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Video: A Cooler Way to Cool Your Behmor Roast
Cool your coffee faster by removing the drum.
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Intro to Home Roasting Class
Sign up for this roasting basics class. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Sweet Maria's Featured on The Coffee Podcast
Listen in and share with a friend that needs a little motivation getting started with roasting on their own.
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Hot Rod Home Coffee Roasters: The Spirit of Invention
For some people who roast their own coffee, off-the-shelf home coffee roasting appliances don't cut it.
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Air Popper Modifications -Adding a Thermometer
A thermometer can help you establish a more consistent roasting routine. Adding a thermometer to your air popper measures the temperature of the forced air heat flow after it has passed through the beans.
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Gas Oven Roasting Method
What You Need: A gas oven. A perforated pan, a vegetable steamer, or a stainless steel wire mesh collander.
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How to make a Thermometer Clip
Do you really need a thermometer clip? Well, not really, but if the dial face is moving around while you are cranking, it makes it hard to read.
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Air Popper Modifications -Timing Roasts
When I started roasting with an air popper, I found that timing the roasts was difficult.
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Another Home Roaster Takes the Leap
Sweet Maria's customer jumps into his own coffee business
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Product Guide: Drum Roasters
Miniature versions of those commercial roasters you always fantasize about using.
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Product Guide: Air Roasters
Air roasters are put in the same category because of the hot air thing but they are all different. There's at least one here that fits your needs.
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Coffee Roasting Basics - Color Changes
Tom has been talking about this for a while ... that we don't have enough basic information about color changes in roasting. Understanding the stages of the roast is fundamental to successful roasting; it is hard to emphasize it enough. He shot a macro-image video under very strong light to show color changes during the roast process. He emphasizes the development of each stage (in both air and drum roasts) and what you can expect to see and hear. The end of the roast is crucial; in the 15 to 30 seconds from first crack moving toward second crack, your roast very quickly goes from City+ to Full City+ (and beyond!). Make sure to pull up a stool and pay attention to the end of the roast not matter what method you use.
I've added this video to our Visual Guide to Roast page as a permanent fixture. Hope you find it useful. - Maria
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Through close up images of coffee beans, Tom narrates the color changes in the roast process.
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