Mc Donalds coffee

AllGunsBlazing · 07-05-2014 11:35PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoINTDFosCY

MagicMarker · 07-05-2014 11:39PM

Magaggie wrote: »

Your employer serves you tea?

My employer supplies the kettle, so is boiling water too hot for tea or what? Do I have a case? Have I been putting my body on the line every day by having tea in work?

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Well, it's obvious that water just boiled in a kettle is going to be extremely hot. That's the whole point of a kettle. I wouldn't expect a cup of filter coffee to be served at nearly boiling point

Coffee is brewed near 200 degree fahrenheit, and according to the NCAUSA coffee should be maintained at around 180. So are you really telling me that you wouldn't expect a recently brewed filter coffee to be near boiling point?

You do accept the fact that when you buy a coffee it may have just been brewed, and therefore will be very hot?

Caliden · 07-05-2014 11:42PM

From this thread it's clear that McDonalds' smear campaign against this woman has succeeded. There's an entire documentary on the subject and the courts ruled in her favour so as we're in a world of laws and justice then the courts have the final decision on the matter.

It's a shame that her name got dragged through the mud and all she wanted was medical costs for coffee that was served too hot.

radharc · 07-05-2014 11:50PM

Caliden wrote: »

From this thread it's clear that McDonalds' smear campaign against this woman has succeeded. There's an entire documentary on the subject and the courts ruled in her favour so as we're in a world of laws and justice then the courts have the final decision on the matter.

It's a shame that her name got dragged through the mud and all she wanted was medical costs for coffee that was served too hot.

It wasn't served too hot, that is the whole point!

McDonald's and Starbucks continue to serve coffee at the same temperature that they always did ie the same temp as in this case.

People saying that the coffee was too hot have failed to address the point that every eating establishment in the country serves tea, at a temp in excess of the coffee served in this case.Are they all serving a dangerously hot product?

Jesus Wept · 08-05-2014 12:03AM

Sad case.

Shakespeare's Sister · 08-05-2014 12:09AM

MagicMarker wrote: »

My employer supplies the kettle, so is boiling water too hot for tea or what? Do I have a case? Have I been putting my body on the line every day by having tea in work?

You're... drawing an analogy between your place of employment and tea prepared by you... and McDonalds?

ceadaoin. · 08-05-2014 12:20AM

MagicMarker wrote: »

My employer supplies the kettle, so is boiling water too hot for tea or what? Do I have a case? Have I been putting my body on the line every day by having tea in work?

Coffee is brewed near 200 degree fahrenheit, and according to the NCAUSA coffee should be maintained at around 180. So are you really telling me that you wouldn't expect a recently brewed filter coffee to be near boiling point?

You do accept the fact that when you buy a coffee it may have just been brewed, and therefore will be very hot?

No I wouldn't expect a recently brewed cup of filter coffee to be near boiling point. It's not like each cup is brewed individually to order. By the time the pot is full it would have cooled considerably. It would only be that hot if it was maintained at that temperature and there is no need for it to be.

Obviously, it's going to be hot. I just don't think it needs to be so hot that it could cause third degree burns within 2 seconds.

Voodoomelon · 08-05-2014 12:48AM

McDonalds lattes and cappuccinos are great. We still don't get mochas though like the UK which annoys me.

Crann na Beatha · 08-05-2014 01:08AM

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whirlpool · 08-05-2014 02:01AM

radharc wrote: »

Are you suggesting that McDonalds were somehow able to bypass the laws of science and produce coffee hotter than boiling water??

Not in the slightest.

I really thought my post was pretty straight forward. It's clear that a lot of people really just aren't getting what happened - at all- and it's time to just shut this thread down :pac:

whirlpool · 08-05-2014 02:02AM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Isn't it amazing that we humans can drink such hot things?!

It is, actually, now that you mention it. I wonder how it was first discovered that our insides can handle boiling-hot water. Strange one.

ozmo · 08-05-2014 02:30AM

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Yes, and if the water hadn't been above the boiling point, that act wouldn't have left her in hospital.

Magaggie wrote: »

...the coffee was at too high a temperature ... of 180-190 degrees rather than the standard 130-140 degrees for coffee).

Temps are suspect. Those figures have to be F not C.

So 190F= Extremely scalding hot (but not boiling) 87 C
but 130 is a quite cold cup of coffee @ 54 C

Had an apple pie few months ago - was cold and they wouldn't heat it for me -siting health and safety - I remember they used to burn the mouth off ya.

Mc Donalds coffee

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