I remember staying in my aunt's house when I was a child, and the smell of fresh roasted coffee that she use to roast in her backyard will stay with me forever, not of course to talk about the taste of fresh roasted coffee that by the way she had harvested from her own small coffee plantation! Wow! Thank you so much for the talk!
He didnt forced us to buy, although some people see this as a marketing strategy, I see this as an additional information about coffee which is very useful to me. The point is, I learned something.
You learned nothing because most things he says aren't true. For example, coffee isn't best 11 hours after roasting, it's somewhere between 1 and 8 weeks after roasting. But if I wanted to push a coffeebean roasting machine I'd say the same things he does. If you truly want to learn about coffee than watch some James Hoffmann video's.
I have been roasting coffee for 20 years at home. Just a stove top popcorn popper and understanding the relationship between stove setting and temperature in the pan. A beautiful experience every time. I prefer a cowboy cup. 12 ounce cup, 1 standard scoop of ground coffee slightly rounded, and 10 ounces of just about boiling water.
I am blessed to live Puerto Rico then. We still grow, roast and locally consume coffee. I'm proud to work as a barista at a local coffee shop where we get the freshly roasted coffee directly from Jayuya, roasted in the last 24 hours and used within a week. Trust me, we puertoricans drink a lot of coffee! HAHAHA.
1 day old coffee beans are too fresh. Yes there is such a thing as too fresh for beans. I know coffee is subjective but there's gonna be way too much CO2 the first couple of days. If all you've had is a day old bean then I'm afraid you havent had a good tasting coffee even though you live so close to the farm. I'd suggest waiting a couple days and letting the beans degas. You'll be amazed at how great the coffee tastes once you let it degas.
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetworkI've lived in NY and let me tell you, you're not missing much. I live in Australia now so I'm spoiled for choices here but NY has amazing roasters that really know what they're doing. Regalia in Brooklyn and Villager in Prospect Heights were my favourite.
I used to hang out at a coffee house where the coffee was fresh roasted on site. I spent a lot of time learning about the craft. This may appear to be a commercial, but it provides information that most people never hear about. I'm glad TED decided to allow this talk.
There used to be an Iranian guy who had a very small coffee shop here in my town of Cotati california. He would daily roast is own coffee beans and then take his time brewing the most delicious cup of coffee I've ever had in my life. It was a sad day when he moved away. After watching this I'm going out to buy some beans and start roasting my own. I don't know why didn't think of it before
Here in Ethiopia , Coffee matured coffee beans from the plant collected ,dried in a natural sunlight. Then seeds removed from the fruit by pounding ,washing and then naturally dried in an open sunlight and air. Then stored in a sacks or containers for use as a coffee drink .If you want to drink coffee fresh,roast ,pound as a coffee powder, then boil water on demand , add coffee powdere on to the boil in a special tool called "JEBENA " which is traditionally clay made equipment that every household culturally have and using for coffee only. In this way coffee keeps its natural taste and good for using
Hi Asher, Thanks for the inspiring talk about coffee. I have grown up with coffee and watching my Father rost coffee in his factory in Redfern Sydney to supply restaurants and cafes, he had a coffee shop in Kings Cross in the late 1970s, My Aunty had one of the first Coffee Shop in Kings Cross in the mid-1960s. Back then Coffee was a bit of an unknown thing to have "real roasted Coffee out of a real espresso machine". I love your self coffee roaster and would love to find out more. I also love Bali and its people.
People say it's an infomercial. I get that, but on the other hand.... Other people talk about their inventions on TED, why is this so different? It is because the invention is accessible? Also, he's empowering people to roast their own coffee, and he says there are many ways to do it. I think it's a great point that freshness is IMPORTANT, therefore worth pursuing. Freshness is still undervalued in the First World. I don't have space for a machine like that in my house but bravo for designing a new machine, making this available for those who are interested.
Excellent video. I have one small suggestion. Espresso isn't a measure of "roast", it's a dark roast that is a "grind", a very fine grind. ALL coffee goes stale very quickly after grinding, but espresso moreso because it is so finely ground. The ultra fine grind gives much greater surface area, which goes stale much faster.
I'm sold. I am searching for green unroasted coffee beans right now and have plans of using my whirly pop popcorn maker to roast them. I can make popcorn without burning it. I already grind my own grain for making breads, I can't believe it never occurred to me to roast my own coffee beans. I LOVE TED talks! Every presentation has the possibility of changing my life is some way.
Don Slentz Thanks, I found some on Ebay from brazil and it arrived yesterday and of corse first thing I did was check out on here how to roast it and sweetmarias came up a lot. But today it the day I give it a shot, as soon as my daughter gives me 20 minuted uninterrupted, so maybe tonight.
Well I roasted my beans in my whirly pop popcorn maker and well I think I had the flame (I have a gas range) a little too high, I got a ton of smoke, smoked up the whole house, the whole place smelled like starbucks. But the beans were roasted in about 4 minutes and from what I have found out they were over roasted - HOWEVER I ground the beans and that was some GOOD coffer - I'll wait till it gets warmer so next time I can do it outside but I look forward to the coffee that I roast correctly. I fully endorse home roasted coffee!
Tom Leeds YEah I got the smoke also - I believe the whole process is supposed to take 15-20 minutes... So I agree with your assessment, probably a little to high on the gas! LOL My second batch came out a little darker than my first - still quite tasty though - Need to get it darker still. I am using a WOK so I would expect it to take a little longer than your whirly pop.
I roast my own coffee at home too in a $10 wok normally used for cooking fried rice. It's true, there is nothing equal to fresh roasted coffee. I've had a similar experience with the results of fresh roasted coffee as mentioned in the video and I've been doing this for years. It's as easy to make as rice.
+mfgunit , there are a couple places. Hillcoff buys from the coffee farmers so sometimes I buy from them. Its about 250 baht per kg. If I buy from someone not as commercialized as Hillkoff then its cheaper. I'm growing my own coffee trees now with hope of planting the seeds to grow my own trees but I've not been successful at that yet. I'll keep trying.
"I can tell by the way it feels in my body that there are so many health benefits to coffee that haven't been discovered yet" lulwat? Sounds scientific...
The words "superfood", "life" and "enlightenment" are red flags in an information session. They usually hint towards a network marketing business and/or an overpriced product.
There are literally thousands of phyto-chemicals and anti-oxidants in coffee. The only food substance that comes close is cacao. Both are indeed "super-foods" if there is such a thing.
wow. I work in coffee, am actually a coffee producer, cupper, exporter, importer, roaster ocasionally... I have two things to say about this: 1) coffee is alive before you roast it, and DIES WHEN YOU ROAST IT. its basic biology, living beings have a temperature range at which they can survive. His concept is backwards. It is because THE COFFEE JUST DIED that the shelf life is not more than a week (for totally fresh and best results... this I agree with). 2) Not just anyone can roast coffee. the machine he built means nothing without GOOD COFFEE. there are ways of grading coffe and certain altitudes and climates certainly yield better or worse coffees. You cannot ever claim that all coffee is the same, and actually you cannot keep the coffee for years as long as you don't roast it like he says. Within grading INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS you can taste when coffee is old, and that happens at around 6-12 months. This is greatly affected by packaging method, and contrary to his explanations... it does work. both on the pre roast coffee, and the roasted coffee. he is assuming that the coffee is as good if you leave it outside of a container as well as it would be if it was inside the container. totally false. the fridge thing is true, better out than in... I guess its more than 2 things... also TED come on. this is a cheap infomercial with shady logic and data... who approves this?
el Padresuerte Completely agree with your second point sir. There are a hundred factors that make the difference between different green bean coffees. Geography zone ( LAtin american? African? Asian PAcific?) different altitudes ( is it an arabica grown at 6000 feet elevation or a robusta at 1000?) , rich or poor soil, access to light, and sun exposure, cool nights, use or not of pesticides, etc etc . A hundred ways you can make or break a coffee bean, way before its arrival at the plant. You can roast most of the Vietnamese coffee beans to perfection, and it would still make for a very poor cup of coffee, given how about 90% of their coffee production is robusta beans.
Abba Okoro Of course. That's just a throw-away comment to get people focused on how easy it is. People don't typically roast their own coffee. He needs to first convince you that doing so makes sense. Saying that it is simple is a great way to do that. But if that were really an adequate approach, there'd be no need for his machine.
No, I answered your question directly with an "Of course." That's all your question asked for and you got a direct answer. You didn't ask for a reason, but I gave reason anyway why his 75 cent roaster doesn't get in the way of the goals of his commercial endeavor. You may want to consider that merely my opinion, but it is no more so than your insinuation that his description of a 75 cent roaster would make the talk not an infomercial.
el Padresuerte you obviously do not understand what I am talking about. When coffee is roasted over 1,000 chemical compounds are created and many of these are in the form of gases, this is what I am referring to as "Alive", active chemical compounds that are activated and create during roasting. Without roasting, nothing, dormant. I am not claiming that all coffee is the same. I only use 100% Arabica coffee, Robusta is inferior and only used because it's cheap and delivers 2x the caffeine which is actually an overdose for most people's nervous system and leads to the jitters and nervousness. Different coffee plantations process their coffee in different ways and this makes a big difference in the quality of the coffee. My point is that along the entire chain of creating coffee "From the Cherry to the Cup", the most significant and overlooked aspect is the time period between when the coffee is roasted and when the coffee is consumed. This is my main focus and what this talk was all about.
This video changed my life, even though I won't need the equipment for roasting my own coffee. I can taste, smell and feel the difference between the dead and freshly roasted and ground coffee. Many thanks!
This guy hit the nail on the head. Coffee has to be freshly roasted and ground, and consumed without storing the powder. We at home ( south India) have been roasting our coffee in an ordinary cast iron frying pan, and grinding it after about two hours. We do roast and grind what we need for the day, and no more. This is what we have been doing for years, many years- learned from our parents forty years ago. We do not need any fancy roasting machines. We grind it rather coarse, since we use filter to make decoction. What coffee we use is a matter of taste, cultivated over the years. We use a blend of Peaberry/Plantation A ( 10/90%). We also have a mix of Arabica/Robusta ( 80/20%) Sadly, quality of coffee has declined in recent years. Also, organic seeds are not easy to get.
