Saturday, January 24, 2009

Cold Coffee

The problem with cold coffee is that it lacks the freedom to express itself. The character of the coffee bean shines forth only when reasonably hot water or steam is used to extract the flavours. Long cold extraction probably leads to a better yield, but the transformative nature of pressure and heat, the same combination that produces diamond from coal and sapphire from bauxite, is not to be underestimated.

Wonderful qualities emerge when the coffee is hot; only quantities when the coffee is cold.

Education is a lot like that.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

haha bad for the stomach too

Saturday, January 24, 2009 3:53:00 pm  
Blogger sloth said...

mm but ice blended coffee is somewhat good on a hot day :)

Saturday, January 24, 2009 7:06:00 pm  
Blogger Trebuchet said...

*grin*

sleepyboi: it affects the rate of hydrolysis ah?

sloth: but you gotta make it hot first, then add ice!

Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:21:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

haha no idea sir, my stomach just dont agree with it yesterday morning. perhaps bad to take on empty stomach? haha. coffee is acidic or alkaline in nature>?

Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:34:00 am  

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