I grind my coffee beans just before brewing, to a fine powder. I use the drip method, with hot water poured over the coffee in a filter in a cone. When I take the cone off the pot after brewing and set it aside, some of the cooling grounds reconstitute themselves into beans again, complete with ridge.
What kind of molecular magic is happening here?
(And no, no beans are left unground when I put them in the filter. And no, I am not delusional. This has happened many times.
2007-01-30 10:08:15 · 2 answers · asked by dude242 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
This is the well known coffee ground time reversal phenomenon. If you take coffee grounds and run water over them, under some circumstances a local time vortex will open up and cause temporal shifts to occur. Sometimes this can lead to time reversals where coffee grounds turn back into whole beans. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you, though. It shouldn't affect the flavor.
2007-01-30 10:17:00 · answer #1 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone is playing a joke on you?
2007-01-30 10:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by Karrose 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