Caffeine pills don't dissolve in hot tea
I'm drinking Rooibos Vanilla Tea and I like to dissolve an 80 mg caffeine pill in it. I hand press the pills myself from pure caffeine powder. However, the pill doesn't dissolve very well in the tea. Instead, it either breaks into smaller pieces which float around or it doesn't dissolve at all.
Is there a creative way to make them dissolve, such as using some sort of binding agent? I already tried to use capsules, but I don't like the idea very much, because you have to open them and pour out the powder.
Best Answer
If it really has to be pills, then I guess you need to mix in something that dissolves more easily than the caffeine powder. Powdered sugar seems like a good candidate. I found a couple references to people using it as a binding material for other pills, so presumably it'll work.
Depending on how you're making your tea, you could also add the pill while you're boiling the water, to give it more time to dissolve, and to make sure it gets the full heat.
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Answer 2
Pressing it is probably contributing to making it clumpy. You could also experiment with mixing it with cool water before you mix it into the hot water you use for tea(or vice versa). I have had that experience with some powders. (Note: I don't have experience with pure caffeine, but I've had to do this with a lot of medicines when I was younger and had to crack open pills because of problems with swallowing.)
EDIT: Upon further research I redact my suggestion to use a spoon/scoop. It is difficult to measure it accurately enough and with the concentration of the pure caffeine powders I looked at being much higher than I expected, far too easy to get an overdose. I would think you can:
1.) Get a spoon -about- the right size. 2.) Quickly measure it on a digital scale you leave on your counter, and then just swipe it into your cup. 3.) Wipe the scale off.
quite quickly. Measure it out while your water boils.
Answer 3
Try cold water, some powders will harden with hot water...e.g. why we add COLD water to flour and not hot water (which turns flour into cement near instantly).
Try keeping the powdered caffeine in wax paper packets old school style.
Try corn starch as the binding agent Try moistened cane sugar as the binding agent. Or confectioners sugar.
don't use talc, talc will float on water even as a powder. You could also try corn starch solids like non-dairy creamers.
I hope some of these ideas help.
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