So, I got an electric tea kettle. Seems to work great. This should be in "things that are good," right?
Well, unfortunately, I made myself four cups of black tea between 7 PM and midnight.
I've never been a person who thought caffeine made it hard for me to fall asleep. But then, until recently, I couldn't usually fall asleep until 3 AM and had a hard time of it then anyways.
I can now confirm that four cups of tea with six hours of when I meant to go to bed does, indeed, fuck with my ability to fall asleep.
I hadn't even thought that tea had that much caffeine. Not a ton more than chocolate, right, so surely I should have a tolerance?
When I eat chocolate, it's usually 25 grams of of 85% chocolate, which by my calculations is 17 mg of caffeine.
Estimates I'm seeing for a cup of black tea range from 47 mg (almost three times as much) on the low end to 90 mg (over five times as much) on the high end.
Per cup.
I had four.