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.

I'd rather it was too hot to drink than lukewarm and weak because it's been diluted with extra water.

Very happy to put it somewhere and let it cool for a few minutes. Really not a big deal.

Hot drinks should not be offered in mother and baby/toddler groups. It would never happen in a nursery school. Or there should be a separate closed off area for the parents/carers to drink tea or coffee. It is an obvious health and safety issue.

Clearly I meant putting cold water in. I blame the trauma and disgust at the notion.

I like it to last for an hour while I read etc in a cafe. It was luke warm to start with it would be undrinkable after an hour.

Kids should be supervised & not getting close enough to strangers drinks that they could tip them over

You sound like my spiritual twin…

I find the obsession with hot drinks totally bizarre - especially in hot weather.

I don’t drink any hot drinks so only buy milk when I’m expecting guests, I didn’t even think of buying any over summer because I thought people would want cold drinks.

You would think I’d denied them oxygen with the moaning I had to put up with.
My friend got in her car and drove to the shop and back instead of just having a cold drink of which I had a big selection. It was 28 degrees outside and she’s moaning about the heat whilst slurping a boiling hot drink and raising her body temperature - it doesn’t make sense does it?

I also have misophonia and hate the teaspoon clattering with intense stirring, the drawn out process of making the “perfect drink” and taking sips then modifying it and then the inevitable “ahhh” sound people make that is followed by slurping.
If the drink is too hot then I agree those gaspy little sips are rage inducing.

I didn’t realise tea, coffee and milk brands were so controversial and get told I need to buy different ones for different people and I used to get grief over not having china cups or a teapot.
I’m not a fucking teashop!

The phrase “a lovely cup of tea” sets my rage off and the way people grind to a halt because they can’t start or last the day without several cups.
I used to work with drug addicts who weren’t as preoccupied with scoring a fix 😂.
I used to also work with a lot of men who would neck several coffees then need a poo so the toilet needed a revolving door of rapidly waddling men who would then spend 15 minutes in there. I used to have to make sure I had a wee at home before work after once making the mistake of not going to the toilet in a rush and having to walk into the fetid stench of several men defecating which was a bit much first thing in the morning!

I know this is my issue though and I grit my teeth and say nothing but it does annoy me when I’m expected to provide hot drinks but no one really seems to think about people who don’t like them and act like I’m admitting something shameful!

Lots of places provide tea and coffee but it’s rare I get offered anything but water.
I also think it’s unfair people expect me to join in with the endless rounds of drinks making then complain that it doesn’t taste right or if I refuse.
The smell of tea makes me gag so I don’t want to be standing over it for 5 minutes so I just say no now.

I apologise for the long rant but it really does wind me up and if I show any annoyance I get accused of being completely unreasonable 😆.

Absolutely to all this! Particularly the water being offered to non hot drink drinkers. I dont like water on it's own either but even if I did, what a shit, boring drink to offer as an alternative to the many many hot drink options.

I also get huffy (internally) when someone says brightly, tea or coffee? And when I say no thank you, nothing else is offered so I have to ask for a cold drink.

I was always taught to wait until food or drinks cooled down. Both for safety and to encourage self restraint, you didn't want to be judged greedy for tucking in too enthusiastically etc. Now, tucking in I am all for but I still can't eat or drink anything that is mouth burning hot. I know some people who are borderline obsessed with everything being steaming hot and I don't get it.

The OP refers to people getting scalded by very hot drinks. Is that hyperbole too? If all that happened was that people had quite hot water splashed on them, this wouldn’t be a thread!

Speaking of hyperbole, I’ve never ‘poured’ any liquid ‘down my throat’. That would be really uncouth and I hope you’re not doing that with your lukewarm drinks. I just drink them normally.

The risks are too great. What’s more important, being able to have a scalding cup of tea, or permanently disfiguring a young child for life. The selfishness on this thread is off the scale!

We don’t take these risks with other things in life! In cars we all know that children need to be backward facing child seats until puberty! But as soon as a Great British cup of tea is mentioned, all consideration for our young ones is discarded! It’s all very Reformy if you ask me.

I hate lukewarm drinks. Mine are always boiling water with a tiny splash of milk. The hot drink isn't the issue, it's fekkin idiots leaving hot drinks around children that's the problem, and idiots on SM.

I voted Labour at the last election and like very hot drinks. I don’t leave them in reach of children.
I also don’t like tea. It’s my coffee that I have hot and black!

Sounds like a parental supervision issue

The question should really be: 'Why do people do stupid things and leave potentially harmful stuff within the reach of small children?'.

At this point I'm pretty sure nearly everything you do in life is linked to cancer in someway 🤷 I'll keep drinking my very hot drinks

I put milk in my coffee then I put it in the microwave for a minute so it's hot again. There is no joy in a just warm drink.

The only thing worse than weak milky tea is lukewarm weak milky tea.

Hot drinks will still scald a child if you slosh cold water into them. If you think by topping up with, say, 25% cold water will make the drink safe to spill on a baby you’re quite wrong.

Just keep hot drinks away from children. It isn’t difficult.

Why can't adults add cold water to their brew if they think its too hot, rather than being treated like children?

Because lukewarm drinks are horrible.

100%

Like PPs, I like to go straight in with my tea while it’s still very fucking hot. Serving very hot drinks when small children and babies are around is a different matter though.

Adding water would dilute the drink. Also there is nothing comforting about receiving a lukewarm cup of tea.

What bollocks. I begrudge paying for a coffee and being served a lukewarm beverage that can be drunk in one go.

That sounds gross to me.

The issue is people leaving drinks somewhere unsafe.