Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on my machine it,s steam. it has a boiler and there is no pump simon jessurun | On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:58:24PM +0200, animal wrote: | > Espresso is a method where superheated steam is pressed through the | > ground coffee. | | Nope, espresso is a drink where heated (about 95 deg C) WATER is passed | under pressure (about 9 bar) through ground coffee. | | > Thereby extracting less caffeine and different compounds | | Correct - it is a commonly held myth that espresso is very high in caffeine | when actually it generally has lower caffeine (unless the blend contains a | very high Robusta content) than almost any other coffee. Another myth is | that espresso is bitter when actually a well made epsresso is nothing of the | sort - bitterness indicates that the drink has been overextracted. | | -- | Tony Terlecki | ajt@mrps.demon.co.uk | _______________________________________________ | Leica Users Group. | See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information