Ok, so if you know me or my sister you have probably heard a little about coffee roasting and it's wonders. You may even know that there is now a growing trend among coffee lovers (the true geeks, of course) of home coffee roasting. That is, buying the green coffee beans and roasting them yourself.

Well tonight I was looking up information on chocolate and I found two sites that sell green, unroasted CACAO beans (that's the chocolate bean for the uninformed) for people to roast at home, or if you don't want to actually roast the bean but use it from it's basic form to cook with, the roasted and husked beans ready for using to make your very own chocolate and such.

I'd love to get some of these! They are about $15 a pound from the two places I have found, which is a good deal more than most unroasted coffees, but man, it'd be so cool!!!

I really just want them so I can make the traditional chocolate drink which has no sugar in it, and a little pepper powder too, but I dont think that cocoa powder is quite the same as the crushed up bean, because you dont get the cocoa butter you just get the solids.

Yes, I am a total geek.
- posted by Nick @ 2/27/2005 01:32:00 AM | 0 comments