Keithfansince5
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Any coffee aficionados here? I am not one, so I want to get that straight. However, I wanted to share what I have been doing lately with coffee and it is the best coffee ever.....
First, I buy GREEN COFFEE. What is green coffee you ask? It is unroasted coffee. Unroasted coffee is the actual bean (Actually seed as coffee is NOT a bean) that has been minimally processed and not cooked. it can last in this state a long time. However, once roasted coffee only lasts about a week before it is DEAD. This is why buying coffee in stores is a joke. That coffee has been dead a long time (because it was roasted months earlier) and simply tastes like crap in comparison. Plus, the health benefits are mostly gone.
I buy organic as much as I can, because I do not want pesticides and chemical herbicides thank you but no thank you Monsanto.
I then roast the "beans" using a heat gun. Yep, your basic heat gun is all it takes. You can also use a hot air popcorn machine to do it too. You can also roast them in a iron skillet if you like. Although it is harder to not burn them doing it that way. I prefer the heat gun as I can get a consistent roast from it.
Just pour about 1 cup or 3/4 of a cup of green coffee "beans" into a simply metal bowl or cooking pan. Get a heat gun and set it to high and hold the gun over the coffee a couple or so inches and shake the beans in the pan. Make sure to shake the beans the whole time in a flipping motion like trying to flip a pan cake or eggs. That way it tumbles the beans on all sides and do this for about 10-15 minutes. You will hear them crack at first like that of popcorn and then go a little further just till they start to crack like that of rice krispies sound. Stop at that point and pour the hot beans into a strainer and pour them into another strainer back and forth to cool them down. Do it quick because if you don't they will keep cooking and get burnt. If you burn the beans the coffee will be ruined.
During this time, chaff will be blowing all around you because the beans release a chaff. So I do it at the kitchen sink so it is easier for me to clean up. Some do it in the garage too. Just be prepared to have a little mess.
Once they are cooled off, you can grind them right then or choose to let them rest till the next day. It is up to you. I usually grind them right then but have also waited till the next morning.
The coffee you will drink from this will be the best coffee you will have ever have had.
Check out this video on YT which shows what I am talking about. Enjoy!!!
First, I buy GREEN COFFEE. What is green coffee you ask? It is unroasted coffee. Unroasted coffee is the actual bean (Actually seed as coffee is NOT a bean) that has been minimally processed and not cooked. it can last in this state a long time. However, once roasted coffee only lasts about a week before it is DEAD. This is why buying coffee in stores is a joke. That coffee has been dead a long time (because it was roasted months earlier) and simply tastes like crap in comparison. Plus, the health benefits are mostly gone.
I buy organic as much as I can, because I do not want pesticides and chemical herbicides thank you but no thank you Monsanto.
I then roast the "beans" using a heat gun. Yep, your basic heat gun is all it takes. You can also use a hot air popcorn machine to do it too. You can also roast them in a iron skillet if you like. Although it is harder to not burn them doing it that way. I prefer the heat gun as I can get a consistent roast from it.
Just pour about 1 cup or 3/4 of a cup of green coffee "beans" into a simply metal bowl or cooking pan. Get a heat gun and set it to high and hold the gun over the coffee a couple or so inches and shake the beans in the pan. Make sure to shake the beans the whole time in a flipping motion like trying to flip a pan cake or eggs. That way it tumbles the beans on all sides and do this for about 10-15 minutes. You will hear them crack at first like that of popcorn and then go a little further just till they start to crack like that of rice krispies sound. Stop at that point and pour the hot beans into a strainer and pour them into another strainer back and forth to cool them down. Do it quick because if you don't they will keep cooking and get burnt. If you burn the beans the coffee will be ruined.
During this time, chaff will be blowing all around you because the beans release a chaff. So I do it at the kitchen sink so it is easier for me to clean up. Some do it in the garage too. Just be prepared to have a little mess.
Once they are cooled off, you can grind them right then or choose to let them rest till the next day. It is up to you. I usually grind them right then but have also waited till the next morning.
The coffee you will drink from this will be the best coffee you will have ever have had.
Check out this video on YT which shows what I am talking about. Enjoy!!!
