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Buying Your First Home Coffee Roaster

January 11, 2022 by Michael Allen Smith

buying your first home coffee roaster

I started home roasting coffee in June 1998. Since then I’ve used a number of different roasters and methods. I’ll be the first to confess that I haven’t kept up on all the different machines available to home coffee roasters. What I have learned are the most important factors to consider when buying your first […]

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Roasting Coffee in a Popcorn Popper

April 4, 2020 by Michael Allen Smith

roasting coffee in a popcorn popper

The conversation always starts the same. While sharing some freshly brewed coffee with a neighbor or co-worker, the topic of roasting coffee at home comes up. Most have no knowledge of the topic and they ask how it’s done. At which point I start listing off the various methods of home coffee roasting. Recently I […]

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Roast in Parchment (RIP) Coffee

February 1, 2020 by Ryan Jacobs

RIP Coffee Roasting

The term RIP coffee has nothing to do with wishing your coffee a peaceful death. Rather, it is short for Roast In Parchment. It means pretty much what you would expect in this case – the coffee bean is roasted while still in its parchment and then it is ground and brewed parchment and all. […]

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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 […]

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Home Roasting Coffee in an Oven

April 19, 2019 by Michael Allen Smith

There are many ways to roast coffee at home. One of the most basic and least expensive methods is the oven. Yes, you can easily roast your own coffee at home using an oven. It doesn’t make the brightest, most flavorful coffee, but it works. If you’ve never home-roasted coffee before, you may be impressed […]

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Roast Your Own Coffee

January 27, 2019 by Ryan Jacobs

Roast Your Own Coffee

Roasting your own coffee is not only personally satisfying, but it is also relatively easy. You don’t really need the expense of a Probat or Diedrich roaster to begin this craft. Using nothing more than a hot air popcorn popper, you can achieve a very high level of freshness as well as to be able […]

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