where it buy small coffee huller new or used

[terracore]

I'm looking for a coffee huller to remove the parchment layer. We only have a few fruiting trees so just want a small "home user" type solution, hand cranked is okay. The only ones I can find online are either lab grade for a few thousand dollars or direct from China where the shipping costs more than the huller.

Any ideas?

[macuu222]

I've looked and there is nothing cheap. At least not in this country. I have a few trees also and just use a small (1 foot long) 2X4 with a piece of course sandpaper attached to the bottom and roll over dried beans on a flat surface in a circular motion. And then use a hair dryer to blow the parchment away. It doesn't take very long.

[terracore]

After trying various techniques I've discovered that a blender works really well. I resisted trying for a long time because I have a coffee grinder attachment that uses the same blades but the green beans are small and hard enough it actually works, I'm estimating far less than 5% of beans are damaged and those might have had something wrong with them to begin with and they disappear during the winnowing process along with the parchment. I use a fan but the hair dryer makes a lot more sense for small batches- thanks for the suggestion.

I've seen videos where people dull the blender blades and I'm thinking of ordering a new set for this purpose. It's really pretty minimal just rounding off the points at the end. I guess absent a "home duhuller" product on the market this is probably the direction I'm going. We just planted a bunch more coffee trees and plan to plant at least 6 more. Our "estate" coffee was a bigger hit with mainland Christmas recipients than we could have imagined so we're looking at reducing the amount of time we spend getting the coffee ready. Growing it is the easy part.

[buyag]

Try Captain Cook Trading Company, Emmerich Grosch, 322-7799. He sells all kine small equipment for coffee and cacao processing. We got a small hand crank coffee huller from him that we use. Located in Capt. Cook.

[terracore]

Thanks for posting!

In case anybody else is looking to inquiry: http://captaincooktrading.com/contact%20us.html

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