Stir crazy/Turbo oven coffee roaster

This is a stir crazy/turbo oven coffee roaster. In the beginning you can see the mods made to the stir crazy. The plastic nut in the center was replaced with a melal one and covered with a metal cap. Wire connectors were placed on arms to assist in agitation of the beans. I tried to show the different stages of roast. Hope it helps someone.

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• Stir
• crazy/Turbo
• oven
• coffee
• roaster
• SC\TO
• SC\CO
• stir
• crazy
• turbo
• green
• beans
• galloping
• gourmet
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• home
• salton
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• coffe

[dlygrind]

Hi there, what model of convection oven are you using? Do you vary the roast temp? What weight of beans are you doing? What times are you typically hitting first and second crack?

[langcjl]

All of the ones I have now are Galloping Gourmet. I usually get to first between 9&12 and second can come anywhere from 1 to 5 min later. I really go by feel so I dont check times that often.

[MrCensorman]

thats the brand of beans i used

[nakamine1713]

I'll bet that room smelled awesome!

[metaspherz]

@langcjl Impresive design. I considered making one myself last year but I gave away my old bread machine. The NuWave/Stir Crazy method is working great but I just ordered a Behmor 1600 drum roaster with tax return money. It's expensive but It has many roasting options to experiment with.

[langcjl]

All good info. Many people do not realize that coffees from different origins and crops have distinctly different flavors. Roast you own and you get to try more beans.

[langcjl]

Check out my new bread machine roaster video. The bread machine was $4.99 @ goodwill and the heat gun $9.99 @ Harbor freight.

[sonseeker007]

thanks so much for the info...I am gathering everything and looking forward to doing some home roasting....have an awesome day!

[Carrie6583]

When the beans are done roasting, put the bowl in the hole in the lid, turn on the vacuum and then dump the beans in the bowl, turn on vacuum and stir the beans with your hands if you can stand it, or with a big wooden spoon or something else appropriate.

[Carrie6583]

I'm not sure how he cools the beans down. But we use the following method and it works great.

You'll need:

1 brand new 5 gallon bucket with a lid - you cut a hole in the lid to fit the bowl so it sits about 2 inches down into the bucket. And a hole cut in the side about 3/4 of the way down to fit the vacuum hose nozzle.

1 cheap metal bowl with holes punched in the bottom and about 1/4 inch up the side.

1 shop type vacuum... more after the jump