Hot Coffee Remains World's Favorite Beverage
Probably the most popular beverage in the world is hot coffee and it is available in many flavors and styles. Despite marketing efforts by dozens of companies for drinks of varying temperatures, hot coffee remains the choice of a large portion of the population for breakfast, lunch, dinner and while driving in their vehicle. For most drinkers, coffee is coffee, made by soaking ground up dried beans in hot water and some take some amazing steps to make sure it is just right.
Despite all of the hype over iced coffee, the vast majority of coffee drinkers prefer it to be hot. Coffee that is served in chilled glasses with ice may be a part of a few menus, but overall drinking it at temperatures over 160-degrees remains the preference. There are numerous products on the market to enable people to coax the best flavor out of their coffee grounds. Everything from home roasters and grinders to elaborate systems for making hot coffee.
Many connoisseurs insist the temperature of the water has to be just short of boiling temperature and the fresh grounds may to be soaked by the water for a specified time before the hot coffee has the optimal flavor. For some others, making it hot is all that matters and they are going to change the flavor with whitener and sweetener so how it tastes out of the pot is irrelevant.
Danger Lurks In Cup Of Hot Beverage
There have been a few instances where people have learned a valuable lesson about the dangers of hot coffee. While the beverage may not be boiling when they attempt to drink it, the temperature of the water may be hot enough to scald their skin or lips, if they attempts to drink it while it is still hot.
There are a few that appreciate the taste of hot coffee, but will drop in an ice cube to bring it down to palatable temperature before pouring it into their mouth. Others prefer to let it cool naturally while they sip on their hot coffee until it reaches a lower temperature.
Cooling coffee in a cup is the most common, and the wider the mouth of the cup, the faster it cools down. How much surface area of the coffee is exposed to the air determines how fast the heat dissipates and cups with a smaller mouth will hold the temperature of hot coffee a lot longer than those with wide mouths.
