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For good beans: Get beans green from SweetMarias.com or the like. Not expensive ($6-9/pound). Get a cheap hot air popcorn popper. Mine was $3 used from Goodwi
by ctdonath 5y ago
For good beans:
Get beans green from SweetMarias.com or the like. Not expensive ($6-9/pound).
Get a cheap hot air popcorn popper. Mine was $3 used from Goodwill.
Pour in 1 cup of beans, turn on. After about 8 minutes you’ll hear beans start to crack - that’s a light roast. Cracking ends for a while - there’s medium. A second round of cracking happens around 9-10 minutes - dark. Past that you get oils extracting and near burned - French roast.
Easy, cheap, fresh.
ETA: https://youtu.be/mBU47Gzda3o https://youtu.be/mBU47Gzda3o
- reedlaw 5y agoFreshly popcorn popper-roasted beans are better than non-freshly roasted beans but not nearly as good as those of an experienced roaster using better equipment. Try local roasters or order fresh-roasted beans online. Fresh-roasted beans tend to improve in taste over several days and then rapidly decline after around ten days.
- distributedsean 5y ago100%
- ctdonath 5y agoYes, using better equipment with greater skill gets better results. I’m suggesting an easy way to begin the path there.
- ValentineC 5y ago> Fresh-roasted beans tend to improve in taste over several days and then rapidly decline after around ten days. I hear that one hack is to grind your freshly-roasted beans and leave them for a bit to degas. The far greater surface area means that they'll degas much faster than as a whole bean.