<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">This morning I was roasting coffee beans and thought I’d take a few pictures to show how easy it really is. I’m no coffee roasting fanatic but I started roasting originally because I like the freshly roasted beans and we don’t have any available here that I’ve found. Plus I can buy the green beans for less than $4 a pound and I’ll never find fresh roasted coffee for that price. I roast usually every other week and I do 2 pounds (2 batches) each time.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">The coffee roaster is a drum roaster that is about the size of a toaster oven. There is a drum for the coffee and another piece that is a Chaff collector. Chaff is the outer skin of the bean that comes off in the roasting process as the bean expands. I keep a little handheld vacuum by the roaster so I can do a quick clean up.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">The only thing I would recommend to anyone who wants to start roasting is to either do it outside or where you have a lot of ventilation. I didn’t want to do it outside, so I upgraded our kitchen exhaust fan since it wasn't powerful enough. It was 250 CFM so I upgraded to a 450 CFM which is the largest I could go without upgrading the vent pipe or the cap outside or something I don’t remember. This one does a good job. In the one picture you can see it pulling the smoke out. My roaster is supposed to have smoke suppression technology and it helps but there is still some and it will stink up the house.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">I have a canister to store the beans that has a vent to let the gas out and no oxygen in. The coffee will degass as it sits so this canister is designed to accommodate that. It has a date indictor on it too so I can remember which day I roasted the beans.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">It’s really not that big a deal and its fun trying different beans and roast levels to find what you like and the beans are sure a hell of a lot cheaper. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">https://behmor.com/behmor-1600-plus/</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">This is the roaster I have only mine is the older model. This one gives more control over the temperature of the chamber, etc. but I don’t pay a lot of attention to that. I have my roast down and I do the same one each time. I may experiment more after I retire and have more time but for now this does the trick.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;">The roaster is about $400 but you can find them on sale. I started roasting in an air popcorn popper which I picked up at Salvation Army and then graduated to a small roaster that did about enough for one pot. I got tired of that and bought this roaster about 5 years ago or so.</span>








