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Metope:
From how I understand it, dark roasts have less caffeine because the beans have been roasted to death and are stripped of everything! Light roasts still contain a lot of caffeine, but have a milder taste since the flavor people associate with strong coffee is actually mostly the flavor of burnt.
I had roasting explained to me with a ketchup analogy once: Roasting beans to death masks the flavor of the beans but brings out the flavor of roasting in itself which many people actually like, so it's a good way of roasting beans if the beans are of poor quality and don't taste very good to begin with. If you have great quality beans, you should do a light roast since the good flavor is preserved. Kinda like how people put ketchup on fast food to make it taste better, but if you have good quality food, ketchup would make it worse.
Welu:
One of my strongest family memories is one if my brothers putting enough ketchup on to his mash potatoes and mixing it so they slowly turned to a quite vibrant pink.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Dec 2014, 13:42 ---I did not know that. It might explain something that has always puzzled me a little. I don't drink a lot of coffee, being mainly a tea snob (big surprise, right?), but when I do drink coffee it is always a "short black" (espresso) or a "long black", to use Australian coffee-shop terminology. Both are strongly flavoured and dark, and yet I have not noticed myself getting twitchy, and can get a good night's sleep even if I have an espresso after dinner. Or maybe I'm just habituated, because there is caffeine in tea too.
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Metope is right on this one. I used to work at a coffee shop where we roasted our own stuff. Even the espresso was a light-medium roast to give it a better flavour. Most espresso is burnt to hell, as is any "French Roast", or "Italian Roast" for that matter. If you actually want to taste the coffee, order a light or medium roast.
Aziraphale:
I didn't know this. Makes sense, though... kinda like the difference between ordering a stake medium-rare versus well done.
Method of Madness:
Most of my life I've been single, but now I'm single for the first time in years and I don't know how to be single. Then again, I never really did, I guess.
I don't get people who like being single. I'm not saying they're wrong, I just don't get it.
Edit: Whoa, I hit 12,000 posts!
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