"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Dan Abel wrote:
>
> > > > If the coffee was served at a normal 140F temperature, she wouldn't
have
> > > > received 3rd degree burns.
> > >
> > > Where did we get this normal 140F for coffee? Coffee comes out of my
cheap
> > > little Cusinart coffee maker at about 176F and the little burner
plate
> > keeps it
> > > close to that.
> >
> > http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/law...fee/truth.html
> >
>
> Thanks, but I saw that link (or a similar one) several months ago when
this law
> suit was discussed. I thought that 140 F sounded absurd, so I checked my
coffee
> maker, and it was 176F.
>

Mine was 165F immediately after the coffee was brewed. When I poured the
coffee into a ceramic mug, the temperature dropped to 148.