@@aliabbas48 I never thought of taking any video, as we just did it daily! There was one Panchami Iyer in Kumbakonam town ( Tanjore Dist, Tamil Nadu) who invented a special process of making coffee. He selected the seeds, and mixed them ( the proportion was his secret); he roasted them slowly in an earthen pot, in small lots, over a slowly burning wood stove personally, and ground them in a hand-grinding machine and made the decoction using a brass filter. South Indians like their coffee with milk and sugar. So, he had his own cows, which were milked twice a day. This milk was heated ( not boiled) in small lots to make the required amount of coffee, and it was not reheated. Thus he served a unique brand of coffee in his restaurant, to the delight of the whole town and it came to be known as "Kumbakonam Degree Coffee". This was in the good old 50s &60s. I am a coffee addict, and like a good article on coffee, as much as the coffee itself. I liked your presentation. Thank you.
I am not a coffee eater, I drink green tea ( the real leafs) ,mostly But, occasionally I enjoy coffee ☕: I beat the coffee beans in pistle&mortars Coarsely, and filter out the decoction through sieve. No milk( I am vegan)
Saudi Arabic coffee is the best,most natural. When we want to make our Arabic coffee, we roast coffee beans till they'll brown (only brown, not burnt black like how Westerners roast or burn ;) their coffee ). Then we grind the coffee, and make it. Try our natural, roasted not burnt, Arabic coffee. (a very small amount of spices are added,too, just to give the fresh coffee a "hint" of these spices. Also we don't add sugar to our coffee, but drink it while eating something sweet; traditionally while eating dates). Salaam Aliakum to all from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (and thank you from uploading the video BTW).
Leggo My Ego well USA abuses everyone....and kills anyone they like under the NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act) at least the Saudi's keep there abuse of people limited to there own citizens. USA imposes its laws on citizens of other countries.......imagine if Saudi Arabia did that....it would be off with his head hahahah
Leggo My Ego Dude....your country still locks up many Native Americans (men,women and children) in concentration camps' like conditions Reservation ! So , don't give other societies you're typical American shitty "holier than thou" attitude!`
All I can say is I was a two pot-per-day drinker, when they started using a harsh poison on their trees, then i had to quit drinking it. There were rumors of a ban, but my bladder still cant take it anymore. Not even the so-called "organic". Maybe it's me. Cleanses help.
Coffee get the liver to make sugar and realese it to the blood and this cause insulin surge to be released by the pancreas ..the result is hunger and weight gain ! you want to lose weight? no coffee , no tea ....no caffeine! ....coffee and teas are a drug !( caffeine )
@@MikaelVitalyVyacheslav-bh2fk Does this still happen with Decaff though? Well I still lost weight without expecting it and having around 2000 calories a day.
A TED talker with a vested interest in what they are talking about, who manipulates information labelled as "research" for their own financial gain. Just watched an 11 minute infomercial How sad.
I missed any information. I thought he failed to substantiate nutrient and freshness claims. As for taste claims; he's one person against many: drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/12/why-you-shouldnt-roast-coffee-at-home-pros-cons-green-coffee-roasting-kit.html Keeping monks awake isn't good for their health. 'Intakes of caffeine in amounts >300 mg/d (≈514 g, or 18 oz, brewed coffee) accelerate bone loss at the spine in elderly postmenopausal women. Furthermore, women with the tt genetic variant of VDR appear to be at a greater risk for this deleterious effect of caffeine on bone.' -ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/694.short - I agree when you say 'how sad'!
mad thumbs "About the Author: Nicholas Cho is the co-founder of Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters in San Francisco" This author may be advising this because he doesn't want to lose business. I agree that he failed to back his claims, and I'm still not convinced, honestly.
Nick of the Roberts I wouldn't go that far. Sounds more like he's saying "roast coffee if you really want to, but be aware that it's probably not worth the hassle unless you're really into it". It's a reasonable viewpoint for most people. If on the other hand you're the kind of person that spends thousands of dollars on home espresso equipment... well.
gogerychwyrndrobwll Did we watch the same video? He was calling our coffee dead, stale, and really ragging on it. Then he went on about fresh roasted as if he were a religious nut, or a panacea peddler. This guy is a scam artist in the likes of Kevin Trudeau.
mad thumbs I'm talking about the author of the blog post you linked to in your first comment, not the video guy. The video guy is... eh. Shall we say he has a vested interest and leave it at that.
The guy isnt selling coffee or selling his machine he made, hes just stating its better for the body when its not so old. He had no research to go with it but common sense would say just cooked is better. The key thing hes going on - Just roasted a few days ago and wow it taste really good and maybe it did make him more alert who knows. Try it.
He kinda had data when he said the "fresh" felt very different in his body. "Fresh is better" is probably true for coffee as it is for everything else.
Excellent presentation. I've been home roasting for 8 years now. One point I think should be made: certain coffees, after roasting, need a few days before they reach their peak flavor, particularly coffee from Yemen--my favorite!
We always had fresh coffee roasted and those who prepared it did it twice a week.they had roasters for coffee and chickpeas and all the other nuts like almonds .this was as far back as 40 years ago.Those who did roasting had many years of experience say like from the young age they will start working in those shops.it's not about your machine its how you roast your coffee.EXPERIENCE.☺
It is so simple to cook your own raw coffee beans as I learned many years ago whilst teaching in Sarawak. All you need is a wok, moderately hot heat and a little time. We take time for cooking food, why not do the same once a week for our favourite cuppa. And just as your first BBQ burger might not have been your best, practice does make perfect. (I haven’t tried the popcorn popper but will. Sounds intriguing.) Namaste and care, mhikl
The entire video is that in order to have the best coffee, you need heat to roast it. We've done this in our family since forever and he's right, it's the best tasting coffee ever. When we came to the US, my mom would always roast the beans on Saturday mornings and we would grind them in an old world grinder. The house was always smoking because we had nowhere outside to do it. But strangely, neighbors would stop by "just to say hello" and of course my parents would offer coffee.
I am Ethiopian from the birth place of coffee, and to hear this guy as an expert ? He didn’t even mention the history and origins of coffee and how the natives are roasting every single day . I do!! He was selling his machine!
About 15 years ago I discovered home roasting for myself, and have never looked back. I started with the hot air popcorn popper, but that eventually burned out. Then I made my own 1 pound drum roaster for my propane grill.... I hand crank it, and use that 15 minutes to relax and read a bit, while enjoying the smell of the coffee roasting. On the rare occasion that run out of my own roast, I'll buy some roasted beans, and I'm reminded how much better I like my fresh roast. I tend to roast a pound about every 2 weeks, and yeah.... that's about the end of the life cycle.... 2 weeks. This was a good talk, and no it was not an infomercial, because he never promoted his product by name.... he just said, "Hey, look what I did!".... Many TED talkers are promoting themselves in some way.
You say you like your fresh roast much better than what you can buy pre-roasted, but has it made a significant difference in your health and state of mind over the past 15 years? If the answer is 'yes', then I'm very interested to try it. I imagine it would only take a few minutes every other day with the popcorn popper method, so no great amount of time or money need be expended.
I too have ADHD and coffee helped me from age 11 to 15, but I was blessed with a bad case of cyclothymia at 15 and the caffeine exacerbated it into very long cycles of depression below my baseline. I have fought bipolar and cyclothymia coming up on 40 years now. Only Lamictal (Lamotragine) has helped. My insurance doesn't cover Enlite (unwrapped vitamins), or frontal cortex magnetic therapy, which is insanely overpriced considering it's just a machine that puts out a magnetic field through a handheld wand.
Scientifically, beans are the seeds of LEGUMES. Coffee is not in the legume family, so he is correct from a taxonomic perspective . Informally, the word "bean" does have more flexible usage beyond the legume family, such as in our example here, "coffee bean". Now, if someone disagrees with me about all this I might want to bean them (but I won't).
Growing up in Jamaica years ago, we didn't know about stale coffee or stale cocoa. we usually just make them from fresh beans at or near the time when we wanted them. Chocolates could be stored for a while but it never seemed necessary to have prepared coffee for more than a week. I believe that this video is in perfect sync with the coffee culture I know. Strangely too, all those people that I knew who used to live so long in Jamaica were usually coffee lovers. I remember so many old folks who were at age 100 to 114 years. One man in particular was 119. Another did not know his own age when he came to our village. People surmised that he was about 70. At some point someone managed to obtain his birth certificate and he learned that he was ninety nine. Two years later he fathered a son. He die about nine years later. There were a few who got so old that we would have to put them out to sit in the sun sometimes. I believe these ones were not able to naturally keep themselves warm. We used to say we were 'sunning' them. These people had great stories to tell. They were never ill for long before dying. Most died when they were still able to 'help themselves' doing ordinary stuff. They would call the folks around to say they were 'tired'. They would go soon after wards. Things has changed. I wonder if bad coffee is to blame...
Once as a child I had a cup of coffee and its taste was, for lack of a more accurate term, HEAVENLY. Never again have I tasted ANYTHING like it. I read elsewhere that peolple's taste buds lose their sensitivity with age, so I'm finally at peace with the probability that I will never experience that particular heavenly tasting coffee again.
I recently cut off my pony tail. Suddenly, my mind cleared and my I.Q increased about 30 points. I also stopped bullshitting people. I became a better person.
I like pony tails...well I hope it grows back soon...........better+? , that would be BS!....just release ego the rest will follow, maybe a sense of humor too
@@dino8205 perhaps...but having not a tail of any sort nor a pony I and you should see no connection at all except the one you imagined suspected posing as a concern when ........void presents itself to you you have a need to fill with imagination
Thank you so much for speaking on this. I used a rotisserie to roast out of my garage, and always instructed my recipients to consume within one week, after doing extensive research finding the same results. I was on a quest to find that perfect cup as well. 1997 marked the introduction to my first delicious taste from a friend who acquired fresh Honduran coffee and did a pour-over through a simple sieve at the kitchen sink (which shocked me!). I was never able to reproduce the same flavors until I roasted my own Honduran coffee in 2008. Also, regarding the 'infomercial' and 'ponytail' or other derogatory comments, I'd like to give a comment as well: Asher Yaron's fantastic! His love for the craft, willingness to do the research, excitement to share his knowledge, and effort to bring valuable health information to the world through a TEDx Talk is noteworthy, and it helps the coffee industry to improve their standards. I appreciate the effort and boldness to speak, and understand the enthusiasm to create small-batch roasting products so more people can enjoy the benefits. Following his passion and making a profitable business is wonderful!
