Another Evil Experiment

[grendel]

Occasionally I have. . .


Daily I have evil. . .


At least once every hour I have an evil thought. Quite often coffee related. This hours thought was: "I wonder if anyone has ground green beans for coffee flour, and if so would it have any use?"

Thought number 2 followed rather quickly - "I wonder if you could quick roast coffee flour to create an instant coffee that was somewhat less nasty than nescafe?"


Anyone ever hear of such idiocies being attempted?  If not Ill find a millstone and give it a go.

[JavaB]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

No, cant say I have...

But I think you are BADLY in need of a coffee fix

[grendel]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

Ok - this might possibly be true.

[JavaB]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

Maybe the ground up green coffee beans would make.....

Coffee snuff.... ;D
(Useful for those who dont have time to stop and have a drink)

Just dont take it with you on holidays in Bali

[grendel]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

Ive come up against the first obstacle - unroasted coffee beans are tough little buggers.

[Viviane]

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Time to go back to basics - pestle and mortar?

[Javaphile]

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Ive come up against the first obstacle - unroasted coffee beans are tough little buggers.

Probably too high a moisture content for grinding as a flour as well, and of course they wont taste anyting like their roasted brethren.

Java "A bean of a different color" phile

[grendel]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

Mortar and pestle was the first thing I tried - went to a powered solution when that failed. I know that the ground up flour would taste like crap but my reasoning is more along the lines of - ground up green beans could be flash roasted and brewed in almost a single process giving you a product that is both long life and real coffee-ish.

I stress my own personal skepicism with the project - but Im very curious.

[Dimal]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

Wow!

Youre going to have to use the BIG megaphone to listen to the cracks of those milled little grains :P,

Mal.

[Javaphile]

Re: Another Evil Experiment

ground up green beans could be flash roasted

Just make sure they dont flash explode as fine powders have a tendency to do under some circumstances.

I stress my own personal skepicism with the project - but Im very curious.

Ditto! ;D ;D

Java "Why do I suddenly feel like a cat?!" phile

[grendel]

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ROFL - Yeah, Id worry except I cant grind the little buggers that fine. . .

[lethalblonde]

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I got a bit concerned there - I thought he had arbitrarily tried using whole green beans as snuff - just placing his head in the mortar and pounding on his face with the pestle so that eh wouldnt lose even the smallest granules.

Knowing full well that multiple espressos cause dehydration, I made a small leap, intuitively, and guessed he wasnt concerned about cranial/facial damage at that point because of said dessication - but, apon reading further was only marginally reassured. . .

;D

You might consider FFFG and a dark roasted Kenyan? It would give a new meaning to "Cowboy Up!"

Ill just watch. . .