My wife & I have just one double each - occasionally two - on most weekend mornings - but only on weekend mornings. No espresso the rest of the week. At least for us, "the preparation ritual" (the grinding, tamping, leverpull & steaming) is as important, as much fun and as rewarding as the drinking. We enjoy taking our time with the preparation - it's the mark of the start of a good weekend day and not something we'd want do on a weekday morning when we're rushing to get out the door...

double shots for me on average day.

I usually drink 3-4 doubles per day in various forms, and a cup or two of drip at work. Possibly more during exams

My normal milk drink is a 6oz "cappuccino" made with a double, which is more than normal, isn't it? If I want a milk drink to take out, it's usually a latte, because they travel better.

DigMe wrote:Given that a double shot has very conservatively twice the caffeine of a can of coke (about 35mg of caffeine per 12 oz can) that'd take 24 to 28 cans of Coke a day to equal the caffeine! If you get closer to reality the double shot will have more like 3 to 4 times the caffeine content of a can of coke. The sugar in the cokes would be killer though!
brad

Do you have links for this information? I would be curious to know the figures on this because I'm seeing different numbers from different sites.

Here they say it's 34mg of caffeine in 1 classic coke, and 100mg(!!) in a 2oz espresso. But who's pulling 2oz shots? If I use bad logic, would a 1oz shot be then 50mg on average? And how do you rate a double?

To answer the OP: 2 doubles in the morning, 1 cappa at 1300, and either another double or cappa at 1700-ish. If I'm training at night after the wife gets home from work, then I'll add another double to that. It only varies on the weekends if we get cozy with a french press on the deck enjoying our view. . .

My wife and I have two doubles in the morning. On occasional weekends or when we've had little sleep and have a big day ahead we sometimes have 3 double apiece.

Tom

I enjoy about 2-3 doubles and a cappa per day while my wife usually has one americano or cappa per day.

Not sure if I'm harming my health, but I make 3x19g doubles a day in a 5oz flat white, & some days a drip, so an avarage daily intake of 70g of beans. Having gone from drinking low fat latte's to full cream flat whites, I've definitely noticed an expanding waistline, the fat probably being worse than the caffeine?

Brian, thats a great photo & terrific outlook. Do they harvest those reeds for thatching or crafts, & whereabouts in Sweden is that?

Cheers,

Ted.

Ted wrote:. . .
Brian, thats a great photo & terrific outlook. Do they harvest those reeds for thatching or crafts, & whereabouts in Sweden is that?

Sorry for the Off Topic - Ted I live about 20mins north of central Stockholm and to be honest, this is pretty typical for the countryside of Sweden. Once you leave city boundaries by 15mins you are surrounded by forest. And lakes. In almost any direction.

This shot was in the fall right before we endured -10c for 4 months and 1m of snow. I'm just now going about in a t-shirt and it's 12c. Feels wonderful.

Have no idea if they harvest the reeds for anything, sorry. But they very abundant and don't seem to decrease in numbers or size at all.

Typically I have two or three espressos a day; that's for now, because after I got Vivaldi I was having much more - like 4 doubles and americano minimum. Now if I have a cappa, it is instead of straight shot, and I almost don't drink americanos (though I really enjoy them). And after I got Caravel, I usually had the shots from it on addition to the Vivaldi ones; now despite having two levers I don't drink more, rather I am more and more drifting towards some experiments with different brewing variables or perfecting my lever skills - but all this within my usual amount of drinking.

lolgun wrote:Sorry for the Off Topic - Ted I live about 20mins north of central Stockholm and to be honest, this is pretty typical for the countryside of Sweden. Once you leave city boundaries by 15mins you are surrounded by forest. And lakes. In almost any direction.

This shot was in the fall right before we endured -10c for 4 months and 1m of snow. I'm just now going about in a t-shirt and it's 12c. Feels wonderful.

It's wonderful, the lakes and forests and the photo is nice... and I'm really missing contact with nature. Here it is also around 10c but I wear a jacket... but that's probably because I live in city. Yet I have a nice out the window view; right now just the evening falls and we had a bit of rain, with dark clouds promising forst this years storm, but no lightings and only a remote thunder sounds.