My long time roaster recently decided to retire, so I invested in my own machine, it’s a bit more of a learning curve than expected but I’ll get there!
Looking forward to seeing the upcoming roasts.
Very cool! My friend roasted coffee in Lake Tahoe and it's not easy. I'd love to see photos of your machine.
I’ll post a pic of it and my next batch here shortly, still trying to decide what the next batch will be, it took me three attempts to get a batch of the Nicaraguan that was drinkable!
It’ll do a half lb at a time, when I first started researching machine’s I was a bit concerned about the batch size but once I started thinking about it I realized it’s plenty for me, I almost always have different coffee for mornings and afternoons anyway so a half lb of each will get me through a week if I wanted to do that much at once.
How did it work out with the pan? It seems like it would be difficult to get an even roast.
I eyeballed the heat to medium high and just kept stirring it. When all was said and done it had a salt n peppa kinda look going on. The coffee was fantastic though
I was wondering about re-roasting, I pitched the first batch of Indonesian because everything I read said it wouldn’t chan anything. I did start a roasting journal and have been doing small batches, so that I can get an idea of what’s needed.
