Most people I know drink their coffee piping hot and act all disgusted at the idea of letting it cool down first. They would pour it away and brew a new one rather than drink the lukewarm stuff. And if you ask a barrista around these parts to not steam the milk but pour it into the coffee cold, you’re often met with indignant confusion as if you just offended their entire line of ancestors.

Is it really that weird to prefer room temperature coffee, or am I surrounded by coffee snobs?

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    1 year ago

    i’m convinced people are just pretending to enjoy hot coffee because they think it makes them cool to consume scalding things, there are so many beverages and foods i have to wait five minutes to start consuming because i don’t enjoy giving myself actual burn injuries.

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      1 year ago

      I’m convinced that’s why people drink coffee at all. It’s burnt water. There’s no way people actually enjoy the taste

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        1 year ago

        coffee can definitely taste good if you don’t literally burn it (and ideally actually brew it to bring out the flavours you enjoy), like most people do. I think with coffee and tea a large reason people drink it is literally just for the caffeine, and they’re too impatient and don’t want to look like wusses so they just cauterize their tastebuds with the scalding beverage until they taste nothing anymore.