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  • #31
    For my emergency beans, I tend to go to Woolies. They used to have a little known brand that was good but no longer have it. Their own brand is ok but I can only get good extraction for four or so days. I some times get the green Harris beans. Not too bad. The Coles range in the cardboard packs are rubbish.

    I've gotten beans from high volume cafes before and got poor results. I've even had poor results from roasted to order. I told them about the tasteless beans and they sent a replacement bag. That was better but contained a small stone that would of ruined my grinder.
    Last edited by BeanMonkey; 28 October 2014, 02:50 PM.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by cjphawk View Post
      I read somewhere to give beans a little quick steam and dry to freshen, and on rare occassions, tried about 60 seconds in a rice cooker steamer with about 2 teaspoons of smokey flavoured bourbon in 100mls of water.. Quick in and out of the steam, and then drop the beans in a slow oven for 10 minutes to sweat out a tad.

      As an emergency, it works for me, but would be interested in others opinion.
      My opinion is that you need to upgrade your reading material. This is pretty much the most shockingly horrible thing I have ever read on this forum. No offense meant but YUCK x 1,000,000 !!!

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      • #33
        Originally posted by fatboy_1999 View Post
        Not quite. A best before is not like a use by. They are much looser in their application. Within certain limits, it is up to each business to put their own 'range' on their product. So it might mean they were roasted 14 months ago and have a 2 month route to market etc.

        Of course, if you know the roasted date or you know they use a 12 month period for the best before calculation, that's great.
        If you don't know either of those, then you are still just guessing.
        Some roasters do actually put a "production" or a "packed" date on their products (EG: Gloria Jeans),
        For others, if you never see a date greater than say 12 months forward, it's pretty obvious they are using a 12 month BEst Before date ..(EG : Harris and Vittoria both are local roasters, and no matter how hard or often you look, you never see a pack with a date greater than 51 weeks ahead !)

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        • #34
          I abstain or have a cup of leaf Darjeeling. I heard... that if you inadvertantly catch a carp or a blowfish whilst fishing, you can insert a well seasoned gumtree twig through them and roast them slow for 6 hours over a naked charcoal flame... throw the fish away gnaw on the twig - never tried it though ;-)

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