Coffee Consumption: Me vs. The World
I drink more coffee a month than the average person does a year. Indeed, I easily go through more than the 12 kilograms that represents the top end of the scale.
Peter Smith points to the above map and observes:
A map of world’s coffee-drinking habits locates the global epicenter far from tropical coffee plantations, in Scandinavia, where coffee consumption is well above the global average is 2.9 pounds (1.3 kilograms) per year.
I drink more coffee a month than the average person does a year. Indeed, I easily go through more than the 12 kilograms annually that represents the top end of the scale.
Considering that I easily exceed similar projections for beer and alcoholic drinks, generally, I’m clearly well hydrated. (Or, perhaps not since caffeine and alcohol are diuretics.)
via Andrew Sullivan
I would make some crack at your expense, but I just noticed I have three partly-filled coffee cups sitting at my elbow, the remains of my consumption in just the last three hours.
Hmmm. Is that why I’m twitching?
Coffee- it calms you down; while it perks you up! Is there ANYTHING coffee can’t do?
I used to prepare most of my coffee via the french press, but lately have fallen in love with turkish style.
How do you guys prepare yours?
Coffee and jazz are pretty my my only remaining vices. Had to clean up my act, the 80s nearly killed me.
I’m certainly near the 12kg border, if not above it.
My preferred method of brewing is the Aerobie Cafe Press, usually four 16-oz cups/day. Then Turkish/Arabic/Greek. I’m not too refined to stop at Starbucks, if the spirit so moves, and in a pinch, I’ll even use instant.
I once had a secretary who could not have weighed 90lbs. She’d go through 35 Arabic coffees in the course of office hours. Turned out that that much caffeine works as a contraceptive. When she cut her coffee consumption in half, she got pregnant!
My wife has said that if the house catches on fire, forget everything else and grab the espresso machine. We use a Jura Capresso Impressa C9, which I would recommend to anyone who loves serious coffee.
I’ve heard good things about the Impressa.
Prices are going up, but I’m hooked. I’ll just cut cost some other way. For me, a great cup of morning coffee means coherent exuberance for the rest of the day. And I usually go for coherence since people respond positively to that.
I use a Keurig Coffee Maker. Its quick and easy. Which means I can be coherent and exuberant quicker.