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  • Lizzie
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    Welcome BJ...RH your dad, ay?  sheesh, you look just like him!!!  :P

    enjoy the journey!!

    L

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  • rayzurhed
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    Hi BJ...
    Nice to see you finally took my advice and signed up.
    Ladies and gentlemen - this is my son! 8-)
    Welcome BJ
    RH

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  • jason.jasonjones
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    Im new too, but a coffee freak

    I tried a oven roast, and it worked realy well, so pretty much no cost, do a google on oven roasting coffee, basically put it in a realy hot oven, and when you see some oil its done

    I just tried tonight with a pop corn maker, it was even easyer, i haven put a chiminy in yet, but i did 2 x 80 gm batches, the popcorn maker methed seems so much easyer...good luck

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  • GrindOnDemand
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    Originally posted by Ben_S link=1196919222/0#2 date=1196922427
    As a Newbie, it is completely fascinating, all I want to do is go home and roast...
    Thats the spirit mate - keep the passion alive!

    Baha... I too roast via the revered Corretto - its a fantastically simple & controlled way, at low cost, to roast beans to a standard (with practice, of course) thats comparable with results from professional commercial grade roasters.

    Heres a relatively recent post on the method, but search more & youll learn heaps:

    http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1195639050/0

    Have fun,
    Tony

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  • greenman
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    Hi Baha, go for it, roasting your own beans is a great way to learn about coffee and the satisfaction of having roasted your own beans when a sweet shot oozes out of your portafilter into the cup.......I started with a popper (because we had one in cupboard) but it died from overuse very quickly and I set up a Corretto, this setup is fantastic, I now roast 500-600g of beans at a time and get lovely even roasts, its the way to go.
    Good luck with it.........................cheers
    Greenman

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  • Ben_S
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    Hi

    I started roasting last wknd with a $35 breville crazy popper from the GoodGuys and a $3 soup tin for the chimney.

    I did spend $40 on the Digital Multimeter off BeanBay but figured I would use this for any roasting that I do, if I ever progress to something else.

    There is a pretty good thread here on popper roasting:

    http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1174699442

    I think the choices to make are

    Popper
    Coretto
    Build something, e.g. BBQ roaster etc
    Buy something

    As a Newbie, it is completely fascinating, all I want to do is go home and roast.

    Ben

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  • gregpullman
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    Hi BJ and welcome!

    Probably the cheapest way to get started in any effective manner is with a coretto roaster, which combines a heat gun and a breadmaker. Both of these can be often picked up from Cash Converters or similar with a total outlay of <$100. There are other home variations including bbq roasters but the coretto is probably the cheapest and arguably the more popular. From there you move into fluid bed roasters like the i-roast (~$400), and then up to drum roasters like the Gene Cafe (~$700).

    Have a look through the threads on coretto roasting or do a subject search in the home roasting forum (tick the limit results to one per thread box) for coretto and youll find plenty of information.

    Good luck!
    Greg

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  • baharel_j
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    New Roaster

    Hey guys,
    Im keen to set up some form of roasting apparatus and would appreciate any advice on the cheapest way to go about it.

    Cheers.


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