To ask if you know anyone over 60 who doesn't insist on their coffee being hotter than the sun

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I know this is a crass generalisation but I actually don't
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however dh is over 60 as well and makes his coffee last hours!
eergh

I work in a coffee shop and 95% of customers of any age, ask for an extra hot coffee. It’s definitely not an age thing.

I’ve never made coffee for an over 60 year old and been told it’s not hot enough, although MiL does sometimes ask for warm milk in it instead of cold so maybe that’s why!

Because stereotypes about people based on age are daft. Always something on here about what older people do and don't do. The hot drink thing is harmless enough, but the idea of categorising people based on their age in general, is not.

You are absolutely right.
It is a crass generalisation, and ageist.

Haha this made me laugh. But no, my parents (especially my mum) have it scolding hot. If they make me a coffee they are genuinely perplexed that I need to wait about ten mins for it to cool down.

No, that's being really patronising. Just because you experience it better your way doesn't mean others do. You prioritise taste, others prioritise temperature.

Yes, and a tendency to spit spouts of boiling coffee at passersby, if irritated. A bad lot in general.

Don't you think though that after a lifetime of experiencing hot and cooler coffee they've already done the leg work and decided how they like it?

Why does it matter. What a stupid thread. You could easily say as snobbery as the OP. Why does everyone understand 60 drink tepid coffee.?
Yet another I will never be old thread.

Me! I’m over 60 and prefer tea, coffee , food even which isn’t scalding hot. It taste better. After Christmas I am quite partial to a leftover cold sprout !
Someone mentioned one of those boiling water tap things, for me it’s not that it’s not hot enough, more that tea tastes somehow different from one. A kind of weird scum almost ? Although to be fair I’ve not experienced one for a few years, maybe they’ve got better .

Me. I’m over 60 and drink hotish but not extra hot coffee. If I get a coffee in a cafe I have to let it cool for a while. On the other hand I can’t drink cold coffee, so there is a narrow window where it is cool enough to drink but not cold. I drink mint tea most of the time, because I’ll happily drink that cold. I don’t understand how people drink very hot drinks without burning their mouths.

I never drink the last monthful either. That’s a habit of growing up when we used loose tea. The last mouthful was full of gruts.

It's a joke, and funny when you read it as one. I blinked and then laughed.

I don't care about coffee, which I don't drink very often anyway, but the first sip from a cup of tea has to be really hot.

I toughen up my mouth with gin. It's like rubbing alcohol. 😉

I’m 67 and I have about 1/3 milk in. I hate scalding hot drinks

I'm a few years off 60, but currently missing a layer of skin from the roof of my mouth from yesterday's coffee. It 'may' have been too hot. Can't stand lukewarm drinks.

oh I’m 40 and love my coffee hot!

Sadly not. I have another 4 years before I reach the age of entitlement to one, so I haven't yet done my research.

But surely that’s instant ‘coffee’ that’s made with boiling water?

I didn't get it. Oops.

Yeap, 41, if I am not having iced coffee, my coffee better not be less than hot as hell when I get it. Tooooo hot, then surely I can wait, but if I can drink a mouthful on the first sip it's a fail.

It has taken me years to train my mum so she remembers if we order coffee in a cafe and I need to then go to the loo not to put the saucer on top of it to trap the heat as I would prefer it has a chance to cool down. And I can then add cold milk.

I remember to put the saucer on top for her if she needs to go elsewhere.

If I'm with MIL I've usually barely been able to start mine, with added cold milk, and she's finished her black one. DH is somewhere in the middle.

A standard Americano with cold milk is still perfectly palatable to me up to half an hour.

I have to make myself drink the last mouthful. It's a hangover from when my Mum made tea with loose leaves; you always got a few in the bottom of the cup, so I got into the habit of leaving the dregs.

Drink boiling hot coffee might account for why my FIL cannot eat anything that isn’t 30% salt. He’s burnt off all his tastebuds.