The process of making dung coffee is quite complicated. Arabian coffee beans picked by local tribal women in mountainous areas are used as raw materials, and then mixed with vegetarian food that elephants often eat, such as bananas and sugar cane, and fed to elephants, so that coffee can have a unique earthy and fruity taste. After thorough cleaning, semi-finished coffee beans will be sent to Bangkok and finally baked into finished products. [ 1]
After elephants eat coffee beans, protein in coffee beans is decomposed by gastric acid during digestion. The bitter taste of coffee mainly comes from protein. Generally, the bitter taste of coffee disappears after decomposition. This principle is similar to cat dung coffee, except that the elephant's stomach is bigger, which is more conducive to digestion and decomposition. [ 1]
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The price of this coffee named "Black Ivory" is 1 100 US dollars per kilogram, and the retail price is 50 US dollars per pot, while the price of a kilogram of cat excrement coffee is 500-600 US dollars, which is more than double the price of "cat excrement coffee". It is said that this "dung-like coffee" has an earthy fragrance and a smooth taste. [ 1]
The production of 1 kg "elephant excrement coffee" requires about 33 kg of fresh coffee cherries. Coffee beans are mostly chewed by elephants or hidden in the grass eaten by elephants, which is difficult to extract from elephant feces, so elephant excrement coffee is expensive. At present, we still feed elephants by picking fresh coffee fruits and processing their feces.
When it comes to the most expensive coffee in the world, most people think of cat excrement coffee produced in Indonesia, which means that civet cats excrete the ripe coffee fruit through the digestive system and artificially extract coffee beans. Caffeine from cat excrement has become a hot commodity in the international market because of its unique taste.
In northern Thailand, there is an elephant excrement coffee. Its making process is similar to cat excrement coffee. It is made by feeding coffee nuts to elephants and collecting them after defecation!
The making process of elephant excrement coffee is quite complicated. First, fresh coffee beans should be collected by manual picking. Then mix the rice, bananas and coffee beans together!
Then feed it to the elephants!
These coffee beans are digested in the elephant's stomach for 17 hours and mixed with gastric acid for fermentation. . . Look at the picture below
After manual collection and cleaning, the coffee beans are like shit!
Because coffee beans pass through the elephant's digestive system and undergo the fermentation process of 17 hours, the bitterness of coffee is removed. Finally, after boiling the coffee beans like shit, you can get coffee like shit, and the taste is as smooth as caramel chocolate!
To produce a kilogram of coffee like excrement, an elephant needs to eat about 33 kilograms of coffee beans. Such a low output is doomed to the high price of coffee like shit. On the market, the price of a kilogram of coffee like excrement is about 1 100 USD, and the average retail price of a cup of coffee like excrement is about RMB in 200 yuan! And this price is higher than the average price of 500-600 dollars per kilogram of cat excrement coffee.
When I was on a business trip to Indonesia before, I heard from local friends that some civets were forced to feed a large number of coffee beans to civets in order to increase the production of cat excrement coffee, which eventually led to some civets dying abnormally. I hope these elephants who produce elephant excrement coffee will not have the same experience!