I'm going on another experiment, seeing the trends in worldwide instability which will very likely disrupt our quality of life here in the US, of buying green coffee beans in bulk and roasting them as I need them. Green beans can be stored from one to two years from purchase.
Today was my first attempt, and even though the equipment was meager...an aluminum frying pan with a lid, metal stirrer and strainer, and shear luck...after getting the grind right for the flat-bottom filter Mr. Coffee machine in my honey's kitchen, got some pretty decent results.
Does anyone else roast coffee beans? They say the taste goes down by HALF each hour after roasting, so if you've never tasted fresh-roasted, ground-before-brewing coffee...you have merely had a HINT of the taste.
I'd love to compare procedures and results. We sourced the beans from a neat website called The Coffee Project.
Unfortunately, I didn't read the warnings about the SMELL until well into the process...and my desire of waking my darlin' with some kick-ass joe was destroyed by her wonderful olfactory sense wondering if the house was on fire.
Oops.
Boy does the kitchen get COLD with all the windows open...when it's twenty degrees outside!
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