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Alex Schroeder

Curious minds want to know: How is paleo-coffee made, i.e. no metal coffee grinder available. Surely there must have been roasted coffee for people without expensive tools? This question not entirely unrelated to the blister I have in the palm of my right hand because I thought I'd use a pestle to grind some coffee beans I didn't buy (I buy ground coffee for precisely this reason: I don't have a coffee grinder).

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clew

Lots of people do it with a mortar and pestle — either with practice or a really big pestle:

youtu.be/gCJBYOK9z2A

One of my grandfathers worked in Arabia Deserta for a while and said that the way one ground ones coffee, in camp with no sound privacy, was a message about whether one wanted company to drink it.

@alex

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