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Because porcelain, in the shape of a bowl, is incredibly good at staying relatively clean and being easy to clean when it eventually does get dirty. Those are the most important properties you want for something that you literally shit into.
Couldn’t enamled metal work just as well? It’s not like you shit into bare porcelain; it’s enamaled. My fear is that the porcelain breaks. That can be lethal, and nobody wants to die on the toilet.
Yeah, you can buy metal toilets. They have them in prisons and public restrooms, usually. I think people don’t buy them because they don’t like the look. I certainly wouldn’t want a metal toilet.
Because porcelain, in the shape of a bowl, is incredibly good at staying relatively clean and being easy to clean when it eventually does get dirty. Those are the most important properties you want for something that you literally shit into.
It also usually self-cleans quite nicely through the flushing mechanism. Hence the noise, since it pushes water down the sides to clean it.
Couldn’t enamled metal work just as well? It’s not like you shit into bare porcelain; it’s enamaled. My fear is that the porcelain breaks. That can be lethal, and nobody wants to die on the toilet.
Yeah, you can buy metal toilets. They have them in prisons and public restrooms, usually. I think people don’t buy them because they don’t like the look. I certainly wouldn’t want a metal toilet.
Part of me thinks metal would.only transmit sound even better than porcelain.
Enamel can get chipped and scratched, and if you don’t clean it regularly it will stain and disintegrate.
Source: rented places with enameled bathtubs and sinks.
You can get them clean again, but I think you basically have to scour them with pumice, which you can probably only do so many times.
Edit: Oh, you’re talking about enamel, I’m talking about porcelain.
They’re the same thing. Enamled in this case means there’s a porcelain coating.
It’s the smoothness of the surface that’s ultimately responsible for the acoustics. That’s why walls are typically textured to some degree.