Finally de-mothballed the popper today and got going on my starter pack. After reading a lot of the posts here, I thought Id be in for a few problems with roast times (its a Breville Quick Popper), which turned out to be the case. Damn - one day in and Im already thinking about an upgrade, but that seems to be pretty common around here!
so, armed with the popper and a freshly emptied pineapple juice can (yes, another can of pineapple juice. While I was at the supermarket I considered getting a can of International Roast and dumping it, just because the idea of an International Roast can being used to actually produce coffee was appealing. But why pay a few extra bucks just for irony?) I got going this morning.
Anyway - first trial was with the PNG Grade A - started with 100g, and just let it go to try to guage the different stages. Im guessing first crack was at about 2:30 - so very quick. I let it motor along, until about 3:35. It was looking very uneven up until this point. Started getting what I thought was 2nd crack at about 4:00, and again just kept it going until I thought there was a risk of the neighbours complaining. What it looked like at 5:30 is below.....yes, a tad dark....but a good educational run.

so, armed with the popper and a freshly emptied pineapple juice can (yes, another can of pineapple juice. While I was at the supermarket I considered getting a can of International Roast and dumping it, just because the idea of an International Roast can being used to actually produce coffee was appealing. But why pay a few extra bucks just for irony?) I got going this morning.
Anyway - first trial was with the PNG Grade A - started with 100g, and just let it go to try to guage the different stages. Im guessing first crack was at about 2:30 - so very quick. I let it motor along, until about 3:35. It was looking very uneven up until this point. Started getting what I thought was 2nd crack at about 4:00, and again just kept it going until I thought there was a risk of the neighbours complaining. What it looked like at 5:30 is below.....yes, a tad dark....but a good educational run.



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