Re: [OT] Suing for hot coffee
Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> a tapoté :
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> > Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
> > > Give me a break. Coffee is hot. It is made with boiling water. This
> > > is not a case of a McDonalds employee spilling coffee on someone else.
> > > This is someone not being careful and spilling it on themselves.
> >
> > "Coffee at 180 degrees" is a distinct item from "coffee". Coffee is
> > not properly served at 180 degrees
>
> What are you talking about? When coffee comes out of a good coffee
> machine, it is near boiling. Coffee enthusiasts even measure the
> temperature to make sure that it is extremely hot [1]. My water
> heater for tea is set at 203, and we serve it right away. McDonalds
> was far from unreasonable.
Is it really 180° Farenheit... or Celsius? In the first case, sure it
does seems so hot.
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