General coffee thread

Moklet Kcuf said:
Whether it's packaged and roasted in Italy, the Moon or Port Elizabeth. it all still comes from the same coffee fields
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You make sense.

However, based on this logic, I'm now forced to believe that what we were consuming was in fact not coffee at all but rather some unidentified heavy element with the ability to dissolve teeth and stain veins with the colour of mud . :p
 
KSINGH said:
hows that?
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The Wholesale Coffee market is highly Internationalised and buyers usually go through narrow channeled sources. So those supposedly high grade Italian Roasted 100% Arabicia beans could well be sourced from the same distributor Pick n' Pay has ultimately got theirs.

The quality of the roast, blend and freshness is a more important factor than a particular brand.

Giovannis at Greenpoint in CT for example, is a staunchly Italian Deli who have a long held reputation for good authentic coffee. Last time I was there, they were using a local brand of coffee in their grinders.
 
Moklet Kcuf said:
The Wholesale Coffee market is highly Internationalised and buyers usually go through narrow channeled sources. So those supposedly high grade Italian Roasted 100% Arabicia beans could well be sourced from the same distributor Pick n' Pay has ultimately got theirs.

The quality of the roast, blend and freshness is a more important factor than a particular brand.

Giovannis at Greenpoint in CT for example, is a staunchly Italian Deli who have a long held reputation for good authentic coffee. Last time I was there, they were using a local brand of coffee in their grinders.
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so u were speaking figuratively then.
 
12 MUGS of sweet black coffee... mmm... Yesh, I have reached the stage in coffee addiction where I have completely been desensitized to the effects of a single cup.
 
KSINGH said:
just got the last cup. its a bit cold but mmmmm!
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That's why I love my DeLonghi Magnifica - cup after cup of freshly ground coffee at the press of a button. :)
 
we got some coffeemaker from the coffee supplier. its not bad actually.
 
bwana said:
What a pain in the butt that turned out to be. I applaud those of you determined to go through all the effort - actually I'm just envious of all the spare time you must have. :D
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It doesn't take much of my time, really. I have a R140 Logik 1200 W popcorn machine that I modded with a Coke can to extend the "tube length" where you put the coffee (popcorn) in.

I put about 140 g of green beans in, not too little else it doesn't heat up, not too much else the beans don't rotate and they burn. I switch the machine on, walk away and come back after about 5 to 10 minutes depending on the ambient temperature to remove the beans at around 2nd crack. I throw the beans into my oven's baking pan to cool, quickly sweep the chaff from the beans out the garage door and I've got about 14 cups of coffee freshly roasted.

Green beans I pay about R65/kg for. I will NEVER buy roasted beans again.
 
ajax said:
It doesn't take much of my time, really. I have a R140 Logik 1200 W popcorn machine that I modded with a Coke can to extend the "tube length" where you put the coffee (popcorn) in.

I put about 140 g of green beans in, not too little else it doesn't heat up, not too much else the beans don't rotate and they burn. I switch the machine on, walk away and come back after about 5 to 10 minutes depending on the ambient temperature to remove the beans at around 2nd crack. I throw the beans into my oven's baking pan to cool, quickly sweep the chaff from the beans out the garage door and I've got about 14 cups of coffee freshly roasted.

Green beans I pay about R65/kg for. I will NEVER buy roasted beans again.
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I found it messy and kind of smelly - it's obviously a labour of love and since I pay the same for my beans roasted or green there wasnt any savings involved. :)

When it comes to good coffee we really are spoiled here in PE.
 
these roaster drums for a gas braii look interesting. could be made DYI fairly easily.

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anyone roasted beans this way?

EDIT: Being that I've killed the thread over the last 24 hours I'm guess mentioning "Gas Braii" is a no no ;)
 
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