On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:43:00AM -0400, Joe wrote:
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Having taken Tom's advice, I have a new description: the quakers are
the lightest beans - the ones that taste yucky.  Provided you've
adjusted your taster to accept normal beans as tasting "good", which
may not always be easy...
Had the first real quakers (2 beans in a 115g green wt batch of Moplaco
Yerga Cheffe (I wanted to type "Chaffe" there, it would have been
appropriate)).  I can see what Tom was getting at, saying that they
tend to have a nutty flavor, almost peanutty.  I can't really describe
what was so unpleasant about the taste, as I had a cup of water ready
to hand and flushed the stuff out of the tasting chamber as quickly as
possible.  After that, a nice, normal bean tasted very good indeed. 
Still have a rather unpleasant texture, though.
-- 
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you know and can rely upon, and exploring things which have the
potential to be better.  Assuming that either of these strategies
is the one true way is silly.  -- Graydon Hoare
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