I suggest that this Blog Piece be read over a nice beverage, say like Coffee?
I like Coffee, it’s no secret. I drink coffee everyday….but I was interested in knowing more about coffee…not the standard stuff everyone else already knows…and this is what I came up with…
If you know any more cool coffee facts, let me know, I’ll add them to this blog post & credit you for bring it to my attention…
Coffee can be a Plant Food. The same qualities that make coffee such a good candidate for composting can also be put to use by adding directly to planting soil. The minerals help keep plants healthy and the acidity of coffee will give a boost to crops craving lower pH levels.
Coffee can be used as a Wood Stain. You can use the leftover coffee from the pot or soak spent grounds for a couple of days to get rich tones ready to use on woodwork.
If you have issues with ants, the nitrogen in coffee grounds is a surprisingly effective ant repellent. Sprinkle grounds around doorways, windows or foundations to keep ants out of the house or use around the garden to create a natural barrier against invading ants.
Boil coffee grounds in a large pot, remove from heat and submerge natural fabrics in the pot to get a beautiful beige or brown. The longer it soaks, the darker it will become. It makes great fabric dye.
If you want something organic to clean your hands, like tea leaves, rubbing coffee grounds on your hands will remove objectionable odours like garlic, onions or fish. If you’re making your own soap, stirring coffee grounds into the mix during the “trace” stage gives your soap added deodorizing power and also acts as a mild abrasive, making it a top-notch exfoliant. The amount used will impact the abrasiveness of the soap.
Coffee grounds can be added to the wax when making candles to impart a subtle scent that will make your candles something truly special. Start with a couple of tablespoons per cup of wax and experiment until you find a potency that suits you. These make amazing candle scents.
Legend has it a 9th Century Ethiopian goat herder discovered coffee by accident when he noticed how crazy the beans were making his goats.
The lethal dose of caffeine is roughly 100 cups of coffee
A French doctor in the 1600s suggested Cafe Au Laits for patients, inspiring people to begin adding milk to coffee.
Espresso is regulated by the Italian government because it is considered an essential part of their daily life.
Hawaii is the only state that commercially grows coffee.
In the ancient Arab culture there was only one way a woman could legally divorce: If her husband didn’t provide enough coffee.
Coffee beans are actually the pit of a berry, which makes them a fruit. How awesome is that, BEST FRUIT EVER!
IMPORTANT Fact: Brewed espresso has 2.5% fat, while filtered coffee contains 0.6% fat.
Johan Sebastian Bach wrote an opera about a woman who was addicted to coffee.
There is a way to brew coffee with marijuana in it and it is described as producing a “dreamy” kind of coffee buzz.
Unlike the hip 20-something Baristas in the US, in Italy the average Barista age is 48, and it is a very respected profession.
In the 1600s there was a controversy over whether or not Catholics could drink coffee, luckily Pope Clement VIII said it was okay
No matter what people tell you, caffeine cannot help you sober up.
The first webcam was invented at The University of Cambridge to let people know if the coffee pot was full or not.
There is a spa in Japan that lets you bathe in coffee, tea, or wine
Before coffee caught on in the US in the 1700s, beer was breakfast drink of choice
Irish coffee was actually invented to warm up cold American plane passengers leaving from Ireland.
Coffee beans are combustible and scientists have suggested that coffee beans could replace fossil fuels as one of our main sources of energy and motor fuel. In fact, British engineers created a car that runs on coffee beans in 2011 and it broke the record as the fastest car in existence to run on organic fuels.
People who drink a moderate amount of coffee are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s or dementia in old age. (I’m getting old, good thing for me to try to remember.)
Coffee is the second most sold commodity around the world. Coffee stands second as oil (fuel) secured the first place in the list of most sold commodities around the globe.
Kopi Luwak is excreted by a Sumatran species of wild cats. This refers to the most expensive coffee in the whole world. You will have to pay $100 to buy 4 oz of coffee.
Boston’s Dorothy Jones was the first licensed coffee brewer in the USA. She was granted a license in 1670 and then started selling brewed coffee.
King Louis XIV had the first European greenhouse built to store France’s first coffee tree, known as The Noble Tree.
The first coffee-house in the world opened in Arabia in the 16th century.
The first coffee-house in Europe opened in Venice in 1645.
The first coffee advertisement was distributed in 1651 in London.
The first coffee-house in America opened in Boston in 1676.
The Dutch began growing coffee on the island of Java, now part of Indonesia, in 1696.
The Boston Tea Party convinced Americans to switch to coffee from tea as an expression of freedom.
The coffee filter was invented in 1908 by Melitta Bentz, a housewife from Dresden, Germany.
It takes over 600,000 green coffee beans to fill a coffee sack, which weighs around 130 pounds when full.
Brazil issued a coffee scented postage stamp in 2001.
Franciscan friars brought the first coffee seeds to the Philippines in 1749.
If you drink five to 10 cups of decaffeinated coffee, you could get as much caffeine as from one or two cups of caffeinated coffee, a study found.
One the largest misconception in the U.S. today about coffee is that Mocha Java coffee is a chocolate beverage. In fact there is no chocolate in the Mocha or Java bean at all. Mocha is the name of the largest port in Yemen, here is where all of the African coffee beans are traded and transported. Java is the name of an island in Indonesia where the Java Bean comes from. Both coffees are a dark bean and provide a very rich and bold coffee, when you mix the two together you get Mocha Java coffee.
There are two types of oils in coffee, good oils and bad oils. The good oils are good for your body and your health, the bad oils are what give you ulcers and stomach problems. To avoid the bad oils in coffee simply use paper filters to minimize the effects
James Mason invented the coffee percolator on December 26, 1865.
Instant coffee was invented in 1901 by a Japanese American chemist known as Satori Kato. Later in 1906 a more known English chemist known as George Constant Washington claimed he invented instant coffee.
On May 11, 1926, the slogan “Maxwell House Good to the last drop” was trademark registered.
In 1822, the first espresso machine was made in France.
In 1933, Dr. Ernest Illy invented the first automatic espresso machine.
It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach full maturity, coffee trees can live up to 100 years old.
The average yield from one tree is the equivalent of one roasted pound of coffee.
The custom of tipping waiters originated in early European Coffee Houses, in order to receive good service in that loud, dirty, hectic place you needed to Tip Big.
In the 17th century when coffee came to Europe Pope Clement VIII banned coffee stating it was the “Devils Tool”. This changed shortly after the Pope had a cup and pronounced coffee legal again.
Cowboy Coffee originated from Cowboys using their dirty socks out on the trail as coffee filters. They filled their sock with coffee beans, immersed the sock in boiling water then squeezed the coffee into their cups.
Both the American Revolution and the French Revolution were plotted in coffee houses.
There is no such bean as a Flavored bean, coffee is flavored after roasting with artificial flavored oils.
Black coffee with no additives contains no calories.
If you know any more cool coffee facts, let me know, I’ll add them to this blog post & credit you for bring it to my attention…
These are facts & anecdotes that I found on a ton of different websites, many of these facts were often repeated many times on many websites. No one can claim ownership to these facts because they’ve been facts for a long time. I’m simply gathering a bunch of cool facts about coffee. If you see facts that YOU want to claim as your own. Feel free to let me know.
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