Coffee grounds
Coffee grounds are the remainder of the ground coffee beans that remain in the filter after coffee has been prepared . Before the invention of the filter bag , the ground coffee that was placed directly in the jug settled on the bottom of the jug, while the finer part of the ground coffee usually only settled in the cup.
Recovery
Dried coffee grounds absorb odors and can be disposed of with household waste or burned. Instead of throwing the coffee grounds away in the trash, they can be reused for various purposes in the household :
- Together with soap as hand washing paste for heavily soiled hands.
- In Japan, coffee grounds are used as a facial scrub .
- Only to a limited extent as a fertilizer for flowers and herbs due to the content of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals. However, this leads to a slight decrease in the pH value in the soil. According to gardening experts, coffee grounds - for example as a cover on a planter - do not work at all, or only have a delayed effect. Organic materials first have to be broken down and then built up by soil organisms so that the nutrients are useful for the plants. You can also mix it directly under the ground in the garden. It helps to build up the soil because the decomposition process creates humus-forming substances.
- As a preventive agent against fungus gnats on potted plants .
- As an addition to compost . Coffee grounds are said to attract earthworms and thus indirectly loosen the soil.
- For the destruction of ants .
- Sprinkled in voles as a repellent against voles .
- For antiquing paper.
- In the dried state as a secondary fuel ( Mondelēz International , for example, operates several biomass power plants with coffee grounds, which are produced in large quantities in the industrial production of instant coffee ).
- The coffee grounds can also be drunk (oriental style).
Reading in the coffee grounds
Reading the coffee grounds, especially when making mocha , serves to tell the future in popular spiritism and is called coffee romance . There are three different methods: In the first method, the wet coffee grounds must be stirred with their finger by the person whose future is to be researched before they dry out. Subsequently, conclusions about the future are drawn from the patterns that have formed during the drying process. The second method is to take washed and dried coffee grounds and place the granules on a flat plate. Now move it with one finger until the entire white surface is covered. The figures that have formed are now interpreted. In the third variant, the saucer or the saucer of the mocha cup is placed on it, then the cup with the moist coffee grounds and the saucer are turned downwards and put down. Then the coffee grounds are left to dry. After drying, the patterns that have formed in the inner rim of the cup when the sentence ran down are interpreted; The coffee grounds can also be read from a coffee press. Similar to pouring lead , it makes sense to ask a question about the future before you start reading coffee grounds. The coffee grounds are then used to answer this.
Reading from tea leaves has long been celebrated in a similar way in China; also called cupography . Prophecy from coffee grounds goes back to the end of the 17th century; It was first mentioned by the Florentine fortune teller Thomas Tamponelli . The effectiveness of this method, which is a popular leisure activity especially among women in southern and southeastern European cultures, has never been scientifically proven. Overall, however, the belief in the seriousness of the predictions does not seem to be widespread and there is also little scientific interest in approaching this question. Reading coffee grounds, for example, was a specialty of the Swedish fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson .
Colloquially, the term coffee grounds reading also means deriving speculative or even guesswork forecasts from an inadequate database.
Regional expressions
In Westphalia and parts of the Rhineland, in Low German in the Oldenburger Münsterland and especially in the Ruhr area , the coffee grounds are also called Prütt or Prött and are traditional home remedies there for a variety of uses. In the Austrian-speaking area, the term coffee brew is often used . In North Friesland one speaks of coffee grums.
literature
- Odeh Samer: Reading coffee grounds after Naziha. Noah's Ark Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-931721-53-1 .
- Caroline Darbone, Sylvie Girard: The coffee pleasure box. Delius Klasing, 2004, ISBN 3-7688-1546-3 . (Information about coffee, from botany, culture and history to reading coffee grounds).
- Mary Ellen: Geraniums and Coffee Grounds. 999 household tips. Bastei Lübbe, 1976, ISBN 3-404-66048-X .
- Gillian Kemp: The fortune telling book for women. Scherz, 2002, ISBN 3-502-12383-7 .
- Trudi Hefti-Rüegg: coffee grounds, cooking boxes, war children. 2000, ISBN 3-85546-098-1 .
- Gerhard Merz: The great book of oracles. 1999, ISBN 3-7787-3546-2 .
- Matthias Mala : Coffee grounds and card reading. 1996, ISBN 3-88034-457-4 .
- The very latest dream book or the art of interpreting all possible dreams as surely and clearly as possible. From the oldest writings of the Egyptian magicians. In addition to e. Attachments: the art of telling the truth from the coffee grounds. Kornicker, Aachen 1843.
Web links
- About an Israeli coffee grounds reader (English)
- 3Sat, nano - coffee grounds as raw material: breeding ground for mushrooms, biodiesel or odor-neutralizing clothing
Individual evidence
- ↑ Home & Garden. March 14, 2007.
- ↑ http://www.jungborn.de/kaffeesatz-lesen/
- ↑ http://www.jungborn.de/kaffeesatz-lesen/kaffeesatz-richtig-lesen-geschichte-bedeutung-anendung-symbole/
- ^ Jean-Loup Charmet: The future interpretation. VMA-Verlag Wiesbaden and Econ Verlag Düsseldorf, 1979, pp. 55-57.