Cricketscoffee Blog

  Its summer time and iced coffee is in high demand, Follow the link below for a short video on an iced coffee recipe. Keep cool! cricketscoffeeblog

  Well...well... Now a cup of coffee first thing in the morning may not be the best time of day to get the most bang for your cup. Appears  a recent study says that your body's chemistry is not that conducive to a caffeine hit when you first roll out of bed.  The best times for the maximum caffeine buzz appear to be 10,2 and 4......Sound familiar? That's right, good old DR. Pepper.  This is an obvious attempt to cut into coffee's dominance as that morning drink for millions by Big Cola. No doubt the study was funded by the makes of DR. Pepper and other like minded soft drink makers. Now the study that said that coffee harvested during a full moon is one you can hang you hat on. Now that's real science.

  A proposed U.K. bill, expected to be released later this week, includes a "blanket ban" on legal highs, and the current legislation is written in a way to make the ban so broad that alcohol, cigarettes, and COFFEE are included unless specific exemptions are issued.   Queen Elizabeth announced the legislation on 5/26/2015, and the bill would ban "any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect."   The new law would carry a maximum of up to seven-years in prison. The Guardian reports . The bill would first ban all psychoactive substances and then list which if any substances will be government-permitted.  Poland has a similar law, but the law says that substances must produce a "significant" effect, so caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco are not banned.   The U.K. law is designed to prohibit chemically engi...

  A  man was arrested Monday after he allegedly threw a hot cup of coffee on a Lake County deputy who had responded to a disturbance between the Mr. Dill and his girlfriend.  Mr. Dill of Leesburg has been charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct. He is in the Lake County jail in lieu of $5,500 bail. According to an arrest affidavit, a sheriff’s deputy responded to a location after a call had been made  reporting a woman in a home refused to leave. Mr. D...

  Coffee is said to be the world’s most popular drink after water. So how much is too much?  Isn’t coffee linked to pancreatic and kidney cancer, and doesn’t it make your blood pressure go off the scale.   Well coffee has made an image comeback.  Now that coffee has made it on to Santa's nice list. Some of the latest study's say there is strong evidence that drinking three to five cups a day (or up to 400mg/d caffeine) does no harm at all and that research consistently shows that coffee reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.  Coffee may even help protect you from Parkinson’s disease.  High-caffeine drinks on the other hand are not the same as coffee and should be avoided by adolescents and consumed in moderation by adults. These drinks have huge amounts of caffeine. This can lead to insomnia, jitteriness and palpitations. But the caffeine in few cups of  coffe...

  The National Weather Service, in March issued an El Niño advisory. The advisory stated that the phenomenon is 90 % likely to last through the summer of 2015 and at least 80 percent likely to continue through the end of the year.    The price of coffee could increase by 107 percent, with the weather effects of a strong El Nino  although others said the average increase typically ranged from 5 to 10 %.   During an El Niño event, waters in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean become warmer than what would be considered as normal as trade winds are lighter, changing what would be thought of as normal weather patterns around the world.     Heavy rains and flooding in the southern U.S. and parts of Latin America, along with droughts in Australia and Asia, would be likely. The recent heavy rain in drought stricken north Texas and Oklahoma  would seem to be a fulfillment of this prediction. ...

  You clean the out side of your k-cup machine. So how are you cleaning the inside...or are you?   This is just one way to help keep the inside of your coffee maker as clean as the outside.   You’ll need cleaning wipes, a paper clip, and distilled white vinegar. Use the wipes to clean the front of the machine, especially the handle. The paper clip can get those hard to reach spots inside the pod holder. Then fill the water reservoir with the vinegar. Run the machine, to flush the vinegar out. The acidity in the vinegar will kill the bacteria without harming you. Once the vinegar is out of the reservoir, let the machine sit for four hours. After four hours, fill the reservoir with water and run it about four times to flush out the rest of the vinegar.