AIBU to wonder why people serve drinks too hot to drink?

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Just seen someone with horrible burns from a drink on Instagram. This has got me thinking along with seeing a baby at a baby group get a small burn from a hot drink and someone leaving a very hot drink in a non safe place near my small child recently. Why do people not just add some cold water to hot drinks. What is the point of making a drink that's too hot to drink? Why not add a bit of cold water (after it has brewed/steeped etc), rather that handing people drinks that need to cool for sometime to be drinkable. It would hopefully prevent quite a lot of injuries.
Of course leave a tea to stew safely on a kitchen bench or put in a thermos for later if going out.

Always thought this too.

If it’s a food establishment because then they’d get people complaing that the drinks are too cold!! If it’s in a home then parents responsibility to put it somewhere safe or use lidded cups

I prefer my tea very hot, however I would just make sure I put it in a safe place when around young children and babies.

I like boiling drinks. A quick blow and it’s ready to drink. Can’t abide lukewarm drinks.

In terms of safety the issue isn’t how hot the drink is, the issue is putting the drink in a suitably safe place while it cools down.

I like a really hot drink 🥴
leaving that out of reach of young babies etc is entirely sensibel
I don’t want watered down tea

If you are able to drink it immediately. Then you aren't leaving it around to cool for ages and presumably it is with you and likely in your hand.

I like quite a bit of milk in my tea and my husband takes his black, and we both put a splash of cold water in his so it is drinkable immediately.

I like my drinks scalding hot. If it served
’cool enough to drink’ then by the time I’m half way through it, it’s too cold! I’d never leave them in a place that a child could get hold of them though.

I totally agree, those poor people such painful burns I used to work in a Uni student cafe, and we weren't allowed to put the lid on takeaway cups in case it hadn't been done properly, and the lid came off and scalded them.
I always put cold water in my tea anyway, can't wait 20 minutes for it to cool down.
My husband likes his tea boiling hot,don't know how he drinks it.

Never really got why some people like it so hot. Toddler safety aside, studies show drinking very hot things is dangerous for your own health.
But, some people do, and I guess that serving it hot suits them, and for the rest of us, we don't have to wait long and it'll be drinkable. If the hosts serve at temperatures that suit us, they'd have to microwave it or get complaints from the heat lovers.

I surprised at so many people liking scalding hot drinks. Just a word of warning that there are links to cancer of the esophagus with repeated very hot drinks.

There are links to cancer with eating ham and I still do that.

Stress can also cause cancer

Because putting hot water into a drink that has brewed to your preferred strength dilutes it and changes the flavour to minging.

I like my drink hot, especially if I am in a cafe and paying for it. I have to ask in Costa for them to make it extra hot else I find it's tepid and I have to drink it immediately, which is probably their tactic as if meeting a friend I would find it awkward to then sit without a drink and continue to chat for longer.

I do agree that maybe baby groups should rethink having hot drinks, but I expect that too is part of their attraction - they often advertise drink included and for usually a low fee, and parents see this is a socialising activity for them as well as the child.

I like a hot drink hot also. My poison of choice is hot chocolate, and I hate it when it’s luke warm.

Ppl like different beverage temperatures on how they are feeling.

Yes, after making my drink the strength I want it, I’m not going to then dilute it with cold water.

Tbf loads of things link to cancer and everyone still does them

I drink tea and coffee black, prefer it to be scalding, and wouldn't be particularly pleased if you'd added cold water because it just doesn't hit the same spot.

It's ok once in a blue moon if you need to rush out the door or something and just want to get it down, but ordinarily, no.

My tea must be SCALDING hot! My mouth and throat are a mess of scar tissue after years of this, and eating is agony as a result and I’m in pain most of the time, but if that’s the price of being smug and feeling superior, then it’s a price worth paying. ….

Besides, hot means hot, not tepid or lukewarm, and I’m not for half measures!… or someone who likes to be outdone by anyone who might think they’re better than me because of their ability to tolerate hot drinks… because i know I can always drink a cup of tea that’s hotter than they ever will!

Leaving drinks in a safe place is the thing that would reduce injuries. I don't think it's necessary to police how hot people like their drinks. I personally prefer a cup of tea that's cooled for ten minutes but I wouldn't start a debate with someone who liked theirs scalding hot about the risk of burn injuries or cancer. I tend to mind my own business about other adults preferences. However I would move someone's drink to a safer place if I thought a child risked spilling it on themselves.

It tastes slightly weird if you add cold water or an ice cube. I do if I’m in a hurry, drink without milk here, but it changes the taste

There's nothing more minging than lukewarm tea/coffee 🤑

Ah well the difference between us is that I don’t feel smug or superior to anyone (quite the reverse, usually) and I have no scar tissue or pain.
I just like my hot drinks to be hot.