Did you time him or just eyeball it?

That line about the oils and cold shock sent me down a rabbit hole last year too, after I watched a guy at a counter in Raleigh get handed a shot in a paper cup with no warning that it was going over ice. The weird part is that shops do this to save time on iced drinks, so the barista already had the glass ready and just dumped it, which means your 8 month habit probably died over a speed thing, not a taste thing. You can just say "hot, in a small cup" when you order and most of them will nod and do it without a fuss.

Used to roll my eyes at stuff like this and figure the savings were made up or like ten bucks a year. Then I actually put my old desktop, monitor, and speakers on a switched strip and killed it every night, and the change showed up on the very next bill. Sometimes the boring fix is the one that actually works.