Deep Fried Coffee: A Horrifying Discovery

I’m just curious what the fries taste like after the oil it coffee flavored?

Honestly with the oil and such im not surprised how it went, Ive seen some of odd concoctions of coffee emulsified with oil and thats the drink as is...ive heard good and bad.

You should use MCT oil instead of vegetable oil.

Kind of makes me want to try stir frying coffee

Very interesting. I am wondering how much of the volatile, flavorful oils in the coffee get taken away by the frying oil. It seems like frying has to be less flavorful, but it's interesting that the poured coffee wasn't bad. Kind of like the time I put some peanut butter into my coffee. It rounded out the flavor, added a little mellow creaminess and damped down the bitterness. Was hard to say it was a better cup of coffee, but it was interesting and pretty good for an every now and then thing.

Tell me was there a scent while frying

whats the discoveryyyyyy uuuhhhhh

Ive used a hot air popcorn popper for small batch roasting.Cost 3$ from thrift store

Really depends on what you deep fry it with. I'd much rather have the cat beans.

That espresso looked almost painful.

Try frying it in different fats like coconut oil or clarified butter

When James goes for the second sip after saying how horrible it is

I waste to much time looking a drivel.

U might want to try again, this time use large bowl pan so you can control heat better and for oil absorption; use proper tissue not blanket.

Everything fried tastes better. I think fattening anything up, especially something as bitter as coffee gives it meaning. Oddly, it serves the same purpose as cream

Soak the beans first then fry it. Use coconut oil Vs vegetable oil. See if that makes a difference

the frying may preserve the oils

Now added to the list of phrases I never thought I would ever hear (and also now my favorite on the list), "don't deepfry your espresso!" 😂

maybe WASH the beans in water with like 1-2 drops of a surfactant to release the oil?

would frying it in butter or ghee yield different taste?

Now I'm curious about slightly longer fry time and experimentation with various types of oils.

Weirdly good... just like lorenz peanut flavour curly puffs

Cover them in chocolate and you'll balance out th3 flavors

i've been roasting my own beans using a hit air popcorn popper, it works well, by the way; i'm going to try this too, life is for experiences!

Brilliant Entertainment ! thnx for that !

Try frying the coffee beans in coconut oil

Could it be made into popped coffee beans like popcorn? Just wondering.

Just letting you know most deep friers run at 325-350, otherwise it doesn't really deep fry and just fries it, under 200 is very cold for a frier

So basically Taste like any British coffee

Paper filter kinda pull most of the oil

I personally deep fry everything and you need to get your oil as close to its smoke point as possible without actually smoking. We use canola in our fryer and fry everything at 350 and sometimes 375. You could do this with animal fat in cast iron or even just your cheap stamped pots. If frying them makes home roasting more viable than having to buy a popcorn popper I may have to buy some green beans and give it a shot. If using a popcorn popper makes a better coffee than some of the crap on shelves it still may be a viable option.

I’d love to know how it is using tallow

So cool. Try some in beef tallow?

Can you roast them in an oven with butter? Like roasted Garlic but coffie

Vegitabalyness

and this is why coffie companies dont deep fry.... it just doesnt work.

Having followed your advice on how to get the best out of my little Bialetti, I am now having the best early morning coffees I've ever had. I think it wise to continue this attention regarding your comments on deep frying the beans. Many thanks for an entertaining and amusing experiment.🙏💜

What would happen if you fried it in ghee...

I would rather have green coffee…

It might be worth a try to get oil off by a centrufuge arrangement, id try a salad tumbler. As to exterior color and evenness of the roast, I can offer some hints from my experience in evaluating innovative ways of coffee roasting, if You reached out to me. Also, it is relevant what Kind of oil one uses...

You should try to air fry some beans. -Neal

I’m not super into the meticulous coffee/espresso making process, seems a bit superfluous to me. However, that definitely does not stop me from enjoying learning about that process. So I have to say, your openness to trying something pretty ‘out there’ in the upper-echelon coffee scene is very refreshing, and even more so your willingness to admit that “hey, this should be disgusting… but it’s actually kinda good 💁‍♂️”

I love your genuine reaction. Truly captivate the viewers attention.

Beat coconut or Avocado would be better or ever peanut oil would turn out nice

Wouldn't frying coffee be a bit redundant? You're cooking the beans in oil to..... grind up and extract the natural oil within the beans.

Time for some science on thermal conductivity! the conductivity of air is approximately 26 mW/(m*K) at room temperature and approximately 40 at roasting temperatures. Fryer oil has a room temp conductivity of approximately 170 and a roasting temp conductivity of roughly 250. So the frying oil is transferring roughly 6x as much energy per second into the coffee as the air in the roaster. This probably explains the lack of cracking; heat is pumping into the beans so quickly that there's no time for pressure to build before all the moisture's gone.

Here's where it can get interesting. Hydrogen gas has a conductivity of 186 at room temperature and 271 at roasting temperature, making it an even more effective heat transfer medium than fryer oil. In theory, you could place a coffee roaster in a vacuum chamber and replace all the air with hydrogen gas to achieve hyper-efficient heat transfer in a traditional roasting machine. However, heating elements and hydrogen gas don't play very nice together (See, The Hindenburg Disaster)