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Popper Roast Your Own Coffee   
  Roasting your own coffee is not only personally satisfying, it is relatively easy. 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.  
Cold Weather Home (Alone) Roasting   
  There is an obstacle to home roasting in the winter. Cold wind rushing into your popper cools the beans while they roast. The beans take forever to roast and the batch usually doesn't roast evenly.  
Blending Espresso Blending Techniques   
  Why not talk about blending in general? Blending for the press pot or filter machine doesn't need to be as precise. For one it's a far weaker part of the cup compared to espresso and there are rules that can't be broken in espresso blending that work really well in the filter blends. Espresso blending is an art.  
Popper Stovetop Roasting with the Whirley-Pop   
  This article explores using a stovetop popcorn popper, which enables you to roast coffee right on your gas stove. It's not nearly as easy as roasting with an electrical popcorn popper, but the advantages of this method are that you have 100% control over the roasting profile.  
Economics The Quick Economics of Home Roasting Coffee   
  Let me go through the numbers and show you how much money you could save by home roasting your own coffee.  
Chaff Building a Chaff Collector For Popper Roasting   
  Many of you roast with the Westbend Poppery, Proctor-Silex Popcorn Pumper, or some other style that may use a soup can style chimney. Although these units work well, there is always the menacing problem of how to contain the chaff during the roast.  
Color Chart The Home Roaster Color Chart   
  A simple eight color roast chart for home coffee roasters to reference. Also can be used to articulate coffee color when roasting for others.  
Blending Coffee Blending For the Home Roaster   
  Blending can be broken down into two different camps: blending for espresso and blending for non-espresso (regular coffee).  
Popper Roasting Coffee in a Popcorn Popper   
  Roasting coffee in a popcorn popper is not an indoor endeavor. Without modifications, you would fill your home with smoke. The first step is to find a spot outside near an outlet. It will produce smoke, so keep it away from open windows.  
Oven Home Roasting Coffee in an Oven   
  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.  
Civit Cat Roasting and Brewing Toddy Cat Coffee   
  One of the most critical steps in normal coffee and Toddy-Civet Cat coffee production is the roasting process.  
I Roast Cleaning the I-Roast 2 Coffee Roaster   
  Before we go through the cleaning methods, let us break down the I-Roast 2 into its components.  
Lessons Home-Roasting Heretic: Happy Accidents   
  My first few home-roasting endeavors (particularly the first) were chock-full of screw-ups, and none of them yielded great results.  
Buying A Roaster 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.  
Overview Home Roasting - Getting Started   
  Roasting your own coffee at home can be a challenging and satisfying hobby, and getting started does not have to be expensive.  
Stir Crazy The Longest Coffee Roast Ever?   
  I've been home roasting since 1998 and I've never heard of anything close to a 60 minute roast. My experience tells me that if you can't get to 2nd crack by 20 minutes (at the very latest), the coffee will be flat and tasteless.  
Buying Club Meeting Up With The Green Coffee Buying Club   
  Coffee cooperatives are groups that pool their money together to buy sizes of unroasted coffee that are usually only available to commercial roasters.  
Heat Gun Roasting Coffee with a Heat Gun: A Top-Down Approach   
  Learn how to roast coffee using a heat gun. This is also known as the dog bowl method.  
Infrared Infrared Roasting   
  As most coffee connoisseurs know, the most important part of the coffee process is the roasting. During the coffee-roasting process, natural coffee acids form which can lead to heartburn, indigestion and upset stomach.  
RIP Roast in Parchment (RIP) Coffee   
  The term RIP coffee has nothing to do with wishing your coffee a peaceful death. Rather, it is short for Roast In Parchment.  
Blending Coffee Blending Strategies   
  Have you ever noticed that on the supermarket shelves most of what you can buy are coffee blends? If single origin estate coffees are so fabulous, why would you want a blend?  
Cold Weather Cold Weather Coffee Roasting   
  Roasting coffee can be done indoors or outdoors. With my current pad, roasting on the outdoor patio is the only option. My smoke detector is hyper sensitive and requires an acrobat to disable. As the months went by and the temperature dropped, my roast times were getting longer and longer.  
HotTop Hottop KN-8828P Coffee Bean Roaster First Look   
  Maybe you currently have a KN-8828P Hottop roaster, and would like to get more out of it. Maybe you are thinking of upgrading from one of your simpler models like the KN-8828, KN-8828D, or KN-8828B to the more advanced KN-8828P digital model.  
Wok Rookie Roast - Confessions of a First-Time Home Roaster   
  My coffee-drinking palate changed forever in early 2000. All in one mug I had my first taste of home-roasted coffee, as well as my first taste of French-pressed coffee. I won't soon forget it. So rich, so intense, a one-of-a-kind taste.  
Behmor 1600 Behmor 1600 Coffee Roaster Tutorial   
  In my last article, I did a first impression on the Behmor 1600, formerly known as the Joe Roaster, the brainchild of Joe Behm. After spending a few more weeks with it, I have been able to learn more about it, and hope to help you get the most from your Behmor1600 Coffee Roaster.  
