There is one guy here who runs a commercial roastery... I can not think of who it is or the last thread I saw him in... try searching members with the word roast maybe.
I have not done it yet, too many other projects. But the smell must be amazing!
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Did that for about 4 months, and my wife got me a Behmor roaster.
Will roast 1# which is nice - I roast 2x per week, 1# each.
Go to the Sweetmarias.com site - they have a lot of good info.
Once you get the hang of it, you can roast better than what you can buy - pretty much the same as when you brew beer.
Good luck and have fun.
One note: If you load up the popper, you HAVE to make sure the beans are moving when you start. They are heavier and if you don't use a wooden spoon to keep them moving, you will have a very uneven roast.
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Yeah, I seem to be getting an uneven roast even when stirring like a madman with a wooden spoon. I think the popcorn maker I got might not be suitable.
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why did you have to bring this up... I have been thinking about it all day aty work. Now I will have another obsession to try and explain. Must I do everything the hard way?
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the wife is game... I am buying a roaster this week. I am thinking a smaller one, not the one lb job. I got a few other things that need some $$ too!
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That Behmor is a great entre into home roasting. It actually allows for temp profiling.
With the hot air poppers it is kind of like a turbo roaster. Very fast and hard to control. But easy. I have never done this but you can rewire the heating element and the fan so that they are on different circuits within the popper. That way the fan can go full blast but you can dial down the heat that is flowing in.
My favorite home roaster ever was the $25 Whirly pop popper. It worked fantastically and after a couple batches was very easy to manage.
GREAT HOBBY!!! (But obsession making as well. At my peak I had 600 lbs of green beans in my house, 5 different roasters, 3 grinders, and 12 different ways to brew coffee. Now I just have the $600 grinder and $1200 Espresso Machine.
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Anybody else roast their own coffee?
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