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What you Should Know About Coffee Pod

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A coffee pod, essentially, is freshly roasted coffee that is tampered to the perfect temperature and then wrapped in paper. Using pods in your machine pretty much guarantees a perfect cup of coffee every time because the coffee has been accurately measured and ground to fit the coffee pod. It also helps avoid the mess of scooping the coffee to put into the filter area. By compartmentalizing the coffee like this, you can save tons of space and a lot of hassle in terms of creating the perfect cup of coffee out of your favourite grounds and your machine.

A coffee pod is also known as a coffee pad. These pods are a great way to make espresso as well because of the convenience associated with it and the ability it gives the user to create the perfect amount of coffee out of the pod. There are many sizes of pods available on the market, but the standard size is designed to fit around seven grams of ground coffee. There are additions to coffee makers that can help your maker adapt to allow a larger or smaller size of a coffee pod to fit and integrate into the machine to make that great cup of coffee. [Read more…]

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Coffee Facts and Gourmet Coffee Figures

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Some great gourmet coffee trivia:

* The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffee house – the Green Dragon Coffee House

* One Coffee Tree or plant in its normal harvest will produce enough coffee cherries to make one pound of coffee bean

* 27% of U.S. coffee drinkers and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener to their coffee.

* The world’s largest coffee producer is Brazil with over 3,970 million coffee trees. Colombia produces alot of gourmet coffee for its size – coming in second in the world with around two thirds of Brazil’s production of gourmet coffee.

* Hard bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

* Arabica and Robusta trees can produce crops for 20 to 30 years under proper conditions and care.

* Most coffee is transported by ships. Currently there are approximately 2,200 ships involved in transporting the beans each year.

* In Turkey a husband who refused to provide his wife with a mocha latte could be divorced by her! [Read more…]

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Popular Single Serve Coffee Pod Machine

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A coffee pod machine is used in brewing instant coffee. Single serving coffee pod machines are now being developed to make brewing more convenient and simpler.

A coffee pod maker takes lesser time to brew and is easy to clean. There is small room for mistakes with this machine.

Coffe pod machines are basically made of sealable plastic rods with small paper filters inside. Pods are placed in the machine and locked in place. Switch it on the water heats.

Some of the companies that offer coffee pod machines are: Melitta, Briel, Bunn, Keurig, Juan Valdez and Senseo. Colors include: green, yellow, black, orange, chrome, red and stainless steel. The price of a pod machine starts at $50.

Four of the most popular single-serving pod-based machines on the market today are as follows:
1. Braun – TASSIMO Machine
The Braun TASSIMO is a revolutionary coffee machine that uses the T-Disc system. It can make ready-to-drink hot beverages in just 60 seconds. Braun Tassimo is very easy to use and handy. It can be manually adjusted, providing different strengths and cup sizes. Tassimo is an ideal coffee machine for dinner parties. It has a large water tank that can be filled up with one liter of water.

The T-disc system of Braun Tassimo can read a barcode on the disc and start working on it. The pod uses a small-brewing chamber which can feature a unique inverse flow. The drink is then poured from disc into the cup.
Leading brands of T-Discs are Twinings, Kenco and Suchard. All of these can be used to make a cup of coffee, tea, espresso, decaffeinated coffee, cappuccino, hot chocolate and caffe crema. [Read more…]

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The Coffee Facts And Trivia You Can Enjoy

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Coffee is actually a term that was once used for a wine that was made from the berries of a coffee tree. In fact, the black wine, as it was referred to during that time, is used in religious rites as wine by people of Mohammed. Of course, as time passed, coffee became a staple and not just wine for religious ceremonies.

Caffeine, although universally taken, is actually one of the substances that are being prohibited by the International Olympic Committee. In fact, there are athletes that are banned from competing because of caffeine.

They must not have 12 micrograms of caffeine in their urine. This can be reached when you drink about five cups of coffee straight. And here we thought it is only steroids were being banned in the Olympic battle ground.

Did you know that the body can absorb as much as 300 milligrams of caffeine at one time. This can be gotten from about 4 cups of coffee. Additional cups don’t work because after this limit is reached, they don’t provide any more stimulation. In fact, the body has an internal system that neutralizes caffeine every hour. [Read more…]

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