Saving and Using Leftover Coffee
This article is taken from Five Gallon Ideas, which features over 100 uses for 5 gallon buckets with more being added all the time.
It’s easy to overlook coffee when it costs just pennies a mug. But consider: for each cup, a coffee bean and 99 of its cousins must journey halfway around the world to be hulled, roasted and ground. The water must be purified to historic levels, heated, then dripped through. So it’s a damn shame when even part of that effort gets washed down the drain.
Old coffee might seem to worthless to save, but just as with many money saving ideas, a little bit each day snowballs into a lot over time. But pennies saved are not the only reason to start saving those swigs in a container in the fridge…
In case you haven’t noticed, cold coffee is a luxury – it costs more than hot coffee! And ask anyone who’s ever had coffee ice cream – sometimes coffee is just better cold.
If you’re a daily coffee drinker, you could save up as much as 4 or 5 cups in a week just by saving the coffee you’d previously thrown away.
Once your container is full, it’s time to spruce it up into something that a fancy coffee chain would charge 6 dollars for!
You can drink cold coffee black, but it’s even better with some heavy cream, sugar, and a few drops of vanilla. Find listed below a few great recipes for cold coffee.
I wouldn’t bother saving coffee that’s been left on a burner all day. Burned coffee should be mourned and given a proper burial. It’s for that reason I’m a proponent of percolators and french press coffee. Once coffee’s been brewed, keep it off the heat!
It takes me a single morning to polish this entire container off. It’s an entire day’s coffee reclaimed each week. Then once you’ve drunk all your cold coffee, the benevolent cycle begins once again.
List of Cold Coffee Recipes
- Cold Latte: 1 part cold coffee to 1 part cold milk, sugar to taste
- Iced Coffee: Ice cubes, 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream, sugar and/or vanilla to taste
- Imitation Frappuccino in the blender
- Chocolate Coffee Cake (use cold coffee instead of water)
Also try loading an ice cube tray with cold coffee for some frozen coffee cubes to make your brew even colder!
Cover photo credit: Chichacha
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