Coffee Drying in the Bundok

This is the color of raw coffee nuts.

This is the color of semi-dried coffee nuts.

This is the color of fully dried coffee nuts.

Dried coffee nuts are collected in huge baskets prior to peeling.
Our katutubo in the bundoks weave their own baskets.

What if the sky is cloudy?
What if the weather is wet with drizzles or rain?

Here, hot gases rise from below thru the bed of coffee
nuts resting on a wire mesh supported by bamboo poles.

See the flame under the bed of coffee nuts?

Burning firewood under the mesh
of bamboos provides drying effect.

Dried coffee nuts are fed into this peeler driven by a
single piston engine. Nuts peeled of skin are called coffee beans!

The peeler's internal metal roller is shown here. When rotating, the
roller's spiral tooth shears off the skin of coffee nuts.

The peeler machine doubles as a rice mill...

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