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adding hot water to strong coffee

  • 04-11-2015 06:13PM
    #1
    strelok
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭


    I bought a travel mug on amazon which arrived today and it's wonderful and all but it's 470ml capacity and my cafetiere gives me 230ish ml of coffee

    generally I use 10g ground coffee in the cafetiere and it does the job, so I was wondering would it be the same (or close enough) in terms of flavour and caffeine if I were to use 20g in the cafetiere and then just fill up the travel mug with hot water?

    it seems like it should be the same, but I dunno... science and stuff, you can never be sure.

    I know it's kind of a ridiculous question but I'm quite sensitive to caffeine and even though I take theanine with my coffee to help me deal with it, I'm still quite wary of taking too much in at any one time.


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  • #2
    vienne86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,080 ✭✭✭✭vienne86


    strelok wrote: »
    I bought a travel mug on amazon which arrived today and it's wonderful and all but it's 470ml capacity and my cafetiere gives me 230ish ml of coffee

    generally I use 10g ground coffee in the cafetiere and it does the job, so I was wondering would it be the same (or close enough) in terms of flavour and caffeine if I were to use 20g in the cafetiere and then just fill up the travel mug with hot water?

    it seems like it should be the same, but I dunno... science and stuff, you can never be sure.

    I know it's kind of a ridiculous question but I'm quite sensitive to caffeine and even though I take theanine with my coffee to help me deal with it, I'm still quite wary of taking too much in at any one time.

    I suggest you try it. I know that I do that with the aeropress - sometimes I need to make an extra cup, so I just make the coffee extra strong and top up with hot water.


  • #3
    strelok
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭strelok


    yeah i've been doing that. it does the job, i much prefer sipping coffee over an hour or two than drinking it quickly and being too amped up

    my contigo broke this morning though after only having it a week :( hopefully the replacement arrives from amazon soon


  • #4
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Nearly always do the same, which ever way I make my coffee,

    Double shot of espresso from the machine, top up with off the boil water.

    Aeropress, top up with off the boil water.


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