It definately felt infomercial’ish which isn’t normally (as far as I have experienced..) allowed/TED talk normal stuff … normally I guess speakers would say ‘I have made my own way of roasting which you can go away and research’ (or similar..:-) … and, it made me want to roast coffee & his enthusiasm, passion, knowledge & eloqence was infectious so honestly, I’m happy regardless - great talk - haven’t read any of the other comments (wouldn’t want to..) about anything else. If people have spoken about his gentleman’s hair, makes me wonder, judgement on cultures is racism; judgment on a physical aspect someone has is still judgement - where is the line drawn that negative judgement is ok? Judgement of a disability? (Not a choice…) judgement of obesity (95% of the time a choice…) c’mon guys. Anyhow! Top talk thanks!
Fuck the criticisms. I just recently fell in love with coffee at 27 years old and enjoy home brewing my cup of coffee but this guy just blew my mind and enlightened me. I remember loving the coffee from the Pueblo(My mothers hometown) and this video reminded me why.
Absolutely, because the guy isn't selling what somebody else has made or discovered, no it's his own discovery and revealing the fact on what coffee can really taste like is his evangely as somebody said. Cool, he's an original and that you won't find in a shopping mall..
And very nice with a coffee enlightenment - fresh roasted organic Arabic coffee sounds great - and fine with an affordable freshly roasted coffee that any coffeeshops can afford - but something very simple for everyday life in our families would be even more helpfull 😊🎵💚🎶♥️🎵🎶
Bali is amazing and us Australian’s visit regularly .. Ubud is worth visiting - try the Luwak coffee on site in Ubud - also do some research on Luwak coffee .. (talked about on 🎥 bucket list) .. Ubud has an incredible energy about it.. hopefully you get to visit.. 🙏🏼 🏄♂️💦☀️🇦🇺
I think it's the price of success. They became hugely popular, and tons of people wanted to talk at them, which really diluted the field, especially when the TEDx talks started. Now anyone can start a conference and call it TEDx and allow almost anything they want. At an official TED talk, for example, they have rules against this blatant, shameless self-promotion.
I haven't heard your presentation, is that because the bar has been raised to high, or because you do not have anything important to say? I do not believe that either of those reasons are true, however there is a difference between being a critical thinker and a critic. Once you discover that difference, I would love to hear your presentation on that topic.
Thanks Asher... it was a nice talk. You could have saved yourselves a lot of headaches anyway just by taking a quick trip to Italy with a fraction of the cost of the espresso machine: just walk around a neighbourhood and ask where the local "Torrefazione" is... there is where the coffee is roasted and sold... people go there to buy their coffee. You can nowadays buy it also in capsules and it is amazing to realize that a 50 euro machine can brew a wonderful espresso, given the good freshly roasted coffee is used. Yes... marketing and media are brainwashing people in believing that the coffee you can find in supermarkets is the good one... but is enough to walk near the local neighbourhood torrefazione to realize how things really are... Ciao!
Right on! And this is the sort of thing being killed by the Amazons of the world, the Wal-Marts, etc. Our lifestyle takes us ever farther from Nature, wherein lies the greatest natural health. ~♥~
Seems like plenty of judgement by the comments I read here. Whats wrong with the information update on the coffee. It was nice to see this guys invention and I look forward to seeing a new coffee out there available for us to indulge. Thanks Asher I enjoyed your findings & I appreciate your sharing your invention. :)
What is wrong is that it is misleading and contains very little scientific fact. This doesn't mean it isn't cool or useful. The premise is an informational/educational talk not an advertisement using manipulation of an "educational talk".
In my case I started with an induction cooktop and a pan. That was good. Then I looked around for more automated methods - settled on a West Bend Stir Crazy popcorn appliance. Figured out the timing as to what color I like the beans - I go just before dark roast. It's awesome and as he says you can use whatever you're comfortable with - in my case I'm in $62.97 in equipment consisting of a French Press, the Stir Crazy and a Burr grinder. And I've been evangelizing on it too.
I thought so too, this didn't turn out very mystical or spiritual after all xD It's cool and interesting that fresh roasted coffee tastes better, but the enlightment premise wasn't quite met. Well, I'm a tea drinker anyway ^^
The Guy's absolutely right. I've been roasting my own coffee for 8+ years. It really does make all the difference. But ya certainly don't need a big Heath Robinson contraption like that. A popcorn popper works like a charm, As soon as second crack starts tip into a metal collender and pour between another one or matal pan, to cease the roasting as quickly as possible. Small batches but it only takes about 3 mins a batch so it's easy to do 8 or 10 batches, depending on how much you drink in a week. But you really need a decent quality machine and a good bur grinder. Certainly to get the best out of it. Green beans are very easily sourced on the internet. Especially for you yanks. And they don't incur any VAT here in the UK until roasted.
this is how I learned to roast it too. Works like a charm, the only downside is the smell of roasting coffee is not that pleasant. So good ventilation is key, if you have a stove with an exterior venting fan you won't stink up the house too much, or perhaps a long extension cord to your air popper on an exterior porch.
If you found this video informative, you may also want to know that Research shows that coffee can help with mental alertness, type 2 diabetes, weight loss, Parkinon’s, prevention of cardiovascular disease, and may prevent gallbladder disease!
Coffee needs to rest after roasting for 2-3 days so it can off gas and open up. Otherwise the taste is not as present. And when brewing espresso I found the coffee to be fine from day 3-4 depending on the coffee you have but is most often best from day 7-12.
Stefan Sigfinnsson Absolutely right. Why? Because the gas will interfere with the water's ability to act as a solvent on the coffee. What you end up with is an uneven cup of coffee with too much crema.
Stefan Sigfinnsson Sorry Stefan, I totally disagree. Coffee starts deteriorating immediately after roasting. I have actually changed my views about this and think that coffee only needs to cool to room temp after roasting and needs NO rest time! 8 years ago the industry used to think 2-3 weeks was the appropriate rest time....now that time frame has been cut drastically as people are waking up to the understanding that fresh is best. The current leading edge specialty coffee creators like The Roasting Plant, roastingplant.com/ guarantee that their coffee is not older than 48 hours after roasting. So what happened to 2 weeks? How about 1 week? You need to do the tests and it is difficult and time consuming to do because you need at least a 2 group Espresso machine, and 2 separate grinders calibrated perfectly. I have the equipment and I have done the tests comparing just roasted coffee to coffee that has been sitting 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 16 hours, 20 hours, etc., etc. And I have not been the only one doing the tasting. I have worked with professional Sommeliers (wine tasting experts) and we have done the tests blind. Same results every time........fresh is best!
I happened to have some unroasted coffee beans when I watched this video the first time, and threw them in an old popcorn pump. They turned out great! I'm no coffee connoisseur but a popcorn pump seems a lot more efficient than spending $150 on a roasting machine. Even if everything this guy says is true, where does the average joe buy green coffee beans without spending more money than the roaster is worth? By the way, there were a few useful comments below! Thank you for your inputs!
@@letstargaze I've never seen unroasted coffee beans at any farmers markets in upstate NY, but maybe they're at farmers markets that I don't know about. Thanks @bilal jahi.
I know that he comes off as pitchy about it and offers a product, but in the end of the day, he's right. I've been roasting my own coffee for a while and it makes a big difference. I think that he just wanted to take that extra step and provide you with the option to buy a solution rather than just inform you and leave it at that.
I lived the first 49 years of my life without drinking coffee and had white teeth clear skin and coffee was not a get out of bed early and then sit to drink coffee. We have natural energy to get up and go without coffee.
I've ordered my green beans online and roasted them in a wok outside. The next day, I ground them and, it took only the one single sip. To almost faint. How good it was. :)
there used to be a lot of coffee trees here in bali back when I was a child. I remember chewing them like a candi and give what left of it toy grandma so she could dry it in sun heat. its my parents generations that cut almost all of it including local fruits. hardly any if it left now. so much fun back then...playing in the woods while picking wild fruits and gathering firewoods. happiness is so cheap back then. now everything seems based on money...even for a kids.
Can roast coffee well in a toaster over btw. After roasting, beans begin gassing off co2 and taste horrible for at least a couple days. Some roasted beans take a week before they taste good and stay good for at least a week after that unless ground. Keep in mind that roasted coffee contains toxic acrylamide as a result of the Maillard reaction (caramelization) process it goes through during the roast. Instant coffee has the most acrylamide.
Maybe I'm just too entrepreneurial, but I don't see the big deal. He didn't force us to buy the thing and he got me to research something I would have never even thought to research. Actually, it's one of the more useful talks I've come across. I won't name and shame, but there are worse talks on this channel. I guess I'm 'the 1%', though, and I don't understand the trials and tribulations of 1st world people who watch free YT videos.
You're right. All TED talks are people looking to gain from their speech. He shouldn't have sold his product like that on stage, as you can tell from the comments he lost credibility. Give your talk, people look you up, find your product, and buy it or your business.
@caleb abbot He lost credibility not because he was trying to sell a product or idea but because the stuff he said wasn't credible...Like I'm sure he was "truthful" when he said The main source for antioxidants in the US is from coffee but what he doesn't address is the topic of IF coffee is the BEST source of antioxidants or even a good source??? Maybe this is why we are one of the most or the most unhealthy country? because we are mainly getting antioxidants from coffee which it doesn't have enough of to keep us healthy...and that's only one thing there's many other things he twisted a little...it's difficult to be unbiased about something you already enjoy...
@manictiger Was it useful because it helped you to look more objectively at things, or think about these talks from more than one angle? Hopefuly your research and critical thinking skills lead you to debunk different things he said...Yes I agree the tedx talks aren't as reliable as the ted talks but there are some here that should be regular ted talks.
@caleb abbot and this isn't a ted talk it's a tedX talk...they're different, the tedx ones are just local people holding ted like conferences they most likely don't travel all over the world and have like a "contest" where the winner gets to have a wish talk and a monetary prize etc...It's just local people who want to get together to share/spread ideas or concepts they've invented or discovered. The regular ted speakers are professors from like harvard or other ivy league universities overseas or research universities or are people even kids(geniuses) who have made really crazy/interesting inventions or discoveries and have decent science, clinical data or an actual original invention or concept to show or explain. This coffee thing isn't an original idea or concept, just because the US or other countries don't usually have this doesn't mean it's rare in other parts of the world, like he talked about other cultures doing this even ancient ones a few people here and there already do this...
