Coffee as a hedge

[hpp4me]

Do you roast in your oven, or is special equipment needed?

[macuu222]

Oven roasting does the job for us...just make sure to move the beans around occasionally.Once you get the time and temperature for dark roasting down to a nutshell...just make sure to give it an icewater bath immediately after leaving the oven or your dark roast will continue to cook inside the bean and become a burnt roast!


Professional coffee roasters are too expensive for our ma and pa operation.

[Hotzcatz]

A black cast iron frying pan on a fairly high to medium high heat and one layer of beans in the pan works for small batches of coffee. Stir and don't be alarmed by the smoke. (Turn off smoke detectors before roasting coffee) When the beans reach a nice dark brown but not quite black, pour them out into a bigger cold pan so they will quit roasting right away. Otherwise, an air pop popcorn popper which has the hot air vents coming in from the sides instead of at the bottom is said to work well for roasting coffee although I've never tried it.