Whats with the coffee roasting?
A12: Ah yes, there’s been a lot of interest in this one! On the Saturday at the Perth 4WD Show, I was casually roasting coffee beans at our marquee. This is because we love good coffee, and absolutely detest instant coffee. In fact, we are coffee snobs. So, when we are living in a house, and therefore have the room, we roast our own beans and then grind them fresh and use our Italian espresso machine to prepare the best brew in the world. Unfortunately there’s not enough room in the caravan for our espresso machine, or even our grinder and roaster, so we settle for buying packs of pre-ground coffee and brewing it in a small plunger – not a bad compromise. But if you’ve got a pretty big rig with heaps of storage, you could go one step further and carry green beans, a roaster and a small coffee or spice grinder, and then still use a small plunger (unless you’ve got a 35 foot 5th wheeler, in which case you can fit the espresso machine as well). Some facts about coffee: Once it’s ground, i