If you found this informative, you may also be interested to know that One benefit to coffee is that it can increase mTOR, which can in turn increase autophagy! Autophagy helps get rid of old, dead cells in the body!
I have been roasting my own coffee for the last 12 years. When I travel abroad, I always buy my own green beans. I prefer beans from Ghana and Costa Rica. Some of the beans from the Philippines are delicious. It only takes some maximum of 9 minutes to roast 8 oz. If you roast 6 seconds too long you get Starbucks; Burned coffee that you have to flavor. It stinks like crazy when it's roasting. Smells like the house is burning down, but when that 8 hours of rest is complete, let the grinding begin. Nothing tastes and me aroma is so good is perfectly roasted coffee fresh daily.
I got the chance to live in South Kona for a while at a friend's coffee, banana, papaya plantation. I got to harvest & process my own coffee and learned how to do it from an old Hawaiian master. The roasting is the most important part & to never use roasted coffee after a week after roasting! Trouble is finding a roaster who will sell you unroasted beans!
His use of the terms "living " "alive" "dead" with regard to roasted coffee "beans" (seeds) is poetic and allegorical. And that's okay, as long as we understand that, I'm just saying I'm pretty sure such usage is not scientific. But, I'm very open to the idea that the chemical differences between stale and fresh could show up as profound biochemical differences when ingested, with the latter being vastly preferable . Very possible. Can't wait to try!
I love drinking coffee. I drank fresh, roasted coffee (immediately roasted) and canned coffee (usually Folgers Dark Roast). I honestly cannot tell the difference. They both taste great and they taste pretty much the same. Everyone has an opinion....
I saw this video ages ago and dismissed it. After stumbling across a coffee shop called mango bean i noticed they offered a roasting service. I ordered a bag and collected the next day. Boy was it so much stronger! I only had one double espresso i was buzzing until 8pm. No caffeine jitters or anything, lovely.
I had no idea and am so happy to learn these things about a food I and many others consume daily yet know nothing about. Where can we get unroasted coffee? I'll google but would like a trusted source. I want to give roasting a go, but I know I won't have time to do that on a regular basis, but I want to taste it! At the very least I"ll try some local niche coffee companies...
I love my old, stale, dead coffee. Seriously. I'm really happy with it. Mmmm hot old stale dead coffee with milk and artificial sweetener. No hipster salesman required.
Funny, I do too. No problem with some pre-ground Chock Full O' Nuts or Peet's or Folgers. But I also like locally roasted snooty hipster coffee too. It's all good! There's just something about the comforting flavor of good ol' Folgers Columbian made in a good ol' drip coffee maker. But there's also something special about grinding your own fresh beans and steeping them in a French press to savor all morning. Who cares. Coffee is delicious.
I disagree. I agree this is a commercial, i potentially agree that i don't want to see it, but i disagree with your conclusion. For one, this is TEDx, not TED. It's a franchise event, and they often struggle filling up the time, so they end up with commercials on the one hand and inexperienced grad students trying to conjure up some major life wisdom on the other. And there's one or two speakers in between who might actually be insightful or entertaining. Worse, speakers need to provide their own travel and accommodation, which means you get to spend a few grand to talk there, so while there may be potentially tens thousands of people who could lead an interesting talk, it's either those with close contacts and living in proximity to organizing body, or those who expect to gain money from it, that will be present. Indeed things that have worked for TED are not going to work just the same for a franchise event. Correspondingly, TED does not suffer from quite the same speaker quality issue as TEDx, as TED can actually choose good speakers in spite of the terrible incentive structure. For other, this video is 4 years old now, which i think when TED was the peak of the hype, but also when quality of TEDx hit rock bottom in my opinion. The conclusion that it keeps getting worse is thus unwarranted. Apropos incentive structure, i could sing you a very sad song about that, in particular with regard to scientific conferences, and its not even organisers' fault, but that's off topic here, obviously.
If you loved this presentation, you may also want to know that there's research out there saying that coffee makes heart and vessel disease (cardiovascular disease) worse because it raises LDL cholesterol, but that’s not the whole story! We now know that LDL particles can either be large and buoyant, or small and dense. When LDL particles are large and buoyant, they can help decrease risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). And coffee can transition LDL particles from small and dense to large and buoyant, decreasing CVD risk!
From instant home made coffee to cappuccino to Americano to Star Bucks expresso to my own brewing equipments. And now this??? Damn it I have to try this.
yes try it out I recommend getting green beans from Costa Rica there are websites out there called lens coffee they get the beans directly from Costa Rica now you also need a blender and or a Jack LaLanne food blender from the '90s an old Jack LaLanne blender in order to cut up the beans for a drip roast you need something like that. You're also going to need a popcorn maker.
I know this video is not very reliable, but thanks to it I started roasting my own coffee and I must say... I am so glad I watched this
My Videos wouldn't you say it was, in the spirit of TED, "an idea worth sharing" ?
Pak Kopi ya i would say so
Why all the negativity? This guy seems very passionate about this subject, and I think it's truly amazing.
I remember staying in my aunt's house when I was a child, and the smell of fresh roasted coffee that she use to roast in her backyard will stay with me forever, not of course to talk about the taste of fresh roasted coffee that by the way she had harvested from her own small coffee plantation! Wow! Thank you so much for the talk!
Gets off the boat , " This sucks ! ", " Yeah but they give all the SLAVES fresh roasted coffee.", "Sweet. Perks."
How can I join your coffee school?
He didnt forced us to buy, although some people see this as a marketing strategy, I see this as an additional information about coffee which is very useful to me. The point is, I learned something.
Every day's a school day.
You learned nothing because most things he says aren't true. For example, coffee isn't best 11 hours after roasting, it's somewhere between 1 and 8 weeks after roasting. But if I wanted to push a coffeebean roasting machine I'd say the same things he does.
If you truly want to learn about coffee than watch some James Hoffmann video's.
bro this is a sales pitch, not "ideas worth spreading"
Why did I have to wait 60 years to eventually find out the truth about coffee? Well, it is never too late! Thanks a lot. Very inspiring.
I have been roasting coffee for 20 years at home. Just a stove top popcorn popper and understanding the relationship between stove setting and temperature in the pan. A beautiful experience every time. I prefer a cowboy cup. 12 ounce cup, 1 standard scoop of ground coffee slightly rounded, and 10 ounces of just about boiling water.
I am blessed to live Puerto Rico then. We still grow, roast and locally consume coffee. I'm proud to work as a barista at a local coffee shop where we get the freshly roasted coffee directly from Jayuya, roasted in the last 24 hours and used within a week. Trust me, we puertoricans drink a lot of coffee! HAHAHA.
Have a local roaster here in NY... also lucky... Wish I could grow my own coffee beans... Greenhouse real estate is a bit pricey though.. :)
Wepa! The best!!
1 day old coffee beans are too fresh. Yes there is such a thing as too fresh for beans. I know coffee is subjective but there's gonna be way too much CO2 the first couple of days. If all you've had is a day old bean then I'm afraid you havent had a good tasting coffee even though you live so close to the farm. I'd suggest waiting a couple days and letting the beans degas. You'll be amazed at how great the coffee tastes once you let it degas.
@@TheFarmacySeedsNetworkI've lived in NY and let me tell you, you're not missing much. I live in Australia now so I'm spoiled for choices here but NY has amazing roasters that really know what they're doing. Regalia in Brooklyn and Villager in Prospect Heights were my favourite.
I had coffee from a plantation in Bali. They made it over a tin pan. They also made ginseng tea. It was phenomenal.
i see ...
I used to hang out at a coffee house where the coffee was fresh roasted on site. I spent a lot of time learning about the craft. This may appear to be a commercial, but it provides information that most people never hear about. I'm glad TED decided to allow this talk.
It is product advertising, but oh well....
To bad he did not talk more about the chemical changes coffee goes through when roasting.
@@TheEarthandyou I was intrigued by the 1,500 chemical reaction that took place in the body, when drinking coffee.
@@hookbeak3516 I think he meant 1,500 chemical reactions take place in the beans during the roasting.
There used to be an Iranian guy who had a very small coffee shop here in my town of Cotati california. He would daily roast is own coffee beans and then take his time brewing the most delicious cup of coffee I've ever had in my life. It was a sad day when he moved away. After watching this I'm going out to buy some beans and start roasting my own. I don't know why didn't think of it before
Here in Ethiopia , Coffee matured coffee beans from the plant collected ,dried in a natural sunlight. Then seeds removed from the fruit by pounding ,washing and then naturally dried in an open sunlight and air. Then stored in a sacks or containers for use as a coffee drink .If you want to drink coffee fresh,roast ,pound as a coffee powder, then boil water on demand , add coffee powdere on to the boil in a special tool called "JEBENA " which is traditionally clay made equipment that every household culturally have and using for coffee only. In this way coffee keeps its natural taste and good for using
Hi Asher, Thanks for the inspiring talk about coffee. I have grown up with coffee and watching my Father rost coffee in his factory in Redfern Sydney to supply restaurants and cafes, he had a coffee shop in Kings Cross in the late 1970s, My Aunty had one of the first Coffee Shop in Kings Cross in the mid-1960s. Back then Coffee was a bit of an unknown thing to have "real roasted Coffee out of a real espresso machine". I love your self coffee roaster and would love to find out more. I also love Bali and its people.
This is the kind of stuff that comes out of my mouth after a nice hot cup of coffee. The gentleman is well caffeinated.
People say it's an infomercial. I get that, but on the other hand....
Other people talk about their inventions on TED, why is this so different? It is because the invention is accessible? Also, he's empowering people to roast their own coffee, and he says there are many ways to do it. I think it's a great point that freshness is IMPORTANT, therefore worth pursuing. Freshness is still undervalued in the First World.
I don't have space for a machine like that in my house but bravo for designing a new machine, making this available for those who are interested.
