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[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Outside of the holidays I usually drink coldbrew. Nice to know that I’ve been unintentionally protecting myself…

The best part of this is that the researchers give numbers like “6 hot drinks a day”. These patients were literally burning away the lining of their esophagus, inducing cancer through the brute force method of chronic injury and new cell creation. Hot drinks account for 1/7 cases in the UK.

Other risk factors for this type of cancer include smoking and alcohol consumption.

[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would you mind sharing your method on how you prepare coldbrew? I tried researching this before and found only garbage SEO spam websites.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you asked, but I do have answers.

I have a French press, so I often use that. The preparation is exactly the same as a hot press except for the time and temperature; same grind, same proportions of water to coffee. Just mix the coffee and cool water and wait to plunge for several hours. It would usually be something I'd prepare the night before, leave on the counter, then plunge and pour in the morning.

You can do the same thing with larger volumes/masses of coffee and water using a mesh bag and a pitcher. Same process just more. Also avoid squeezing the bag too much, but do let the coffee run out as you remove the bag containing the coffee from the pitcher.

[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Thank you. I am also using a french press, so I can try this easily.