Gene Cafe Coffee Roaster

[uneboite]

As the owner of a noisy little Gene Roaster, it brings me endless joy that the sound of the roaster drowns out the commentary in the second half of this video.

[kanspam]

Where do you buy this product? and how much?

[valicourt]

Had this roaster for two years now. It is perfect! Super control, very quiet and compared to my previous roaster it is in a different class,(That was a noisy Iroast II)

Thumbs up from me for this one :)

[valicourt]

Had this roaster for two years now. It is perfect! Super control, very quiet and compared to my previous roaster it is in a different class,(That was a noisy Iroast II)

Thumbs up from me for this one :)

[phkphky]

If you make any smoke at all while using the Gene Cafe, you're doing it wrong. You can get very serious dark roasts without ever setting the temperature higher than 469.

[WoogieBoogie96]

I presently roast mine in a large very thick frying pan, and they turn out fine. However I am going to buy a Gene Roaster after reading the comments here & elsewhere!

[sschat]

lots of smoke??? oily? your roasting maybe too quickly.

I never had that problem. FIne product!

[garyprovencher]

with the GeneRoast, there isnt a 'too fast' option, just a 'too long' option. You can vry the temperature to get a 'slightly' faster roast, but not 5 minutes like a hot air popper can do. Second crack will produce a tremendous amount of smoke and leave the beans oils on the outside all beaded up. My guess is that they either used a different roaster, or tried the ROn Popeil method with the Gene and "set it and forget it" and came back to find charcoal.

[nightmareboy101]

w00t 17,000th viewer!!!!!!!

[huubhuub]

It does produce a loooot of smoke with oily beans, so much so that it was really annoying my neighbours :)

However, I now roast much smaller amounts of beans, and this got rid of the excessive smoke. In fact almost no smoke anymore..

[Hewson60]

Does it produce a lot of smoke?

Does it make better coffee than the Imex CR-100?

[markpianoman]

Why spend the money for this when a $16 popcorn popper from Target (Chefmate) works great??

[baconmeister]

Then why spend $20000 buying a Probat roaster when you can spend $50 buying a large Chinese made Wok?

[markpianoman]

Because a Probat roaster and a Chinese Wok are used to prepare different types of food....however, your coffee roaster and my $16 popcorn popper BOTH do a fine job of roasting coffee!

[hazd]

as can a wok.

Sure you can roast in a popper, but not with the volume or control of a Gene.

If you don't want a Gene and like your popper better, then good for you. Don't buy a Gene!

[markpianoman]

"Don't buy a Gene!" Exactly my point for all the people reading this.

[hazd]

wow, you're really convinced that a popper can do it all, aren't you?

I don't doubt that a popper can roast coffee, but just flat out roasting everything to the same colour in around 5 minutes is not the approach I, as a Gene user, am looking for.

Personally, want more control so that I can roast each bean in the way best suited to it and hopefully enjoy some of the spectrum of flavour that the farmer and processors worked so hard to create.

or am i just trying to talk sense to a troll?

[markpianoman]

"Just flat out roasting everything to the same color in around 5 minutes" is NOT my approach. Even with the popcorn popper you have to listen for that "second pop" and closely observe the roast color and glossiness...and stop the roast right at the right time...takes some practice. WORKS GREAT FOR $16.

[hazd]

*sigh* i'm not here to get into a pissing contest with you about this.

Roasting with a popper works great, is no doubt a lot of fun and is a valid way of roasting coffee for many people. So is the Gene cafe. So is a hottop, a behmor, a corretto, a dog bowl and heat gun and a wok on the stove.

Coffee is a big world with room for lots of different ideas and tools for us ALL to enjoy. Don't be down on how other people enjoy their coffee, its not cool.

That's really all I'm trying to say.

[newbcxjl]

How much for 1 piece of it?

[gsg73]

just got mine yesterday...so far...GREAT machine!! i'll try my first roast tomorrow :)

[Maja68]

Just ordered one for my fiance, can't wait to give it to him for Christmas!

[coffeeguzzler]

Have one.

LOVE IT!

[greeneyes66]

some fine piece of machinery !