The Coffee Cycler - Why Did They Build This?!

Coffee Giveaway has finished.

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[javiersp]

To the gentleman who found this and thought "James Hoffman is the right person for this!", we Sir salute you!

[michaelkronenberg]

I’m the culprit who wanted to see James suffer! James, I especially liked your coining the phrase “zombie coffee”. A great expose. Thanks for taking on the challenge.

[madumlao]

Whoever sent this item to James you are such a treasure.
You actually got him to
1) ruin some good coffee
2) brew two bad cups of coffee
3) taste both bad cups
... willingly.

[pippabuchanan]

things i have done with used coffee grounds: skin exfoliant, slug repellant, worm food, mushroom propagation substrate, dyed wool, composted.
things i have not done with used coffee grounds: made more coffee

[HighCoup]

My dad has been reusing grounds since I can remember, says it's just as good as fresh. Then wonders how my coffee is so delicious when he comes to visit his grown son. I just smile and say it's all in the grind, Pop.

[Patrick.Weightman]

When I was growing up and the internet started taking off, I used to be obsessed with finding weird and quirky gadgets from the 50s-80s online, and my dad used to always tell me "if they were actual good ideas, you would still see them today." I feel like that is true more than ever and this product is the perfect example of it all

[TomReinerDE]

It‘s not that I really enjoy seeing people suffer. It‘s just that your suffering is so endlessly entertaining...

[standupmaths]

Interesting. I don’t see why equal recycled coffee with fresh coffee would be a 30% savings. I might do a video on this. James: drop me a line! Curious to know what the instructions say.

[matinx]

I love how you emphasize in "bad cardboard" as if you had tasted good quality cardboard before 😂
You make me picture you saying "this is nothing like my average imported cardboard"

[JayPFrancis]

This stimulated me to try another crazy coffee idea, James. A friend sent me a video for something called Navajo Coffee. At a time in Navajo history when they were moved to reservations and given rations, flour played an important part in their diet. Navajo fry bread for example. In order to stretch the coffee ration, they roasted flour and added it to the coffee beverage, thickening it in the process. Now, if you toast flour too much (re: Cajun gumbo for example) it loses its thickening ability and just becomes a flavor component. So, I had to follow the video my friend sent and make Navajo coffee. Now this beverage does have precursors. In Mexico, nixtamalized masa is added to beverages to thicken them (champurrado and atole, for example). And we've all had thickened hot chocolates in Spain and Portugal (flour or corn starch). It wasn't totally unpleasant. I would never waste good coffee on making Navajo coffee. But it was historically interesting. Type Navajo Coffee in YouTube for instructions?

[ericommedeiros]

I just love the moments when James looks at the coffee, stare into nothing and thinks "Why am I doing this to myself?". And then takes a sip.

[larissaspinola]

“They have gone volatile, they’ve left the building” 😆

[fluffycritter]

I’m glad you clarified that it tasted like BAD cardboard. Might have been confusing otherwise.

And even after all that you hope we have a great day!

[Djoser]

No one suffers as good naturedly as you do, James! You're a trooper and we love you the more for it.

[JohnA...]

"what kind of idiot would want this stupid re-roast coffee grounds thing that came out in the 70s"... Oh, I'll send it to James, He'll love it.

[johnathancorgan]

I seem to recall way back when that coffee went through a period in the 70s or 80s of very high prices. This could have been a response to that, and people would have considered it "worth" it.

[shmiffy]

"It's Cardboard.. It's BAD Cardboard.." I honestly didn't know there were different grades of cardboard in tasting coffee but I've learnt something new haha.

[brianargo]

When I was a child, my mother used to add probably 20% fresh coffee to the basket of an automatic coffee maker and boldly state that it was just as good. Even as a child, I knew she was freaking nuts.

[zerofound]

james hoffmann is truly the james hoffmann of james hoffmann

[randomjasmicisrandom]

This gadget reminds me of the thing my mum used to make a new bar of soap out of all the old bits of soap too small to use. You compacted the bits of soap together to make what I now know was a bar of zombie soap.