I drink hot tea out of my titanium pot with no problems. For some reason, Ti is cool as long as you don't touch it where the hot stuff is inside. In fact, I can grab a pot of almost boiling water with my bare hands, as long I keep my hands above the water line.

That's undoubtedly why Ti is no good for regular cooking--it doesn't spread the heat. I rehydrate my home-cooked-and-dehydrated food in a freezer bag, so my Ti pot is used only for boiling water.

As a teenager, I found an enamel cup-one of those pretty blue speckled ones-next to a snowbank on Mt. Ethel east of Steamboat Springs, CO. I had the cup for many years!