Seeking instant test for rough caffeine level in coffee

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Breaking New Ground: A Sicilian Coffee Plantation, Part 2

The Morettino family has successfully cultivated a coffee plantation right in Sicily. Next on the agenda: making the island an international coffee hub. BY JOSEPH PHELANSPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Feature photo by Tomas Anton Escobar via Unsplash Editor’s note: Check out part one of this story here. Andrea Morettino’s family has proven that coffee […]

Seeking instant test for rough caffeine level in coffee

Seeking instant test for rough caffeine level in coffee

minimum dose size?

I use the Hario switch to brew my coffee and am trying to reduce my caffeine consumption. Hence I would like to brew smaller cups of coffee. I am currently using 10g of coffee with 160g of water. (1:16 Ratio) I am wondering if there is a minimum amount of coffee...

Seeking instant test for rough caffeine level in coffee

About once a month, some inattentive barista gives me regular coffee by mistake, which is a bummer. I drink decaf. So when I get coffee at a cafe, I'd like to do an instant test of the rough caffeine level by dipping a strip into the coffee. Something analogous to these pH test strips would be ideal:

https://bartovation.com/product/phlitmus/quantitative-ph/pph01b50/

I've searched online without success. A product called D+CAF is long gone.

I'm not interested in methods that test for caffeine in urine or require lab equipment. Cheap and instantaneous is what I'm after.

Do you know of such a product?

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