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It's a drug, it effects your behaviour/mood, you must have done some weird shit on it
I hate to be that guy, but, "source?" The espresso number "feels" a bit off, and some Internet searching agrees better with intuition:
According to USDA, 1oz of espresso is 63mg and 1C coffee is 92mg.
Just googling around, and both DDG and Google summary report 64mg/shot (with the obvious disclaimer about trusting AI summaries).
Almost as much caffeine in hot chocolate as in expresso? This chart doesn't look plausible.
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Ahhhhh!!!! Stop it. Please.
The chart is wrong on a couple things. Honestly, I'd argue this post should be removed or edited with the correct numbers.
Also, it feels odd to compare them all by concentration. Red Bulls come in a specific size.
Also what roast of coffee? How long of a brew? How hot was the brewing water? What elevation did the beans grow? Way too many variables with coffee (and tea for that matter) to be this general
I once met an old journalist that ran a bed and breakfast in southern Ontario. Great guy who worked for the Toronto Star for several years in the 60s and 70s.
He said that work was a lot more hectic back then because everything was manual and you had constant deadlines with no conveniences. He said that his day started at about 5 or 6 and depending on how busy the day was, he'd be in bed by 2 or 3 or not at all to make a deadline.
He said he drank coffee but at one point drinking so much liquid was forcing them to go to the bathroom so much that he and a few others opted to start just eating the coffee beans instead. They got the caffeine kick without wanting to pee.
He suffered a massive heart attack in his 50s, slowed down after, quit eating coffee beans and retired in his 60s.
I assume they were all smoking nonstop as well, I’m surprised he even made it to 60
I remember him saying that after he saw a couple of his colleagues who were the same age, doing the same thing die either doing their work or shortly after ... he realized his time was up and he just retired before it killed him. Yes he said he did smoke like everyone, just not as heavily as most and he quit earlier than most.
He said he saw the writing on the wall and knew that if he continued, he would have died at his desk .... so he and his wife just packed it all in, sold everything they had in the city, moved to the country and opened a bed and breakfast instead.
His place was amazing tho ... they had a small library that was filled with all his old magazine, newspaper work, books, prints, documents, papers, everything ... and when you sat with him, he could sit for days telling you stories. This was all about 20 years ago and the old guy (he was in his 70s at the time) is probably gone now but what a character.
Yeah he definitely definitely sounds like a character, fucking off from your 9-5 to open a bed and breakfast is king shit
Work
Took caffeine pills, stayed up 4 days, saw strange colours, broke down and slept
Luckily made it home, the snow was looking really cosy
Sleep deprivation will scramble your brain.
After three days I got vivid hallucinations while driving. Traffic was coming straight for me on my side of a divided highway. Never again.
Longest I've stayed up is a 3 and bit days. I didn't hallucinate, because I wasn't drinking caffeine (you can stay surprisingly alert and mellow on just fruit), but I definitely had massive lapses in judgement when crossing the road
done work for paycheque
If I have too much coffee, I get irritating eye twitches and feel unpleasant.
"affects" *
Discovered that the caffeine in soda is the cause of bad munchies and not the same as coffee. Drink decaf soda and coffee now, lost weight, lol’d.
I tried decaf Coke Zero and I have to admit it makes me miserable. Can't work out if it's my head expecting the caffein high and not recieving it, or if it's something in the chemicals itself that acts as a depressant
Isn't caffeine in soda added in a relatively pure form in the end of the proces, unlike coffee/tea/cacao where it part of the 'source' of the end product? I don't think they have to substitute the caffeine for some decaf ingredient. If that's true, that would rule out your second guess.
Huh - that's actually good to hear. I thought they had to do the same creepy stuff they do to coffee to decaffeinate it, rather than just not adding it at all.
In that case I guess I've just got to train my brain to not immediately expect the caffeine high when drinking it
Less than 400 mg a day is suggested for heart health.
Weirdly, my sensitivity to caffeine has gone through the roof in my 40s. I just turned 48 and, if I drink just one cup of coffee after mid-day, I'm not going to get to sleep until about 3am.
Back in the day, when I would hang out all day every day at a coffeehouse, I drank like three pots of coffee in two hours. I ended up standing up on a chair and flailing around, then completely crashing out and feeling like I was going to die.
I'd get blackout buzzed on caff (street name for caffeine) and go on a murderous rampage. You know, since caffeine is a drug and all.
yeah nice. my fave is to go to Starbucks and boof a double frappucino while everyone just stares in awe. then I recite the first 2 million digits of pi before having sex with one of the stools.
My freshman year of college i drank one of the largest cans of red bull and a big coffee right before heading to a math class. I was tweaking scribbling absurd doodles in my notebook.
Did it help you math better, or were the doodles largely untethered to reality
The only thing I remember drawing was a stick figure ripping itself in half. For sure I was not at all paying attention to the professor.
Threw 5/7ths of my life away
How is espresso so low? I assumed it would be comparable to a cup of coffee.
This scale is bullshit a good espresso shot is like 100 mg or more. Minimum like 65
Apparently 100g of espresso contains 212mg, 30g (or one fluid ounce) has 63mg. I think that ties in with what I can remember from James Hoffmanns channel for the average espresso size. So at least double what’s shown on the chart.
Brewed coffee as opposed to dry beans? Assuming you mean black it is espresso with water. Green tea is about 30-40mg what is this :D