Space Cowboy > wrote:
>Okay here is some more anecdotal evidence that bebunks the idea that
>caffeine is soluable at a fundamentally different rate than the
>components of 'taste'.

But there are LOTS of components of taste, and they are all soluble at
different rates.

That's why tea tastes different the longer you steep it. If everything
had the same solubility, then tea steeped for ten minutes and diluted
would taste the same as tea steeped for one minute (at least assuming
nothing dissolved to the point of saturation). This is very clearly not
the case. The taste changes dramatically as the steeping is extended,
because the less soluble products are starting to go into solution.
--scott


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