[retyopj]

Why bother?

Drink real coffee dammit.

[Dwemadayday]

Why bother?

Drink real coffee dammit.

Well, my cardiologist has me limiting my caffeine.
So I have my mug in the morning (I stretched 2 cups into one mug ).
I take great heed at Sloww's warning.

[Gintovtosik]

I think it matters very much which process is used to decaffeinate the coffee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_w..._water_process

For example, the Swiss Water process (above) removes a lot more caffeine than methylene chloride or ethyl acetate, if I remember properly my cafe training.

According to the Wiki page, you still get around 10mg of caffeine (about 10% of regular coffee's 100mg) in the average cup of decaf, but it varies wildly based on where you get it. I suspect a lot of the cafe-bought coffees (Starbucks, Dunkin's) have caffeine because they use one machine to process both regular and decaf coffee beans - hence, some caffeine is in the oils left from grinding the earlier beans. I don't know if that's enough to explain all of the caffeine, but certainly some of it. You're probably better off doing it at home (where contamination is not a risk, and you have more heavily regulated retail packagers providing you the bans).

If you want true decaf, get tea. Plenty of teas are naturally decaffeinated. Or caffeine-free soda.

[euylvaygdq]

What do you mean by this? Caffeine isn't the least bit neurotoxic. Do you just mean you get too wired or anxious to focus on something?

Yeah

JM