Energy Drinks Thread

It is weird in my eyes to take caffeine pills because not only do you get to taste something with a natural source like coffee or tea but it is probably more cost effective to drink it from a natural source anyway than caffeine pills or energy drinks.

nope nope nope

Coffee tastes like soggy ass ("acquired taste" is code for "tastes terrible but you consume it until you like it"), so forget that noise. The caffeine pills I buy are usually $2.50 or so for 200 (generic brandz 4 lyf), and each pill contains 200mg of caffeine. That is at the very very upper end of what a cup of brewed coffee will contain, according to the Mayo Clinic (and who else will you trust re: food science but Mayo?). Unless your beanbag is making hundreds of cups and super cheap, cost is not in coffee's favor.

In summary, fuck the 'ffee, yo.

e: and yeah unless you have an antique or copper kettle (which will impart flavor via minerals), microboiling your water is exactly the dang same as heating it in a cumbersome and antiquated lump of metal. And even then I have a hard time believing there's a significant difference, because tea's usually pretty strongly flavored, and I doubt the subtle bouquet of your artisinal minerals is adding to the experience. Steep that shit in hot water, who cares what heated it