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Sometimes, when you're politely drinking tea, the saucer sticks to the teacup, because a little tea has spilled. You don't realise, and, as you take a sip, the saucer falls off the cup, making a noise when it hits the table. This is embarrasing.
Why bother to have a seperate tea cup and saucer?
It would be much better to have them integreated into one unit. This would stop the saucer falling off by accident.
One problem would be that, if you did spill some tea into the saucer, you would end up pouring it into your lap when you drank from the cup.
There are two simple solutions to this:
1) have a small hole in the saucer, so any spilt tea can safely drain onto the table.
2) make the saucer detachable. Perhaps it would be screwed on, or held on with strong magnets.
Same Problem
http://www.halfbake...non-stick_20coaster
[Nick@Nite, Oct 21 2004]
Same Problem
http://www.halfbake...ea/Sticky_20Coaster
But the best solution of the lot, methinks. [Nick@Nite, Oct 21 2004]
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Or you can hold the saucer in one hand, and the cup in the other. Thus, when you pick up the tea-cup, the other hand keeps the saucer down and stops it from sticking. |
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I think it might be easier to develop surfaces for cup & saucer that don't stick together under the influence of tea. |
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This never happens to me anyway. How much sugar do you have in your tea? |
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That first paragraph is soooo familiar - someone else had just this problem, but with beer mats. |
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[All these people with sticky beer mats/saucers - can we now expect a separate HB category?] |
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I saw a one piece tea cup and saucer combo on the antiques road show one time. |
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Why not have a little stirling-cycle engine driven by the hot tea, integrated into the bottom of the cup that drives a tiny force pump to pump dribbles of tea back up into the top ? You don't need much displacement on the pump, unless you're a major league biscuit dunker, in which case intake filters would be needed. |
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