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„During introductions between Maya Vinic and Cooperative Coffees, each question posed by a roaster was directly answered by a different farmer depending on his knowledge, without being prompted by a leader. A perfect day of growers and roasters tromping together through fields exploding with bright coffee cherries (it helps that they’ve been organic for ten years) led to the signing of a contract for Maya Vinic’s first 10 tons of fair trade coffee. A throng of people in the village of Yaxgemel, one of Maya Vinic’s 33 communities, turned out to attentively witness every translated word and watch every stroke of the pen. We all quivered with excitement.“
http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/news/ clamor20.html - Cached
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Hot Rod Home Coffee Roasters, The Spirit of Invention : Homemade and Seriously Modified!
„Either they don't offer enough control of the roast, are too expensive, or just don't allow the roaster (uh, the person that is) to express themselves. The homemade or seriously modified commercial roasters on this page are alternately amusing and intimidating in appearance, but whatever the case, they probably work very well. And if they don't, you can bet they will be reconfigured endlessly until they do by their respective owners. A disclaimer on behalf of every roaster on this page: modifying electric and gas roasting equipment is dangerous.“
http://www.sweetmarias.com/ homemade-homeroasters.html
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Tea & Coffee 05/03 - Getting the Skinny on Sample Roasters: Part I
„Then, one roaster manufacturer posed this question: “Do these small machines really produce a decent enough roast to help determine a green sample’s worth?” It all comes down to that. In response, listed below are some new sample roasters that just might help in the green coffee buying decision. For the record, in my opinion, not one of these machines has the kind of variable settings that would qualify them as a commercial roaster. But, the point of this article is to determine if they could assist in finding a great coffee.“
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0503/coffee.htm
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Hearthware Home Coffee Roasters: Home Innovations Precision $100 - $121 with Green Coffee!
„The roaster heat and air cycles are controlled by a computer chip linked to a temperature sensing thermocouple in the roasters hot air stream. It makes adjustments on the fly to make every batch adhere to the ideal roast profile programmed on the chip. This profile, a slow initial warmup of the beans ramping up to a faster finish, is considered by the SCAA the best profile to produce maximum quality in the cup.“
http://www.sweetmarias.com/ prod.hearthware.shtml
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„Developing these roasting skills takes time and commitment. We require each of our roasters to make a 10-year employment commitment. A roaster is deemed to have enough experience to have truly mastered the craft only after three to four years of training.“
http://www.peets.com/learn/ coffee_meet_roasters.asp
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Defining A Roastmaster (INeedCoffee.com)
„All of my roasting experience has been on one brand of roaster (AMBEX Coffee Roasters) although the sizes have varied between 30, 15, 10 and 5 kilo machines. This brand of roaster is a traditional gas-fired drum roaster utilizing a combination of radiant and convective heat, I have no roasting experience on either fluid-bed air roasters or electric infr-red roasters. We roast most of our coffees between 15-18 minutes, this allows the coffee to fully develop. I do not finish my roasts by increasing the heat at the end of the roast because of the relative lightness of the majority of our roasts.“
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/99/06/roastmaster/
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