Christmas Coffee Drinks Christmas is party season, and if you’re looking for something a little unusual to serve with the mince pies this year, why not try one of our special Christmas coffee recipes? Festive Spiced Christmas Coffee With its aroma of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and orange, this is the ultimate Christmas coffee. Serve mid-morning […]
Myth 1 – you need to use boiling water to make the perfect cup of coffee. In fact, using water that’s too hot will scorch the coffee, causing it to release bitter-tasting compounds and spoil the taste. The correct temperature to use for the perfect cup is around 93 degrees centigrade – good commercial coffee […]
Savoury coffee recipes It’s common knowledge that chocolate and coffee are perfect cooking partners, teaming up to great effect in sweet recipes such as our Chocolate Espresso Brownies. What you may not know, though, is that coffee also goes extremely well with beef in savoury recipes. If you use wholesale coffee, why not use up any leftovers with […]
Decaffeinated coffee now accounts for around 10% of worldwide coffee sales. If you drink coffee on a regular basis, you may sometimes choose decaffeinated coffee over standard – but have you ever wondered just how the process works? Coffee is a natural product, and it contains many substances which all contribute to the complex flavour […]
Coffee bean clothing might sound like something from an Alexander McQueen collection, but apparel made from coffee beans doesn’t necessarily have to mean high fashion. Fabric manufacturers, Singtex, based in Taiwan, were the first company to make clothes out of ground coffee. Instead of the waste coffee grounds being dumped in a landfill, Singtex, saw an opportunity to […]
Do you remember the nursery rhyme, ‘There was an old woman who lived in a shoe?’ It might be a far-fetched connection, but that’s exactly what sprung to mind after the discovery of the footwear designer, Kobi Levi. Some of his designs almost look as if tiny people could inhabit the shoes or use them as functional […]