If I’m getting 2nd degree burns in my mouth, how aren’t they? How is their skin/tongue/mucus membrane able to withstand something mine can’t?
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They don’t drink it. They get it extra hot for the drive so it’s not cold when they get there.
Since the McDonald’s lawsuit coffees tend to be luke warm in my experience, asking for it to be extra hot just means hot now
Maybe they are getting burned but have a higher tolerance for pain and just deal with it. I love fresh hot pizza and sadly 3 out of 4 times I eat it while its still too hot, resulting in the roof of my mouth behind my teeth getting burnt, skin peels, etc. It takes a day or 2 to heal back. So its not hot enough to trigger my warning and panic reflexes but it is hot enough to cause physical damage.
My grandmother would do this. She’d order extra hot tea, and start drinking it right away.
But she also had a habit of sending food back to the kitchen because it wasn’t seasoned right, or it tasted bland.
She went to a doctor to discuss this. The doctor said that the extreme heat from her tea was dulling or actually damaging/killing her taste buds.
So how do people not burn their mouths? The answer is, sometimes, they DO. And they don’t realize it.
Many years ago a friend of a friend worked at a coffee shop where they would talk about coffee; tasting, roasts, drinking, etc. They would also sample the various kinds of coffee and prep techniques so the staff could develop informed opinions.
One of the things that was passed to me via gossip was a time they talked about drinking technique. (I will describe this terribly, but give me a break the memory is over a decade old.) The technique described was like tipping the cup until the coffee was _almost_ at the edge, and then sucking air just at the edge of the liquid so the coffee was kind of sucked off the surface with the air and entered the mouth as a particulate spray. This cooled the coffee slightly and helped avoid direct contact with the tongue.
There were taste benefits mentioned and also maybe a connection to how folks who work outside in too-many-fricken-digits below zero cold weather can drink hot liquids without causing teeth to thermally crack. It’s a third-hand memory, but that bit about avoiding tongue burns has stuck in my brain.
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