To wonder why women 65+ are all determined that coffee should be mouthscaldingly hot

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My mum, her friends, all the ladies

A normal temp is "cold please bring another one"

Is this an era thing or will it come for me too?

Or that everyone over 50 has come from poverty?

I’m 52 and grew up very poor, and we still weren’t sparing milk, except for in the usual ‘Don’t finish the milk at 11 pm or there’s none for breakfast’ way.

In fact, come to think of it, everyone I knew was drinking very milky, sugared tea in the 70s and early 80s, and coffee certainly wasn’t drunk at home on a regular basis by anyone in our house. I only developed a taste for it at university pulling all-nighters.

Even I don’t remember it and I’m ancient.

My MIL is obsessed with “extra hot” coffee. Drives me absolutely insane.

Why? How does it affect you?

YANBU. We're not coffee people but my 70+ mum serves scalding tea and soup and is puzzled when I can't immediately eat or drink them. I like things tepid!

Tepid soup is 🤢

Because whenever she’s at ours and I make it for her I have to mess around microwaving it several times. And whenever we grab coffee when out somewhere she asks the barista for extra hot and takes it back to complain when it’s inevitably not hot enough.
I just find it irritating, how hot does coffee need to be?

how hot does coffee need to be?

Surely the answer to that is ‘as hot as the drinker likes it’?

When I heat up a can of soup just for myself I only get it to tepid before whipping off the gas and into a bowl. Can't be arsed waiting for it to heat up longer just to wait for it to cool down again till I can eat it

Exactly. I like mine very hot so I microwave the milk before I add it.

Whereas I sometimes reheat it mid meal because it’s cooled too much!

My mum microwaves her freshly made coffee because apparently boiling isn't hot enough.
She's 70 now but she's been doing it since I was a kid.
There's nothing about turning a certain age that changes how you take your coffee.

If I'm in a cafe, I like it hot enough to have to sit and wait, converse with my friends etc for 5mins before having to drink it.

Nowt worse than a luke warm drink.

My local one just before Christmas wasn't doing the apple pies but a Terry's Chocolate Orange one, it was the same temperature as the apple pies used to be, roughly the same as molten lava but oh so, so nice.
Not sure if it was a Christmas one though.

I work in a cafe, making coffee all day long and I can assure you that it only a small minority who make a fuss about "extra hot coffee", and they can range from 30s up to 65+.
I think it's more tht people who only drink instant at home don't realise that you just can't make real coffee to that boiling temperature they are used to..

I haven’t had a cup of instant coffee for about 25 years (I’m in my 40s) and I still prefer my coffee hot. I don’t ask for it to be made extra hot though, I just only drink espresso in coffee shops, a) so milk doesn’t cool it down and b) so it doesn’t have chance to go cold before I finish it.

My parents are the same.

My dad thinks not warming plates before serving dinner is the crime of the century.

I'm in my 40s drink my coffee black, piping hot.

I do have milk in tea when I have it occasionally, but it's a small splash and if it's anything off piping, it gives me the ick.

So no, sorry to pop your ageist anecdote, but no, it's not only everyone over the age of 65 that like hot drinks 🙄

Also coffee shops like Starbucks weren't popular when they were younger. Coffee shops tend to produce cooler drinks so younger people are used to it.

Why is it that younger people tend to think they invented or popularised everything and that anyone over 50 is ancient? Perhaps I was the same. I understand that the first coffeehouse opened in England in 1650 and they were very popular by about 1675. I can't claim to remember that far back however.

For the same reasons that some think we’re technologically illiterate I imagine @TheHillsIsLonely . So many seem to think that computing was invented by the millennial generation.

Coffee and IT. It’s a mystery, to me, here, having a browse on the web while downing a coffee heated to the temperature of a nuclear reactor (both also invented in 2004).

We might if it was amusing...

To be fair, that's true. Keeps your dinner warmer for longer

But you either like that or not. Nothing to do with age

I'm 70

We had Kardomah coffee houses when I was growing up. The smell of ground coffee as you walked past was amazing

So, strangely enough we are very used to 'proper' coffee served at a 'proper' temperature.

And the lunches they served were delicious too.

You young whippersnappers haven't invented everything you know

All rationing ended in 1954.

I think the fact that they're served in buckets not cups doesn't help. Wider surface area to cool down quicker