NotABushSupporter wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>>
>> Not this crap again. There are published national standards for
>> coffee temperature and McDonalds coffee is served at temperatures
>> within those standards. Those standards require that the coffee be
>> hot enough to cause the injuries the Stupid Old Bat sustained.
>
> Great. Would you cite a source where serving coffee at 185 degrees is
> recommended?
ANSI/AHAM CM-1-1986 calls for holding temperature between 170 and 205F.
The middle of that range is 187.5. There is an Specialty Coffee
Association of America standard that calls for about the same, however I
don't have the exact reference to that standard.
You might find
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=7th&navby=docket&no=974131
to be of interest, in which Bunn-O-Matic was sued on similar grounds
over a similar injury and was found not to be liable for the simple
reason that their machine functioned as one would expect a coffee maker
to function.
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