I'm just guessin' that he didn't bring
a hot thermos of tea out there.......
I love iced coffee milk, but i hate caffeine and not keen on too much sugar! lol
so just this week ive started trying to make my own. Hopefully one of the granulated instant decaf's will provide a nice enough drink, and im hoping to end up using a lot of stevia and hopefully very little sugar. A little splash of vanilla syrup too! I've still got a long way to go though to perfecting the ratios etc though -- does anyone have a good iced coffee recipe? im after ones that are very simple to make
lol, that reminds of a breakfast I got in an off the beatin’ path restaurant in Georgia. The menu was hilarious, each item was basically the same, 3 eggs, grits, hash browns, toast, with the differentiating item being the meat…how many and how much. And of course coffee.
idk I can't see it, but I'm pretty freakin' sure that there's a cup of java somewhere nearby that plate.......
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination#Decaffeination_processes_for_coffeeSolvents used in decaffeination
Given numerous health scares connected to early efforts in decaffeination using solvents such as benzene, trichloroethylene, and chloroform, the solvents of choice have become dichloromethane and ethyl acetate. Dichloromethane is able to extract the caffeine selectively and has a low boiling point. Although it is mildly toxic and carcinogenic, its use as a decaffeination agent is allowed by the US Food and Drug Administration if the residual solvent is less than 10 parts per million (ppm). Actual coffee industry practice results in residues closer to one part per million. Starting in the 1980s, ethyl acetate was introduced as a replacement to dichloromethane. Although ethyl acetate is mildly toxic, coffee that is decaffeinated with this solvent is sometimes marketed as "naturally decaffeinated" because this solvent may be obtained from a biological process such as the fermentation of sugar cane.
Starbucks opened lots of outlets in Australia, but most failed as Aussies were introduced to real Italian coffee (made by Italian and other European immigrants in the 50's ~ 70's with Euro espresso machines) and were unable to drink those buckets of sugar and brown water that Starbucks tries to pass as coffee, their beans are low quality and stale. McDonalds Cafe coffee is about as good as Starbucks, which tells you just how horrid it really is.
If your coffee is bigger than a shot glass then you are aren't drinking coffee, you are drinking a coffee flavored drink...and I don't know when it became not ridiculous to walk around with a huge paper cup full of brown liquid sipping it on the go through a hole in a plastic lid...ssheessh!..there should be a law against that. In Italy there is actually an unwritten law that states you are not allowed to add milk to coffee after breakfast. You can order a coffee with a dash of milk after lunch, but you will have to apologize and ask for forgiveness from the barista for committing such a faux pas as you order to prevent your Mother being cursed for giving birth to such a tasteless idiot,,in many countries you would be regarded on the same level as one who was wearing long white socks with sandals.
If you have to drink a coffee at Starbucks, order a double espresso, that's about as real as you can get there.
anyway, I'm about to make myself a real coffee....Costa Rican beans, fresh ground, Bialetti stove top maker, ...hmmm 3 sips and it's gone.