it was possibly cocoa bean rather than coffee that was in the hold of a ship 19 century which were ruined by a seawater leak but someone discovered a use for it
2006-09-04 11:29:29 · 7 answers · asked by theryesider 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
if it was in the past week you could go on to the radio web site and listen again i have done that when i have missed a bit. but that was BBC if it was a different channel i dont know. sounds an interesting thing to know.
2006-09-04 11:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soaking coffee beans in water leaches out the caffeine which is how decaf coffee is made. I heard that there is another decaffeinating method too using an alkali but I am not sure on that one.
2006-09-06 05:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by COACH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soaking coffee beans in seawater results in de-caffeinated coffee.
2006-09-04 11:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by Swampy_Bogtrotter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
de-caffeinated coffee
"In 1903, a German importer tried to save a shipment of coffee beans that had been soaked in saltwater. The result was de-caffeinated coffee, which he marketed as Sanka"
2006-09-04 11:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by AnonyMoose_UK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A simple de-caffination process.
Nowadays all kinds of fancy (some say dangerous) chemicals can be employed. Who wants to trust ermans, after all (the 'discoverers' of this process).
2006-09-04 14:02:30 · answer #5 · answered by Colin A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
decaffeinated coffee
2006-09-05 03:08:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bet it tastes like p**h
2006-09-04 13:35:53 · answer #7 · answered by shrek69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