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Psi:
On the subject of thermal probes and cooking. Here's some donuts i deep fried once using the electric wok and DMM
 :-DD


Alex Eisenhut:

--- Quote from: Psi on November 01, 2020, 12:37:27 am ---Enjoy coffee while you can.
Coffee is quite hard on the digestive tract and it's common to find you can no longer drink it later in life due to abdominal pains.

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I have never heard that. Coffee is hot water with trace chemicals. My Dad's 95 and drinks it every day,
bd139:
I had problems with coffee when I hit 40. This turned out not to be the coffee but the milk and sugar. So I only drink it fresh, black and no sugar now. No problems at all any more.
Cerebus:
Slight necropost here, prompted by this thread reviving overall.


--- Quote from: cdev on September 08, 2020, 12:53:38 pm ---This imprinting is actually why coffee evolved its caffeine, to make pollinators remember where they found the delicious pollen, or so I was told by an particularly knowledgeable analytical chemist.

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I think your "particularly knowledgeable analytical chemist" should stick to chemistry and not stray into biochemistry or biology. Caffeine, like most of the plant alkaloids that we use for fun and medicine evolved as a plant poison. "Caffeine in plants acts as a natural pesticide: it can paralyze and kill predator insects feeding on the plant." It's not there to give insects a 'buzz' and make them come back, it's there to poison them and make them buzz off! Ditto opium, strychnine, nicotine and so on.


--- Quote from: cdev on September 08, 2020, 12:53:38 pm ---Related chemicals are involved when people fall in love.

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Erm, again nope! The so called 'love hormone' is oxytocin, involved in bonding of all sorts, which is a poly-peptide and is nothing like caffeine - either chemically or in effect. In fact being a poly-peptide, if taken by mouth it would just be digested (the same reason insulin has to be injected rather than taken orally).

Caffeine:   Oxytocin:
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on November 01, 2020, 01:45:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Psi on November 01, 2020, 12:37:27 am ---Enjoy coffee while you can.
Coffee is quite hard on the digestive tract and it's common to find you can no longer drink it later in life due to abdominal pains.

--- End quote ---

I have never heard that. Coffee is hot water with trace chemicals. My Dad's 95 and drinks it every day,

--- End quote ---

Yeah, it's Tea that will kill you. Have you seen what it does to the inside of a teapot?  ;)
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