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John H[_12_]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:49:23 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:21:56 -0500, John H
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On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:29:17 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:33:43 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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First New Years resolution I ever made, to give up alcohol and drink
far less coffee. Both were giving me serious heartburn and it had
gotten so I cannot even drink beer because of it. Considering I prob
have more caffeine in my blood than hemoglobin, it had to be alcohol I
gave up but 12 cups of coffee a day probably is too much. So, with
only 3 cups in the morning and it being too cold outside to do
anything am feelin a bit tense.

Say what!
12 cups a day???
I drink one large cup a day..at breakfast and was thinking of cutting that
down in size.

How big is a cup?
I am probably up around 8-10 cups a day. We have a "12 cup" maker, my
wife takes 16 oz with her to work and I drink the rest throughout the
day.

I believe coffee maker cups are 6oz, whereas a normal measure is 8oz.
There are 32oz, or 4 cups in a quart.

So, your 12 cup coffeemaker actually makes only 72oz, and not 96oz as
it should.

I just checked with a measuring cup. The Black and Decker coffee maker
uses 4oz "cups". A full 12 cup carafe is 48 oz although I usually end
up filling it more than that. It actually holds closer to 14 "cups".
Taking this science fair project a step farther I weighed the normal
coffee charge and it is right at one oz by weight (Maxwell House drip
grind) for that pot of coffee. That makes a pot of coffee about 15
cents if you catch a sale. ($5.99 for 39 oz can)
I know when we charged a quarter a mug (4 cups or so) at our shop we
ended up with a tidy profit that we spent on a cookout lunch a few
times a year.

Damn. Now you've got me wondering.

Eight cups in my Starbucks pot is 48oz. So, Starbucks considers 6oz of
coffee to be a 'cup'. The coffeemaker we have holds 12 6oz cups, and
is called a 12 cup coffeemaker. I guess if it had a Black and Decker
label it would be an 18 cup coffeemaker.

Huh. Never knew that.

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