Steam your steakdwŒc™– When they relocated the restaurant that grease got a police escort to the new location! Dyers strains the grease every night and adds to it, but...
Actually, NOT at all like an immersion case. Liquid being "held... in contact with her skin" would still see a rapid and immediate drop in temperature, whereas in an actual immersion you've got this huge thermal mbutt to keep the temperature of the liquid in the contact area up. It's not just having hot water held in contact that's the key point here - it's being in contact with a relatively large mbutt of water, and no place for that heat to go but into the skin.
A "little"? You don't think the differences between first-, second-, and third-degree burns are significant, and worth getting right?
And we're still missing another key point here - as was already noted, it would be impossible for the coffee in question to be above 212F, and extremely unlikely that it would even be that hot. Even if the coffeepot was sitting there with the contents boiling furiously, the temperature would drop just as soon as the coffee were poured into the cup. We're also supposed to believe that the coffee was unusually hot, and yet the person serving the coffee was able to handle this very same paper cup (presumably, McDonald's does not issue asbestos gloves to their coffee-serving employees) without being burned? Have you ever poured boiling water into a paper cup, and then tried to pick it up? If the coffee in question were capable of causing "third-degree burns" practically immediately upon contact with skin, doesn't it seem odd that we don't also have a report here of a McDonald's employee with toasted fingertips?
Ditto - and that basically says McDonald's did nothing wrong here.
Bob M.
