What is the difference between a mug and a ceramic cup?
What is a mug?
The mug is a large cup with a handle, which we call a mug. It originated in Europe and is a cup that people use to hold hot drinks such as milk and coffee. It is generally made of glass, plastic, stainless steel, stoneware, and bone china material. Stoneware coffee mugs have good heat preservation properties and are often used as beer mugs.
What is a ceramic cup?
Ceramic cups are generally pottery made of kaolin or clay. In China, they are used to drinking wine, tea, and so on.
Mug vs Ceramic Cup
1. Style
Mugs have various styles and designs, and there is a wide range of creative space, which is more popular among consumers. For example, you can design a cup body with different shapes, add an extra mouth to the cup body to place tea bags, or design an animal shape on the handle of the cup, etc. Contemporary young people like to choose various peculiar mugs as daily drinking containers. ( @YOUTUBE about YDY Porcelain Factory)
2. Functional materials
Mugs have a wider range of material choices than ceramic mugs. General coffee mugs can be directly used in microwave ovens and dishwashers. However, if a bone china mug is decorated with gold or other decorations, it cannot be put into a microwave oven. If it is not decorated with heavy metals such as gold, it can be put into a microwave oven. If possible, manual cleaning can extend its service life and will not damage its porcelain, keeping it as bright and clean as new. Because of the different uses of mugs, their capacity is also determined to be larger than that of ceramic mugs.
Ceramic mugs are often used as tea sets and tea cups for drinking tea. At the same time, its heat preservation can also enable it to maintain the mellow aroma of tea.
3. Capacity
The capacity of a common mug is 11oz, 300-450ml
Ceramic cups have many capacities and different uses. The capacity of a small ceramic cup for Chinese Chaozhou Kung Fu tea is 20ml, a small coffee cup with a saucer is 80-90ml, and a teacup with a saucer is 180-220ml.
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