Excellent video. I have one small suggestion. Espresso isn't a measure of "roast", it's a dark roast that is a "grind", a very fine grind. ALL coffee goes stale very quickly after grinding, but espresso moreso because it is so finely ground. The ultra fine grind gives much greater surface area, which goes stale much faster.
I've been roasting coffee since 2001 have 16 ounces a day. I did it because it tasted way better than anything I could buy and a lot less acid.
How do you roast the coffee?
By telling you mama's joke to the coffee beans
I'm sold. I am searching for green unroasted coffee beans right now and have plans of using my whirly pop popcorn maker to roast them. I can make popcorn without burning it. I already grind my own grain for making breads, I can't believe it never occurred to me to roast my own coffee beans.
I LOVE TED talks! Every presentation has the possibility of changing my life is some way.
Sweet maria's www.sweetmarias.com looks good to me
Don Slentz Thanks, I found some on Ebay from brazil and it arrived yesterday and of corse first thing I did was check out on here how to roast it and sweetmarias came up a lot. But today it the day I give it a shot, as soon as my daughter gives me 20 minuted uninterrupted, so maybe tonight.
Well I roasted my beans in my whirly pop popcorn maker and well I think I had the flame (I have a gas range) a little too high, I got a ton of smoke, smoked up the whole house, the whole place smelled like starbucks. But the beans were roasted in about 4 minutes and from what I have found out they were over roasted - HOWEVER I ground the beans and that was some GOOD coffer - I'll wait till it gets warmer so next time I can do it outside but I look forward to the coffee that I roast correctly.
I fully endorse home roasted coffee!
Tom Leeds YEah I got the smoke also - I believe the whole process is supposed to take 15-20 minutes... So I agree with your assessment, probably a little to high on the gas! LOL My second batch came out a little darker than my first - still quite tasty though - Need to get it darker still. I am using a WOK so I would expect it to take a little longer than your whirly pop.
Don Slentz
I am going to pick up a propane tank this weekend to cook them outside, but in the garage, it's about 10º in Chicago.
I roast my own coffee at home too in a $10 wok normally used for cooking fried rice. It's true, there is nothing equal to fresh roasted coffee. I've had a similar experience with the results of fresh roasted coffee as mentioned in the video and I've been doing this for years. It's as easy to make as rice.
+Mark Hefner Nice work Mark! Tasting is believing.
+Mark Hefner Where do you purchase fresh/raw coffee beans?
+mfgunit , there are a couple places. Hillcoff buys from the coffee farmers so sometimes I buy from them. Its about 250 baht per kg. If I buy from someone not as commercialized as Hillkoff then its cheaper.
I'm growing my own coffee trees now with hope of planting the seeds to grow my own trees but I've not been successful at that yet. I'll keep trying.
Mark Hefner where did u get the coffee trees
+Sphinx Hutc , I bought them from a friend in Chiang Mai who has a coffee business.
i like the way he throws the coffee cherries to the audience at 2:45. It is the same way i feed my chicken
hahahahahahaha lmoa. WTF yoo
@Patricia M hahahaha equally funny reply
Patricia M i'd feed your chicken if you pay me for it
LOL!
I thought that was funny too!
"I can tell by the way it feels in my body that there are so many health benefits to coffee that haven't been discovered yet"
lulwat?
Sounds scientific...
The words "superfood", "life" and "enlightenment" are red flags in an information session. They usually hint towards a network marketing business and/or an overpriced product.
Chupick Nicolas has
There are literally thousands of phyto-chemicals and anti-oxidants in coffee. The only food substance that comes close is cacao. Both are indeed "super-foods" if there is such a thing.
His pony tail and goatee should be the first clues that he is looking for a "goat".
000 001, james hoffman is that you? :P
Not to mention his anecdotal evidence.
wow. I work in coffee, am actually a coffee producer, cupper, exporter, importer, roaster ocasionally... I have two things to say about this:
1) coffee is alive before you roast it, and DIES WHEN YOU ROAST IT. its basic biology, living beings have a temperature range at which they can survive. His concept is backwards. It is because THE COFFEE JUST DIED that the shelf life is not more than a week (for totally fresh and best results... this I agree with).
2) Not just anyone can roast coffee. the machine he built means nothing without GOOD COFFEE. there are ways of grading coffe and certain altitudes and climates certainly yield better or worse coffees. You cannot ever claim that all coffee is the same, and actually you cannot keep the coffee for years as long as you don't roast it like he says. Within grading INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS you can taste when coffee is old, and that happens at around 6-12 months. This is greatly affected by packaging method, and contrary to his explanations... it does work. both on the pre roast coffee, and the roasted coffee. he is assuming that the coffee is as good if you leave it outside of a container as well as it would be if it was inside the container. totally false. the fridge thing is true, better out than in...
I guess its more than 2 things...
also TED come on. this is a cheap infomercial with shady logic and data... who approves this?
Abba Okoro the entire presentation was oriented around promoting his coffee roaster.
el Padresuerte Completely agree with your second point sir. There are a hundred factors that make the difference between different green bean coffees. Geography zone ( LAtin american? African? Asian PAcific?) different altitudes ( is it an arabica grown at 6000 feet elevation or a robusta at 1000?) , rich or poor soil, access to light, and sun exposure, cool nights, use or not of pesticides, etc etc . A hundred ways you can make or break a coffee bean, way before its arrival at the plant. You can roast most of the Vietnamese coffee beans to perfection, and it would still make for a very poor cup of coffee, given how about 90% of their coffee production is robusta beans.
Abba Okoro Of course. That's just a throw-away comment to get people focused on how easy it is. People don't typically roast their own coffee. He needs to first convince you that doing so makes sense. Saying that it is simple is a great way to do that. But if that were really an adequate approach, there'd be no need for his machine.
No, I answered your question directly with an "Of course." That's all your question asked for and you got a direct answer.
You didn't ask for a reason, but I gave reason anyway why his 75 cent roaster doesn't get in the way of the goals of his commercial endeavor. You may want to consider that merely my opinion, but it is no more so than your insinuation that his description of a 75 cent roaster would make the talk not an infomercial.
el Padresuerte you obviously do not understand what I am talking about. When coffee is roasted over 1,000 chemical compounds are created and many of these are in the form of gases, this is what I am referring to as "Alive", active chemical compounds that are activated and create during roasting. Without roasting, nothing, dormant.
I am not claiming that all coffee is the same. I only use 100% Arabica coffee, Robusta is inferior and only used because it's cheap and delivers 2x the caffeine which is actually an overdose for most people's nervous system and leads to the jitters and nervousness. Different coffee plantations process their coffee in different ways and this makes a big difference in the quality of the coffee. My point is that along the entire chain of creating coffee "From the Cherry to the Cup", the most significant and overlooked aspect is the time period between when the coffee is roasted and when the coffee is consumed. This is my main focus and what this talk was all about.
I can teach at the coffee university. This video is golden. 😻😽🤲🏾🪔🪔🪔🇹🇹🍵🙎🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💓
This video changed my life, even though I won't need the equipment for roasting my own coffee. I can taste, smell and feel the difference between the dead and freshly roasted and ground coffee. Many thanks!
This guy hit the nail on the head. Coffee has to be freshly roasted and ground, and consumed without storing the powder. We at home ( south India) have been roasting our coffee in an ordinary cast iron frying pan, and grinding it after about two hours. We do roast and grind what we need for the day, and no more. This is what we have been doing for years, many years- learned from our parents forty years ago.
We do not need any fancy roasting machines.
We grind it rather coarse, since we use filter to make decoction.
What coffee we use is a matter of taste, cultivated over the years. We use a blend of Peaberry/Plantation A ( 10/90%). We also have a mix of Arabica/Robusta ( 80/20%)
Sadly, quality of coffee has declined in recent years. Also, organic seeds are not easy to get.
@R Nanjappa, if you could share some video of local production process?
@@aliabbas48 I never thought of taking any video, as we just did it daily! There was one Panchami Iyer in Kumbakonam town ( Tanjore Dist, Tamil Nadu) who invented a special process of making coffee. He selected the seeds, and mixed them ( the proportion was his secret); he roasted them slowly in an earthen pot, in small lots, over a slowly burning wood stove personally, and ground them in a hand-grinding machine and made the decoction using a brass filter. South Indians like their coffee with milk and sugar. So, he had his own cows, which were milked twice a day. This milk was heated ( not boiled) in small lots to make the required amount of coffee, and it was not reheated. Thus he served a unique brand of coffee in his restaurant, to the delight of the whole town and it came to be known as "Kumbakonam Degree Coffee". This was in the good old 50s &60s. I am a coffee addict, and like a good article on coffee, as much as the coffee itself. I liked your presentation. Thank you.
Thank you.
A cast iron coffee roasting pan.
Ha
He could have sold those also 😁
I am not a coffee eater,
I drink green tea ( the real leafs) ,mostly
But, occasionally I enjoy coffee ☕:
I beat the coffee beans in pistle&mortars
Coarsely, and filter out the decoction through sieve.
No milk( I am vegan)
@@nanjappa42 there is nothing like peaberry coffee 💗
Saudi Arabic coffee is the best,most natural. When we want to make our Arabic coffee, we roast coffee beans till they'll brown (only brown, not burnt black like how Westerners roast or burn ;) their coffee ). Then we grind the coffee, and make it.
Try our natural, roasted not burnt, Arabic coffee. (a very small amount of spices are added,too, just to give the fresh coffee a "hint" of these spices. Also we don't add sugar to our coffee, but drink it while eating something sweet; traditionally while eating dates).
Salaam Aliakum to all from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (and thank you from uploading the video BTW).
I would but your country abuses women so I have no intention of visiting to try the coffee. Come back when you stop abusing women.
Leggo My Ego well USA abuses everyone....and kills anyone they like under the NDAA (National Defence Authorisation Act) at least the Saudi's keep there abuse of people limited to there own citizens. USA imposes its laws on citizens of other countries.......imagine if Saudi Arabia did that....it would be off with his head hahahah
mee too....im tired of my taxes going to pay for endless wars and paying other countries basicly bribing to keep them on side
This is how coffee should be roasted. Ethiopians have been doing this ever since they have discovered coffee.
Leggo My Ego Dude....your country still locks up many Native Americans (men,women and children) in concentration camps' like conditions Reservation ! So , don't give other societies you're typical American shitty "holier than thou" attitude!`
All you need to roast coffee is a 75c pan, invents another roasting machine....
