Coffee bean (Roasted arabica)
10 mm (0.3937 in)
Length of the bean
A roasted arabica bean, ready for the grinder. About 1 cm long.
Published
How big is that?
10 mm is 1.4 times a grain of rice and 12% of a credit card.
Coffee bean is the 3rd smallest of the 31 Kitchen Table objects, and the 31st smallest of the 172 objects across all five SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: House fly (Tiny Worlds), 6.5 mm long and Honey bee (Worker) (Tiny Worlds), 12.5 mm long.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Coffee bean in orange beside the Kitchen Table objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Coffee bean |
|---|---|---|
| Black peppercornA dried berry of the pepper vine: the spice in every pepper mill. | 4.865 mm across | 49% of the size |
| Grain of rice (Long-grain, milled)A single grain of long-grain white rice. | 7.15 mm long | 72% of the size |
| Coffee bean (Roasted arabica) | 10 mm long | – |
| Sugar cubeA standard sugar cube, which is really a small brick. | 16 mm | 1.6× bigger |
| Almond (Nonpareil kernel)The kernel of the most widely grown almond variety. | 24.16 mm long | 2.4× bigger |
In other units
| Millimetres | 10 |
|---|---|
| Centimetres | 1 |
| Metres | 0.01 |
| Inches | 0.3937 |
| Feet | 0.03281 |
How it's measured
Length of the bean. Midpoint of two roasted arabica origins, 9.36 and 10.67 mm (Kurniasari et al. 2023).
The source gives a range, so this is the middle of it.
Sources
- iopscience.iop.org: IOP Conf. Ser. EES 1246, Table 2, roasted: Arabica Temanggung 9.36 mm, Arabica Lampung 10.67 mm (length).
Checked against the source on .
Could you have guessed it by eye?
Coffee bean is one of the objects in Kitchen Table, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.