This is something I did 2 months ago. I was curious what would happen if I grind green beans first, then roast them. So I decided to try







Ground some green beans (some awful rio minas beans used for turkish coffee) with turkish hand mill (almost turkish coffee fine setting), then I heated a stainless skillet and roasted ground green beans. Because these are pre-ground you can't hear any cracking sound during the roast but they definitely get larger in size. 2,5 minutes roasting then I waited until they are cooled enough and brewed in french press.

The look/taste; well it looks like coffee but the taste was close to turkish tea Anyways I plan doing more experiments using this method once I get better beans.

Do not try doing this with a regular grinder. As you now know, green beans don't fracture the way roasted ones do, and you could jam your grinder quite easily.

Best,
David

DavidMLewis wrote:Do not try doing this with a regular grinder. As you now know, green beans don't fracture the way roasted ones do, and you could jam your grinder quite easily.

Best,
David

Thanks for mentioning that David, I totally forgot to add this. Hardness of green beans and chaff issue was the main reason why I didn't use cimbali jr in the first place, ah and I have several Turkish mills (the one used here is Acar branded from Turkiye) so I was like "whatever just try". Besides later you'll have some unroasted coffee grounds left inside your mill, you'll need to clean it (running a handfull of roasted coffee solves the problem)