BeanOne Senior Member Joined: 20 Jul 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Roseville Expertise: I live coffee
Posted Wed Aug 15, 2007, 10:53pm Subject: Ghetto roasters
"All I need is some tin foil, a space heater, an oscillating fan and 3.5 oz of green yirg."
We've all been to that town with a hundred coffee shops but no real coffee... Your in a new town and you ask some locals where you can get the best coffee in town. Ignoring all the normal chain store suggestions you find someone who seems like they might know. When you get to the shop you find something like this...
You order a shot of espresso and it comes to the table ... all 6 ounces of it... You order a macchiato and it arrives in a sixteen ounce cup with carmel on top of the whip cream... You order a capp and it is like wet charcoal with a foam brick on top...
You go a few days dry. No coffee. Finally you can't take it anymore.
What does the real geek do?
I wanna hear some stories about ghetto roasting when a geek is in need and there is no where to get good coffee. Near fires, burnt fingers, singed hairs. Tell it all.
Posted Fri Aug 17, 2007, 9:41am Subject: Re: Ghetto roasters
Haven't found myself in those dire straights yet and I hope I don't.
But, if I had greens with me I could use a tin can, the propane torch and pliers that are in my toolbox, and the blow dryer from the hotel/motel room to cool the beans.
I plan ahead always. When I have to hit the road for work I run by the house and pick up some of my fresh roasted beans and put them in my "Coffee Box". The "Coffee Box" contains: (1) Blade Grinder, (1) 4 Cup Mr. C to make hot water, (1) 3 cup Chemex, (1) box of Chemex filters and my coffee.
I will even fly with most of the accessories (less the Mr. C) if I am checking my bag.
Posted Sat Aug 18, 2007, 6:38am Subject: Re: Ghetto roasters
I have a ronco machine I picked up from e-bay, and a drum from the great coffee roasters club. It didnt feel like it was roasting fast enough, so I removed the heating coil from a hot plate and placed it under the drum. Well the first time I used it, I didnt pay full enough attention and caught the beans on fire. No real damage, but I can laugh at it now.
bakerscup Senior Member Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 10 Location: NY Expertise: I live coffee
Espresso: FB80, Silvia Grinder: Super Jolly, Macap M4
Posted Sat Aug 18, 2007, 8:00am Subject: Re: Ghetto roasters
On our recent return from a family vacation I found myself and my wife enjoying a nice cup of Panama at McDonalds. I wondered why I was being watched by the breakfast crowd out the window as I sat down in my camping chair on the strip of grass in front of our parked car. We stopped, I ground my beans in my Zassenhaus grinder, I actually had to add a bit of Ethiopia I had also roasted a few days before at the Grandparents, prepared a french press while Mary went in and got some hot water to bring out and happy meals for the kids.
Bigmack Senior Member Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Mooresville, NC Expertise: Just starting
Posted Sat Aug 18, 2007, 10:27am Subject: Re: Ghetto roasters
My wife and I just carry our mr coffe with beans already ground before we leave. We grind our beans and store them in our secret coffee smuggling homemade box. Set the timer before we sleep and coffee is ready in the morning. Im lazy :)
BeanOne Senior Member Joined: 20 Jul 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Roseville Expertise: I live coffee
Posted Sat Aug 18, 2007, 7:38pm Subject: Re: Ghetto roasters
bakerscup Said:
On our recent return from a family vacation I found myself and my wife enjoying a nice cup of Panama at McDonalds. I wondered why I was being watched by the breakfast crowd out the window as I sat down in my camping chair on the strip of grass in front of our parked car. We stopped, I ground my beans in my Zassenhaus grinder, I actually had to add a bit of Ethiopia I had also roasted a few days before at the Grandparents, prepared a french press while Mary went in and got some hot water to bring out and happy meals for the kids.
Nice. I actually have a submersable heating coil I can plug into my car and place into my french press to boil the water, let it cool till it reaches about 200 F, I bring a residential burr grinder with me and well you know the rest. I can brew coffee anywhere, just not very much cuz the heating coil is kinda small. Maybe I'll get another one and have two going. I have a 700w residential duplex circuit in my car with a power converter. Makes life easier for me now.
Once I went camping and had to run over the beans in a bag with my car. Boiled water on the campfire did a sort of french press infusion and dumped the coffee through a filter. The coffee was good. Believe it or not the grind wasn't that bad. Seemed better than a blade grinder.
Posted Thu Aug 23, 2007, 5:48pm Subject: Re: Ghetto roasters
Lexan French press, hotpot and a canister of my ground homeroast. It's a ritual that gets them all standing around as I make it, camping with the guys, or vaca with the wife.
Also, I like the way it gets my clothes smelling like a coffee house.
cheers
I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time. --Steven Wright
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