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  „Just in case you felt you needed more coffee machinery around your kitchen. Home coffee roasting is actually pretty easy, and takes hardly any time at all. Though it's possible to roast your coffee beans in the oven, in a frying pan or even a popcorn popper , having a proper roaster may be handy for the roasting novice.“

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Roasting Less Than 8 oz. In the Alpenrost: Home Coffee Roasting: Sweet

  „Experienced roaster/operators can use the Alpenrost to test smaller samples of green beans by doing a "manual roast." This technique will allow the roaster to roast in smaller quantities (IE: 125gr. /4oz.) rather than the “recommended 225gr. /8oz.“

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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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CoffeeKid - The Current Setup

  „This is its biggest plus, in my opinion. It also does a different style of roast than air roasters like the Hearthware or FreshRoast do. It tends to give more body to the beans that like body, which is good, but also tends to mute bright notes in beans you want to have bright notes in, which isn't so good. Construction is pretty good in the device, and while I expected that there would be a lot more interactive controls on the device (in pictures, it looks like this, but in reality, the control panel is mostly stickers that do nothing, other than a heat and cool button), bottom line is, it does the job.“

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Michael Allen Smith (INeedCoffee.com)

  „A simple seven color roast chart for home coffee roasters to reference. Also can be used to articulate coffee color when roasting for others.“

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Home Roasting | Quick Guide to Home Roasting Procedure

  „Situate cookie sheets in relation to bean-charged pans so as to break up pattern of hot spots revealed by previous roast sessions. In other words, if beans in middle of roasting pan emerge darker than beans at sides, position cookie sheet directly below roasting pan. If darker beans are at back of pan, position cookie sheet somewhat farther back in oven than roasting pan, etc. If beans take longer than 15 minutes to reach a medium roast or 20 minutes to reach a moderately dark (espresso) roast, or if they taste bland or flat, start with higher temperature on subsequent sessions.“

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