Kentucky Coffee
Apr. 23rd, 2020 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakNOPE. I've lost track of experiment numbers because I was lazy about keeping up my experimentation journal. But food experiment no. something or other is a failure. Kentucky Coffee is as uncoffee like as the people who mocked it said. I am very unlikely to keep trying because I wanted a totally caffeine free drink that was warm, dark, and flavorful and mixes well with milk. The Kentucky coffee tree's roasted beans produces a dark drink that is somewhat vegital (that is so a word), mildly flavorful, and coagulates milk.
My procedure was to roast the washed and cleaned beans at 150C for two hours in cast iron skillets. Left over night to cool they are quite darkly colored and at twice the weight per unit of measure of water as coffee grounds it produces a beverage that could be mistaken for coffee visually. The flavor is not actually terrible, but it has a flavor like well cooked baked beans in with the roasted flavor. This might be overcome with the right procedure in roasting or something, but I'm not going to continue the experiments because when I added milk it went "funny". Since I have often been accused of liking coffee flavored milk this is a fatal flaw in this as a coffee substitute.
USDA plant guide Kentucky coffee tree
My procedure was to roast the washed and cleaned beans at 150C for two hours in cast iron skillets. Left over night to cool they are quite darkly colored and at twice the weight per unit of measure of water as coffee grounds it produces a beverage that could be mistaken for coffee visually. The flavor is not actually terrible, but it has a flavor like well cooked baked beans in with the roasted flavor. This might be overcome with the right procedure in roasting or something, but I'm not going to continue the experiments because when I added milk it went "funny". Since I have often been accused of liking coffee flavored milk this is a fatal flaw in this as a coffee substitute.
USDA plant guide Kentucky coffee tree