Home Coffee Roasting and Coffee Roasting Tips

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Home wine makers will be happy to hear that roasting your own coffee beans is even easier and the results are often as good as the pros.

A wide variety of home coffee roasting machines are available, but even a frying pan or popcorn popper can be used. Be sure to start with ultra-clean equipment though, because nothing spoils the taste of coffee like left over fish oils or butter. Lightweight Coffee Roasting Machine

Always start your home coffee roasting with the best quality beans, of course.

Dark roasts contain a little less caffeine than lighter roasts, but they lack the acid taste of the latter.

The beans will need to heat to between 460F (223C) and 530F (262C), so be prepared for some smoke. That's easily taken care of with a small room fan or stove top exhaust.

Apart from the smoke there will be an odor, so your first experiments should probably be done with the windows open and no one home.

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Put the beans in your roaster and turn up the heat. Take care to temporarily disable those over-sensitive home smoke or fire alarms.
For some roasters, the thermometer is built-in, but you may want to have an extra for when it's open, or for those frying pan experiments. Candy making thermometers work well for this purpose.
During the coffee roasting process those green beans will turn yellow, then brown. How brown depends on how dark you like your roast, which is always an individual choice.
As they begin to heat up, moisture in the form of both oil and water, will put pressure on the coffee beans skin and you may hear a loud crack when it bursts. Don't worry, this is normal. Stirring every 30 seconds or more, you'll hear this after four to seven minutes of heating.
The sugars inside the coffee beans will begin to caramelize (turn brown and burn slightly) as your home coffee roasting continues. Again the degree of burn is a matter of taste. Check the color every 30 seconds or so.
Roast long enough and sometimes a second loud crack will occur. At this stage the beans will be quite dark and for some palates a little overdone. Beyond the second crack you are really just burning the coffee beans and boiling away the sugars. The results will be too harsh for most.
Pour your home roasted coffee beans into a metal colander to cool, then agitate. Since the roasting process produces chaff (a fine skin that detaches from the bean as they're agitated), you'll want some method for removing it. Mesh cooking screens are one option.

If it's your first time roasting your own coffee beans, try a few batches and vary the times and degrees of darkening.

Experiment to get the flavor you like, And; keep in mind that the heat trapped in the coffee bean will continue to cook the bean for a short while after you remmove it form the roaster, so try stopping a little short of your desired end time.

For popcorn popper style home coffee roasting, be sure to get a popcorn popper that allows you to stir up the beans to keep them moving around and prevent sticking to the surface.

If using the stove top for roasting your own coffee, a cast iron skillet works great. But, be prepared for lots of stirring and viewing.

Home Coffee Roasting is quick and easy. All it takes is a little bit of trial and error.

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