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For those of us who appreciate hot rice wine, but find the inevitable cooling cycle annoying, someone should manufacture a self heating cup. The concept could be extended to include cognac glasses.
Physics and engineering rear their ugly heads here - If you go with a nine volt battery, the power
would quickly be exhausted.
If you go with a fuel / wick combination, temperature regulation is a challenge.
I'd love to learn that this one is baked already, but all I've been able to locate is traditional pour-thru heaters for flask-size quantities.
Perhaps nuclear powered cups would be a long term solution, but I'm not sure how much shielding would be required to protect my face.
Solar powered? I do most of my sake drinking on winter nights...
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I keep reading this as Heat Seeking Sake Cup. |
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If you can make a larger version for mulled wine I'll give you a plus. |
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Maybe an insulated cup shaped like a cone. Tea mugs whose necks are narrower than the base or that are pinched in below the rim and then curve out again keep tea hotter for longer than straight sided mugs. |
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It wouldn't work indefinately of course but then sake is only drunk in small cups. |
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squeak, I like the idea of heat-seeking sake cups....it would actually solve the problem....Of course, the added drawback of hanging on to your drink arises, but there is potential here.. |
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This could be accomplished using the same principle as
portable butane hair appliances. |
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Rather than have the cup itself heat up, some type of
stylish, thermally conductive, cup "cozy" could be
designed
to house the heating element. Your cup will be
continuously reheated whenever you aren't sipping. |
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I picture something akin to a hard-boiled egg stand. |
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Wonderful idea, normzone. |
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[portable butane hair appliances} |
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This conjures up frightening images - I'm picturing wigs and trips to the burn ward - tell me it's all a bad dream. |
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Your egg cup is a good design - but I need to talk the sushi bar into running an extension cord across the bar. When I win the lottery and open my sushi bar / photo gallery, this will be built into the bar. |
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why not put a pellet of iron in the
bottom of your sake cup. Then in
the sushi bar's table top have
small areas that have beneath
them an induction heating
element. I guess to really tech this
out the cup could have a
thermostatically controlled radio
signal that tells the induction coils
to stop when ideal temp is
reached. |
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Or you could just drink faster. |
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I think increasing the thermal mass of the cup is your best option, short of building something into the bar. Build a steel base into the base of the cup or glass with significant mass (though not so much as to keep the customer from lifting their drink), and thermally insulate all surfaces that don't touch the cup. Store them at a temperature a few degrees above the temperature you'd prefer for your sake or cognac. |
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Instead of waiting for your local bar to implement this, bring a brick with you that's been coated on 5 sides with spray-foam insulation and has been sitting by your stove all day. Place your cup on it while you aren't drinking. Actually, that sounds more elegant than the heavy cup method. |
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The correct temperature for drinking sake or shoju is just at or above body temperature. That's why the cup is so small. You put it in her navel to keep it warm. |
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I tried that, but she keeps drinking it. |
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Thank you [a1], only took this long for the tech to be off the shelf. |
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I kept seeing it as a self-heating snake cup, for which
the intended function is completely obvious... |
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Alternatively, something you might find in the bodily
protection undergarment section of a sporting
goods store in a northern climate. |
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I have seen USB powered coffee cup heaters recently ... |
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Yes - think it exists now..... you can live on the royalties. |
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