Who

I do not know if it is The answer but fin an answer here : http://caffenol.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-invented-coffee-based-development.html

some people say the coffee has very little to do with it, and it is just the vit c that does the developing ...
i don't believe'em !

Agreed

with coffee alone just let it stand for a few hours,
it works very well, some say better than everything else ...

stand and semi stand and caf-c yields some very good results as well ...

Just look up Reinholds blog and be astounded!

i have never experienced uneven development from stand development -- using caffenol, caffenol C or caffenol 130.
i use cylinders for roll film ( hand tanks ) as well as daylight tanks for sheet film ...
i hate using daylight tanks they are a pain to load, but i like the results so i shouldn't complain.

i have used coffee with agitation ( small tanks ) trays, and in a rotary processor over the years
and still do that on occasion, but just the same, i don't mind leaving the room for a half hour ...
i don't really think it is necessary to have things specially designed for stand processing ... but if it floats your boat and you have the $$$ go for it !

a thin mix?
i use more of a concentration than you think.

maybe you should spring for a subscription so you can see some of the 200+ images
i have using caffenol C and caffenol 130 that are in my gallery ...
i am sure a lot of people would love to see your results as well, since
you have been experimenting with this formula to such an extreme

i have been using it for 4-4.5 years, what about you ?

- john

perhaps you should experiment a bit more before coming to your conclusions.

Experiments have to be done in an orderly fashion, not haphazardly and according to the chaos theory.

....

Coffee developers came to be as part of a RIT experiment
Then in 2003-2004 some brought them to PhotoNet. There Roland Simmons, Donald Qualls, Lex Jenkins,myself and a few others carried out tons of experiments
There was someone else very important, Patrick C Gainer who introduced us to adding vitamin C to Rodinal, and then we tried it back on caffenol

credit to whom credit is due....

http://photo.net/black-and-white-photo-film-processing-forum/0083Ef
http://photo.net/black-and-white-photo-film-processing-forum/008Ev7

http://www.apug.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-8491.html
http://www.apug.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-15065.html