I was on SweetMarias.com and one of the articles suggested to use Water to cool the beans down; its actually just to spray a fine mist of water during the cooling process, NOT to immerse the bean in the water.(although I think that will cool it down even quicker ;D ;D). Then I did some research on the web and found that ILLY uses the same technique.
Anyway, I had a go the other day and it went surprisingly well. Got the beans cooled down within 2 minutes compare to 5-6mins it use to take me.
Heres the way I did it.
Pull roasted beans off heat into a metal colander (make sure its metal and not plastic, unless you want molten plastic flavoured beans ;D), spray the beans immediately with fine mist of water, 3 or 4 sprays will do it, and watch the water turning into steam almost immediately. Stir and Stir, and then spray a couple times more.
Do that repeatly until the beans doesnt burn your hand. All done within 2 minutes.
Initially I thought the bean may absorb moisture in the process, but having done that there is no chance of that happening as the water turns into steam almost immediately and theres always oil on the surface of the bean to resist the water.
I guess itll work even better if you have fan cooling.
So whats next?... Nitrogen cooling?! ;D
Anyway, I had a go the other day and it went surprisingly well. Got the beans cooled down within 2 minutes compare to 5-6mins it use to take me.
Heres the way I did it.
Pull roasted beans off heat into a metal colander (make sure its metal and not plastic, unless you want molten plastic flavoured beans ;D), spray the beans immediately with fine mist of water, 3 or 4 sprays will do it, and watch the water turning into steam almost immediately. Stir and Stir, and then spray a couple times more.
Do that repeatly until the beans doesnt burn your hand. All done within 2 minutes.
Initially I thought the bean may absorb moisture in the process, but having done that there is no chance of that happening as the water turns into steam almost immediately and theres always oil on the surface of the bean to resist the water.
I guess itll work even better if you have fan cooling.
So whats next?... Nitrogen cooling?! ;D


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