My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?

2. Can the green beans be kept frozen until they are ready to use?

3. Any special tips?

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

--

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Dostoevski, The Idiot

Michel Boucher wrote:

[...]

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)


Patio Potatoes

4 potatoes, sliced
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
1 pint sour cream
4 tablespoons milk

Mix soup, milk and sour cream. Place potato slices on foil and cover
with sour cream mix. Close foil securely. Grill 45 to 50 minutes.

--
Best
Greg :-)

We roast our coffee in an old hot-air popcorn popper using this method:

https://id38.securedata.net/sweetmar...popmethod.html

No need to freeze the beans, we just keep them in bags in the pantry.

BE WARNED: once you have had truly fresh coffee, you will not be able
to go back to grocery store coffee!

https://id38.securedata.net/sweetmar...tml#laMagnolia
is my favorite coffee, I just ordered another 10 lbs less than five
minutes ago.

Robyn

Michel Boucher wrote:

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

--

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Dostoevski, The Idiot

How can you ignore a comment without reading it first?

djs0302 wrote:
Michel Boucher wrote:

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

Dostoevski, the Idiot

How can you ignore a comment without reading it first?

His middle name is Dostoevski.

Sheldon

Michel Boucher wrote:
My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?

2. Can the green beans be kept frozen until they are ready to use?

3. Any special tips?

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

Try here for some starter information
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/homeroast1.html

Ken.

"Michel Boucher" wrote in message

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

We don't roast coffee but my wife grinds her own. I buy her good coffee,
but I don't drink but two cups a year. I prefer tea. While I drink Ceylon
tea, green tea has better health benefits I'm told. No roasting involved so
it makes that morning pick-me-up even easier. Healthier too. White tea is
OK, but too mild for my taste. Would you know if the health benefits are
better or not?

"Michel Boucher" wrote in message
NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

I have a question.

First, background information:
The subject line says to read the NOTEs carefully. This plural "s" denotes
notes (hey, is that a pun?) I only see one note.

Now the question:
Should there be more than one note since the subject lines says NOTEs?

So, your one note is duly noted, but other notes, if they exist, are missing
and not noted. Unless the subject line is a typo and there should be only
one note, the one that has been noticed noted.

"Michel Boucher" wrote in message
. ..
My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?



Get a air popper (for popcorn). It's the easiest and cheapest way to roast
your own beans. Oven or toaster oven wouldn't work very well. You'll end up
with very uneven roasts.



2. Can the green beans be kept frozen until they are ready to use?


It's not necessary, IMO. When they're green they keep for a LONG time.


3. Any special tips?

http://sweetmarias.com/ - read the Home Roasting Basics section.




NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)


I love home roasted coffee. Do it outside, if your able, though. The smell
and the smoke is quite something. And don't drink it the same day you
roast! Have fun : )

-Jay

In article ,
Michel Boucher wrote:


NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at home
if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that does not
bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at home, I will
ignore it. You have been warned :-)

You're new here, aren't you?

:-)

My father tried roasting coffee at home. What *hasn't* my father tried?
He used the oven, as I remember. It did smell up the house, but I
didn't think it was unpleasant.

At the last rfc cookin that I went to, somebody (MoMo?) brought a little
ceramic coffee roaster and roasted some beans. I don't do coffee in the
evening, so didn't have any. It did smell up the house, though.

--
Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA

Hope Adorned Me wrote:

"Michel Boucher" wrote in message
. ..

My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?




Get a air popper (for popcorn). It's the easiest and cheapest way to roast
your own beans. Oven or toaster oven wouldn't work very well. You'll end up
with very uneven roasts.


How long do you roast it for using this method? I feel another food
experiment coming on and might just have to go digging in the garage for
that old air popper.

Michel Boucher wrote:
My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?


You can get small coffee roasters that will roast about 55 gm of coffee
at a time. We have one called Fresh Roast. A jiffy-pop (stove top, hand
cranked popcorjn popper) wil also work. As you turn the crank handle,
you will continually keep the beans in motion in order to get an even
roast. The benefit of the coffee roaster is more even heating, it
allows you to adjust for roast color, has a glass roasting chamber so
you can visually check roast color, and it also separates the "silvers"
the outside paper thin "hull" from the roasted beans. If you do it in
the oven, you are going to have to continually stir the beans to keep
the air flowing around them and then sift out the silvers from the
finished beans.
You can also roast in a fcast iron frying pan on the stove top, you
need to get it red hot, smoking before you put the beans in it and then
stir like crazy until they are the desired roast color. They are ready
when they are shiny/oily looking.


2. Can the green beans be kept frozen until they are ready to use?

Unless you are buying more than a years worth of beans at a time, they
do not need to be frozen. Just keep them in an airtight container.

3. Any special tips?

As soon as your beans are shiny (that's the oil) on the outside, get
them off the heat and into a colander to cool down. When they are
cooled and the silvers are separated out, store in an airtight
container.

SD

~patches~ wrote:
Hope Adorned Me wrote:

"Michel Boucher" wrote in message
. ..

My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?




Get a air popper (for popcorn). It's the easiest and cheapest way to roast
your own beans. Oven or toaster oven wouldn't work very well. You'll end up
with very uneven roasts.


How long do you roast it for using this method? I feel another food
experiment coming on and might just have to go digging in the garage for
that old air popper.

You roast until the beans are oily/shiny looking. The degree of
darkness is up to you. They can come out of the roaster/popper anywhere
between light and shiny to dark, espresson roast, nearly charred.
Lenght of time depends on how hot you popcorn popper gets.

SD

"Michel Boucher" wrote in message
. ..
My wife wants to buy green beans and roast coffee at home in small
batches enough to make coffee for a few days at most. Apparently the
health benefits of coffee are only available in the week that follows
roasting (NOTE: This is not the subject of my post so please refrain
from commenting on health benefits).

So, the questions are as follows:

1. Does she need special equipment or can you do this in the oven (or
even say toaster oven)? I know you can buy a coffee roaster. What
I'm asking is, is it necessary, or just a nice-to-have with no
particular benefits?

2. Can the green beans be kept frozen until they are ready to use?

3. Any special tips?

========

The only comments I can make is that we home roast and love it. The taste
is superior to the stuff sold in the stores!

We roast ours in an old air-popcorn popper. Works perfectly.

There are quite a few wonderful sites that sell different types of beans
which really adds to the excitement of home-roasting. IOE, buy several
different beans in 1# quantities to find what you like. Just as some people
swear by "x" brand (Folgers, Maxwell House, Starbucks, etc.) different beans
and different roasts (dark, city, light, etc.) will yield different
tastes... Experiment and have fun.


--
Syssi

"djs0302" wrote in
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Michel Boucher wrote:

NOTE: I am not interested in your opinion on roasting coffee at
home if you have never done it, so if you post a comment that
does not bear on your personal experience with roasting coffee at
home, I will ignore it. You have been warned :-)

--

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Dostoevski, The Idiot

How can you ignore a comment without reading it first?

I didn't say I wouldn't read it. What I meant was that I wouldn't
respond to it. Of course, I am responding to this, but only for the
purpose of clarification. Grrrr....

--

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Dostoevski, The Idiot