Category: Espresso

What does your coffee say about your personality?

There’s been a recent study that tested the habits of 1,000 coffee drinkers. It measured the different types of coffee that people drink daily, and then linked their habits along with psychological styles and personality traits. This is what they found:

The Black coffee drinker:

  • Straightforward
  • Quiet, but moody
  • Likes to keep things simple
  • All about minimalism

The Espresso drinker:

  • Hardworking, but moody
  • Takes on Leadership
  • Knows how to get what they want

The Latte drinker:

  • Likes to please people
  • Often indecisive when it comes to making decisions
  • Tends to be anxious

The Cappuccino drinker:

  • Controlling and obsessive
  • Creative, honest and motivated
  • Makes great friends, but gets bored with people who are unimaginative

The Frappuccino drinker:

  • Will try almost anything once
  • Trend setter
  • Courageous and adventurous
  • Doesn’t make healthy choices

The Instant coffee drinker:

  • Laid back
  • Cheerful and optimistic
  • Tends to out things off

The Soy milk drinker:

  • High maintenance
  • Detail oriented
  • Self centered and self-righteous

Espresso vs Drip Coffee

For some, a tiny shot of strong espresso is the only true coffee fix, while others think it’s a bitter waste of perfectly good beans. Whatever your preference may be, it’s always a good idea to get out there and try something new!

Beans

Let’s start with the beans. When coffee beans are harvested, they are a pale green and unfit for brewing. Roasting the beans is how you bring out their prime flavour and how you roast them is what determines if they’re to be used for espresso, or drip coffee. Espresso beans require a very dark roast and to be ground up finely – or in correspondence to your Machine settings . Drip coffee requires a medium grind because the water filtering through the machine has more contact time with the beans.

Caffeine

While a cup of coffee technically has more caffeine than a shot of espresso, if we were to pour that drip coffee into an espresso cup (or vice versa) than it would be the espresso with more caffeine.

The Process

Everyone and their mother knows the two beverages require two very different machines. The drip coffee machine drips boiling water over ground coffee and from there gravity takes over, pulling the freshly brewed coffee into the pot below. This process is a lot slower than the espresso route, but has it’s benefits. For example, at an office with multiple people looking for their caffeine fix. An espresso machine, however, forces 1.5 ounces of nearly boiling water through tightly packed espresso coffee. Espresso machines were actually dreamed up by Italians way back in the late 19th century. The best shot of espresso takes roughly 25 seconds to brew while using up to 15 atmospheres of pressure to force the water through. Those are some impressive little machines!

For me, espresso is my ride or die! Nothing wakes me up better than the smooth taste of freshly brewed espresso. How do you prefer to drink your caffeine?

5 Facts between Coffee and Poop!

Ever drink a coffee and have to go to the washroom minutes later? Well… you and me! I’m going to tell you a few facts about the correlation between coffee and poop.

  1. Coffee helps release a hormone in your body that is somehow really good at simulating a certain part of the muscle in your large intestine aka. THE COLON. Funny enough, Scientists still don’t know why!
  2. Does caffeine do it? Not so much, studies show that even decaf coffee will make you poop!
  3. Coffee drops the poop bomb as soon as 4 minutes after your first coffee (that’s extremely fast!) Make sure you don’t have coffee just before coming to work, because you’ll be hogging up the toilet!!
  4. If you have no clue what the coffee-poop feeling is, then you are among the lucky ones! Only 29% of coffee drinkers are affected by this coffee-poop relationship
  5. And Ladies… unfortunately this coffee-poop relationship affects you twice as much as men.

If you’ve learned anything from this, it’s that only 29% of coffee drinkers are affected by the coffee-poop relationship, and everyone else doesn’t feel it. (Sadly, I’m part of the 29% that is affected). It’s funny how there isn’t scientific reasoning for this, but I’m sure that in the near future, scientists will be able to provide us with answers to our coffee-poop problems! Until then, stay close to a washroom while drinking your coffee – you might need it more than you know!