Coffee Roasting at Home, the Budget Way
If you've always wanted to roast your own coffee at home but couldn't justify the $100 price tag, Cool Tools gives you a helpful step-by-step photo guide showing how you can do it using a hot-air popcorn popper [via Lifehacker]
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Timing the roast on a popper is not very accurate. For good results you must listen carefully for the "first crack" and "second crack" phases of the roast and end the roast at the start of second crack or x seconds into second crack. Many hot air poppers will roast to that level far too quickly unless they are modified. If that roast level is achieved after 4 to 5 minutes the result is often a grassy and / or bright that will disappoint most people and not be representative of what the beans can really offer. 7 to 8 minutes is a better roast time and about 10 to 11 is better still. Cheap hot air poppers can do a good job of roasting but Google the available hacks to find out how you can have a separate switch for the heating element and the fan. This allows the fan to run continuously and the heat to be cycled on and off periodically to achieve longer roast time and better developed flavor.
phaelon56 at 11:35AM on 03/12/08