Re:There's a bad idea... (Score 1)

I've always been curious about this incident. If the coffee was so hot that it caused third-degree burns and required reconstructive surgery, wouldn't that cup of coffee have been a cup of steam? Maybe it's just me but this whole case seems to ignore basic properties in chemistry (i.e. evaporation). Coffee should not be able to reach temperatures of more than 100 degrees celcius (I'm talking SI units here) or the boilling point of water. I have spilled boilling watter (accidentally) on myself before, I've never had third-degree burns however. The only way this would make sense to me is if the cup was full of grease or something. In any case this is probably not the correct forum to bring up such questions, but since we're discussing it...my curiosity is peaked :-P.