Kentucky Coffee (Gymnocladus dioicus) Harvest and Processing

Harvesting Kentucky Coffee (Gymnocladus dioicus) and processing the beans into a usable product.

[@CynthiYah405]

Excellent video

[@MikeyMxes0]

Bro needs to post more about this experience.

[@oxbowfarm5803]

My grandparents had a big Kentucky Coffeetree right behind their house in Greeley, CO. It hung over the back porch and over most of the back of the house. It was a beautiful tree, but my grandfather planted it much too close to the house. I never saw any of those pods or seeds growing up though, because it was the only Kentucky Coffeetree for miles, and I think one of only a couple in town. I actually hated that tree because it was such a messy tree, my dad and I had to constantly get up on the roof every fall and remove the petioles and leaflets from the gutters. If it had been pollinated I'm sure the pods would have made the job even worse.

[@PlantAssassin]

It pains me to hear you hated the tree, but I can’t imagine cleaning out the gutters with all the litter in them.

[@oxbowfarm5803]

I have fond memories of the whole thing now, but I think they are VERY messy trees, and are best for areas far from sidewalks, roofs and gutters etc. I hope you do a follow up with a coffee taste test/review.

[@Tefoe]

Hello.I am dead curious about how your purple d. bulbifera is doing and how to get you to share some if you can.

[@HinselScott]

Yeah but.... how did it taste?! 😊 Insanely curious now!!

[@PlantAssassin]

I have some follow up videos I have not got posted yet.

[@mendyjim8422]

How long were they in the oven?

[@PlantAssassin]

Until they start to pop. Mine were pretty dry so less than an hour. But if they are wet it could be many hours. (I think 4 or 5 is the longest I have had).

[@BGIRL1120196]

Plant Assassin: The second batch roasted for three hours in a container with a lid, and then sat-hot- in the cooling oven for another hour. First time , no lid, pooped in an hour, total cook time for 2.5 hours. Second time they came from a different tree. Maybe because the moisture was contained the second time, the roasting left a kind of dried liquid spot under each bean, but they never popped. Interesting, so this begs another question, Why do you base your roasting the on popping and not on time? (Batch 1, the popped beans had insides that crumbled like malted milk candy (whoppers), never saw the insides of the unpopped beans since I ground them inside the shells. The second batch of shelled beans were very firm, no crumble like cutting into a hard but moist almond...)

[@BGIRL1120196]

Uh oh, I just ground some with the shells. Is that going to be problem, do u think?

[@PlantAssassin]

Ha, I would like to know what you were using to grind them. If it was me I would just call it some extra grit, but am hesitant to actually give that advice. I don’t recall ever reading anything about the edibility or composition of the shells.

[@BGIRL1120196]

Plant Assassin: welp, I ground them in the blender, used a wide space sifter and then with a great deal of effort I ground what did not sift, by hand in a Turkish brass coffee grinder. I brewed everything through a filter and added milk and sugar, was ok. After your video, I tasted the large unsifted bits, they were hard as shells and tasteless so I tossed them out. I had assumed the beans would be ground like a coffee bean. Lol, the second batch got shelled and was lovely with milk and sugar. Thanks for the video, You live you learn!

[@marieconstant6452]

NONO NO COFFEE AT WOODMULLEN

[@eastindiaV]

I think they collect yeast on the outside of the pod, I am full blooded native American but I don't really ever talk about it, Anyways this is a sacred tree to us. There's one in the Himalayas also that proves that natives from the America's circumnavigated the globe... about 10000 years ago They used to put whole barrels full in a lake, and the whole lake would become beer, and they could drill by rotating waters with a stone turbine, which did magical things to the cows. They became sentient, and turned on us, like we did our creators. We had to bait them in, and then sidestep and chop the neck. Meteorite swords. Recycled over aeons, but eventually, the cows became Buffalo and ran away, but some turned into the Navajo. They used to use blood for this ritual instead, the asteroid drained the ocean on the planes and made the first vortex, the creators thought that it was made through death, but over time, we learned it was just magnetic fields. That's why the Bermuda triangle is so weird, it's the first Ritual, made without any one on earth, it was a natural occurrence. The ancestors became sentient from its field, and then they copied it again until the trees became the second race. That is where all language comes from, the trees. They can also withstand the vortex more than humans, so we eat from those kind to heal, the tree of life. Our entire culture is just throwing stuff in a lake to see if we can fight the lake troll that crawls out. Very fun game!

[@yeezet4592]

Uhhhhh