On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:07:34 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:
>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.
Coffee that's kept hot is foul, period.
DaveM |