On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:51:34PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> a tapoté : > > > tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote: > > > "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. 180 Celsius is ... quite hot. Unless you manage to keep it under rather excessive pressure, I guess that you will end up with a dry coffee mug that is difficult to wash. And a lot of steam... [Wow! the sig *is* random!] -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2324.html
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