Killer Rub Ingredient

HunterGatherer

In my never-ending pursuit for new BBQ ingredients, I may have stumbled onto a new weapon of flavor. This newest ingredient blend is simply whole peppercorns coarsely ground together with Starbuck’s dark Italian roast whole coffee beans.

This summer I received a manual coffee grinder as a gift, made here in the good old U.S.A. by the Red Roaster Trading Company, and have enjoyed the depth of flavors from steeping various grades of hand ground roasted coffee beans in a bath of hot water. After various experiments grinding whole beans from my local grocery, I dialed into the heavy coarse grade in brewing my morning indulgent of choice.

Over the last few years, I have been adding prepackaged finely ground pepper with a little regular prepackaged ground coffee to my BBQ rub mixes with good results. One recent Saturday morning while mixing up a custom batch of rub for a BBQ cook I was out of regular ground coffee so I ground some whole beans I found in my kitchen together with the peppercorns on a heavy coarse grind setting. The resulting blend had a look and feel similar to crushed black pepper with but with a sweet balance of aromatics from the Italian roast coffee.

Mickey

Sounds good

Skiddymarker

Sounds like you have discovered the first step of making a coffee rub...

Mickey's rub is great and I usually buzz all the ingredients in a coffee grinder. I used our Krups on the coarse setting once, but it was a **** to clean. Now the Mr Coffee does the trick. 

What ratio of beans to corns did you figure you had for your two ingredient rub?

nolaegghead

Interesting.  Noticed the font change too.  Coffee and pepper are go-to for me.

HunterGatherer

Skiddymarker said:

What ratio of beans to corns did you figure you had for your two ingredient rub?

I am used 1 table spoon of coffee beans to 3 table spoons of pepper corns in a batch of rub that makes about 1 and 1/3 cups of rub.

Do you use more coffee in your mix?