Coffee, Coffee, Coffee

[quiltys41]

I posted this at another forum I go to this morning and wanted to post it here also for everyones imput on this please... Because if you are like me, there is no functioning in the morning without at least on cuppa...

 

 

 

Some of us are wondering about storing coffee beans in our preps. I am a rank newbie to this idea and I need advice and help!

 

What I am thinking about is this...some ground coffee for the short term and then green beans for the long term. I have been reading up on this and found some interesting articles on how to roast your own beans at home manually.

 

Using a Whirly-Popper:

http://www.sweetmarias.com/stovepopmethod.html

 

I have everything they listed there already to do this with. Anyone ever try doing this at home?

 

Using a cast iron pan:

http://www.angelfire.com/pro2/panroa...tcoffee2.html/

 

I have all the stuff listed here also to do at home. Has anyone ever tried this method?

 

I want to be able to roast the green beans that we store here manually without the aid of electric appliances for when tshtf. I want to get away from using any electric anything. But, I refuse to go without coffee!

 

I am going to order a couple of the coffee trees from Gurneys. http://gurneys.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_11295 I got a coupon on my catalog for $25.00 of free product when you spend $25.00 or more with them, so will be ordering blueberries and coffee plants with that. I figured at least 3 or 4 plants? Any ideas on that before I order them?

 

Now, where is the best and cheapest place to order the green beans from? I have looked at so many places the past week that they are all run together in my mind now, so point us in the right direction lol.

 

Please post anything else that you think important to someone just starting in this area. From storage to the roasting. Oh, and I do have a manual grinder too and a couple of the old campfire coffee pots.

 

Q

[Crazy4Canning]

I do store coffee, though completely unintentionally.

 

We're not big coffee drinkers here, but I was given a nice 12" holiday Starbucks vacuum pack. Then, I was going to send 8# of Seattle beans overseas to a friend but realized that when the postage cost WAY MORE than the coffee...well...I got a few trial sizes to send and kept the coffee.

 

Since most coffee beans have that little round black seal, this allows the beans to off-gas safely, you can just slip the packaged beans into a bucket or mylar bag with other stuff. I've done that with no problem.

 

While I think it would be fascinating to have a coffee plant, I honestly don't drink enough of it to worry about it. I am interested though, in what you and everyone else finds. Who knows, I might become a coffee addict again!

[Vic303]

I posted this at another forum I go to this morning and wanted to post it here also for everyones imput on this please... Because if you are like me, there is no functioning in the morning without at least on cuppa...

 

 

 

Some of us are wondering about storing coffee beans in our preps. I am a rank newbie to this idea and I need advice and help!

 

What I am thinking about is this...some ground coffee for the short term and then green beans for the long term. I have been reading up on this and found some interesting articles on how to roast your own beans at home manually.

 

Using a Whirly-Popper:

http://www.sweetmarias.com/stovepopmethod.html

 

I have everything they listed there already to do this with. Anyone ever try doing this at home?

 

Using a cast iron pan:

http://www.angelfire.com/pro2/panroa...tcoffee2.html/

 

I have all the stuff listed here also to do at home. Has anyone ever tried this method?

 

I want to be able to roast the green beans that we store here manually without the aid of electric appliances for when tshtf. I want to get away from using any electric anything. But, I refuse to go without coffee!

 

I am going to order a couple of the coffee trees from Gurneys. http://gurneys.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_11295 I got a coupon on my catalog for $25.00 of free product when you spend $25.00 or more with them, so will be ordering blueberries and coffee plants with that. I figured at least 3 or 4 plants? Any ideas on that before I order them?

 

Now, where is the best and cheapest place to order the green beans from? I have looked at so many places the past week that they are all run together in my mind now, so point us in the right direction lol.

 

Please post anything else that you think important to someone just starting in this area. From storage to the roasting. Oh, and I do have a manual grinder too and a couple of the old campfire coffee pots.

 

Q

Cast iron pans will do in a pinch, but I prefer the hot air Poppery Popcorn maker method. Be sure to get a Poppery I, not the II model. I usually order 10# green beans at once, from Sweet Marias, and they store well for at least a year green if you put them indoors in a cloth bag. Roast them out doors as otherwise it will set off your firealarms...

 

I use a French Press for brewing coffee, and it is ideal. I've been home roasting for several years, and the Poppery is the best roaster (durability) that I have used.

[CrabGrassAcres]

I wouldn't spend money of coffee trees as you will need a greenhouse to grow them and probably won't get much anyhow.

 

I buy from sweetmarias.com I get the large sampler and fill out my order with a few other varieties. Since I have trouble getting deliveries here I go with the large flat rate box USPS and order 20 pounds of beans each time. It is cheaper using UPS, but they leave my packages with THE nosiest neighbor who minds everybody's business and I have a problem with that. LOL

 

Some day down the road, if I run out of coffee, I'm going to make tea with the Youpon holly that grows everywhere around here. You have to roast the leaves and don't make it too strong because it is loaded with caffeine. The old colonists used to use it when coffee was a rarely afforded, imported luxury. I've tried the tea and it is good, just a lot of bother. LOL

[Andrea]

Well, I can't believe I'm saying this (serious coffee addict here) but I determined the best way to solve this dilemma was to quit drinking coffee. I'm almost completely caffeine free now (which has been helping to reduce the hot flashes). I'm not saying that I don't drool all over myself sometimes when passing a Starbucks but I am saying that quitting the habit can be done, it's not easy, but it can be done. I've replaced it with herbal teas and hope to eventually grow all the herbs myself (right now, I'm at about 50% homegrown herbs and 50%purchased decaff green tea).

[Leah]

http://solarroast.com/about2.html

http://solarroast.com/about8.html

A company in Oregon that uses Solar roasters. Includes pictures of their early homemade roasters.

[HazelStone]

I want to be able to roast the green beans that we store here manually without the aid of electric appliances for when tshtf. I want to get away from using any electric anything. But, I refuse to go without coffee!

 

I am going to order a couple of the coffee trees from Gurneys. http://gurneys.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_11295 I got a coupon on my catalog for $25.00 of free product when you spend $25.00 or more with them, so will be ordering blueberries and coffee plants with that. I figured at least 3 or 4 plants? Any ideas on that before I order them?

 

Q

 

Move to Mexico. Around Veracruz you see houses with coffee bushes used as hedges.

Unless you're *really* far south, or in Hawaii, I don't think coffee bushes will stand much chance without "industrialized" intervention. If they make it a couple years on their own and produce, let me know where you are, and which of your neighbors want to sell their house!

 

Meanwhile, I've been working on cutting back my coffee consumption. I've managed to make it a "nice to have" rather than a "need to have" again.