If you drink cold water you'll be fine, however these cups are almost always sold as Moscow mule cups which literally combines multiple acids and alcohol in one container. And as far as quality I meant that the best one will be solid copper with a stainless plaiting, not that every one that's plated copper will be good. Sort of like all the best sock are wool but not all wool socks are the best.
The issue is there isnt any solid scientific measuring of the amount of copper you get from drinking out of copper mugs. I would very much like a study of that, as it could be a big issue. I understand that over consuming any nutrient can be hazardous, and one of the reasons I dont use them unless we are making mixed drinks, which may be every other weekend, at the most.
Moscow Mules should be served in copper mugs. As in 100% copper, not copper plated. Plated stainless steel defeats the purpose of copper's high conductivity. I wouldn't recommend these.
Ah, what a gripping life you do lead from your parent's basement: trolling the comments section of Massdrop for products you have zero interest in so you can make nasty comments to strangers who have done you no harm and just generally be unpleasant for no reason at all.
angelesYou have a low threshold of nasty and unpleasant. Don’t be so fragile and more importantly, don’t take shit you read on the internet too seriously—it’s not good for your constitution.
Excuse my ignorance.
Doesn't copper plating defeat the purpose?
Also, would it be cost prohibitive making it purely from copper?
Still great to see this here. Vodka is the only drink.
That sure isn't true in my country; my country's coins have as their mix roughly (Fe, Cu, Zn) = (94%, 5%, 1%).
That led to pretty massive cost reductions at the Mint...
Dollar+ coins are mostly Nickel.
cbbrowneCupronickel/Cu-Zn is still the mainstay for coins in a lot of countries as it's toxic to most pathogens. Useful when coins change hands so much. A mostly iron alloy sacrifices that in favour of being cheap.
All in all, my point wasn't about a particular country, but that *many* countries use a lot of copper for coins (the EU being one MAJOR example). There, 1,2,5 euro cents are copper covered steel (10% w/w), the 10,20,50 are nordic gold (89% copper), and the 1 and 2 Euro are nordic gold for the yellow bits and cupronickel (75% copper) for the silver.
I was Hoping for a decent Moscow mule mug, and I ended up with 4 part fairly decent Beer mugs. Actually, great mugs. After we froze these mugs with my copper mugs, we realized we can tell the difference. You can laugh with your friends and drink out of stainless steel cups that are frothy and cold, or you can be a pretentious f*** and drink out solid copper mouth gobbles and b**** about how good life is.
I'll tell you what's wrong with these and nearly every other version of the same mug that I've actually had the misfortune to handle--the handle sucks! It's sharp, very uncomfortable to grip, and not roomy enough to get your fingers in it--and if you do, you'll wish you hadn't! Who the hell designed that damn handle? No someone who had to use it, I'd wager. Never been a fan of the drink either, but still, there's no reason to be in pain while you're drinking one!