Can you believe the fruit pictured below is actually coffee? For good reason, coffee is referred to as “cherries” during its initial ripening stages. As you can tell by this picture, the coffee fruit goes from green to yellow to red. This is why it is necessary to hand pick them, because they don’t all [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Coffee Science'
How Does Caffeine Work?
September 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Caffeine, Coffee Science
Most people know that caffeine is a stimulant. Stimulants are drugs that affect the brain’s perception of reality, having the effect of making it feel more awake it actually is. Caffeine, as most people know, caffeine occurs naturally in coffee. This fact inspires many people to drink this delicious beverage on a daily basis. I [...]
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McDonald’s Iced Coffee Revisited
June 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee Science
Rachel Meeks of smallnotebook.org recently wrote an informative post about the ingredients used to make McDonald’s Iced Coffee. She describes a few of these chemical compounds, including one that is hazardous to your health if inhaled and another that is used to clear out patients’ bowels before they go into surgery. Yet somehow I [...]
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Cute Coffee Robot
June 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Coffee Machines, Coffee Science, Random
Stumbled upon this Youtube video of a robot doing all the steps needed to make a cup of coffee. The video has obviously been cut and edited a lot, so the robot probably did only one little step at a time… But it’s still pretty dang impressive and “cute” too. I move like this robot [...]
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How Fast Does Caffeine Enter the Bloodstream?
June 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Caffeine, Coffee, Coffee Science
In my informal experience, I have found that the caffeine portion of coffee tends to kick in very quickly. The transition from coffee to bloodstream to brain doesn’t seem to take more than a few minutes. This morning I had to give my wife a ride to work after only sleeping two hours. When I [...]
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