![]() Careful! The beans and the popper will be very hot. The minute you have reached your desired roast, turn off the air popper very quickly and pour the beans out of the popper into one of the colanders. This is normal and another reason you want to roast outdoors. While the beans are roasting, you’ll see chaff flying off either into the bowl or box or into the air. This is called the “second crack” and signals that you have reached what is called a Full City” or dark roast. The next stage is when the beans start to sound more like Rice Krispies crackling in milk. You will hear the beans pop like popcorn for several seconds. The longer you let the beans roast from this point on, the darker the roast you will achieve. At the first crack, you will have reached City Roast, which is a light roast. Next, you’ll hear the beans starting to make a cracking sound. They are not going to pop out the way popcorn would.Īs the machine heats up, you’ll see the beans turning brown in a few minutes. ![]() Watch the beans swirling around in the machine. ![]() Place the bowl in front of the machine where the popped popcorn would exit, to catch the chaff. Measure out 1/2 cup of green coffee beans and pour them into the popper where you would normally pour the popcorn kernels. Bowl or another container to place in front of the popper.While you can still buy air poppers, newer models don’t get hot enough to roast the beans evenly. The machine needs to run at 1200-1500 watts. Check yard sales, thrift stores, even your garage. You want an older model like West Bend Poppery or Poppery II that run 1400 watts. Outdoors on the porch, patio, or driveway is ideal for roasting coffee. While some people roast coffee in their kitchens, I do not recommend roasting indoors because it will make your smoke alarms into a tizzy and smoke up the house. Where to roastīecause the coffee beans must get hot enough to burn off the chaff, producing a lot of smoke. That was enough to get my attention and all I needed to become equally enthusiastic. The motivation? First, quality and taste, but also to cut the high cost of quality coffee by at least half. How it all startedĪbout 15 years ago I had a conversation with Dax Wilson, who’d recently taken up this home roasting hobby. And that’s really good news for folks like me who skip all the middlemen, purchase raw green coffee beans, and roast them. The good news is coffee will continue to be available. We could see coffee prices of $7 a cup at local coffee shops before the end of this year. Today, I have both good news and bad news.įirst, the bad news: The price of raw coffee has skyrocketed and does not look to be slowing down anytime soon. ![]() Would you pay $7 for a coffee? Neither would I … never! But that’s what multitudes of our fellow coffee lovers will be looking at very soon. ![]()
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