coffee
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How to Easily Improve Your Espresso With a Spritz of Water and Volcanic Physics
Grinding coffee beans with a spritz of water can reduce static electricity, creating less mess and improving the taste of espresso, according to Oregon-based researchers who borrowed from the physics of volcanoes to design the experiment. The team of chemists and volcanologists found that the inside of a coffee grinder creates similar conditions to those inside…
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Caffeine During Pregnancy Linked to Shorter Kids
Research out this week may one day complicate the standard advice given to pregnant people about drinking coffee. The study found that people with higher levels of caffeine consumption during their first trimester of pregnancy went on to have slightly shorter children on average than those with less caffeine in their system. This association was…
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Does Coffee Help You Live Longer? It’s Complicated
Another week, another coffee-is-good-for-you study that’s caught people’s attention. New research found a link between regular coffee consumption and a reduced risk of death. While the findings are the latest to suggest that coffee is perfectly fine to drink, they’re not necessarily strong proof that your daily cup of joe is life-saving.
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This Keurig for Cocktails Made Me Confront How Easy It Is to Just Make Yourself a Drink
It now seems inevitable that one day all of our food and beverage needs will be delivered in pod form. The Keurig showed us how easy it was to make brown caffeinated water from beans, and now Black+Decker’s Bev will do the same thing for cocktails, mixing ingredient-filled capsules with five different liquors for those…