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| Roasting Coffee | Cold Weather Coffee Roasting | Michael Allen Smith |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Home (Alone) Roasting | Michael Allen Smith |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Home Roasting - Getting Started | Stefanie Spencer |
| | Roasting your own coffee at home can be a challenging and satisfying hobby, and getting started does not have to be expensive. | |
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| Roasting Coffee | Popper Roasting Tips | Michael Allen Smith |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Poppery Hopper Modification | Rama R |
| | An alternate chimney solution for roasting coffee in the Westbend Poppery. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Roast Your Own Coffee | Ryan Jacobs |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Roasting Coffee in a Popcorn Popper | Michael Allen Smith |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Stovetop Roasting with the Whirley-Pop | Michael Allen Smith |
| | 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. | |
| Coffee Business | The 2 Best Cups of Coffee I've Ever Had | Michael Allen Smith |
| | I don't believe there is always a direct correlation between price and quality. To illustrate this point, I'd like to describe the two best cups of coffee I've ever had. | |
| Roasting Coffee | The Longest Coffee Roast Ever? | Michael Allen Smith |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | The Poplite Air Popper: a Cheap Home Coffee Roaster | Eugene Hanks |
| | 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. | |
| Roasting Coffee | Winter Home Roasting | Ryan Jacobs |
| | 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. | |
