That's what I usually do! But there are kilos of coffee beans on my
bushes this year.

BTW somebody emailed me asking why you don't have to dehull the green
coffee beans that they have seen being roasted in a fancy coffee
store. The answer is that the green beans have been already dehulled
before they are sold. There are two stages leading up to the
production of green beans - getting off the red skin and pulp, and
dehulling (which was my problem).

Since my original posting I have found that an old fashioned
hand-cranked mincer is more than satisfactory. All you do is take off
the blade and cutter at the outlet. The beans go down the spiral feed.
You hold a board against the outlet and the backup of beans in the
spiral cracks the hulls, without damaging the green beans. Then you
use a hair drier to blow the hulls off the beans.


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:32:49 GMT, "S. McLaren"
wrote:

OK, I leanrt something new today. I usually get the Maranatha Praise coffee
beans which come preroasted.