Why doesn’t this exist?
Take dried beans, roast 'em, grind 'em, and brew some bean juice?
I have no idea if it would taste good or not, but we don’t know if we don’t try.
Edit: I need to see what dried beans I have and maybe go shopping. I will give this a try with a couple different types of beans and report back if I fart or not.
Ignoring the fact that coffee beans aren’t beans, for the same reason we don’t make tea with just any leaf. Someone braver than you tried it and it was disgusting.
We do make tea with a lot more plants than people realize though.
Absolutely that’s why I didn’t specify a leaf type. Probably could have said poison ivy and been fine though
Anything is edible. Once.
Dont they make Tea out of stinging nettles or something?
I’ve tried hibiscus tea which is nice even without the sugar.
Nettle tea is delicious.
No, tea is the name of the plant. If its not made from tea leaves its not bloody tea!!
I’m gonna go and brew myself a nice and relaxing lavender verbena tea.
You can have the “bloody tea” yourself (which sounds disgusting btw I’d prefer my tea plant based, thank you very much).
Tea is just blank blood diluted in water
Oh apologies Commissar, I didn’t realize! I’m just a poor American coffee drinker.
Or toxic! Don’t forget toxic.
Tisane to be pedantic
Coffee isn’t a true bean—it’s more closely related to gardenias.
Interesting, but the all-knowing Wikipedia seems to agree with you:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_bean:
Even though the coffee beans are not technically beans, they are referred to as such because of their resemblance to true beans.
I’m still tempted to try this, though.
Do not do this with dried beans. Most dried beans are toxic and need to be soaked and boiled for about half an hour to become edible.
From the Wikipedia page for kidney beans:
As few as five raw beans or a single undercooked kidney bean can cause severe nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pains.
Instructions unclear, made chili
A lot of things in botany have similar names, but are totally different things. A “strawberry” is a berry only by names (it’s closest relative is the hazelnut, IIRC), a “peanut” is no nut, either.
So it should not surprize when one learns that the Cofea plant is a Rubiaceae family plant, not a Fabaceae/Leguminosae family plant, i.e. what we commonly call “beans” like green beans, peas, or, amazingly, peanuts. It is just called a “coffee bean” because it reminded someone back in time of a bean, shapewise.
So if it’s not a bean, what is it? It’s not the fruit, so is it the seed?
IIRC its more like a pit than a seed, but yeah
coffee is a seed, not a bean, pulse, or legume.
We do in some cases, you’ve basically described hot coca for instance. But yeah, you might be onto something, roast up some kidney beans and see what happens.
Cocoa comes from a seed, not a bean. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean
Beans are a particular type of seed.
Wait, are cocoa pods beans? What even is a bean?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean
Bean is admittedly a bit of a fuzzy term. Coffee beans are not technically beans, and probably wouldn’t be very good in your chili.
Ur a bean
a hooman bean
Coffee “beans” are closer to cherry pits than any real bean.
What about toe beans?
Their beauty is beyond compare.
They aren’t close to cherry pits at all.
I drank it in Taiwan among other very low sugar juices that I prefer over plain water. It’s just one of many drinks made from ingredients we never thought of, like mushroom drinks and cereal grain drinks. The bean drink must have been forgettable enough that I can’t describe the taste after four years away.
No caffeine yo, that’s where it’s at for most people. But hey, ain’t nobody gonna stop you from trying. Let us know how it goes if you ever do try.
You should know that undercooked beans can be poisonous, and it is best to soak them before cooking.
If you do try this please prepare the beans properly first.
Tf?
but we don’t know if we don’t try
Someone probably already tried. Every time you are asking yourself “am I the first one to think of x?”, the answer is usually no.
Maybe after imperialism / colonialism re: tea and tobacco, folks were less inclined? Or they kept it on the DL.
Less inclined to what, experiment with food? Sounds unlikely to me.
Trade / share the knowledge.
Because it would taste disgusting, and it doesn’t have caffeine, so there’s no motivation to drink it.
ITT: Because it would be
and possibly poisonous.Because we’re not criminally insane.
But since we’re on this fascinating topic, here’s a Youtube video about other things people have tried to substitute for coffee during the American civil war. (Hint: not beans.)
We have coffee. We have tea.
I assume humans have run hot water through every conceivable plant grounds to see what it would taste like.
It would suck if poison ivy tea tasted really good
