If you’ve decided you’re done with plastic straws, you might have already made the jump to a metal straw. In doing so, you could have discovered your drink seems a bit colder when sipped.
So does a metal straw make drinks colder?
No, your straw isn’t magically making your drink colder, but it is making it seem colder. Honestly, isn’t perception enough when it comes to your beverage experience? Okay, probably not, but it’s still nice.
But if it’s not actually colder, why it seems that way? That’s all to do with metal’s conductivity. When you draw an ice-cold beverage through a metal straw, the straw itself retains some of the cold. While it won’t keep the chill forever, it will last longer than a plastic straw and likely through each sip. This means each time you drink your beverage, it isn’t being incrementally warmed by a plastic straw and is instead remaining at or near the icy temperature it is in your glass.
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