My body says something entirely different. I can drink 6-8 cups of regular coffee with no effect. One double espresso and I am about to climb the walls. However, I am quite used to the experts (or at least their press agents) lying to me.
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- John Francis wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:21:25PM +0800, David Savage wrote: >> I was watching a documentary about the history of coffee, coffee >> production & it's cultural importance a few months ago. >> >> They said in this program that because the water in espresso machines >> is passed through the coffee grinds under pressure, it results in a >> drink with a stronger flavour but with a lower caffeine content. The >> drip style brewing machines stew the coffee which increases the >> caffeine level. > > Yep. I saw a table the other day that showed just how much > caffeine there was in various kinds of coffee. A single cup > of drip coffee (even freshly made) has around triple the > caffeine of an espresso. > > That was comparing Starbucks-to-Starbucks. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
