FreshRoast Plus 8 & Sweet Maria's Beans - Home Roasted Coffee

This video demonstrates the process of roasting raw, green coffee beans. By roasting your own beans, you are ensuring that you have access to the freshest, most delicious and flavorful coffee available.

The fresher the roast, the more delicious the coffee. Roast your own and skip the supermarket stuff.

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[JamesBerkey]

where does the chaff go



[altzmail]

@JamesBerkey

The chaff goes into the chaff collector, the round, black thing that sits atop the glass roasting chamber.

It (the chaff collector) is a two-piece unit, so when the roast is done, you separate the pieces and dump the chaff.

[dcoppel1]

Just wondering how long you wait in between serial batches? I've always just waited until the unit is completely cool to the touch, but I'm afraid I might fry it one of these days.

[altzmail]

I only wait about five minutes. I've heard that pushing these things too hard will fry `em, but mine's going on 2.5 years old and it's doing fine.

Sometimes, what I do is this... AFTER the beans have roasted, I empty the chamber, put it back on, and run the fan w/o heat. This circulates air and should cool things off a bit.

I've done back-to-back batches, but no more than three in a row. I don't want to push it, and three batches is usually plenty of coffee for me.

[HansMolemanTheFirst]

I just ordered one of these guys. Really excited to have true fresh coffee for a change!

[rockyford58]

I use an old air popper which works very well. In order to have the popcorn popper work, it has to have the air vents that flow from the sides of the cylinder, not from the bottom of the chamber.

[altzmail]

@goddamgeorgeliquor

Well, I tried the air popper again. Whoa. I must have been impatient with earlier attempts. It took a little longer to reach first crack with the air popper, and I think that's what bit me on earlier tries, but after that, a nice even roast. Turned out great.

[altzmail]

@goddamgeorgeliquor

Man... you must have MUCH better luck with the poppers than I do, or know what to look for. I tried about five times, burned the crap out of my beans waiting for first crack (which never happened) and gave up.

[goddamgeorgeliquor]

And the poppers cost like 2 bux at flea markets.

[altzmail]

That's amazing!