Really? Charcoal Coffee actually exists? I never heard of it. Wondering if it's sold in the tiny European country I live in. I'll explore for sure. Interesting this type of coffee was only invented in 1980, since before reading the post, just the title, I thought: "must be from the times when many peeps mined coal back in the days, like a century and longer ago". Am wondering, I could take my charcoal pencils and dip them into coffee as well {LOL}. Or as you showed, use the BBQ charcoal to add to the coffee.
ps A quick Internet search in my own language showed me pages full of articles debating how healthy, or not, charcoal is. It also tells me, I totally missed something since it seems to be somewhat popular to add charcoal to drinks and food, according to all these articles. Ok, for sure, I'll like to try something with charcoal and I'll research a bit further the health (or danger) side of things.
Yes, it exists! as I mentioned in some of the replies here, there's a specialized charcoal that is used for that. From what I searched in Indonesian marketplace, they are using sour wood mostly and ceylon oak. So, it's not like you can chop any wood and use it. Even here there's ongoing debate about it but since its own tourist attraction, I guess the food safety agency just kind of OK it and plus it's often sold on the road side too. You'll have to research it more and it'll be interesting if you could have it there :D
I was about to drop some of my charcoal pencils in a cup of warm water. Maybe better not to try that first 😂
hahahaha yeah, don't do that. But yeah, you also need them to be like burning charcoal and then when you dunked into the coffee, it made sizzling sound.
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