04-20-2008, 07:20 AM
We wrote the couple who has a small coffee plantation in VeraCruz Mexico. Their coffee milling machine is a nice little portable device but is made out of cast iron and extremely heavy with a 1 horepower motor. They payed about 6000 pesos for it which is about $550.00. But they bought the machine locally in Mexico and they know of nowhere else where something like this would be available in the US (they are Americans who live in the US but have a plantation home in Mexico).
They did suggest however that an old fashioned manual meat mincer will work just as good for small coffee crops if you can adjust the opening to the size of the bean (they had used one for their coffee before buying the electric dehusker). The only drawback is that you have to sort out the husk powder from the shelled beans.
I think this would work well for us instead of manualy shelling each bean with our fingertips
Anyone know where we could buy an adjustable meat mincer here on the Big Island?
They did suggest however that an old fashioned manual meat mincer will work just as good for small coffee crops if you can adjust the opening to the size of the bean (they had used one for their coffee before buying the electric dehusker). The only drawback is that you have to sort out the husk powder from the shelled beans.
I think this would work well for us instead of manualy shelling each bean with our fingertips
Anyone know where we could buy an adjustable meat mincer here on the Big Island?