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 midmo
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Posted: 8/22/2012 9:47:52 AM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT Interesting link swiped from survivalblog.com: Canned green coffee beans Don't know why someone hasn't offered this before (that I know of, anyway). |
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Waldo
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Posted: 8/22/2012 10:09:35 AM
It's been around for many years on MRE depot. I just can't afford to buy anything from them. |
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Posted: 8/22/2012 10:15:08 AM
[Last Edit: 8/22/2012 10:16:34 AM by headless1916]
Green coffee beans are surprisingly stable - even in an un-sealed container in air conditioning they will last around 2 years before beginning to deteriate in quality majorly. Consider: you can buy green beans of your choice, usually for ~4-7$ a pound...put them in a sealed container of whatever kind w/ a dessicant pack and save yourself the 5$-per-can premium.
The site implying you need to buy 100's of pounds of green coffee to make it 'afforable' is nonsense. http://www.ccmcoffee.com/index.php?cPath=21 |
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Posted: 8/22/2012 1:21:34 PM
Originally Posted By headless1916:
Green coffee beans are surprisingly stable - even in an un-sealed container in air conditioning they will last around 2 years before beginning to deteriate in quality majorly. Consider: you can buy green beans of your choice, usually for ~4-7$ a pound...put them in a sealed container of whatever kind w/ a dessicant pack and save yourself the 5$-per-can premium. The site implying you need to buy 100's of pounds of green coffee to make it 'afforable' is nonsense. http://www.ccmcoffee.com/index.php?cPath=21 Thanks for the link. sga |
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Bhart89
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Posted: 8/22/2012 1:57:01 PM
I looked into it a few years ago but the process to roast the beans before grinding seemed more an art than a science. I went with storing the coffee in tea bags route.
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Posted: 8/22/2012 4:48:39 PM
Plenty of places to get cheap green beans online. Just make sure they're arabicas and not robustas unless you like the taste of burnt rubber. Roasting is easy.
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Posted: 8/22/2012 5:56:13 PM
Green coffee beans are indeed a cool way to store and consume beans.
Getting the roast right is a bit tricky, but I bet a guy could figure out how to do it on a cast iron pan over a camp fire.
 I have an electric roaster that works like an air popcorn popper (a vertical heating / fan gizmo about the size of a large coffee can.)
If you are considering trying it out, note that coffee roasting creates lots of smoke.
I stopped using my roaster for that reason. In winter, it was just basically impossible to get the greasy smell out of the house afterwards even with a good hood vent and fan. It's an "outside or screened in porch" activity. YYMV.
When I was drinking expensive coffee it sure was enjoyable though. |
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Posted: 8/22/2012 6:36:24 PM
[Last Edit: 8/22/2012 6:40:09 PM by wshbrngr]
My wife and I both enjoy a good cup of coffee.
No offense to those that choose Maxwell House or Folgers, but 
I drank enough bad coffee in the army. We got into green coffee beans a couple of years ago and have a few cases of the canned green beans from mredepot. Same beans (Costa Rican Monte Cristol) you referenced. You can do a google search for those beans and find they get decent to good reviews. We also buy beans from Sweet Marias Sometimes they have the Monte Cristol, but we have tried a variety of beans from around the world. My wife and I tend to like Costa Rican coffee beans. The cans arrived: 
They are packed with O2 absorbers and food grade desiccant: 
Roasting is actually pretty easy and fun. As mentioned, it is more of an art form than a science. I use a simple Whirly-Pop popcorn popper ($20.00 @ bed bath and beyond) and a Coleman propane grill out on the front deck: 
I listen to the beans (first and second crack) and also watch the color as I roast them: 
It takes about 15mins to roast two cups of beans the way we like them. 
If you look for the sales, they are not that expensive. My green coffee beans from mredepot.com averaged $9.33/can which is $7.86/lb for pre-packed, canned, ready for long term storage green coffee beans. Two cups of green coffee beans roasted lasts me and the wife about a week. The beans get bigger when you roast them. |
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Posted: 8/22/2012 11:04:52 PM
Originally Posted By wshbrngr:
*snip* I was about to come in here to say "not this again" but wshbrngr is right. Usually people post their long-term storage methods for roasted coffee, and that's just not possible. They will go stale regardless of storage method. Green coffee beans last 2-3 years in a cool place(like an air-conditioned house) in the jute sack they came in. That's really the best storage method possible. If you use what you store and store what you use, you can rotate through the green beans and never have any go bad. Anyone storing roasted beans or grinds is storing stale coffee that gets worse no matter how you store it. Sweet Maria's is a GREAT site if you want to know how to roast coffee. You can roast coffee in a pan over a campfire, in a whirly-pop popper, etc. I drink some of the highest quality beans available for cheaper than the local roaster offers his medium-quality stuff. I'm working through a 25lb bag of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe right now that is simply amazing. It isn't the highest quality, perhaps medium-high quality, but I couldn't pass up the price when I was at an Ethiopian market in Minnesota. I figured out the roast exactly how I like it, and it has ZERO acidity or bitterness and amazing flavor. Can you tell I love my coffee?
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Posted: 8/23/2012 12:22:21 AM
Is a good idea I guess. But I have drank coffee in the vacuumed packs that were almost 15 years old. I gave away a pack that was going on 18 years old, and the guy said it tasted like coffee.
I have enough vacuumed packs of coffee to last about 5 years now, and plan on more if things look like they might get bad. |
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Posted: 8/23/2012 8:49:10 AM
Originally Posted By KnifeCollector:
Is a good idea I guess. But I have drank coffee in the vacuumed packs that were almost 15 years old. I gave away a pack that was going on 18 years old, and the guy said it tasted like coffee. I have enough vacuumed packs of coffee to last about 5 years now, and plan on more if things look like they might get bad. It really depends what you like and what you are used to. Let's face it, Bud Light is like the #1 selling beer in the U.S.A. and generally speaking Americans are used to stale, crappy coffee. I also agree with Cpn_Ron, Storing green coffee beans is pretty easy and you don't have to go to the expense of buying them sealed in cans. Unless you are planning to pack them away for 20yrs, and I am not sure if they would be any good after that amount of time no matter how they are packed. We use what we store at our place. If you like Folgers coffee, I would store Folgers Crystals. I remember when they first came out, the commercials made a pretty big deal about them being "Freeze Dried", so I would think they could last a long time. Still, I am not a big believer an EOTW scenario where Juan Valdez is no longer able to grow any coffee beans and there is never going to be any more coffee available. But I do prepare for an extended stay at home without being able to go to the supermarket. In which case, we will still have coffee, eggs, bacon, toast.... all the things that make life worth living. |
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