Coffee Roasters

Coffee Roasters

What You Need to Know About Coffee Roasters
By Mark Ramos

One of the newest modern appliances that many people prefer is a home coffee roaster. This device provides you with the opportunity to create a freshly roasted brew from the comfort of your own home. On top of that, you also have the opportunity to perfect and fine tune your specific coffee roast flavor profile, instead of relying upon a commercially roasted brew!

If you are on the lookout for the best choices in a coffee roaster, there are a few things to keep in mind. The main types of home coffee roasters are the fluid bed roaster and the heat drum roaster. Many large commercial companies use the heat drum to roast all coffee beans, but it is not necessarily ideal to be used at home. This is a commercial style of roaster, so you will not have the chance to watch the beans as they roast. In these circumstances, you would only be able to determine by the sound of the cracking or the smell of the beans when they had achieved their ideal roast consistency. Perhaps if you were very experienced as a coffee roaster, this would be the ideal style for you since you could determine the roast that you were hoping to create based on smell and sound.

The fluid bed roaster is often a preferred choice for home use since it is quite user-friendly and convenient. The complete roasting process can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes, and the beans are roasted within a glass rotating chamber. This allows you to watch the roasting process as the beans are roasted, and it is perfect for anyone just starting out in their home coffee roasting.

Overall, roasting your coffee beans at home is actually quite simple. There are three different components within the roaster, which are the main chamber, the chaff chamber, and the heating base. The size of your roast batch will be directly dependent upon the size of the roasting chamber within your coffee roaster, so if you are hoping to roast a larger amount of coffee beans at one time, you would need to look for a roaster that contains a larger roasting chamber. To use this type of home roaster, all you have to do is place green coffee beans within the roasting chamber, secure the chaff chamber in place, and set the timer to the correct cooking time. After the roasting has completed, make sure to place your freshly roasted coffee beans into a large colander so that they can cool completely to reach room temperature.

If you have the time and creativity, home roasting your coffee beans may be exactly what you have been looking for! This allows you to have more control over the roasting process, and you can even create your own customized roast and flavor profile to share with friends and family members. On top of that, you truly can't beat the freshest available to you in roasting your coffee beans at home every time. Simply delicious.

Coffee Roasters