 |
|
12-10-2011, 17:36
|
#16
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Southwestern Yacht Club, San Diego, CA
Boat: Searunner 40 trimaran, WILDERNESS
Posts: 3,164
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
Ditto Sarafina's technique. Green Hawaiian beans, slowly roasted over a cast iron skillet until they "smell right". Practice until you get it right, then grind them.
|
|
|
15-10-2011, 11:36
|
#17
|
cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
ok i tried first pan full--- did a decent jobh-- beans are almost right---darker than blonde, so is working!!!!!! took me 20 mins, or thereabouts.....stove top method, my favorite pan...i might have to get a special pan just for coffee beans!!!
|
|
|
15-10-2011, 20:57
|
#18
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Southwestern Yacht Club, San Diego, CA
Boat: Searunner 40 trimaran, WILDERNESS
Posts: 3,164
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
Zeehag, Brava!! Now, the scent of freshly roasting coffee will float delicately across the entire anchorage. With luck, you'll inspire someone to prepare a fresh batch of cinnamon buns and come over to share.
|
|
|
15-10-2011, 21:22
|
#19
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Boat: 1976 Sabre 28-2
Posts: 7,505
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
Roasting coffee in a frypan will make your boat like a bad day in LA. Roasting the beans releases gases/smoke that hang about head high for a long time and the smell lasts for days. I like it but finally had to give up roasting my own because my wife and everybody who came in the house remarked on it. Just used a heavy fry pan to roast it. Your cast iron pan should work fine. Just stir the beans constantly.
If you've got AC electricity, an air popcorn popper works really well though only in small batches.
BTW, charcoal is charcoal. Can't believe that Starbuck has gotten so popular with their crappy roasting. Burned beans, and that what a French or expresso roast is, taste like crap. Buy decent coffee and have it roasted to a 'Full City' roast and you'll actually taste the coffee, not the charcoal.
__________________
Peter O.
'Ae'a, Pearson 35
'Ms American Pie', Sabre 28 Mark II
|
|
|
15-10-2011, 21:46
|
#20
|
cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
i had my aircond and my fan on so it dissipated nicely into the air of mazatlan..didnt burn it--may have not roasted it dark enough yet--we see in am when i drink my first cup-a my own roast. had my companion way door open so the carbon monoxide didnt kill me yet, either (and also.)
|
|
|
16-10-2011, 08:43
|
#21
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Southwestern Yacht Club, San Diego, CA
Boat: Searunner 40 trimaran, WILDERNESS
Posts: 3,164
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
Different folks, different roasts. Once, on a flight to Sweden, the SAS attendant asked me if I'd like some coffee. "American or Swedish?", she politely added. The Swedes claim that if you put a cup of coffee in a glass and set it on a newspaper, and can still make out the printing, the coffee is too weak. At this moment, early on a gray Sunday morning, I'm lying in bed with the laptop, and my freshly brewed cup of coffee at my elbow. I fill the Mr Coffee grinder to the top with Costco Starbucks French Roast, grind it and put it all in a two-cup coffee maker. It's beyond the point of legibility, and if I drank it with any additive, it would probably float the spoon. MMMMM, life is good. And two cups, better.
|
|
|
16-10-2011, 08:51
|
#22
|
cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
|
Re: HELP ! Coffee Not Roasted Dark Enough . . .
ok report of the home roasted mexibeans....... turned out to have some decent flavor---mebbe a lil bit more roasting and we will find perfection...or i will find some pricier beans. did well for what i was able to find. so my coffee had a lilk more ZIP to it-- thankyou guys for the halp in figgering out this coffee dilemma!!
hhmmmmm...havent seen swedish roast---mebbe i need to seek that out.......
|
|
|
 |
|
Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
Display Modes |
Rate This Thread |
Linear Mode
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Advertise Here
Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vendor Spotlight |
|
|
|
|
|