"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:51:34PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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...
If it's 180°C in the coffee machine under some pressure, it can goes around 99°C at the atmopheric pressure in the served closed cup and stay at a very high temperature for long, enough to get seriously burned 5 minutes later. If it's only 100°C in the coffe machine, it will probably go down fastly, too fastly to get serious harm after 5 minutes. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english