters where you put 3 blocks of ice to cool coffee?!?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #2 Posted April 20, 2018 1 minute ago, ChrisL said: Met someone at a Starbucks this morning, ordered a LG coffee with a little ice in it to cool it off. Barista: Ice on the bottom or the top? Me: Can you keep it in the middle so it melts faster? Barista: Now you are being a smart ass.... She was serious?!?!? It matters where you put 3 blocks of ice to cool coffee?!?! It might. Are you planning an experiment? AND IT ISN'T A LARGE!!!!! Tom 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share #3 Posted April 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: It might. Are you planning an experiment? AND IT ISN'T A LARGE!!!!! Tom Yeah it's a freaking large. I don't speak Starbucks.... The experiment was don't burn your lips while talking to the guy... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #4 Posted April 20, 2018 Dunno, They'll float to the top anywhich way you put them in. Maybe they'll melt faster if they're put in first. Oh, Forgot. You're in Cali It's a THING, ChrisL Kardashian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share #5 Posted April 20, 2018 29 minutes ago, 2Far said: Dunno, They'll float to the top anywhich way you put them in. Maybe they'll melt faster if they're put in first. Oh, Forgot. You're in Cali It's a THING, ChrisL Kardashian. Right, everyone in Cali lives the Kardashian life... I forgot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Come Lately Name Posted April 20, 2018 Share #6 Posted April 20, 2018 You lives sheltered life, don’t you. Of course there’s “top ice” and “bottom ice”, but we don’t judge, do we? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #7 Posted April 20, 2018 top and bottom ice sounds like brokeback glacier to me. NTTIATWWT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Come Lately Name Posted April 20, 2018 Share #8 Posted April 20, 2018 8 minutes ago, jsharr said: top and bottom ice sounds like brokeback glacier to me. NTTIATWWT Still better than Vanilla Ice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #9 Posted April 20, 2018 I guess when you order a "Large; Half caf, quarter arabian, quarter monkey shit blue; 1/3 soy, 1/3 coconut, 1/3 half & half; 1/2 filtered, 1/2 tap; no foam; gently stirred; frappimochahazilnilla" hot beverage, it matters wtf the ice goes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #10 Posted April 20, 2018 Just now, 2Far said: I guess when you order a "Large; Half caf, quarter arabian, quarter monkey shit blue; 1/3 soy, 1/3 coconut, 1/3 half & half; 1/2 filtered, 1/2 tap; no foam; gently stirred; frappimochahazilnilla" hot beverage, it matters wtf the ice goes. Oh forgot "no foam". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share #11 Posted April 20, 2018 5 minutes ago, 2Far said: I guess when you order a "Large; Half caf, quarter arabian, quarter monkey shit blue; 1/3 soy, 1/3 coconut, 1/3 half & half; 1/2 filtered, 1/2 tap; no foam; gently stirred; frappimochahazilnilla" hot beverage, it matters wtf the ice goes. I'm sure I completely threw her off by asking for a "large coffee". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapr ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #12 Posted April 20, 2018 18 minutes ago, ChrisL said: I'm sure I completely threw her off by asking for a "large coffee". Americano? No. I want coffee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #13 Posted April 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, Scrapr said: Americano? No. I want coffee I am a Texan, does that count as Americano? I want a coffee too, plain, black coffee. Do you have any Folgers? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #14 Posted April 20, 2018 1 hour ago, ChrisL said: Yeah it's a freaking large. I don't speak Starbucks.... The experiment was don't burn your lips while talking to the guy... Yet you called her a barista! Sweet jeebus. They have gotten you and you don't even realize it. Tom 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted April 20, 2018 Share #15 Posted April 20, 2018 1 hour ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said: Still better than Vanilla Ice Yo, Vanilla, kick it one time, boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted April 20, 2018 Share #16 Posted April 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Yet you called her a barista! Sweet jeebus. They have gotten you and you don't even realize it. Tom Yeah, I love how that is apparently now a real profession and they act like you should be impressed by what they do. When ever I hear someone say that's what they are, I like to reply "So like a Starbucks server" and then see the look on their face. Of course I then play it off as just trying to make sure I understand what you mean. No idea why people think I'm an asshole. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted April 20, 2018 Share #17 Posted April 20, 2018 When she asked if you wanted the ice on the top or the bottom, you should have asked if it was winter or spring ice? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted April 20, 2018 Share #18 Posted April 20, 2018 Next time, order it "extra hot" with ice! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #19 Posted April 20, 2018 2 hours ago, ChrisL said: ordered a LG coffee exactly what size large are we talkin' here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #20 Posted April 20, 2018 14 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: exactly what size large are we talkin' here He wrote "LG", so #2 - la grande! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #21 Posted April 20, 2018 17 minutes ago, Kirby said: When she asked if you wanted the ice on the top or the bottom, you should have asked if it was winter or spring ice? Or asked if they had it at different temps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #22 Posted April 20, 2018 1 minute ago, Razors Edge said: He wrote "LG", so #2 - la grande! Tom I'm confused...there is no small then? But there is XL and 2XL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #23 Posted April 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: I'm confused...there is no small then? But there is XL and 2XL Make it easy and just take your own cup. