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How Much Caffeine Does It Take To Kill You?
I’ve been looking at a lot of coffee related infographics and came across this stunning caffeine chart. It came from CoolInfographics.com and is worth a look. It charts the amount of caffeine in drinks from the common cup of coffee up to the most caffeine-laden energy drinks. Got a death wish? Then check out the Death [...]
Continue reading...7 Easy Coffee Grinding Tips
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Because grinding coffee can be an art in and of itself, here are a few tips that I found to help you make a great cup of coffee at home, especially if you grind your own beans. Amount: If you don’t know how much coffee you want to grind, a good rule of thumb is to [...]
Continue reading...Introducing the Eco-Friendly Coffee Tips Widget
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Eco Friendly Coffee Tips More cool coffee makers and coffee tips… Here’s a little project we’ve been working on here at TheCoffeeMakerStore. It’s an eco-friendly coffee tips widget that displays ways to make your coffee habit more gentle on the environment. Copy the text below and paste it in your blog or website: <div id="content-wrap"><div id="main"><h2>Eco Friendly Coffee Tips</h2> <p><br><iframe [...]
Continue reading...Funky iMac Coffee Maker
Monday, December 28, 2009
I read about the iMac coffee maker the other day and just had to share it. It’s totally handmade and all of the modifications were down by 53 year old German designer designer, Klaus Diebel himself. It’s made from the iconic iMac and is fully functional, including a screen that can be imprinted with an [...]
Continue reading...Cool Self-Stirring Coffee Mug Makes a Great Gift
Thursday, December 24, 2009
We’ve written about the usb powered coffee mug on this blog before, but this is just as cool. We read about it at the CNET gadget blog and were really impressed. The self-stirring coffee mug from ThinkGeek eliminates the need for spoons, straws, stirrers, sticks, and dare we say fingers. Just drop in the desired [...]
Continue reading...The Cowboy Guide To Making Coffee
Friday, December 4, 2009
Ok, so your coffee maker is broken and you need a little caffeine boost. Don’t worry pilgrim, making your own cup of coffee is simple if you follow these easy instructions. American cowboys are known as rugged outdoorsmen. The iconic image of a cowboy is with his horse beside a campfire in a desert valley. [...]
Continue reading...10 Crazy Coffee Tables
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Here’s a list of unique coffee tables I read about the other day on a design blog I came across. There are 12 in total, but I’m showing the ones that struck me most. This paper plane shaped coffee table is one of the most unique I’ve ever seen. Unless you have an ultra modern house, [...]
Continue reading...6 Weird Things You Can Do With a Coffee Maker
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Coffee makers keep getting cooler. From crystal studded coffee makers to touch screen coffee makers to voice activated coffee makers, manufacturers keep pushing the boundaries on design and usability. We’ve even written about foods that you can cook with a coffee machine on this blog from pasta to eggs to shrimp But what about other things [...]
Continue reading...‘Red’ Espresso Is All The Rage
Monday, November 30, 2009
I visited my father the other day for dinner. When it was time for dessert, he asked if I wanted coffee so I said “yes”. When I drank it, it tasted a little different. It had the hazelnut cream and sugar taste I was expecting, but the flavor wasn’t quite the same. When we [...]
Continue reading...First the Touch Screen Coffee Maker, Now the Touch Screen Coffee Cup!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
We wrote about the touch screen coffee maker a few weeks ago and just stumbled across this cool little coffee mug. It’s a novel concept: email, stocks, weather, news, and traffic on your coffee mug. That’s what the Yuno PC mug promises. It was designed by California State’s Jason Farsai and got lots of coverage [...]
Continue reading...USB Powered Coffee Mug Stirs and Keeps Coffee Warm
Sunday, November 29, 2009
This self-heating and self-stirring coffee cup is one of the more innovative devices I’ve seen in a while. Not only does it stir your coffee and keep at warm (about 40 degrees Celsius), but it’s USB powered and easily rechargeable. Available at usb.brando.com, it works at the push of a button. Just pour your coffee, [...]
