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What is this "superheated" coffee so many of you refer to, and how do I make some? Do I need a special machine to make "superheated" water like McDonalds?
According to the Wiki article, McDonalds (and others) still make their coffee the same temp as in that lawsuit. I.e., HOT, like coffee has always been served for the past 1200 years or so (1185 of which years were hot-coffee-lawsuit free!).
"McDonald's policy today is to serve coffee between 80–90 °C (176–194 °F),[22] relying on more sternly-worded warnings to avoid future liability, though it continues to face lawsuits over hot coffee."
So that lawsuit did in the end serve a public purpose. Hot coffee is unfortunately not made illegal. But now the warnings that were always on piping hot cups of coffee are MORE "sternly worded." Thank god for that.
Now they just need to stern up the warning on their Hot Apple Pie. "Caution - Filling is Hot!" just isn't stern enough for public safety. "Caution - Filling is Really, Really Hot!!!!" is so much stern and safer.
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