MarkT:
These days less dangerous solvents are also used. Even liquid CO2 will do it I believe, and ethyl-ethanoate is
used (present in fruit, smells lovely). Being a very volatile solvent dichloro-methane is easily removed by
steaming, and I suspect the last vestiges are driven off actually making the coffee. Exposure to high concentrations of any non-polar solvent can cause coma and death.How is caffeine removed to produce decaffeinated coffee? | Scientific American
Gasp! And all this just for glueing a dupont connector!