Help with coffee beans!

This topic was created in the Food & Drink forum by ariesvita on Sunday, December 12, 2010 and has 4 replies.

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@ariesvita
16 Years

...other than making coffee of course. I'm stuck with a bag of coffee beans -picked the wrong bag-, and cannot even make coffee because I don't have a coffee grinder.

What can you suggest to make with a bag of coffee beans? The only thing that keeps coming up in google are chocolate covered coffee beans, but does anyone have any other tasty recipe?

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@TTaurusS
15 Years

Posted by ariesvita
...other than making coffee of course. I'm stuck with a bag of coffee beans -picked the wrong bag-, and cannot even make coffee because I don't have a coffee grinder.

What can you suggest to make with a bag of coffee beans? The only thing that keeps coming up in google are chocolate covered coffee beans, but does anyone have any other tasty recipe?

Why don't you just get a coffee grinder? I think they cost between 10-20 dollars for one. Whole bean coffee can be expensive compare to the ground coffee ones, and if you drink coffee often, getting a coffee grinder is worth it. Also, whole bean coffee are more fresh than the grounded ones. It tastes better, my opinion. 🙂 Or you could give it away for someone as a gift.

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@ariesvita
16 Years

Posted by TTaurusS

Why don't you just get a coffee grinder? I think they cost between 10-20 dollars for one. Whole bean coffee can be expensive compare to the ground coffee ones, and if you drink coffee often, getting a coffee grinder is worth it. Also, whole bean coffee are more fresh than the grounded ones. It tastes better, my opinion. 🙂 Or you could give it away for someone as a gift.

Yeah, I though about that but I wanted to see first if there's a more creative way to use coffee beans 😉

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@TTaurusS
15 Years

I see. Well, maybe you could use it to coat or decorate cakes and pastries. If you really enjoy the smell of coffee, you could use it as a air refreshener. Although I'm not sure how much of that will work. lol Anyway, I guess that is just about creative I'll get. I think there are a lot more one can do if the coffee was grounded though other than drinking it. So, a coffee grinder is the way to go. 🙂