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Old 08-29-2007, 11:53 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tristanrobin View Post
90 degree coffee will cause 3rd degree burns?
I don't know about 3rd degree, but I've certainly been scalded by water at that temperature.

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I don't know what the safety standard is ... the safety standard (which, as Starbucks, etc. certainly serve hot coffee) obviously isn't 50 degrees. I think you msread my statement. The coffee standard wasn't 50 degrees - McDonald's was serving 50 degress HOTTER than the safety standard.
OK, let's say they make really bad coffee at McDonald's (a perfectly feasible possibility) and use boiling water. That's 100 degrees, so it can't possibly be MORE than that.

Now, if the law says it should be served 50 degrees LESS than that, that's 50 degrees - which is drinkable, but a pretty darned cold starting point for a coffee, though still marginally better than the tepid coffee I mentioned if it was 50 degrees less than 90 (that would be 40 - really tepid).

I don't want boiling coffee, but I don't want cold coffee either!
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