What on Earth can make you think that the first two... or four... or even six aren't enough? She works in a cafe; presumably she's seen patrons order with extra shots. How would you not think two or three extra shots (I'm having trouble imagining anyone ordering more) would not do the trick?
It's actually quite hard to harm or kill yourself with caffeine I would say ... even moreso with espresso because it has relatively little caffeine in each shot. I'm guessing a combination of stress / dehydratation / a seriously low CON score and maybe some other medication or product she might have taken contributed to a lot of it.
When I did my Barista training, I took over 10 double shots over the course of the day and if you're not dumb, you eat and you drink water in between you're fine ... a bit jittery but fine.
As for the double shots, many coffee stores actually serve double espressos by default ... I do the same at home, using the double basket instead of the single.
Espresso has more caffeine per mL than drip coffee, if made correctly. it comes to about 40 mg of drug per 30 mL of liquid, for 1.33 mg/mL, whereas drip coffee gets you 115 mg per 130 mL, or .88 mg/mL. Even taking into account the considerable variation on caffeine content depending on beans, preparation, equipment, etc, that's a huge difference.
That is correct. I guess I should have precised that on a "per usual serving size" which is 1 - 1.5oz for a single shot, espresso has less caffeine than a cup of drip. And if someone is drinking entire cups of pure espresso, well, again, I would question their sanity.
Sorry, I was thinking in an absolute sense - 7 oz of espresso vs 7 oz of drip.
Which starts becoming scarily relevant with this gal, who apparently "slammed" 7 double espressos to start her shift.
I can't find any hard numbers about what a 'double-espresso' actually is. Is it regular espresso, sold in a 2 oz serving size, or is it 1 oz but made with 2 oz of coffee grounds, or something else I haven't considered? (made at twice the pressure?)
It has more to do with the quantity of ground coffee that you put in the portafilter. The single basket is a different shape and smaller than the double basket.
Single basket holds 6 to 7 grams ... give or take and depending on grind size, how tamper crazy you are and atmospheric pressure and double shot is well, double that. You can also buy "triple" baskets for very high end machines but at that point, you might just as well get two doubles or something.
Forgot to add, it does usually ends up as more liquid ... but then again, any "size" of espresso can also be "long" (aka lungo) or "short" (aka ristretto) which is a variation on when you stop the extraction process.
Coffee making is filled with conflicting definitions, vague notions and and countless variables.
Guy i knew in college took a whole box of No doz in high school. Claimed hands were shaking for a day, even when he finally slept. They pumped his stomach at one point, but by that time it had no effect. THe combined concentrated effect was something like 200 cups of coffee according to him. If you knew this guy, you wouldn't doubt his story in the slightest.
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Date: 2007-08-13 07:36 pm (UTC)What on Earth can make you think that the first two... or four... or even six aren't enough? She works in a cafe; presumably she's seen patrons order with extra shots. How would you not think two or three extra shots (I'm having trouble imagining anyone ordering more) would not do the trick?
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Date: 2007-08-13 08:27 pm (UTC)It's actually quite hard to harm or kill yourself with caffeine I would say ... even moreso with espresso because it has relatively little caffeine in each shot. I'm guessing a combination of stress / dehydratation / a seriously low CON score and maybe some other medication or product she might have taken contributed to a lot of it.
When I did my Barista training, I took over 10 double shots over the course of the day and if you're not dumb, you eat and you drink water in between you're fine ... a bit jittery but fine.
As for the double shots, many coffee stores actually serve double espressos by default ... I do the same at home, using the double basket instead of the single.
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Date: 2007-08-13 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-13 08:43 pm (UTC)More caffeine per ML plus many less ML still equals less caffeine.
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Date: 2007-08-13 08:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-13 09:13 pm (UTC)Which starts becoming scarily relevant with this gal, who apparently "slammed" 7 double espressos to start her shift.
I can't find any hard numbers about what a 'double-espresso' actually is. Is it regular espresso, sold in a 2 oz serving size, or is it 1 oz but made with 2 oz of coffee grounds, or something else I haven't considered? (made at twice the pressure?)
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Date: 2007-08-13 09:21 pm (UTC)Single basket holds 6 to 7 grams ... give or take and depending on grind size, how tamper crazy you are and atmospheric pressure and double shot is well, double that. You can also buy "triple" baskets for very high end machines but at that point, you might just as well get two doubles or something.
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Date: 2007-08-13 09:24 pm (UTC)Coffee making is filled with conflicting definitions, vague notions and and countless variables.
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Date: 2007-08-13 11:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-14 01:46 am (UTC)