Pots, did we forget them or we choose to forget them?

Here is the pot we have at our home. It is a bit shady at one side because of poor craftsmanship and it doesn't work great at cooling the water too (we bought a faulty piece 😢) ,. Nevertheless it still does the job of holding water. Looking at it, I wondered a lot of things. Why are we still using it? Do we still need them?

Pots here are old and are fashioned not so good

Summers in India get very hot: close to 50℃. In such scorching heat it is important to have to some cold water at home to cool ourselves from time to time. What actually happens inside the pot that keeps the water cool? Answer to this question is complicated, but I will try to make it simple into three sentences. Water perspires through the seeping small punctures/perforations that exists between the particles of grains of mud particles (which are incredibly tiny and microscopic). The heatness contained in water pushes the moving water molecules (Brownian motion) into the pores leaving behind other water molecules loosing thermal energy to escaped ones. When water molecules seep across the thickness of pot they evaporate at surface which in its turn continue to suck more water molecules for perspiration from the inside. As time passes more and more molecules leave with thermal energy leaving the inside water chilled (void of thermal energy). The immediate speculation is, what happens to the air, I.e. can't the process be reversed viz. Air sipping through pores into the pot. ! Remember that air pressure is much lower than water pressure and there are other dynamics at play, that I aren't easy enough to describe without boring you. The insulating character of pots keep the water temperature more or less constant on the inside.

Now let's put behind the science behind all this and start thinking about the origin of pots. Archeological evidences point pottery to pre-history, to the invention of potters wheel. But a documentary by BBC claims that idea of pottery began when prehistoric man got an idea of digging a pit and observing its capacity to hold water. Sometime later they observed, say BBC, that the pot that had fire in its place had capacity to hold water for a long time and also it naturally peeled itself out of ground, like barks of tree. That's interesting to see, how keen man is, if BBC is to be beloved.( I think it's a plausible and appropriate explanation for the situation here).

Ancient times we used it for various purposes that I needn't even mention. As time passed they were given a status of art from mere utility and as technology developed its replaced appropriately by other metal ware. Pottery lost its prominence except in the context of being an art form. Potters lost their livelihood to Ironsmiths, or they shifted from pottery to ceramics, chinaware and porcelain. Few shifted to Glassmsith. Whatever, we lost our dear water chiller to a freezer.

One day, a few summers ago, I came home from blazing hit sun. I wanted to cool my body. I asked for some chilled water and I was warned against not drinking it immediately. I was asked to rest for a while and then have it. I didn't care, I just pulled a bottle out of fridge and drank. My teeth just froze and ached in pain but I didn't stop till I finish the bottle. After half an hour or so, started feeling exhausted and having some stomach pain, body pains and headaches. It didn't stop and I was suffering from fever and eye strain. I visited doctor and doctor told me to never drink water straight out of fridge (without mixing it with normal water) and never have chilled water immediately under shade. That's when our family realized that our romance with freezing water, as a symbol of our status, is over. We need to shift back to pottery again.

Over the course of 15 years, every year or a couple we bought new pots, broke old ones and never once did they fail in cooling water.

Lucky pots are still being made and sold, though much less in number and are more costly. This pot shown here cost around 150 INR and it is ultra cheap compared to fridge. That makes me wonder if we(I) chose to forget pots like everybody else, or are the pots are forgotten ?

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