Beverages: What is the best instant coffee?
Okay, I'm a professional coffee drinker, I drink it from a French Press and a mechanical coffee maker, but because I drink so damn much (about two 10-cup pots per day on average, from 7am until 6pm, and yes I'm totally serious) I have started drinking instant much of the time. So I had to find the best instant, and I've searched for years.My years of research (drinking all of the coffee I ever see, ever), I have come to the conclusion the finest cup of instant coffee can be achieved using NESCAFE CLASICO*. This is a recent discovery, when I was about to just give up. But no, I held out, and NESCAFE CLASICO with two teaspoons of sugar, two heaping teaspoons of non-dairy powdered creamer**, and a shot of whole milk (equivalent to about one-fifth to one-sixth of your entire cup of coffee, after using boiling water for the rest) will produce a great tasting cup of instant.So here are the steps in a list form, for easy memorization (because this is coffee we're talking about for Christ's sake, so MEMORIZE THIS):Boil a mug's worth of waterFill mug 80% full (mathematically speaking, leave an inch at the top of your mug)Add healthy (not heaping) teaspoon of NESCAFE CLASICO instant coffeeAdd two heaping teaspoons of non-dairy powdered creamerAdd two level teaspoons of sugarFill the cup the rest of the way to the brim with milk (do this last, so the water is hot enough to quickly dissolve the other ingredients)Drink it constantly, all day long, for the rest of your life*NESCAFE CLASICO is sold wherever fine instant coffees are sold.** Non-dairy Powdered Creamer is sold wherever fine instant milk substitutes are sold.
What is the freezing point for gasoline? When the outside temperature is -40F, is there any chance that the gas in my parked car can freeze?
Hi Ryan, a few notes.I have personally had experience with both diesel and gas engines at temperatures down to -60F.Amazingly, gas engines will sill start at that temperature. I too have wondered about lack of vaporization, however that does not seem to be a problem. Using a spray of ether (or actually dumping ether right into the cylinder) helps. The real problem is getting the engine to turn over. First the lube oil is thick as molasses, second lead-acid batteries lose substantial amounts of their power.The real fun is starting snowmobiles (two-stroke). At -40 and below, it takes about 5 minutes of slow and steady pulling to get the engine to turn over. Once you can get it turning over, you inject raw gas into the intake. Usually it takes a minute or two to fire it up. However at that point the belt and track are stiff as a board. If you just try and go, you will burn the belt, so you prop up the back of the machine and slowly, slowly get the track turning.The whole process takes about 15 minutes.With diesel, you have to have a really good battery and a block heater, and even then it can take a while.The specifications for cold-weather diesel are extensive, especially the "Pour Point" (12 Standard Test Method for Pour Point of Petroleum Products). P0 (will pour at zero degrees F) is standard; P20 (pours at -20) is typical winter fuel. In Resolute Bay we used P70 (will pour at -70!!!).