I-Roast2 I-Roast 2 Coffee Roasting Guide   
  So you bought an iRoast2 and your roasts are coming out too dark or too light, or feel the flavor could be better. Maybe you are generally happy, but think you could get more from the iRoast 2.  
Behmor 1600 Behmor 1600 Coffee Roaster - First Impression   
  Maybe you've been hearing about the new roaster by Joe Behm. Maybe you heard it under other names, like the Joe Roaster.  
iRoast2 Testing the Hearthware i-Roast 2   
  This i-Roast 2 has taken the place of my Cafe Rosto. I like the way it operates and I like the roasted coffee it produces.  
Barbeque Barbeque Coffee   
  I have been meaning to try roasting my own beans for quite a while, but the one issue that frightened me the most was "smoke."  
Economics Economic Benefits of Home Roasting   
  The economics of coffee consumption are quite relevant to the home roasting industry. There is a direct relationship between the quality - perceived or real - of coffee and the amount consumed (people will drink more coffee if it tastes better).  
Roast Level Dark Roast vs Light Roast   
  Dark roast simply means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and typically for a longer period of time. This causes all of the flavor molecules stored within the coffee beans -both the good and bad flavors- to be burnt away.  
Frying Pan Roasting Coffee in a Frying Pan   
  When I home roast coffee, I use a big frying-pan. I buy my green coffee beans from different parts of the world and then deliver the roasted coffee each day to some of my clients.  
Air Popper The Poplite Air Popper: a Cheap Home Coffee Roaster   
  Unless you have an industrial capacity exhaust fan in you kitchen do not attempt to use this in your house. Air roasting beans produces quite a bit of smoke, so do it on your porch or at least outside.  
Modification Poppery Hopper Modification   
  An alternate chimney solution for roasting coffee in the Westbend Poppery.  
Popularity Home Coffee Roasting on the Rise   
  The home roasting phenomenon is a mixture of a few things. First, people have tasted the nectar and know how good it can be.  
Overview Roast Your Own Beans   
  There are a growing number of enthusiasts who are roasting their own coffee beans and enjoying the benefits of truly fresh coffee at about one-third to one half the price of beans from your local coffee shop.  
Cooling Cooling your Coffee Beans   
  The process of roasting your own coffee beans is easy once you have a basic understanding of how it works. Home roasting is catching on rapidly and has been touted as the fastest growing hobby in the United States today.  
Stovetop Building Your Own Coffee Roaster   
  In this tutorial, you will learn how to build your own stovetop coffee roaster. It will work very similar to the Whirley-Pop popcorn poppers, which can also be used to roast coffee  
Hottop Hottop Coffee Roaster   
  A comprehensive overview of the Hottop Coffee Roaster. The Hottop is a drum coffee roaster, designed for home use, with a manufacturer's recommended batch size of 250g of green beans per roast.  
Fresh Roast Roasting with a Variac Controlled FreshRoast Plus   
  How to achieve a slower coffee roasting profile on the FreshRoast Plus using a variac.  
Hearthware Gourmet Coffee Roaster   
  Like the Precision, the Gourmet is an indoor coffee roaster that can roast 1/2 cup of green coffee beans at a time.  
Fire Pan Roasting Coffee   
  Green beans are far less expensive than those roasted ahead of time and can be safely stored for up to two years without loss of flavor. By roasting your own you also know you're getting the freshest possible cup of coffee.  
Popper Popper Roasting Tips   
  A few helpful tips for beginner home roasters using a popcorn popper for roasting. Another name for this article might be Roast Your Own 2.  
Melitta Melitta Mishap   
  Home Roasting with the Melitta AromaRoast is a bit more difficult than other methods. In an effort to discover a perfect roasting environment, one of the basic lessons of roasting was forgotten.  
Popper Winter Home Roasting   
  Cold winds and bitter temperatures have a negative impact on outdoor roasting in a popper. Coffee roasting requires a high temperature and when the cold winds start whipping around the machine, the coffee beans are cooled. The lower the roast temperature, the longer the roast will take.  
Overview Why Home Roast?   
  Why should you go through the trouble of home coffee roasting? INeedCoffee.com offers several reasons why.  
Fresh Roast Home Roasting Coffee with the Fresh Roast   
  The Fresh Roast can roast 2-2.5 oz of green coffee beans per batch, which yields enough for about 10-12 cups of coffee. If you and your household consume a lot of coffee then a larger capacity roaster may be more appropriate.  
Terminology Coffee Roasts: Notes from a Non-Roaster   
  The best way to judge a coffee roast is with your own eyes. There is no real uniformity in terminology associated with roast colors. Coffee culture evolved simultaneously around the world and no two French Roasts developed with the same exact darkness.  
Hearthware Precision Home Roasting with the Hearthware Precision   
  A demonstration on how easy it is to home roast coffee with the Hearthware Precision Coffee Roaster.  

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