There's one thing about coffee that doesn't sit well with people who don't make a lot of money. It's expensive. It's always going to be expensive. My wife told me about how she had rice coffee when she was young because her family was too poor to buy coffee. So I knew about rice coffee, but I didn't know there was also a corn coffee.
It's Not Coffee
I don't know why people insist on calling it rice coffee or corn coffee. Unlike teas that are called teas even when they're not made from a tea plant, rice and corn coffee aren't even brewed like coffee.
Perhaps it's due to the way it looks as opposed to how it's made. Both rice coffee and corn coffees are as dark as black coffee after the ingredients are boiled. My wife swears the rice coffee tastes like regular coffee. I don't think so, but I can't argue the point since I've never tasted it.
Making Rice Coffee
My wife said all they did to make rice coffee was to take raw, white rice and roast it in a skillet until it was almost burnt. Then they would add it to water and boil it. After they poured the liquid into cups, they would discard the rice sediment at the bottom of the pot.
I read somewhere else that the rice was to be ground (with a mortar and pestle) before boiling, but my wife said it wasn't necessary.
Making Corn Coffee
I haven't read a description of how corn coffee is made, but it's supposed to taste like coffee too. From what I've read, though, Native Americans in the US and Canada were drinking corn coffee more than a century ago.
I'm not even going to consider it. It probably tastes worse than Postum did.
No Coffee Means No Coffee
My wife said she'd make rice coffee when she gets back to the Philippines, just so that I can taste it for myself. I'm sorry, but coffee is coffee and there isn't a substitute for me. If I can't get the real stuff then I don't want any kind of "make believe" coffee. I'd rather do without coffee than to try to fool my taste buds and my stomach into believing that something else could be just as good as real coffee.
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This article is published as: Corn and Rice Coffee — When Coffee isn't Coffee
Wow you must be American!? Nice article on something, sounding like an expert, debunking the idea and purpose of something you haven't tried yourself…you must be a Dr!? Continue drinking your coffee and rotting your insides all the while with acidic addictive caffeine
Lol this is a bit of an old article but I agree with the comment by John. You come off as an ignorant American and I actually stumbled across this article because while I drink Dallmayr and Illy and own 3-4 different devices to make coffee, when I was younger my dad make coffee from burnt tortillas and I remember it tasting very good so I started searching Google. You're very opinionated for never having tried either rice or corn coffee which I find to be highly amusing.