We here at www.coffeeforless.com are happy to provide all of our reader’s a 5% discount code to use when making purchases over the phone, or online.  When ordering, just enter the word blog where it asks for discount code, on the check out page.  Click recalculate, and you will see the savings.

www.coffeeforless.com thanks you for keeping up to speed on our blogs, as well as being a great customer of ours.

For any questions, suggestions, or orders, please feel free to email sales@coffeeforless.com at any time.

Right now, www.coffeeforless.com is blowing out their Green Mountain Golden French Toast Coffee.  We have it available in both 12oz bags of whole bean and ground.  Green Mountain Golden French Toast has comforting flavors (and sensational aromas!) of warm, buttered French Toast.

Cost is only $6.99 for a 12oz bag. 

www.coffeeforless.com is proud to announce we now sell Dunkin Donuts Coffee.  We offer a variety of Regular, Decaf, Hazelnut, and French Vanilla in ground, and Regular in whole bean.

Dunkin Donuts is great as piping hot cup of coffee, as well as an Iced Cold Beverage

While there are so many new One Cup Coffee Makers out on the market, and they either use “pods” “discs” or even “cups” they have designed to fit their machines.  We, here at www.coffeeforless.com, are here to dispel all the rumors, so you know which coffee pod fits your machine best.

Melitta One – Melitta One has come out with “Universal Pods” which will fit all single serve machines, with the exception of their tea pods.  And those will only fit in the Melitta One:One

Bunn, Senseo, Black and Decker, Simple Human, Grindmaster- All pods will fit in these machines.

A list of all pods and diameters are as follows:  www.coffeeforless.com carries all of these pods, and they can be found by clicking on the “Pods” tab on the top of our page.

 Wolfgang Puck: 8 grams
Green Mountain: 10-10.3 grams
Senseo:  7 grams
Folgers: 9 grams

Millstone: 9 grams
Emeril’s:  9 grams
Melitta Universal: 9 grams – Kosher
Timothy’s:  10 grams – Kosher

 We also have a variety of the Keurig Machines, as well as the NEW Lavazza Blue Single cup machines.  Each of these machines has specially designed “cups” that fit into their machines. The list of K-Cups fit in the following Keurig Machines:  B40, B50, B60, B70, B100, and B200.  All of which can be purchased at www.coffeeforless.com or special ordered for you.  (To locate all of our K-Cups and Keurig Machine, just click on the “K-Cups” tab on the top of the page) K-Cups:  (All K-cups are sold in boxes of 24, 25, 96, or 100 counts only): Green Mountain – KosherGloria Jeans – KosherTimothy’s – KosherEmeril’s/Timothy’sCaribouCoffee People – KosherTully’s – KosherDiedrich – KosherTimothy’s TeaGloria Jean’s TeaCelestial Seasonings TeaGreen Mountain Hot ChocolateGhirardelli Hot Chocolate – Packets specifically designed for Keurig Machines   

www.coffeeforless.com is also proud to announce our newest single serve coffee/espresso machine.  The Lavazza Blue, LB 1010 and LB2010.  Again this machine has it’s own cups designed to fit their machine, but they have a large variety of hot beverages you can use is this machine, ranging from espresso, coffee, consume, hot chocolate, tea, decaf varieties, to even warm milk.  (The Lavazza Blue and cups can be located by clicking on the “Espresso Machines” tab on the top of the page)

What is coffee roasting?

Roasting coffee is a method used to transform the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans into roasted coffee beans.

This roasting process is essential to produce a savory cup of coffee.  When the green coffee beans are roasted, the beans nearly double its original size, thus changing in color and density.  As the bean absorbs heat, the color shifts to yellow and then to a light “cinnamon” brown then to a dark and oily color. During roasting oils appear on the surface of the bean. The roast will continue to darken until it is removed from the heat source.

