diff --git a/mustache.js b/mustache.js
index 3182540..2ce3ca8 100644
--- a/mustache.js
+++ b/mustache.js
@@ -493,6 +493,7 @@
    */
   function Writer () {
     this.cache = {};
+    this.cacheEnabled = true;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -502,19 +503,34 @@
     this.cache = {};
   };
 
+  /**
+   * Disables or enables template caching for this writer.
+   */
+  Writer.prototype.toggleCache = function toggleCache (enable) {
+    // If we are disabling the cache, clear it.
+    if (!enable) {
+      this.clearCache();
+    }
+    this.cacheEnabled = !!enable;
+  };
+
   /**
    * Parses and caches the given `template` according to the given `tags` or
    * `mustache.tags` if `tags` is omitted,  and returns the array of tokens
    * that is generated from the parse.
    */
   Writer.prototype.parse = function parse (template, tags) {
+    var tokens = null;
     var cache = this.cache;
     var cacheKey = template + ':' + (tags || mustache.tags).join(':');
-    var tokens = cache[cacheKey];
-
-    if (tokens == null)
-      tokens = cache[cacheKey] = parseTemplate(template, tags);
-
+    tokens = this.cacheEnabled ? cache[cacheKey] : null;
+  
+    if (tokens == null) {
+      tokens = parseTemplate(template, tags);
+      if (this.cacheEnabled) {
+        cache[cacheKey] = tokens;
+      }
+    }
     return tokens;
   };
 
@@ -669,6 +685,13 @@
     return defaultWriter.clearCache();
   };
 
+  /**
+   * Disables or enables template caching for this writer.
+   */
+  mustache.toggleCache = function toggleCache (value) {
+    return defaultWriter.toggleCache(value);
+  };
+
   /**
    * Parses and caches the given template in the default writer and returns the
    * array of tokens it contains. Doing this ahead of time avoids the need to
diff --git a/test/parse-test.js b/test/parse-test.js
index da225c8..13f3be2 100644
--- a/test/parse-test.js
+++ b/test/parse-test.js
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ var expectations = {
 
 beforeEach(function (){
   Mustache.clearCache();
+  Mustache.toggleCache(true);
 });
 
 describe('Mustache.parse', function () {
@@ -153,4 +154,43 @@ describe('Mustache.parse', function () {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('when parsing a template with caching disabled and the same tags second time, do not return the cached tokens', function () {
+    it('returns different tokens for the latter parse', function () {
+      Mustache.toggleCache(false);
+      var template = '{{foo}}[bar]';
+      var parsedResult1 = Mustache.parse(template);
+      var parsedResult2 = Mustache.parse(template);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(parsedResult1, parsedResult2);
+      assert.ok(parsedResult1 !== parsedResult2);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when parsing a template with custom caching and the same tags second time, do not return the cached tokens', function () {
+    it('returns the same tokens for the latter parse', function () {
+      Mustache.toggleCache(false);
+      var parse = Mustache.Writer.prototype.parse;
+      var cache = new Map();
+
+      Mustache.Writer.prototype.parse = function (template, tags) {
+        var cacheKey = template + ':' + (tags || Mustache.tags).join(':');
+        var fromCache = cache.get(cacheKey);
+        if (fromCache) {
+          return fromCache;
+        } else {
+          var tokens = parse.call(this, template, tags);
+          cache.set(cacheKey, tokens);
+          return tokens;
+        }
+      };
+
+      var template = '{{foo}}[bar]';
+      var parsedResult1 = Mustache.parse(template);
+      var parsedResult2 = Mustache.parse(template);
+
+      assert.deepEqual(parsedResult1, parsedResult2);
+      assert.ok(parsedResult1 === parsedResult2);
+    });
+  });
+
 });