It is about the source of heat, too;-)
He designed a cheaper roaster so the masses to enjoy the best if they're willing to visit a local cafe. A 75c pan is fine at home.
A baking pan is all I need. 😉
inlakesh555, which type is best?
Now I'm disappointed in TED,
This should have been reviewed before aired
I learned something as I always do from every Tedx, but this definitely felt like listening to a traveling merchant presenting at Costco.
Trish Simmons 'y%fzo
No you have listened to a Coffee Snake oil Salesman !
Walks in to this Tedx, immediately reads this top comment.
Proceeds to immediately walk out.
Thanks for saving me the time :)
Yeah, either that or a really long Shark Tank demo.
oy. the sales pitch
9:32 That is really attractive. As an artist I understand this completely. Bravo to your ingenuity and confidence.
i thought this was going to be about how bad coffee is for me ... whew! i wasn't ready to quit...
ikr!
All I can say is I was a two pot-per-day drinker, when they started using a harsh poison on their trees, then i had to quit drinking it. There were rumors of a ban, but my bladder still cant take it anymore. Not even the so-called "organic". Maybe it's me. Cleanses help.
I looked for this comment before watching, but he still turned me off with the hyperbole
Coffee get the liver to make sugar and realese it to the blood and this cause insulin surge to be released by the pancreas ..the result is hunger and weight gain ! you want to lose weight? no coffee , no tea ....no caffeine! ....coffee and teas are a drug !( caffeine )
@@MikaelVitalyVyacheslav-bh2fk Does this still happen with Decaff though? Well I still lost weight without expecting it and having around 2000 calories a day.
This feels more like an infomercial than a TED talk.
most of them are like that ... its only a matter of time before they cave in and have a grammar ad before a ted talk on grammar
junk can
I AGREE
A TED talker with a vested interest in what they are talking about, who manipulates information labelled as "research" for their own financial gain. Just watched an 11 minute infomercial How sad.
I missed any information. I thought he failed to substantiate nutrient and freshness claims. As for taste claims; he's one person against many: drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/12/why-you-shouldnt-roast-coffee-at-home-pros-cons-green-coffee-roasting-kit.html Keeping monks awake isn't good for their health. 'Intakes of caffeine in amounts >300 mg/d (≈514 g, or 18 oz, brewed coffee) accelerate bone loss at the spine in elderly postmenopausal women. Furthermore, women with the tt genetic variant of VDR appear to be at a greater risk for this deleterious effect of caffeine on bone.' -ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/694.short - I agree when you say 'how sad'!
mad thumbs "About the Author: Nicholas Cho is the co-founder of Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters in San Francisco"
This author may be advising this because he doesn't want to lose business.
I agree that he failed to back his claims, and I'm still not convinced, honestly.
Nick of the Roberts I wouldn't go that far. Sounds more like he's saying "roast coffee if you really want to, but be aware that it's probably not worth the hassle unless you're really into it".
It's a reasonable viewpoint for most people. If on the other hand you're the kind of person that spends thousands of dollars on home espresso equipment... well.
gogerychwyrndrobwll
Did we watch the same video? He was calling our coffee dead, stale, and really ragging on it. Then he went on about fresh roasted as if he were a religious nut, or a panacea peddler. This guy is a scam artist in the likes of Kevin Trudeau.
mad thumbs I'm talking about the author of the blog post you linked to in your first comment, not the video guy.
The video guy is... eh. Shall we say he has a vested interest and leave it at that.
The guy isnt selling coffee or selling his machine he made, hes just stating its better for the body when its not so old. He had no research to go with it but common sense would say just cooked is better. The key thing hes going on - Just roasted a few days ago and wow it taste really good and maybe it did make him more alert who knows. Try it.
I was thinking the same while listening to his talk
May be he is selling unroasted coffee
He kinda had data when he said the "fresh" felt very different in his body. "Fresh is better" is probably true for coffee as it is for everything else.
Fresh is not necessarily the best in everything. Wine and Cheese are a few out of many examples you can find out there.
@@RafTube1 Fresh is not necessarily the best in everything. Wine and Cheese are a few out of many examples you can find out there.
Excellent presentation. I've been home roasting for 8 years now. One point I think should be made: certain coffees, after roasting, need a few days before they reach their peak flavor, particularly coffee from Yemen--my favorite!
We always had fresh coffee roasted and those who prepared it did it twice a week.they had roasters for coffee and chickpeas and all the other nuts like almonds .this was as far back as 40 years ago.Those who did roasting had many years of experience say like from the young age they will start working in those shops.it's not about your machine its how you roast your coffee.EXPERIENCE.☺
It is so simple to cook your own raw coffee beans as I learned many years ago whilst teaching in Sarawak. All you need is a wok, moderately hot heat and a little time. We take time for cooking food, why not do the same once a week for our favourite cuppa. And just as your first BBQ burger might not have been your best, practice does make perfect.
(I haven’t tried the popcorn popper but will. Sounds intriguing.)
Namaste and care,
mhikl
The entire video is that in order to have the best coffee, you need heat to roast it. We've done this in our family since forever and he's right, it's the best tasting coffee ever. When we came to the US, my mom would always roast the beans on Saturday mornings and we would grind them in an old world grinder. The house was always smoking because we had nowhere outside to do it. But strangely, neighbors would stop by "just to say hello" and of course my parents would offer coffee.
Love this guys passion. The thing is, this stale dead coffee is STILL very potent. I wouldnt want it any stronger.
I am Ethiopian from the birth place of coffee, and to hear this guy as an expert ? He didn’t even mention the history and origins of coffee and how the natives are roasting every single day . I do!! He was selling his machine!
About 15 years ago I discovered home roasting for myself, and have never looked back. I started with the hot air popcorn popper, but that eventually burned out. Then I made my own 1 pound drum roaster for my propane grill.... I hand crank it, and use that 15 minutes to relax and read a bit, while enjoying the smell of the coffee roasting. On the rare occasion that run out of my own roast, I'll buy some roasted beans, and I'm reminded how much better I like my fresh roast. I tend to roast a pound about every 2 weeks, and yeah.... that's about the end of the life cycle.... 2 weeks. This was a good talk, and no it was not an infomercial, because he never promoted his product by name.... he just said, "Hey, look what I did!".... Many TED talkers are promoting themselves in some way.
Hey Miro. So when it’s on the bbq you have to have a drum and roster it to keep it moving?
You say you like your fresh roast much better than what you can buy pre-roasted, but has it made a significant difference in your health and state of mind over the past 15 years? If the answer is 'yes', then I'm very interested to try it. I imagine it would only take a few minutes every other day with the popcorn popper method, so no great amount of time or money need be expended.
This is pretty neat! And having had roasted my own coffee and brewed via cold press, let me tell you: it is truly wonderful.
My grandmother in Ecuador would roast coffee in the kitchen oven. No fancy gadgets, no expensive gimmicks. Great coffee.
I never thought about roasting my own coffee. Something I learned from this even though he was selling his own products.
Bman Singer you have to try, mine mother did and that was coffe. Ordinary oven do job to!
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Cannot love this enough!
Thank you!
My journey has begun…
I have ADHD, and my parents were ... I started drinking coffee as a toddler, and coffee probably saved me, from things being much worse.
❤️coffee.
I too have ADHD and coffee helped me from age 11 to 15, but I was blessed with a bad case of cyclothymia at 15 and the caffeine exacerbated it into very long cycles of depression below my baseline. I have fought bipolar and cyclothymia coming up on 40 years now. Only Lamictal (Lamotragine) has helped. My insurance doesn't cover Enlite (unwrapped vitamins), or frontal cortex magnetic therapy, which is insanely overpriced considering it's just a machine that puts out a magnetic field through a handheld wand.
paulj0557 dang. Bipolar is really tough. Have you learned about amino acids and brain chemistry?
"They are not beans they are seeds."
BEAN: a seed or pod of any of these plants; any of several related plants or their seeds or pods.
Scientifically, beans are the seeds of LEGUMES. Coffee is not in the legume family, so he is correct from a taxonomic perspective . Informally, the word "bean" does have more flexible usage beyond the legume family, such as in our example here, "coffee bean". Now, if someone disagrees with me about all this I might want to bean them (but I won't).
Strictly speaking botanically,
coffee ' bean ' is a berry .
I hate coffee but this guy has changed my perspective. I am determined to try the freshly roasted variation
Growing up in Jamaica years ago, we didn't know about stale coffee or stale cocoa. we usually just make them from fresh beans at or near the time when we wanted them. Chocolates could be stored for a while but it never seemed necessary to have prepared coffee for more than a week. I believe that this video is in perfect sync with the coffee culture I know. Strangely too, all those people that I knew who used to live so long in Jamaica were usually coffee lovers. I remember so many old folks who were at age 100 to 114 years. One man in particular was 119. Another did not know his own age when he came to our village. People surmised that he was about 70. At some point someone managed to obtain his birth certificate and he learned that he was ninety nine. Two years later he fathered a son. He die about nine years later. There were a few who got so old that we would have to put them out to sit in the sun sometimes. I believe these ones were not able to naturally keep themselves warm. We used to say we were 'sunning' them. These people had great stories to tell. They were never ill for long before dying. Most died when they were still able to 'help themselves' doing ordinary stuff. They would call the folks around to say they were 'tired'. They would go soon after wards. Things has changed. I wonder if bad coffee is to blame...
Wow, what an amazing story..!
Thanks for your sharing your expierence.
You should make an TEDx talk, really !
I couldn't agree with you more !!! Pure Sumatra and grind what you drink and NEVER PERCOLATOR !!!
I thinking growing a patch in the mountains.
Wow, I love this story! Can you share another one. I am so bored in this house. Darn Covid! LOL
Once as a child I had a cup of coffee and its taste was, for lack of a more accurate term, HEAVENLY. Never again have I tasted ANYTHING like it. I read elsewhere that peolple's taste buds lose their sensitivity with age, so I'm finally at peace with the probability that I will never experience that particular heavenly tasting coffee again.
Thank you! I'll do that! Hope always dies last.
I recently cut off my pony tail. Suddenly, my mind cleared and my I.Q increased about 30 points. I also stopped bullshitting people. I became a better person.
