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Food FYI: Consumers have to wait for lower coffee prices

By Betty Hallock

COFFEE COSTS

The average monthly price for a pound of coffee fell 24% in July from a year earlier. But the price drop won’t trickle down to customers until next year. [U.S. News]

SPLASH LAB

Watch an IBC root beer bottle shatter to bits through the power of tiny bubbles in a video produced by the Brigham Young University Splash Lab. [Bon Appetit]

OVEN TEMP FALLACIES

Think your oven is at 350 degrees when you set the dial to 350? Nope. It’s anywhere between 330 and 370 degrees -- by design -- and that’s if it’s well calibrated. [Slate]

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‘OBAMACARE’ WON’T KILL WHITE CASTLE

Slider fans: Evidence suggests that White Castle is exaggerating the effect that the Affordable Care Act will have on its profits, jobs and expansion. [Mother Jones]

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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