How To Roast Coffee At Home: A Beginner's Guide

Thanks for this wonderful video! I have a popcorn popper at home & have used it for roasting peanuts & flattened rice apart from making popcorn. Now to find some green coffee beans in Kolkata!

You had missed one last step, brew the coffee with commercial machine and with the popcorn popper, blind test it! 😜

Good info, thx! I will try it with a popcorn machine outside. I love the idea of experimenting with different beans and diff levels of roasting.

Hi have you any suggestions on putting flavours in coffee eg hazelnut, vanilla. Rum and butter . Not just a adding to the finished coffee . Thank you

Thanks for this video... I am sooooo gonna buy a popcorn popper!!!!

Good video. Thank you for making it!

Well that was fast! I thought roasting the beans will take an hour or so ! Dang it just 5min???? Good to know!

I've been roasting about 15 years with a Cafe Gene roaster and I love it. I like to let my beans off gas for 48 hours before placing them in an airtight container. AndI let them rest at least a week before brewing. Burman Coffee Traders is a great source of fresh green beans with several varities available.

To roast perfect beans we can also use sand. Normal beach sand or any other sand you find in your surrounding works. Collect the sand and wash it thoroughly with water and let it dry. Once it's dried add it to a pan and let the sand heat, once it's hot (you'll be able to feel it) add beans and roast them evenly. In India, we use sand to roast popcorns and other such items which needs even roasting.

Nice video

I have three or four coffee trees in my house. Once they are ripe, they are usually eaten by birds and no one pays attention to them.The price of this will be known only after coming to Dubai. I Definitely try this on my next vacation.

Your supposed to use an iron skillet.

Thank you very much . Ur very kind
for sharing appreciated.!!!!!!

What a perfect video for getting started and even better you recommended 2 German companies! Will make things so much easier as I live here :) awesome video man thank you tons. Super helpful. I'll watch it a few times I'm sure after I get a few things in

The cost of green coffee at Sweet Marie's is over $6 lb, which translates to approximately $7.50 lb, after processing through the popcorn maker. Considering that one probably has to go through this roasting process once a day, this doesn’t seem convenient or inexpensive.

Why not start brewing immediately after toasting so that the flavor is still fresh.
* 50 grams is not that much for tomorrow, unless you keep them in a hermitically sealed bag. Right?

Great video, thanks a lot for the tips! My popcorn machine is on the way already. :)

I’m starting my attempt this weekend
If it’s anywhere near as good as various videos made it sound I’m going to be thrilled

Fresh roast does not have a 220v version. At least not to my knowledge

I like when europeans say "popcorn popper"

love the popcorn machine hack for coffee beans...im wanting to get my feet wet in the roasting world so this video is great!!!

This video is REALLY indeed not all people think of it. THANK YOU!🤤😃

Holy Bean in Denmark also sell both green and roasted specialty coffee

I love coffee but my stomach doesn't is there a low acid coffee bean

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I was told that home roasting coffee beans over a heat source (like in a pan over the fire etc. is better that “air roasting”, because air roasting drys the beans much more. Is this accurate at all? Thank you 🙏

THANKS!!!! U R so good!!!

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Excellent video. I’ve used a simple Korean ceramic roaster. It was ok but difficult to get consistent roast. I’ve just ordered a electric type with stirrer ,about $120.

Hello Ales, do you recommend to plant our coffee seeds? is it easy? what are the steps that you recommend? from where should we buy plant seeds? any guide? very nice tutorial video btw.

So...be careful which popcorn popper you choose. I live in the US and got a Presto poplite off of Amazon. Long story short, it blows air straight up, not in a circular motion like the one in the video. The result is a bean pops up and out of the machine every couple seconds. I ended up taking off the top and putting a grater on top as a screen which more or less works. But if you can find one that operates more like the one in the video you'll probably be happier.

That said, thanks for the video! I just started using a ceramic Nuvo roaster but this way is much easier 🙂

Hey Aleš,

I just bought an Iwaka Home, so I was wondering since the video is from 2020, do you have newer green coffee sellers updates?

Thank you so much for your guy's work, I love watching your videos!

What a pleasantly informative video to watch. Cheers! :)

Excellent video

where do you get the bags / what are they called?

Hi, you think it is possible to obtain professional results similar to an expert roaster with behmor 2000ab plus?

"It's cheaper."

🤣🤣🤣I told myself that too. 🤣🤣🤣

When I do a dark roast the beans leave a light oily film in the cooling pan. Is this good or bad? Thanx mike

Great video for those starting to roast their own coffee. Thank you - Happy 2023!

Your amazing. Thank you!!

Cheaper roasters are possible. If a gas stove is available, then a metal pot with glass lid works excellently. Less than $30. Beans' agitation can be done by lifting and shake/swirl the pot and lid together, which although works very well, is a bit difficult for some people. The pot can also be used without the lid but using a wooden spoon to mix the beans; including tilting the pot and using the spoon to swirl the beans around the bottom of the pot. But more difficult to get uniform roast this way.

Something like a frying pan, is too flat; too wide on the bottom and the sides are too low, so agitating the beans is very difficult. Better choice is a metal pot or a saucepan; Much easier to agitate the roasting beans.

Thanks for teaching me how to roast coffee 🫘🫘🫘☕️☕️☕️🥇🥇🥇

I started few days ago with a kaffelogic nano7 roaster. i prefer espresso after 1st crack but before the 2nd. somewhere about american and City roast. but no fullcity, the beans have to rest atleast 3-5 days, 1 day after roasting they dont taste good and have high acidity

the easy way i do it out side, i do it by color not by time . i use a pan to water to cool the beans. Let dry and de= gas wheelchair larry

Karl yes

Thank you for your videos. You are the best🎉🎉