1:3 — The Lungo And Short of It
Mindset is everything, instant gratification, and the most expensive coffee is...
Edition No. 9
Happy Friday! We hope you enjoy today’s edition of 1:3 whilst sipping on your daily cuppa.
1 Fun Thing
Do you believe that intelligence, talents and abilities are something we are born with? Or do you believe they be learned and honed? Carol Dweck of Stanford University calls the former a fixed mindset, and the latter a growth mindset. A lot of us fall into the fixed mindset trap, so for example, the next time you find yourself saying, “I’m just not good with money”, remember that simply changing your beliefs with small actions can eventually change your reality!
(PS: Click on the comment button below to tell us which you are!)
3 Facts
Most instant coffee is made from low-grade commodity coffee, but specialty instant coffee is cropping up more. So what is instant coffee exactly? Coffee is brewed and then dehydrated by either freeze drying or drying with a hot gas to convert it into water soluble crystals/powder. Just mixing in hot water gives you a cup of coffee.
Next time you open a bag of coffee beans, look out for and remove any quakers — they stand out due to their much lighter colour, and can impart an unpleasant bitterness and dry paperiness to your cup. Because these beans are immature, they don’t contain the necessary chemical compounds to properly undergo the most important chemical reaction during roasting — browning or Maillard reaction — responsible for the development of coffee’s interesting flavours.
As a coffee drinker, does the number 1029 mean anything to you? Throw a $ sign in front of it and you have the price paid for a single pound (!) of Geisha coffee from The Lamastus family’s Elida Estate in Panama, a world record set in May 2019.