When the beans are at lighter roasts, they will exhibit more of its origin flavor which are the flavors created in the bean by the soil and weather conditions in the location of where it was grown.  Regions like Java, Kenya, Hawaiian Kona, and Jamaican Blue Mountain roast their coffee beans lightly so their signature characteristics dominate the flavor. 

When the beans darken to a dark brown, the origin flavors of the beans are overshadowed by the flavors created by the roasting process itself.  When the beans are at darker roasts, it is hard to distinguish the origin of the beans used in the roast because the roast flavor is so dominant.

The coffee roasting process consists of cleaning, roasting, cooling, grinding, and packing operations.  When larger operations are present, the bags of green coffee beans are either hand or machine-opened, dumped into a hopper, then screened to remove any debris.  After this process is done, the green coffee beans are weighed then moved to a storage hopper by either a belt or a pneumatic conveyor.  Once the green beans are in the storage hopper, the green beans are then conveyed to the roaster.  When the roasters are active, they usually run at temperatures between 370°F and 540°F, and the beans usually roast from a few minutes to about 30 minutes.  The roasters that are used to roast the coffee beans, are typically horizontal rotating drums that tumble the green coffee beans in a current of hot combustion gases.  Some other type of roasters use electricity or even heat from wood to operate.  The roasters can be operated in batches or in a continuous mode and can be indirectly or directly fired. 

Indirectly fired roasters are roasters where the coffee beans do not come in contact with the burner flame, even though the combustion gases from the flame do come in contact with the beans.  For the directly fired roasters, they are roasters where the coffee beans do come in contact with both the burner flame and the combustion gases.  When the roasting cycle is complete, water sprays are used to quench the beans.  Once the cycle is complete and the water is sprayed onto the beans, the beans are then cooled and ran through a destoner.  In reference to destoners, they are air classifiers that are used to remove stones, metal fragments, and other waste that was not removed from the initial screening of the beans.  How the destoners work, is that they pneumatically convey the beans to a hopper, where the beans are stabilized and dried leaving small amounts of water on the beans from the quenching.  This process of stabilization is called the equilibration.  After the stabilization process is complete, the roasted beans are either grounded by multi-stage grinders or packaged as whole beans.  Roasted whole beans are said to be fresh for up to, but not exceeding 1 month.  Once the coffee beans are ground, they are good for up to 24 hours.  Beans that are unroasted boast all of coffee’s acids, protein, and caffeine, but none of its taste. It takes heat to spark the chemical reactions that turn carbohydrates and fats into aromatic oils, burn off moisture and carbon dioxide, and alternately break down and build up acids, unlocking the characteristic coffee flavor.

Roasted coffee beans is like wine, there is no substitute for your personal taste.  Light roasted coffees are also known as Cinnamon roast, half city, and New England.  These coffee beans are roasted for about 7 minutes when the beans pop and double in size and light roasting is achieved.  The surface of light roasted beans is dry and their flavor is light-bodied and somewhat sour, grassy, and snappy.

Medium roasted coffee beans are also known as Full City, American, regular, breakfast, and brown.  These coffee beans are roasted for 9 to 12 minutes to reach medium.  The surface of medium roasted beans is dry and their flavor is a bit sweeter then light roast; full body balanced by acid snap, aroma, and complexity. 

Dark roasted coffee beans are also known as High, Viennese, Italian Espresso, and Continental.  These coffee beans are roasted for 12 to 13 minutes when the beans begin hissing and popping again, and oils rise to the surface.  The surface of dark roasted beans is slightly shiny and their flavor is somewhat spicy; complexity is traded for rich chocolate body, and the aroma is exchanged for sweetness.

The darkest roasted coffee beans are also known as French.  These coffee beans are roasted for 14 minutes or so when the beans grow quiet and begin to smoke. Having caramelized, the bean sugars begin to carbonize.  The surface of these beans is very oily and their flavor is smokey; tastes primarily of roasting, not of the inherent flavor of the bean.