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted April 20, 2018 Share #24 Posted April 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said: I'm confused...there is no small then? But there is XL and 2XL That's the new America. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted April 20, 2018 Share #25 Posted April 20, 2018 1 hour ago, jsharr said: Or asked if they had it at different temps. Or insisted on the guava flavored ice cubes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted April 20, 2018 Share #26 Posted April 20, 2018 will they foam the ice for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #27 Posted April 20, 2018 As a master chemist I would say that bottom ice would float to the top fast enough that no appreciable difference would occur from putting it at the top unless it was a combination of coffee and layers of other stuff that limited how fast the ice could rise. On the other hand, strange simple phenomena have been hard to explain on occasion. A debate raged for years in the Letters to the Editor in the monthly magazine of the American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News, after a chemist in South Africa related his experience while rushing to make homemade ice cream with his son and the son's friend before going to a sports event. One of the two ice cream batches had not cooled off as much as the other before they put them in a freezer, but when they got home after the event the hotter ice cream had cooled the most and had frozen harder. The debate was whether the fact that the hotter ice cream would have experienced an initial faster rate of cooling due to the initial larger temperature difference of ice cream and freezer temperature according to Newton's Law of Cooling and if that somehow created some kind of Thermal Engine that triggered some kind of Carnot Cycle (Carnot was the guy who figured out how energy efficiencies work) that kept the hotter ice cream cooling faster after it reached the same temperature as the other batch. Certified chemists came up with weird-but-plausible explanations that defied refutation. So I don't know. Ask her next time what the difference is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share #28 Posted April 20, 2018 24 minutes ago, MickinMD said: As a master chemist I would say that bottom ice would float to the top fast enough that no appreciable difference would occur from putting it at the top unless it was a combination of coffee and layers of other stuff that limited how fast the ice could rise. On the other hand, strange simple phenomena have been hard to explain on occasion. A debate raged for years in the Letters to the Editor in the monthly magazine of the American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News, after a chemist in South Africa related his experience while rushing to make homemade ice cream with his son and the son's friend before going to a sports event. One of the two ice cream batches had not cooled off as much as the other before they put them in a freezer, but when they got home after the event the hotter ice cream had cooled the most and had frozen harder. The debate was whether the fact that the hotter ice cream would have experienced an initial faster rate of cooling due to the initial larger temperature difference of ice cream and freezer temperature according to Newton's Law of Cooling and if that somehow created some kind of Thermal Engine that triggered some kind of Carnot Cycle (Carnot was the guy who figured out how energy efficiencies work) that kept the hotter ice cream cooling faster after it reached the same temperature as the other batch. Certified chemists came up with weird-but-plausible explanations that defied refutation. So I don't know. Ask her next time what the difference is! I read the whole thing and got: Ice cream Ask her next time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 20, 2018 Share #29 Posted April 20, 2018 1 hour ago, MickinMD said: As a master chemist I would say that bottom ice would float to the top fast enough that no appreciable difference would occur from putting it at the top unless it was a combination of coffee and layers of other stuff that limited how fast the ice could rise. On the other hand, strange simple phenomena have been hard to explain on occasion. A debate raged for years in the Letters to the Editor in the monthly magazine of the American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News, after a chemist in South Africa related his experience while rushing to make homemade ice cream with his son and the son's friend before going to a sports event. One of the two ice cream batches had not cooled off as much as the other before they put them in a freezer, but when they got home after the event the hotter ice cream had cooled the most and had frozen harder. The debate was whether the fact that the hotter ice cream would have experienced an initial faster rate of cooling due to the initial larger temperature difference of ice cream and freezer temperature according to Newton's Law of Cooling and if that somehow created some kind of Thermal Engine that triggered some kind of Carnot Cycle (Carnot was the guy who figured out how energy efficiencies work) that kept the hotter ice cream cooling faster after it reached the same temperature as the other batch. Certified chemists came up with weird-but-plausible explanations that defied refutation. So I don't know. Ask her next time what the difference is! Ah, but the warmer ice cream would have less volume after the same amount of time. Similar to how warm water freezes quicker too? But like you write, a few explanations exist beyond my evaporation favorite. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted April 21, 2018 Share #30 Posted April 21, 2018 Half a cube on the bottom, half a cube on top, and put the other half in the middle... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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