Also did you know that many decaff beans come from bags of coffee that are 1 to 2 years old. The roasters use this method to avoid throwing them away. I got this from a manager of one of the largest roasters in the Portland Metro area. Of course he now owns his own coffee warehousing biz in this area

Yuk! Do you know how coffee beans are decaffeinated? It's like knowing how they make sausage, if you did, you would never eat it. Unless a Swiss Water process is used, the beans are soaked in water and solvents to remove the essential oils (and caffeine). Then more solvents are used to siphon off th...

Ok then, on a much smaller scale, my wife and I put them in are raised planter boxes. When I was a kid my dad had a catering truck business. He would put substantial quantities of coffee grounds in on garden all the time, and we had so many earthworms the fishermen in the neighborhood would all come...

I read on the internet of a $250,000 grant was given to some school in New England to study how to make biomass out of the coffee grounds. First they are loaded with oil that can be extracted for bio diesel, but mainly they are after the cellulose. It seems that coffee grounds are 80% wood, perfect ...

I love this forum about wood roasters. I own a 1 kilo electric drum roaster called a Torrefattore. It sounds Italian but made in Isreal. I paid for it many times over by roasting for a friend of mine who owned a couple restaurants, but alas he retired. I love the roasts I get from it, but it is limi...