Impressive you deserve a cup of coffee
I like pony tails...well I hope it grows back soon...........better+? , that would be BS!....just release ego the rest will follow, maybe a sense of humor too
Perhaps you were concerned what people see when they look under a pony tail. 😉
@@dino8205 perhaps...but having not a tail of any sort nor a pony I and you should see no connection at all except the one you imagined suspected posing as a concern when ........void presents itself to you you have a need to fill with imagination
Ric B great comment!
Thank you so much for speaking on this.
I used a rotisserie to roast out of my garage, and always instructed my recipients to consume within one week, after doing extensive research finding the same results.
I was on a quest to find that perfect cup as well. 1997 marked the introduction to my first delicious taste from a friend who acquired fresh Honduran coffee and did a pour-over through a simple sieve at the kitchen sink (which shocked me!). I was never able to reproduce the same flavors until I roasted my own Honduran coffee in 2008.
Also, regarding the 'infomercial' and 'ponytail' or other derogatory comments, I'd like to give a comment as well:
Asher Yaron's fantastic! His love for the craft, willingness to do the research, excitement to share his knowledge, and effort to bring valuable health information to the world through a TEDx Talk is noteworthy, and it helps the coffee industry to improve their standards. I appreciate the effort and boldness to speak, and understand the enthusiasm to create small-batch roasting products so more people can enjoy the benefits. Following his passion and making a profitable business is wonderful!
It definately felt infomercial’ish which isn’t normally (as far as I have experienced..) allowed/TED talk normal stuff … normally I guess speakers would say ‘I have made my own way of roasting which you can go away and research’ (or similar..:-) … and, it made me want to roast coffee & his enthusiasm, passion, knowledge & eloqence was infectious so honestly, I’m happy regardless - great talk - haven’t read any of the other comments (wouldn’t want to..) about anything else. If people have spoken about his gentleman’s hair, makes me wonder, judgement on cultures is racism; judgment on a physical aspect someone has is still judgement - where is the line drawn that negative judgement is ok? Judgement of a disability? (Not a choice…) judgement of obesity (95% of the time a choice…) c’mon guys. Anyhow! Top talk thanks!
I'll add that he's living in bali living a great life
Hello dear, how are you doing? Nice meeting you here
Fuck the criticisms. I just recently fell in love with coffee at 27 years old and enjoy home brewing my cup of coffee but this guy just blew my mind and enlightened me.
I remember loving the coffee from the Pueblo(My mothers hometown) and this video reminded me why.
+JayAuraFitness You can love coffee and not appreciate his strategy all at the same time!
Best sales pitch I’ve seen in my life
Better than Sham Wow?! 😆
Absolutely, because the guy isn't selling what somebody else has made or discovered, no it's his own discovery and revealing the fact on what coffee can really taste like is his evangely as somebody said. Cool, he's an original and that you won't find in a shopping mall..
And very nice with a coffee enlightenment - fresh roasted organic Arabic coffee sounds great - and fine with an affordable freshly roasted coffee that any coffeeshops can afford - but something very simple for everyday life in our families would be even more helpfull 😊🎵💚🎶♥️🎵🎶
This is not a TED talk, it"s an infomercial for this guys coffee roaster....
Clicked because it's TEDxUbud and I drink 3 cups of coffee every day. I just care about better taste coffee.
Wow, what a powerful presentation. And what a magnificent bamboo hall. Never been to Bali but it makes me want to go there...
Bali is amazing and us Australian’s visit regularly .. Ubud is worth visiting - try the Luwak coffee on site in Ubud - also do some research on Luwak coffee .. (talked about on 🎥 bucket list) ..
Ubud has an incredible energy about it.. hopefully you get to visit..
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TedTalks needs to raise the bar for presentations; seriously. I'm watching it slip away.
I think it's the price of success. They became hugely popular, and tons of people wanted to talk at them, which really diluted the field, especially when the TEDx talks started. Now anyone can start a conference and call it TEDx and allow almost anything they want.
At an official TED talk, for example, they have rules against this blatant, shameless self-promotion.
BlueEyedSexyPants A TED talk ticket used to be 300.000$ what the fuck is this free2watch shit
I haven't heard your presentation, is that because the bar has been raised to high, or because you do not have anything important to say? I do not believe that either of those reasons are true, however there is a difference between being a critical thinker and a critic. Once you discover that difference, I would love to hear your presentation on that topic.
ted to me is pretty sucky. not real. slicky. commercial.
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I had the Luwak coffee in Ubud ~ Bali ~ amazing !! I enjoy a French press coffee every morning .. thank you - this video is very interesting.. 🦘🦘🇦🇺 ☕️
Wow! A good salesman, he's left me drooling for a coffee. (ANY coffee, even instant ...)
Thanks Asher... it was a nice talk.
You could have saved yourselves a lot of headaches anyway just by taking a quick trip to Italy with a fraction of the cost of the espresso machine: just walk around a neighbourhood and ask where the local "Torrefazione" is... there is where the coffee is roasted and sold... people go there to buy their coffee. You can nowadays buy it also in capsules and it is amazing to realize that a 50 euro machine can brew a wonderful espresso, given the good freshly roasted coffee is used.
Yes... marketing and media are brainwashing people in believing that the coffee you can find in supermarkets is the good one... but is enough to walk near the local neighbourhood torrefazione to realize how things really are...
Ciao!
Right on! And this is the sort of thing being killed by the Amazons of the world, the Wal-Marts, etc. Our lifestyle takes us ever farther from Nature, wherein lies the greatest natural health.
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Seems like plenty of judgement by the comments I read here. Whats wrong with the information update on the coffee. It was nice to see this guys invention and I look forward to seeing a new coffee out there available for us to indulge. Thanks Asher I enjoyed your findings & I appreciate your sharing your invention. :)
What is wrong is that it is misleading and contains very little scientific fact. This doesn't mean it isn't cool or useful. The premise is an informational/educational talk not an advertisement using manipulation of an "educational talk".
In my experience, when you've gone say 30 +/- hours w/ out sleep, then Coffee has a Reverse Effect ! It helps you go to sleep ! Try it some time !
After many years of drinking coffee it now no longer has an effect on me and I'm soooo sad!
thank u man. took 10 yrs for this video to find me.
i will brew meself a nice cup of instant coffee 😋
Great! We grew up on fresh coffee , thanks my grandmother! Atleast he is talking about coffee, not about himself 👍
In my case I started with an induction cooktop and a pan. That was good. Then I looked around for more automated methods - settled on a West Bend Stir Crazy popcorn appliance. Figured out the timing as to what color I like the beans - I go just before dark roast. It's awesome and as he says you can use whatever you're comfortable with - in my case I'm in $62.97 in equipment consisting of a French Press, the Stir Crazy and a Burr grinder. And I've been evangelizing on it too.
kd1s I’m going to now search you up in hope of finding a video of you making coffee
Dang it, i just got rid of my old Stir Crazy. Thank you for your reply- great idea
Hm. It started of pretty cool. I just wished he would not have let the talk end with a sales approach.
I thought so too, this didn't turn out very mystical or spiritual after all xD It's cool and interesting that fresh roasted coffee tastes better, but the enlightment premise wasn't quite met. Well, I'm a tea drinker anyway ^^
The Guy's absolutely right. I've been roasting my own coffee for 8+ years. It really does make all the difference. But ya certainly don't need a big Heath Robinson contraption like that. A popcorn popper works like a charm, As soon as second crack starts tip into a metal collender and pour between another one or matal pan, to cease the roasting as quickly as possible. Small batches but it only takes about 3 mins a batch so it's easy to do 8 or 10 batches, depending on how much you drink in a week. But you really need a decent quality machine and a good bur grinder. Certainly to get the best out of it.
Green beans are very easily sourced on the internet. Especially for you yanks. And they don't incur any VAT here in the UK until roasted.
this is how I learned to roast it too. Works like a charm, the only downside is the smell of roasting coffee is not that pleasant. So good ventilation is key, if you have a stove with an exterior venting fan you won't stink up the house too much, or perhaps a long extension cord to your air popper on an exterior porch.
Some negative comments on hear but as a coffee lover I found it informative and entertaining 👌
If you found this video informative, you may also want to know that Research shows that coffee can help with mental alertness, type 2 diabetes, weight loss, Parkinon’s, prevention of cardiovascular disease, and may prevent gallbladder disease!
Thank you so much for such a true enlightenment. I just love coffee but always felt there was smth wrong with that commercial idea
Coffee needs to rest after roasting for 2-3 days so it can off gas and open up. Otherwise the taste is not as present. And when brewing espresso I found the coffee to be fine from day 3-4 depending on the coffee you have but is most often best from day 7-12.
Stefan Sigfinnsson Thank you
Stefan Sigfinnsson Absolutely right. Why? Because the gas will interfere with the water's ability to act as a solvent on the coffee. What you end up with is an uneven cup of coffee with too much crema.
Stefan Sigfinnsson Sorry Stefan, I totally disagree. Coffee starts deteriorating immediately after roasting. I have actually changed my views about this and think that coffee only needs to cool to room temp after roasting and needs NO rest time!
8 years ago the industry used to think 2-3 weeks was the appropriate rest time....now that time frame has been cut drastically as people are waking up to the understanding that fresh is best. The current leading edge specialty coffee creators like The Roasting Plant, roastingplant.com/
guarantee that their coffee is not older than 48 hours after roasting. So what happened to 2 weeks? How about 1 week?
You need to do the tests and it is difficult and time consuming to do because you need at least a 2 group Espresso machine, and 2 separate grinders calibrated perfectly. I have the equipment and I have done the tests comparing just roasted coffee to coffee that has been sitting 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 16 hours, 20 hours, etc., etc. And I have not been the only one doing the tasting. I have worked with professional Sommeliers (wine tasting experts) and we have done the tests blind. Same results every time........fresh is best!
I happened to have some unroasted coffee beans when I watched this video the first time, and threw them in an old popcorn pump. They turned out great! I'm no coffee connoisseur but a popcorn pump seems a lot more efficient than spending $150 on a roasting machine. Even if everything this guy says is true, where does the average joe buy green coffee beans without spending more money than the roaster is worth? By the way, there were a few useful comments below! Thank you for your inputs!
