Tea & Coffee 05/03 - Getting the Skinny on Sample Roasters: Part I (#)

  „That’s pretty rough talk to some of the larger machine manufacturers, who refer to each other’s machines as toys, much less a sub $200 “corn popper.” Nevertheless, just as Sivetz coffee roasters are serious machines, so is each of the machines reviewed here. I still think we’re something short of a quartz watch-style quantum leap forward. But, for further development, there has to first be a market. I believe there’s a market and there are now some serious contenders.“

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CoffeeKid - A Home Roasting Primer

  „Other roasters are around too: The second generation Fresh Roast has been updated, and now instead of roasting 2 ounces, can do 3.5, or about the same amount a popcorn popper can. At about $60, this is the cheapest regular price for a dedicated coffee roaster available today, and it does do the job pretty well.“

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Popper Roasting Tips (INeedCoffee.com)

  „It didn't take too many roasts before I got sick of pulling the cord out of the wall to stop the roast. Unlike other roasters such as the Fresh Roast or the Hearthware , the West Bend 2 doesn't have an OFF switch. Note: the original West Bend Poppery does have an off switch. The way to stop a roast is simply by pulling the cord out the wall.“

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Stovetop Roasting with the Whirley-Pop (INeedCoffee.com)

  „You can easily start roasting at home with one of these roasters. But there are other, older methods of home roasting. This article explores using a stovetop popcorn popper, which enables you to roast coffee right on your gas stove. It's not nearly as easy as roasting with an electrical popcorn popper, but the advantages of this method are that you have 100% control over the roasting profile and you can roast greater quantities at one time.“

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View topic - Air roasted or drum roasted? - Coffee Forum

  „I have never worked on a Sivetz roaster and cannot say a thing about if it is good or not. If he developed it from a popcorn popper or not and what he made of it, cant comment on that.“

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Tea & Coffee 05/01 - Life in a Vacuum

  „But larger roasters have a question: “If my customers refuse to buy coffee from a small local roaster and they will only buy coffee where they can do so as inexpensively and as conveniently as possible, why shouldn’t our company try and provide them the freshest tasting product possible?” The realities of the marketplace certainly can chill or stifle the most romantic notions. It’s true, most people are not going to buy coffee from anywhere but their grocery store and they will probably even buy it ground or grind it in the store. For them, the issue is not whether to provide them with an Ethiopian Harrar and a Yemen Mocha that are fresh enough so that the difference between these two great coffees can be appreciated. Rather, the challenge is to get whatever coffee this customer wants to buy (and it will probably be a Colombian coffee, flavored coffee or the generic “house blend” of yore) and try to deliver that coffee as freshly as is possible to that customer.“

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