Coffee Procesing
Submitted by fyl on Wed, 2011/11/23 - 09:31.
Some of our coffee is ripe already. Yesterday we (ok, some workers) picked about 200 lbs. of the cherries and are still picking some today. This year I am going to try to document the process.
The first part of the story I have is separating the beans from the pulp. Photos and a video of Ana operating the very sophisticated machine is up at http://nicaplaza.com/pg/galleries/misc/cooltop/index.php. Why there? Because I can add videos.
The machine looks about 70 years old but is only about 4 years old. The design is very similar to the 70 year old one our neighbor has. Technology stands still here.
i got one of them...
its a good work out cranking that for a couple hundred lbs. of coffee
That's why Ana is doing it :-)
Well, actually, I did some of it but it was hard for me to both be in the video and make the video.
She is washing the beans right now (and I am playing on the internet). OK, I am working on the materials list for the dome we are starting to build. That's, of course, another story but this time I am going to really try to document it. The story is starting at http://steprojects.com/groups/profile/121/concrete-dome-house.