Thanks for the warning!
I just saw these in a shop in Freiburg (DE) during Christmas and was
precisely wondering how the chaff was supposed to be collected...
Luckily my Christmas shopping had already ruined me so that I couldn't
afford one.

Serge


Bruce B > wrote in message >...
> Coming back to an old thread with a negative answer and I hope this has
> not already been thrashed to death he
>
> Here is a roaster NOT to buy. It's new here in Germany and I've never
> seen it anywhere else, but things like this do not usually remain local.
> You can look at it he
>
> http://www.dieckmann-aroma-kaffee.de/
>
> It roasts an amazing 300g and is basically a heat-gun with a small,
> plastic-gear driven rotating drum. The price is ?199 or about $230.
>
> Reading the well-hidden instructions it says (albeit in German): DO NOT
> USE WITH NORMAL GREEN COFFEE BEANS! THESE HAVE NOT HAD THE CHAFF REMOVED
> AND CAN BE A FIRE HAZARD.
>
> What this means then is you can only roast the "pretreated" beans sold
> by Dieckmann in 300g portions in plastic bags for ?2.50. The beans look
> vaguely like the description of monsooned Malabar, ie. a dirty,
> yellow-grey color. I don't have any idea whether they are preroasted or
> how the chaff is removed, but I think it is obvious why one would not
> want to own one of these.
>
> Just a warning to German alties and/or in case this thing shows up on
> other markets.
>
> Bruce "who likes to remove his own chaff, thank you" B