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Roast Your Own Coffeeby Ryan Jacobs Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 Home Roasting Coffee: Why Bother?Roasting your own coffee is not only personally satisfying, it is 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 being able to control your roast level. You'll even save some money along the way. In this article, I will breakdown the basic steps into categories:
What You Should Know Before BeginningRoasting your own coffee gives you virtually unlimited possibilities in your quest for making the perfect cup. You are able to make espresso roasts or bring your beans to a nice full city roast. You can blend your different roasted beans or blend them before roasting. It's up to you. Do you want to be able to drink five varieties a week without having your coffee go stale? Since you roast only what you need, you can do this with ease. In a nutshell, you'll be able drinking better coffee for less money. Green coffee will store well for over a year without loss in character whereas a roasted coffee will be best consumed within a week. Buying your beans green will allow you to make larger purchases without worrying about the beans going bad. Roasting coffee is, if nothing else, a messy venture. During the roasting process, pieces of green coffee called chaff will blow off while producing a great amount of smoke. While the smoke smells great initially, it will find its way into everything in your homestead and once stale it stinks. In the beginning, the easiest course of action is to find a place to roast outside such as a garage, porch or balcony. Along the way, you may upgrade your equipment to devices such as the Hearthware iRoast2 with a built-in chaff filter or the HotTop with a built in smoke filter.
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