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-MIKE- wrote:

On 12/6/12 8:29 AM, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
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On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:21:55 -0800, Smitty Two
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"Mike Marlow" wrote:

Or, the McDonald's coffee lawsuit.

Uh, I'd venture that 99.9% of the people who bring this up as a supposed
example of a frivolous lawsuit, actually have never heard the real
story.

Fact 1: The woman received THIRD DEGREE burns.

Bull****.

The coffee was FAR hotter
than any reasonable restaurant ever serves it. This was a deliberate
ploy to reduce requests for refills, as the stuff couldn't even be
sipped for 10-15 minutes.

180F *is* appropriate for coffee. Dunkin' Donuts required that their
coffee be served at 180F +/- 3F, at that time. What she did is not
appropriate for a cup of coffee. BEcause of this nonsense it's
difficult to find a decent cup of coffee anymore.

Fact 2: The woman asked McD's to pay her medical bills, which IIRC were
a couple of hundred dollars.

Irrrelevant.

Fact 3: She brought suit only AFTER McD refused to pay the paltry
medical bills.

Irelevant.

Here is the full story: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm.


Don't let facts get in the way of a good debate. :-)
There's even more to the story...
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Ho...6?locale=en-US


My home coffeepot brews and serves at 60 C, or 140 F.

Joe Gwinn


I'm pretty sure it brews higher than that. 175 is kind of the minimum
for extracting all the good oils. You may be using a "cold brewer"
though, I don't know. No standard production coffee maker brews under
180, to the best of my knowledge. Many brew up past 205 which burns the
coffee.

I did measure the temperature of the coffee in the carafe as it brewed,
around the time the McDonalds case was in the news.

Hmm. Perhaps the water pouring onto the grounds is hotter, but this
isn't easily user accessible. Perhaps I will measure it tomorrow.

I don't recall what the coffeepot manual says, if it has one, or if it
says anything. The pot was bought years before the case. Commercial
coffeepots may well serve hotter.

Joe Gwinn