Continue reading...Crazy Little Breakfast Machine
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
This puppy is a coffee maker, juicer, toaster, in one. Oh yeah, it’ll make your eggs too. Not only that, but it’ll butter your bread and add jelly too. Designed by Yuri Suzuki, 26, a design teacher in London and his friend Masa Kimura, 28, this machine was featured at Platform 21 in Amsterdam. It [...]
Continue reading...Bring Out the Coffee Maker In You With New iPhone App
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
There’s a new iPhone app called Barista that’ll bring out the true coffee maker in you. It’ll let you crank out cafe-quality drinks from your home coffee machine. With sleek graphics and easy to follow instructions, you’ll be making sophisticated coffee drinks in no time. Selected as “App of the Week”, here’s what Apple [...]
Continue reading...Linked Coffee Mugs
Friday, November 13, 2009
These coffee mugs just make sense… so much so that I kind of wish I thought of them. Along with the innovative coffee bags we wrote about, this is so cool because they allow you to carry multiple coffee mugs at the same time. Good for parties or when you have guests over and don’t [...]
Continue reading...The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
A lot of talk about the “perfect cup of coffee” revolves around brewing the actual coffee. But I ran across a few articles about the perfect “cup” of coffee. This high-tech coffee mug was created by German physicists to keep the coffee at the perfect temperature. They use a phase change material, which is a [...]
Continue reading...How Coffee Is Killing the Rain Forest
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
If you’re interested in how commercial coffee growers are killing the rain forest and making it harder for coffee farmers to make a decent living, check out this video by Bill Nye (the Science Guy). At the crux of it is that companies are finding it profitable to cut down large swaths of rain forest [...]
Continue reading...4 Easy Tricks to Have an Eco-Friendly Coffee Break
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
We do a lot of detrimental things to the environment. I went to the office coffee maker this morning and thought about the styrofoam cup and the plastic stirrer I used and couldn’t help but feel guilty. Of course, it’s easy to justify it to yourself “my little cup isn’t going to melt the polar [...]
Continue reading...6 Amazing Uses for Used Coffee Grounds
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Just when you thought the coffee maker was spitting out useless coffee grounds after your morning brew, we shared an article about using coffee grounds to fuel your car. We just recently came across a bunch of other really cool uses for coffee grounds. Coffee Grounds Enrich Soil Coffee grounds are known for enriching soil with [...]
Continue reading...iPhone Inspired Coffee Table
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I found this iPhone inspired coffee table on iLounge. It’s made completely from corrugated cardboard and glued together with simple glue. It has removable coasters in the form of iPhone application icons. // Technorati Tags: coffee, coffee machine, coffee maker, coffee makers
Continue reading...Fire Up the Coffee Maker! Health Benefits of Drinking Coffee
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
There are a few studies about the health benefits of coffee. Now, not all of them are conclusive, but they do indicate that there are health benefits related with drinking coffee. Here are some things known about coffee: Drinking coffee has been shown in independent studies to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s Disease by almost 80%. [...]
Continue reading...6 Awesome Homemade Coffee Recipes
Sunday, October 18, 2009
I was stumbling the web looking for articles on coffee and coffee makers, when I came across a list of really good coffee recipes on Instructables including: How to Make Cuban Coffee: Cuban coffee is a type of espresso found in South and Central America. the foam is the most distinguishing characteristic of this drink and [...]
Continue reading...2 Easy Steps to a Perfect Cup of Coffee
Thursday, September 10, 2009
A perfect cup of coffee depends on a lot of things. The type of coffee maker you use, the quality of the coffee bean, the type of brewing you’re doing, and the grind of the coffee. Generally, you can solve quality problems by using purified water and high quality coffee beans. Here are two tips [...]
Continue reading...A Brief History of Coffee
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Ever heard of people with coffee makers next to their bed? Nothing perks up Americans (and most of the world) in the morning like coffee. But what’s the deal with coffee, and why do we love it so much? Coffee, is made from the coffee plant’s roasted seeds, called coffee beans (bet you didn’t know that!) [...]
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