From the NCA site: "Always allow your coffee - or any hot beverage - to reach a comfortable temperature before enjoying (specifically below 140 degrees Fahrenh

From the NCA site: "Always allow your coffee - or any hot beverage - to reach a comfortable temperature before enjoying (specifically below 140 degrees Fahrenheit)." Maybe serving temperature isn't the same as brewing temperature? I remember (vaguely) that there was a lot more to the story than was released publicly because as part of the settlement McDs got the plaintiff to shut up. But somebody else who was there (son in law?) wasn't under a gag order and spill the beans, as it were. Apparently McDs had been warned several times about the coffee being too hot, and, IIRC, ignored court orders to turn it down. Now I've seen people talk about drinking beverages hotter than 175 deg F being implicated in cancer of the esophagus. Drinking liquids at that temperature is painful. Besides, McDs coffee tasted like shit in those days (IMO).