mothiopian blend

[arrtist]

Re: mothiopian blend

ive not had any insects that i know about in my roasts cause at 12 kgs a roast it would be a spot difficuilt to see ,what i have had is corn and it pops just like pop corn its quite yummy as well . If you see one in your roast try it coffee popcorn mmmmm!

[itsme5k]

Re: mothiopian blend

They just aint that robust

Cockroaches on the other hand... I had one crawl out from under the S/S bowl I was roasting in just after FC started. The bowl was easily hot enough to melt my skin if touched.

The thing didnt even seem to be bothered by the 500g or so of green I dumped into the bowl on top of it. (so about 700g weight and 180+ degrees for about 10 mins)

Now I know what they mean when they say they are one of the only animals that can survive a nuclear war :

John.

[Corretto]

Re: mothiopian blend


Ive had the odd moth or two fly into a dusk roast.

Would love to say that they add a lovely mothy flavour that just cant be beat ....

But they really do get vaporised by the HG. They just aint that robust

The blend sounds interesting though :-)


Belinda

[Dimal]

Re: mothiopian blend

LOL Tony,

Good story mate..... You and Grendel will have to exchange roasting notes for these special blends :P ,

Mal.

[Javaphile]

Re: mothiopian blend

Wheres grasshopper?

Kwai Chang is out back practicing his fly catching techniques. : ;D


Java "Doing the rice paper walk" phile

[GrindOnDemand]

Re: mothiopian blend

Just eliminated that key word from the subject line - unique ...

http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1159796601/0#0

I bow to the moth master roaster, Grendel ...

Wheres grasshopper?

[Thundergod]

Re: unique mothiopian blend

grendel is already the master moth roaster.

Just watch out for those Christmas beetles.
Theyre bean shaped and coloured.

[GrindOnDemand]

Bordering on dusk tonight, decided Id do a 500gm blend of 60% Ethiopian Harrar & 40% PNG Kinjibi.

I roast in my shed, & when the lights fading I have a reading lamp pinpointed on the beans to illuminate the roast in progress.

All was going fine, reached FC at 205C at the 13min mark (tried to keep a steady ramp of temp, as I knew the Ethiopians being fairly hard core to roast needed long intensity, but the PNGs I wanted medium roasted to retain their lovely sweetness)

The roast was looking nice and even in tone at this stage, with expected discrepant colourations with the Ethiopians, when a dirty big moth decides to flutter in & perch himself on the edge of my reading lamp.  Dirty & big, he was blackish with a total wing/body span of a good 80mm.

A tad disgruntled that he was distracting me from watching the beans for signs of SC, I atempted to flick him away.  He got a bit disoriented, flying into the jet-stream thats my pedestal fan in the background to cool HG & blow roast chaff away, and yep ... landed straight in the cauldron.  A quick cremation.

A quick sizzle, & he was a part of my roast.  A momentary panic that my roast was worthless now, tainted with bug carcass, quickly turned to ideas of redemption.  Ahh, hes relatively small & the remains are part of the chaff blowing out.

Decided to raise the HG slightly to slow the temp ramp to SC, adjusted the fan & turned on blast directly into the bowl to blow as much chaff remains as possible - moth hopefully included (RIP) ...

Anyway, after a frantic minute of cyclonic like winds via the fan to eliminate as much dead husk remains as possible, I re-adjusted the fan, lowered the HG again to maintain a steady ramp just on SC at 20mins.

Nice & even roast I must say - a miniscule amount of oily sheen (or was that the proteins from the moth :-?)

So, voila - my mothiopian blend:

59% Harrar
39% Kinjibi
2% Bloody Moth

Im off to THAT hardware store tomorrow to get me one of those neon like, distractive come hither zapper thingies for anymore renegade moths that attempt to sabotage me roasting efforts - I can do a fine job sabotaging my own roasts, without the help of bugs thankyou! ;D