I got a cheap air popcorn popper for Christmas and a bag of raw coffee beans and that’s all I use… for the extract, all you need is a mason jar, some grade B vanilla beans from Amazon and some 80-90 proof vodka… chop up the beans, throw them in the jar and fill it to about half inch from the top with vodka… then we let it sit for 4-6 months shaking it once and a while until we strain the liquid and bottle it.
Discussion
Oh I know about making the vanilla already
What I did last time was I let the coffee beans off gas for about a week after roasting them to a medium roast, I then filled the extract up to the top of the beans and let them soak for a little over an hour. Drained them and spread them out on parchment paper on a cookie sheet in a single layer spread out. I then turned the oven on to the lowest setting (170 F on my oven) and put them in the oven for 10-20 minutes just to dry them out… if I didn’t have so many pets I probably would have just let them air dry, but didn’t feel like cat hair flavored coffee and also didn’t want to wait a day for them to dry out. After the cool off you should just be able to scrape them off the parchment paper, then just grind and brew.
Have you ever just put coffee beans in with the vanilla during the extraction process?
While making the vanilla extract? I have not and now I’m intrigued on whether it make a vanilla/coffee extract… 🤔
Damn Amazon does have some really good prices on vanilla beans…
Yeah and it fluctuates, I think the last couple packs I ordered were around $15… this is the one I’ve been ordering