I have to say, at first I thought these things were for testing if your coffee is too weak. But no, apparently the greater scourge is coffee falsely advertised as decaffeinated. Is this really a major problem? I think you can generally tell decaf coffee because it just doesn’t taste as good.
The page refers to “decaf junkies,” as if that’s a legitimate category of human beings, and claims “studies have shown” that 30% of decaf served has “unacceptably high” caffeine content. Now, if you want their product and have a use for it, that’s great, and furthermore I don’t doubt that these cool little strips work exactly as advertised. But you don’t have to build a whole mythology around your product with this ridiculous copy! Good lord, sir! I’m going to go get a fully-caffeinated espresso right now just to wash the stink of this post off me.
The product photo is also a little misleading, since the instructions caution you to not allow the strips to come in contact with whatever you’re drinking. I guess the description should be more like “Decaf tester and coffee poison.”
[via MedGadget and MIT Tech Review]
Now if there is something to test skim milk from normal milk, that would be really great.
You know you’ve had too much caffeine when your eyes stay open when you sneeze and you start helping your dog chase its tail. There’s a really funny article on how to tell when you’ve had enuff coffee on Ethic Soup blog at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/25-reasons-you-know-youve-had-too-much-coffee.html
Sharon McEachern
Probably more useful to tell if your coffee isn’t decaf. I sometimes suspect people slip me decaf to keep me sedate lol.