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?

I'm 46. If I ask for a drink extra hot, and it arrives luke warm and I've paid £4, I ask for it to be microwaved.

What is the point of a luke warm hot drink? I microwave my tea and coffee after I've added milk to them.

I think my mum also believes in the "purifying nature of fire" @tippytoesy and I don't blame her - I remember her parents, my grandparents flat with no central heating, getting your bum stuck to the ice cold toilet seat before going back into the heated living which was like entering a blast furnace!

I bet you also heat your dinner plates don't you? Go on, admit it, it's a safe space!

Mine are like this about birthdays. We don't bother with birthdays, my mum can make hers last a fortnight!

Ha. I don’t know about all women, but my mum (70) certainly fits this description. She will often try to take away my cup to be washed up when I haven’t even started it yet, hers being long gone! We all have a good laugh about it.

My mum was like this with tea and soup
Soup that was actually bubbling was "too cold" and I was sent back to heat it up again. Sorry, I didn't realise you needed it at the temperature of lava!

I drink tea from burning to cold (emergency services... you take what you get!)

Clearly all women 65+ are identical.

Who knew?

Don't forget the eiderdown. Preferably in lurid pink made out of that weird silky fabric that catches on everything.

(Memories from my granny's house )

They will also bring a velour leisure suit and a wallet style phone case.

OMG @KimberleyClark - my son turned 16 today, he got a new phone for Xmas and wants a new case for the phone. He wants a wallet style and his brother and maybe me a little bit have been ribbing him that that's the style grandparents have!

Luckily he takes it in the manner it was intended

attend your mandatory hairdresser's appointment for your compulsory perm and grey rinse

They've updated the guidelines. You will now have a blonde bob in perpetuity.

This isn’t a new thing. If my food and drink is supposed to be hot then I want it hot.

Who wants to be served tea or coffee that isn’t boiling hot. If you are drinking your tea and chatting then very quickly it will become cold

Also if you are expected to then put in milk it will be even cooler.

Always been like this. Especially when out. I am a slow eater so I like to start my food when it is scalding hot, that way by the time I am a few bites in my food is cold

On the flip side I have seen people who like their food cooler but then she will finish it very quickly. Maybe hotter food would make them slow down their eating

God another pile of ageist sweeping generalisations in a thread.
Imagine if this was made about any other protected characteristic.
Thing is this one of the protected characteristics that we will all fall into one day unless we die young.
But apparently ageism isn't as bad as the other isms and MNHQ have confirmed that in the past

Given coffee should, according to the experts, be made with hot (not boiling) water , and every decent restaurant warms plates, maybe a better question would be ' why are younger generations happy with mediocrity'

I shall await their visit!
They must have missed out my mother who still wears leather trousers aged 88!

This thread has persuaded me to treat myself to a two seater sports car for my 65th birthday

Millennial here. I like my coffee scalding hot and am fine with using the phone.

This is the obvious sensible answer. No more comments needed.

I have a theory on this!

Until relatively recently we were a nation of tea drinkers. And when you make a cup of tea it's hot hot so you chat for a bit before it's rhetorical right temperature before it's ready to drink. When you get a coffee in a coffee shop it's the right temperature to drink when you get it, but from habit we still wait a bit. So then it's 'cold'. The answer is to drink the drink when it's out in front of you 😁

Source: daughter/niece of the please-scald-my-milk bridge and coffee industry worker 😁

Yeah I’ve seen Moka pots for inductions but I wasn’t sure if they were any good. I should give it a go!

Black coffee made in moka pots is amazing 😍

Brigade, not bridge!

I'm in my mid 50s, my DH says that I can "drink it straight from the kettle " I like hot things to be hot, not tepid or warm. Same for food. Personal preference.

I don't think it's a generational thing at all, some people just like really hot drinks.

I've heard that constantly drinking very hot drinks increases the risk of issues like throat cancer, so I always ask for some cold water to be added to black tea/coffee.

A lot of Americans seem obsessed with cold drinks being REALLY cold and full of ice, which I don't really get at all. A couple of ice cubs is fine, but I don't want a troughful of ice sliding onto my top lip and making my mouth all numb like a visit to the dentist, and I don't generally drink through straws. Also, unless you drink pretty quickly, it melts and dilutes the drink, making it taste weird.

I didn’t think it was an age thing, just a personal preference.

I prefer my hot drinks to actually be hot, rather than tepid, borderline room temperature efforts. I am 36.

I can't drink things like Starbucks for around 15 minutes after buying as they are too hot. Growing up I was always taught to wait for both food and drink to cool down and it's stuck. Hot plates are pointless as you can't hold them and it prevents your food cooling to eating temperature.

I'm over 65 and will add cold water to my coffee sometimes if too hot. I do not like it too hot and will still drink it when only lukewarm. What has age got to do with how hot your drinks are? This is bizarre.

I'm in my 40s. I'm not fussed on boiling drinks, which I attribute to never drinking a cup of tea hot when my children were young. Never got chance to and just used to it now.