It worked great! The only problem was that you needed about 5 hours to run a batch. Batches usually yielded around 10-15 grams. So the return for time investment was pretty far from worth it. Figured I'd leave the instant making to the people who have the necessary equipment. I was going to go a freeze dry route, but honestly it was about to turn into a never-ending funds consumer.Man, that was a really cool project. @Kapmcrunk, what ever became of it?
Works as well as any high quality instant you can purchase online. The gist is that you dehydrate prepared kava. So you could take a pan, pour your prepared medium grind grog into it, and dehydrate that. What you're left with is what looks like huge flakes of fish food. Use a mortar and pestle to grind that up, and you have a coarse grind instant. Put that into a ball mill and let it run for a while and you've got yourself a real instant product.I read something about this somewhere the other day and now I can't find it so I wonder if anyone can help with this?
Has anyone made their own instant from med grind?
How well did it work (or not?) ?
How did you do it? In the oven? In a food dehydrator?
Thank you!@Kapmcrunk wow, just wow! I'm in the process of reading the last of that thread now and that looks awesome! So the vacuum extraction is expensive but better because it involves no heat? But just plain gently warming a pyrex dish (say) full of prepared kava will just eventually dry out? Nice. I might have a go with a small batch and see if it's for me.
In my brief research I've come across loads and loads of food dehydrators but I haven't found one that mentions that it will dehydrate liquids in any decent quantity.
Excellent find! That would work...ohh...you know....probably perfectly.@Kapmcrunk Have a look at this idea... It looks like it would work great.
I really believe the coffee grinder would work just fine.Would something like a fine coffee grinder do the job just as well?