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Roasting Coffee to the “Rate of Rise Kick”

October 28, 2019 by Sam Hampton

Roasting Coffee to the “Rate of Rise Kick”

Several articles in the past few months that I encountered centered on the importance of ROR (rate of rise) when roasting coffee. After reading just one it was like eating potato chips, l could not stop. Over the past few months, I started comparing my data on ROR with what I was finding online. I […]

This article first appeared on INeedCoffee.com. Filed Under: Roasting Coffee

Home Roasting Coffee with a Heat Gun and Bread Machine

December 9, 2017 by Sam Hampton

Corretto Style Home Coffee Roasting

The various devices used to roast coffee beans provide heat to roast the beans in different ways. The three methods are convection, conduction, and radiation. Listed in the chart below are some of the differences in the effect of these devices. There are at least three ways to determine the differences in the heat transfer […]

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The Popper Crop: Coffee Roasting Popcorn Poppers

September 21, 2014 by Sam Hampton

orville Redenbacher

Just the mention of a West Bend Poppery or Poppery 2 sent shivers up my spine when I first started to look for poppers in which to roast coffee. The information I surveyed on the internet seemed to point only in one direction. One could roast in other poppers, but if you did not roast […]

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Roasting Routine vs. Roasting Profile

August 30, 2014 by Sam Hampton

roasting desk

Learning to roast coffee had a long learning curve for me. I started out as an investigative reporter when I talked to the people who, when I could find them, roasted the coffee I was drinking. The discussion was a diatribe of roasting profiles and how much a good roaster costs. Never was I let […]

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West Bend Popper 2 Rewire for Coffee Roasting

August 27, 2014 by Sam Hampton

holes labeled

I was inspired to buy the West Bend Poppery 1 when I saw willbldrco’s video on YouTube entitled West Bend Poppery rewire for coffee roasting. What a masterful modification to simply solve the coffee roasting routine by changing one wire to another terminal. By changing the fan wire to the hot terminal, so it would bypass […]

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Hacking the Orville Redenbacher Hot Air Popper to Roast Coffee

August 6, 2014 by Sam Hampton

poplite with controller

Looking for information on coffee roasting machines, I felt exhausted trying to find the “perfect” popper on eBay which was out of my price range, or in the local thrift stores, which had not seen a West Bend popper in years. WB Poppery and Poppery II are by everyone’s estimation two great modifiable machines that […]

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