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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What goes first (for you) when making a cup of tea? The milk or the teabag and water?

Morning! So it continues. Just when you thought there couldn't be another stereotype about annoying habits of older people, up pops another one!
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Boiling hot for me too( not 60) if my cup of tea/coffee falls below a certain temperature I cannot drink it. And i also have to leave a little in the mug at the end. Don't know why I have to 😂

I love coffee, and get some nice new layers of skin in my mouth every few days as a bonus . What's not to like ?.

My husband is over 60 and leaves everything to cool - tea , coffee , dinners , I’m almost 60 and have everything super hot , people are different , what a revelation .

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My mum very particular about things that are meant to be hot being hot
I still shudder about time in a naice London hotel we went to for lunch when she sent the soup back 3 times as it was not hot to her standard.

I am totally the opposite (probably due to her) happy with warmish soup and leave my tea (black with sugar) to get cool before I drink it

Am over 60 . Can have the same coffee on the go for hours ,never heat plates or eat piping hot food . Yes you are over generalising.

Milk ALWAYS last. Always!!😁

Ah. The over 60’s. Such a decrepit lot who form one amorphous mass from John Lydon to Liz Hurley at each end of the 60’s age group.

Me too. 60 this year and always ask for coffee extra hot 🔥😋

I take my coffee scalding hot - always have for the last 20+ years and I'm not close to 60! If it's not burning my tongue, and if the take-away cup isn't so hot I can feel it through the sleeve, then it's not hot enough.

I don't care if it 'tastes better' cooler - I'd rather a hot coffee that warms me up than some lukewarm nonsense that I can throw down my throat in one gulp.

And, I have to be honest, if someone told me how 'best to experience' my drink, they would get a very short shrift. If I am the one swallowing it, I'm the one who gets to dictate how it tastes.

I heard this conversation between a woman about my age and a teenage-ish barista the other day:
"A latte with hot milk please"
"Oat milk?"
"No, hot milk"
"Oat milk?"
"Hot milk!"
"....so you just want a latte?"
"With hot milk..."

I’m 45 and since childhood, I require all food and drink to be absolutely boiling. I’m aghast when people can just drink coffee straight from the coffee pot and rebuke my attempts to heat it. I make coffee fresh and then straight in the microwave for 1:50 it goes. It takes me like 4 reheats to get through one cup of coffee. 😂 The only time I wasn’t like this was when my children were babies and I lost the will and just drank the lukewarm coffee to get it in.

I don’t know anyone but me who is like this. 😂 I am reassured to hear though that I may be in good company once I’m 60.

Why would you shudder? Lukewarm soup is awful. A good hotel should really have done better, she was quite right.

Our ninja kettle has a coffee setting which is 95 degrees

Correct OP. It is a sweeping generalisation. Mumsnet LOVE sweeping generilations of anyone over the age of 60. Apparently a lot of mumsnetters think anyone over the age of 60 voted for Brexit, live in mansions that they bought for a tenner, and have no liberal leanings whatsoever. Also now, every single one of them will only drink scalding hot drinks, which is now an hilarious observation of ALL older people 🙄

My 71 year old mum has cold milk into her coffee, so she can drink it.

😂😁😂 Brilliant!!

I love lukewarm soup! I deliberately only heat soup to lukewarm.

That would only be valid if they had literally never experienced drinking coffee at anything other than a boiling hot temperature, which clearly isn't going to be the case (because it cools down as they drink it and because other people will have served them warm coffee). They choose to have it how they like it. What explanation could they possibly need?

You have a heavy-going nature.

My dad didn't like cold ice cream. He would leave it to stand until it melted.

People can have their food as they like it. It's one of the great pleasures of life.

partner uses the coffee maker - no idea of the temperature - I pour boiling water on mine but as I drink it black always put about 1cm cold water water in the mug so I can drink it straight away

What a moo you must be.