So....
Like many others who come here the natural progression and next step to enjoying life as a coffee snob is to home roast, so I had to give in to the temptation and buy a starter pack and a popper.
My starter pack arrived yesterday. Thanks Andy, next day delivery is wonderful
. I picked up a Breville Crazy Popper but could not roast any last night due to rain and not wanting to get my nuts cut off by the missus for roasting inside.
So tonight was the night, I grabbed myself a box for the popper as it was a bit breezy outside. I warmed up the box by covering it and turning the popper on for about 20 seconds and let the popper cool down before I added the beans and hit go.
In all the excitement I didnt closely monitor the times.
First big crack was around 2:30mins in and I pulled a few seconds after the second crack (crackle/pops) started after silence about 4:30mins in.
Not sure how I went, it looks fairly even and cooled down with a sieve and a metal steamer.
This was 65g roast, lost a few beans due to no chimney which is the next step.
I chose the beans at random out of the 4, looking forward to roasting the peaberry and ethiopian as I love fruity flavours in the aeropress.
Any tips so far?
Cheers,
Ros.

Like many others who come here the natural progression and next step to enjoying life as a coffee snob is to home roast, so I had to give in to the temptation and buy a starter pack and a popper.
My starter pack arrived yesterday. Thanks Andy, next day delivery is wonderful
. I picked up a Breville Crazy Popper but could not roast any last night due to rain and not wanting to get my nuts cut off by the missus for roasting inside. So tonight was the night, I grabbed myself a box for the popper as it was a bit breezy outside. I warmed up the box by covering it and turning the popper on for about 20 seconds and let the popper cool down before I added the beans and hit go.
In all the excitement I didnt closely monitor the times.
First big crack was around 2:30mins in and I pulled a few seconds after the second crack (crackle/pops) started after silence about 4:30mins in.
Not sure how I went, it looks fairly even and cooled down with a sieve and a metal steamer.
This was 65g roast, lost a few beans due to no chimney which is the next step.
I chose the beans at random out of the 4, looking forward to roasting the peaberry and ethiopian as I love fruity flavours in the aeropress.
Any tips so far?
Cheers,
Ros.


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