I love coffee caterers! I love taking the time to learn to love what they do best. I love that it can be such a labor-intensive process, but that there are so many great things about it. I love that I don’t have to worry about being a “caterer” anymore. I love that I don’t need to worry about “sticking” to any plan.
While I’m not sure if we can say that I love caterers for their labor-intensive processes, I do love that they are an important part of the “craft” of coffee (as they’re often called). I love that, as the coffee grows, so does the labor involved in its production. In many ways, the effort involved in a coffee caterer’s business is so minimal that it’s almost an excuse to not waste time in the kitchen.
The process of growing a single cup of coffee is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It requires about 8,000 liters of water and about 4,000 kilowatt hours of energy. Some coffee-growing farms use these resources to grow their own water, but because they have to grow a lot of it, the labor-intensive process is very expensive.
In the process of growing coffee, you have to grow an entire crop of coffee plants, which takes about 30 days, and you then have to harvest them and package them up to ship them to your customers. It all adds up to a cost about one-twelfth that of the time spent growing an individual cup of coffee.
That’s why coffee-growing farms in Kenya are so important. Without them, coffee could get out of control and the world would not see a single cup of coffee. As the world’s coffee farmer, you have all the time in the world to harvest all the coffee you need for your customers. You might be saving the world from the terrible taste of coffee, but at your own cost.
The new technology that is helping coffee farmers in Kenya is called “coffee roasting”. This involves a small machine that sucks the coffee from roasted beans and grinds it up into little cups, like coffee urns. The coffee farmers use these small machines to roast the beans at their farms. Now, instead of a few tiny cups of coffee, you can have a whole cup for your customers.
It’s all for the money. The money that farmers spend on roasting the coffee is what they use for their farm management, to get the coffee to them. The amount of money spent on the roasting process is what keeps coffee farmers in business, and that’s what we are trying to get consumers to spend at the grocery store.
So we are also creating a new category of coffee that goes beyond the usual coffee blends. Our roasting machines will roast the beans on our own, not in a facility. We get our coffee farmers to pay the cost of their own roasting, but they also pay the farmers a portion of the money they spend on the roasting process. This is a really good thing, because it gives farmers more control over the roasting process and how much they are paid.
In many ways our new roasting machine is a hybrid of the old roasting machines and the still-nascent roasting machines. We have the old machines, but they are not exactly a lot of fun to use. We have the still-nascent roasters, but they are not very good at what they do.
The good news is that we have a working roaster with the old machines. We used to have the very first roaster that made it to a commercial-scale. It’s an old machine that doesn’t make very good coffee, but it is a very efficient roaster that has been upgraded to make more than a hundred servings of cappuccino a day.