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Two cups of light roast, you lose caffeine the darker you roast the beans. A bit of cream to reduce the acidity, seeing my dad pay for his two pot a day habit later in life. Perhaps a little sugar depending on my mood.
Weekends I usually have an espresso, one cube of sugar on the side.
Late night coffee? Irish.
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If you measure your coffee by scoops, light roasted coffee will have more caffeine. Since the beans are denser than a darker roast. However if you weigh out your scoops, darker roasts will have more caffeine, because there is less mass.
So - per pound, apparently, it's a wash. The solution, then for scoop users, is to just use more, or drink more, or both.RJOberg wrote: my dad pay for his two pot a day habit later in life.
How So?
The current wisdom is that coffee is primarily beneficial (although that could change any time, and then change back). Might I add the caution that if he did coffee-and-a-cigarette, it falls into the "why" of many earlier studies which didn't deconvolute the effects of smoking from coffee drinking.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: So - per pound, apparently, it's a wash. The solution, then for scoop users, is to just use more, or drink more, or both.
I use a scoop. That is interesting to learn though, sort of mirrors my experience with baking. For dry goods such as flour, American recipes tend to use volume, i.e. 1 cup. British and European recipes usually have it by weight. Weight is more accurate because flour will settle and 1 cup sifted is not the same as 1 cup unsifted after it has had some time to settle.
W∴ Balboos wrote: The current wisdom is that coffee is primarily beneficial
For many things yes, however we're talking decades of abusing it. So a lot of heartburn which lead to GERD. So coffee causes a more acidic environment and in his case, pain. On the other hand, I've kept myself in a better state of health than him so I likely don't have to worry.
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RJOberg wrote: o coffee causes a more acidic environment
Yes, but not directly.
It stimulates digestive juices. The acidity of your stomach, 0.1 M Hydrochloric Acid, is not matched by any food. It's pH is 1. Even vinegar has a pH of 2.4 (5%, like in a bottle of edible vinegar). This makes stomach acid 25 times more acidic than vinegar. Coffee hardly registers in that realm.
That being said, stimulating the juices, constantly, can cause the stomach acids to flow when you stomach hasn't finished protecting itself (prostaglandin 1, also, inhibited by aspirin, etc.).
Too much information.
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Heretic alert: I take mine in the form of Diet Coke.
Coffee is an odd thing for me. Smells great walking down the coffee aisle of the grocery store; tastes foul every time I've tried it. All I ever get is a burned taste.
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There's no account for taste - but I mean that literally.
Out of no where, as a child, I found the taste/smell of eggs intolerable and milk undrinkable. This came to be from one day to the next. I actually found someone else, once, who had the same thing happen. Some biological switch, I suppose.
No allergies to these items - just inedible/undrinkable for no apparent reason. Cakes, cookies, cheese, yogurt, etc. are fine, even scrumptious. I've heard there are even "people" who don't like chocolate!
Hopefully, you can enjoy coffee ice-cream.
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
Hopefully, you can enjoy coffee ice-cream.
Lactose intolerant. I do like lemon sorbet, though. Try to avoid the refined sugars as much as possible, so I rarely eat desserts. My true carb weakness is Doritos...
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Are you looking at me. I hate chocolate. I don't drink straight black either.
However, most people couldn't stand the smell of Duran fruit. You know those asian big spiky, the size of water melon, banned in Singapore and most hotel in around the whole. But I love to eat them. Once you get pass the stingy and pungent smell it actually very sweet. The only bad part is that every time I eat those, my wife ask me to sleep on the couch. Even the sweat and urine smells. 
Call me weird, but every one (man or animal) couldn't tolerate the smell of skunk. There are so many where I live (killed a dozen of them each year). Every time I had to put one down the area smell for weeks. The funny thing is if you learned to appreciate the smell it isn't that bad. If you have just the slightest smell (couple part per million) it actually smell more like perfume and some people actually wearing them.
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Yeah - I know what durian fruit is and what it is like.
Have you ever considered, based upon what attracts your tastes and what doesn't, that you are basically a re-incarnated fly?
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 Perhaps so. I like eating fermented fish too. That explains it.
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This is so me. Weirdly enough. My wife is just like me. But our parents and our kids all love coffee. I don't understand!
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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By the pint.
And if it can't eat a spoon, it's not coffee.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Black, dark, one sweetener form CBTL or the stock of Nespresso we have. Decaf at home. Hey, gotta have some balance...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Hey, gotta have some balance..
You could always just hold the cup in your other hand.
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Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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That looks like water and tastes like ink? Like anything, one who is a heavy drinkers could taste the difference. I for one don't drink straight black. Though I love the aroma of hazelnuts in coffee.
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I'd like to be able to drink coffee, but it makes me very ill. The flavor isn't the problem (I love coffee flavored things). I have yet to try cold brewed coffee, which is less acidic, which I think is the main problem for me (high acid things make me sick).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A question without an answer:
Is there something available to neutralize the acidity (without ruining the taste)?
As a paralell, my Mrs. loves wine, but the sulfites added cause her to get red blotches. It turns out their's an ethnic tie-in with this. Anyway, my sister-in-law had a spray bottle she used on her wine as she suffered from the same problem. The spray, costly and difficult to procure, was simply hydrogen peroxide (3%-6%). Converts the sulfites to sulfates, which are essentially neutral (and stable, chemically). We buy a big bottle for about US$1 and she's set for months - adding a few drops to the wine and stirring.
So, maybe there's a solution for you (pun intended) - which would allow you to enjoy the delights of coffee, and all the other acid pleasures nature has to offer.
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The coffee is just a carrier for the sugar. It liquifies it and lets it slide right down.
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Espresso, macchiato (without sugar or any other sweetener).
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Without coffee!
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Chris Quinn wrote: my glass is always half full of vodka.
Top half or bottom half?
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Always the bottom half, but often the top half too. Much nicer than that coffee muck!
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Firstly let it be said that Starbucks, Costa, etc. only figure in coffee drinking if there is absolutely no other alternative.
We have a small expresso machine so...
First coffee the day: Frothed semi-skimmed milk, double expresso poured through it.
Mid-morning: double expresso
After lunch: double expresso
Mid-afternoon: Caffè lungo made with half normal and half water-extracted decaf.
In all cases the coffee is Malongo "La Tierra" (organic and fair-trade).
We have super-soft tap water at 6.8 pH. Perfect for coffee.
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It's all so frufru ! (Even the gratuitous criticism of Starbucks.)
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