Go to your local farmers market or Ethiopian Makato
@@letstargaze I've never seen unroasted coffee beans at any farmers markets in upstate NY, but maybe they're at farmers markets that I don't know about. Thanks @bilal jahi.
Thanks you are hilarious I'm so going to spoof this. 😂😂😂 This is not a normal TED talk it's like TED talk needed to take an infomercial break.
You mean a - coffee break!
I know that he comes off as pitchy about it and offers a product, but in the end of the day, he's right. I've been roasting my own coffee for a while and it makes a big difference. I think that he just wanted to take that extra step and provide you with the option to buy a solution rather than just inform you and leave it at that.
How do you roast yours?
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Sita Rainbow I use a regular frying pan or pot and stir for 15 to 20 minutes
Thank you. Do you use any oil, or just dry fry? I want to try this. :)
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Sita Rainbow just do it dry. you don't need oil to roast coffee
Adam, you are so kind to share with me, here. I really appreciate it! Can hardly wait to find some great organic beans to roast :)
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I lived the first 49 years of my life without drinking coffee and had white teeth clear skin and coffee was not a get out of bed early and then sit to drink coffee. We have natural energy to get up and go without coffee.
Coffee is an important part of so many of our lives... Bravo... Loved this dudes presentation...
yes because you are stupid enough
I've ordered my green beans online and roasted them in a wok outside. The next day, I ground them and, it took only the one single sip. To almost faint. How good it was. :)
thanks for the post ..
It is rare and actually risky...
Will Budic Great! Enjoy your coffee!
Will Budic You roasted your green beans? Did you add them as a side dish to your mashed potatoes & steak?
***** No. For my weeks supply, it takes to roast no more than 8 minutes in a wok in the garden. Some eat coffee though. I heard. :)
I have some revolutionary knives that are sharpened just like the ancient Aztecs would sharpen them! It'll make your tacos 100x more delicious.
Ha ha ha, I think you just burnt his coffee beans (errr seeds)!
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I love your comment!
Realllyyy?
;-) it also depends on the moon, don't forget
there used to be a lot of coffee trees here in bali back when I was a child. I remember chewing them like a candi and give what left of it toy grandma so she could dry it in sun heat. its my parents generations that cut almost all of it including local fruits. hardly any if it left now.
so much fun back then...playing in the woods while picking wild fruits and gathering firewoods.
happiness is so cheap back then. now everything seems based on money...even for a kids.
Can roast coffee well in a toaster over btw. After roasting, beans begin gassing off co2 and taste horrible for at least a couple days. Some roasted beans take a week before they taste good and stay good for at least a week after that unless ground. Keep in mind that roasted coffee contains toxic acrylamide as a result of the Maillard reaction (caramelization) process it goes through during the roast. Instant coffee has the most acrylamide.
Maybe I'm just too entrepreneurial, but I don't see the big deal.
He didn't force us to buy the thing and he got me to research something I would have never even thought to research.
Actually, it's one of the more useful talks I've come across.
I won't name and shame, but there are worse talks on this channel.
I guess I'm 'the 1%', though, and I don't understand the trials and tribulations of 1st world people who watch free YT videos.
+manictiger I agree, and I like coffee.
You're right. All TED talks are people looking to gain from their speech. He shouldn't have sold his product like that on stage, as you can tell from the comments he lost credibility. Give your talk, people look you up, find your product, and buy it or your business.
@caleb abbot He lost credibility not because he was trying to sell a product or idea but because the stuff he said wasn't credible...Like I'm sure he was "truthful" when he said The main source for antioxidants in the US is from coffee but what he doesn't address is the topic of IF coffee is the BEST source of antioxidants or even a good source??? Maybe this is why we are one of the most or the most unhealthy country? because we are mainly getting antioxidants from coffee which it doesn't have enough of to keep us healthy...and that's only one thing there's many other things he twisted a little...it's difficult to be unbiased about something you already enjoy...
@manictiger Was it useful because it helped you to look more objectively at things, or think about these talks from more than one angle? Hopefuly your research and critical thinking skills lead you to debunk different things he said...Yes I agree the tedx talks aren't as reliable as the ted talks but there are some here that should be regular ted talks.
@caleb abbot and this isn't a ted talk it's a tedX talk...they're different, the tedx ones are just local people holding ted like conferences they most likely don't travel all over the world and have like a "contest" where the winner gets to have a wish talk and a monetary prize etc...It's just local people who want to get together to share/spread ideas or concepts they've invented or discovered. The regular ted speakers are professors from like harvard or other ivy league universities overseas or research universities or are people even kids(geniuses) who have made really crazy/interesting inventions or discoveries and have decent science, clinical data or an actual original invention or concept to show or explain. This coffee thing isn't an original idea or concept, just because the US or other countries don't usually have this doesn't mean it's rare in other parts of the world, like he talked about other cultures doing this even ancient ones a few people here and there already do this...
This is the talk on coffee I needed to listen to. Thank you for your passion. You lighten the world.
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@@OswaldDigestiveClinic What if you can't handle caffeine and need it de-caf? Any hope for us?
I have been roasting my own coffee for the last 12 years. When I travel abroad, I always buy my own green beans. I prefer beans from Ghana and Costa Rica. Some of the beans from the Philippines are delicious. It only takes some maximum of 9 minutes to roast 8 oz. If you roast 6 seconds too long you get Starbucks; Burned coffee that you have to flavor. It stinks like crazy when it's roasting. Smells like the house is burning down, but when that 8 hours of rest is complete, let the grinding begin. Nothing tastes and me aroma is so good is perfectly roasted coffee fresh daily.
I got the chance to live in South Kona for a while at a friend's coffee, banana, papaya plantation. I got to harvest & process my own coffee and learned how to do it from an old Hawaiian master. The roasting is the most important part & to never use roasted coffee after a week after roasting! Trouble is finding a roaster who will sell you unroasted beans!
His use of the terms "living " "alive" "dead" with regard to roasted coffee "beans" (seeds) is poetic and allegorical. And that's okay, as long as we understand that, I'm just saying I'm pretty sure such usage is not scientific. But, I'm very open to the idea that the chemical differences between stale and fresh could show up as profound biochemical differences when ingested, with the latter being vastly preferable . Very possible. Can't wait to try!
I love drinking coffee. I drank fresh, roasted coffee (immediately roasted) and canned coffee (usually Folgers Dark Roast). I honestly cannot tell the difference. They both taste great and they taste pretty much the same. Everyone has an opinion....
I saw this video ages ago and dismissed it. After stumbling across a coffee shop called mango bean i noticed they offered a roasting service. I ordered a bag and collected the next day. Boy was it so much stronger! I only had one double espresso i was buzzing until 8pm. No caffeine jitters or anything, lovely.
Once you go fresh roasted you never go back!
Wow, this turned into a sales pitch pretty quick.
I can´t believe this is a Ted talk. This is just a simple commercia to mel!!
I had no idea and am so happy to learn these things about a food I and many others consume daily yet know nothing about. Where can we get unroasted coffee? I'll google but would like a trusted source. I want to give roasting a go, but I know I won't have time to do that on a regular basis, but I want to taste it! At the very least I"ll try some local niche coffee companies...
I love my old, stale, dead coffee. Seriously. I'm really happy with it. Mmmm hot old stale dead coffee with milk and artificial sweetener. No hipster salesman required.
Funny, I do too. No problem with some pre-ground Chock Full O' Nuts or Peet's or Folgers. But I also like locally roasted snooty hipster coffee too. It's all good! There's just something about the comforting flavor of good ol' Folgers Columbian made in a good ol' drip coffee maker. But there's also something special about grinding your own fresh beans and steeping them in a French press to savor all morning. Who cares. Coffee is delicious.
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I can dig it.
YoYO Semite That stuff is disgusting, doesn't taste like coffee
Anything roasted can not be considered living.
Haha too true.. Lol
boy, ted talks have turned into late night infomercials.
The Coffee Tony Robbins of our time selling the dream.
Mountains of praises would never suffice the creator of me and coffee !
This guy is a saint to all Americans for pandering to our refusal to go metric
this is just a long commercial for his roasting machine. ted is going down the drain.
another sales pitch aiming for the wallet
I disagree. I agree this is a commercial, i potentially agree that i don't want to see it, but i disagree with your conclusion.
For one, this is TEDx, not TED. It's a franchise event, and they often struggle filling up the time, so they end up with commercials on the one hand and inexperienced grad students trying to conjure up some major life wisdom on the other. And there's one or two speakers in between who might actually be insightful or entertaining. Worse, speakers need to provide their own travel and accommodation, which means you get to spend a few grand to talk there, so while there may be potentially tens thousands of people who could lead an interesting talk, it's either those with close contacts and living in proximity to organizing body, or those who expect to gain money from it, that will be present. Indeed things that have worked for TED are not going to work just the same for a franchise event. Correspondingly, TED does not suffer from quite the same speaker quality issue as TEDx, as TED can actually choose good speakers in spite of the terrible incentive structure.
For other, this video is 4 years old now, which i think when TED was the peak of the hype, but also when quality of TEDx hit rock bottom in my opinion. The conclusion that it keeps getting worse is thus unwarranted.
Apropos incentive structure, i could sing you a very sad song about that, in particular with regard to scientific conferences, and its not even organisers' fault, but that's off topic here, obviously.
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coffee talk, anyone
Thank you for your passion and amazing coffee presentation:)
If you loved this presentation, you may also want to know that there's research out there saying that coffee makes heart and vessel disease (cardiovascular disease) worse because it raises LDL cholesterol, but that’s not the whole story! We now know that LDL particles can either be large and buoyant, or small and dense. When LDL particles are large and buoyant, they can help decrease risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). And coffee can transition LDL particles from small and dense to large and buoyant, decreasing CVD risk!
This was the video that launched my home coffee roasting. And I've never looked back.
From instant home made coffee to cappuccino to Americano to Star Bucks expresso to my own brewing equipments. And now this??? Damn it I have to try this.
yes try it out I recommend getting green beans from Costa Rica there are websites out there called lens coffee they get the beans directly from Costa Rica now you also need a blender and or a Jack LaLanne food blender from the '90s an old Jack LaLanne blender in order to cut up the beans for a drip roast you need something like that. You're also going to need a popcorn maker.
COFFEE IS LIKE A WARM HUG IN THE MORNING.