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Brew Time Vol.28 | January/February. 2023

Single-use-plastic:
Takeaways face ban in October 2023

A ban on some single-use plastics will come into force in England
from October, the government has announced.

Should We Weigh Milk? To tackle the growing plastic problem, takeaways, restaurants and
In the vast majority of specialty cafes must stop using single-use plastic cutlery, plates and bowls.
coffee shops around the world,
dosing coffee is an everyday Green groups welcomed the move, but said it could go further to
practice for preparing both address packaging being sent to landfill.
espresso and filter beverages.
When baristas weigh their doses, The British Takeaway Campaign told BBC News that businesses
they ensure that they are using need more support to implement it.
an optimal coffee-water ratio,
thereby extracting the full range Fish and chips restaurants and other takeaways will become more
of a coffee’s flavours and expensive as small companies will be forced to pass on higher
aromas. costs of packaging to consumers, suggests Andrew Crook, who
runs a fish and chip shop in Lancashire and is deputy chair of the
Why Weigh Milk? British Takeaway Campaign.
First and foremost, weighing
milk-based beverages can help You can read the full article at BBC News.
to reduce milk waste, which is
particularly useful for coffee
shops.
Most baristas are trained to
carefully eyeball the amount of
milk they pour for each drink, but
even the most experienced
baristas can sometimes use too
much.

Impact on Baristas & Drinking tea and coffee reduces mortality
Consumers

Although weighing milk-based risk, large-scale study finds
beverages could significantly New research has shown that people who drink two to four cups of
slow down workflow during tea and less than one to two cups of coffee on a daily basis reduce
busy rushes, baristas could their mortality risk by 22% compared to those who do not drink tea
instead carry out this practice or coffee.
during quieter periods. This
way, they have more time to The team behind the research put forward theories as to why the
focus on how they need to
steam the milk to reach the combination of tea and coffee has this effect, suggesting that the
required weight. overlapping biological compounds of the two drinks can lower things
like blood pressure and inflammation, reducing the development of
You can read the full article in some serious diseases.
Perfect Daily Grind You can read the full article at diabetes.co.uk