What are you drinking?

[Wavebourn]

Edit:
Maybe it would be something to run the berries through a fermentation process? Maybe add some lactose bacteria to the mix for a more complex flavor, clean and dry off the beans before roasting, serve the fermented brew on the side for comparison.

I like this idea!

 

[soundbrigade]

And how about getting some of these fellas to enhance the taste ...

A few years ago, I bought 100 gram of kopi-luwak coffee. It was very mild AND expensive. But I lacked the musky and full taste of hard roasted coffee.

 

[TheGimp]

I think I'm using a West Bend 1500W Hot air Poppery Popcorn popper. I stripped it down and added an extension on the top. I also disabled the thermal cutout, and wired the heating element to a separate plug than the fan is connected to so I can control the heating element output and keep the fan on high speed.

 

[DPH]

When you roast coffee beans, heat may be kills moulds, but toxins they already released are still there... As well as pesticides and herbicides...

Beans do hit 400+ F or so, so I'm sure a very, very large percentage of pesticides/toxins will be denatured. I haven't run across any studies that actually give the mass-spec results of green and roasted coffee. I did just skim over lunch a few abstracts of papers that were methods papers for doing just that, though (so studies looking at residues probably exist!).

 

[Wavebourn]

Beans do hit 400+ F or so, so I'm sure a very, very large percentage of pesticides/toxins will be denatured. I haven't run across any studies that actually give the mass-spec results of green and roasted coffee. I did just skim over lunch a few abstracts of papers that were methods papers for doing just that, though (so they probably exist!).

Yes, my wife is learning functional medicine now, and one lecture was about coffee and toxins in it... Scary!

She buys only from Bulletproof website now.

 

[TheGimp]

DHP, most info I've found indicates that the pesticides do not break down until 1000F, or possibly higher.

At 450F (Full City Roast+) it takes about 25 minutes to drive off the pesticides as volatile compounds. Unfortunately, roasting takes less time.

 

[Dude111]

Drinking chocolate milk

 

[PH104]

It's 3AM here and I can't sleep after working on some new projects so I'm drinking a big whiskey Old-Fashioned.

 

[soundbrigade]

Had too much yesterday:
4 cl Cabin Fever
37,5 cl wine Nero d'Avola
5 cl Gin (GT)
5 cl Rum (RC)

 

[PH104]

Magnus - what is Cabin Fever? I enjoy your posts over in the Food Thread as I used to visit Russia on business. Many familiar dishes and beverages. Last night was a wine night with my wife.

 

[soundbrigade]

What is Cabin Fever???!!!! An American asks a Swede .....

Cerealisly, it's maple flavoured whisky, made in USA. It's one of our favorite drinks as it isn't too sweet or "intrusive" as many other flavoured whisky use to be.
It has been hard to find nowadays and I had to visit a few liquor shops in Chicago before I could grab the last bottle in one of them. There are however other brands that, I guess, are very similar and drinkable too.
BINNY's maple spirits

 

[Gyuri]

What are you drinking?
I actually drink everything, just as comrade Pelikán.
YouTube

 

[wintermute]

Peppermint Tea.

 

[Dude111]

I am drinking some apple cider right now.......

 

[chrisb]

don't chase that with chocolate milk

 

[soundbrigade]

Hum.

For you Americans, I can tell you that Hum is Rum spiced up with hibiscus, ginger, cardamom, cane sugar and kaffir lime.

Link: HUM

 

[wintermute]

Celestial Seasonings SleepyTime tea....

I would prefer to be drinking a scotch, but I'm taking anti-biotics at the moment

Tony.

 

[KaffiMann]

My very own blueberry wine just got bottled.
Having some of it right now

 

[nigelwright7557]

Coffee made with all milk. Lovely.
Mum used to make it on a Saturday morning with all milk as a treat when I was a kid.

 

[jordheis]

Funkwerks saison
Funk is good.