FreshRoast Plus 8 & Sweet Maria’s Beans – Home Roasted Coffee
My first upload. It’s kinda boring. A rough, unedited video of the process of roasting raw, green coffee beans in a FreshRoast Plus 8 coffee roaster. I uploaded this just to show the progression of the roast and what I do…which is mostly sit and watch. If you’re thinking about home roasting, or if you’re just curious as to what happens, then this is for you. I purchased my roaster from Burman Coffee and I get my beans from Sweet Maria’s. Yay. I plan on adding notes and/or narration later….
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Excellent video. Subtle, quirky humor and brilliant cooling method.
I am going to be buying the SR500 from Sweet Maria’s as soon as they come out and would be interested to see anything else you have to offer from your home roasting experience so far.
All I wanted to do was show people who’d never used or perhaps, never heard of a home coffee roaster to see how easy it is to do.
Thanks for the comment!
I have owned FR+8 for 5 years –love it.
I like your vid — no excess babbling, informative, brief and to the point. Good job.
Hey that cooling mechanism is totally ingenious. I live in Hawaii, so can roast outside all the time. i just use a naked popcorn popper (Chefmate) bought at Target for $16 and roast without a lid letting the chaff blow in the breeze. I stir the beans vigorously with the handle of a wooden spoon every couple minutes — the friction helps release the chaff. Works great, and I make cappuccino using my Rancillio espresso machine and grinder…..love it!
Thanks! Yah… I went with the fan & colander combo because it seems that the beans stay very hot for quite a while, and I don’t want to roast to progress any further than it needs to. I’ll probably put a couple mounts on the fan so I don’t have to worry about the colander vibrating and falling off.
Glad the Behmor is working out. My roasts have been inconsistent lately, so I may go for something more advanced.
Dude, love the cooling rig. I was always doing the ‘”toss the beans in a metal pan” when I was roasting with a popper. Graduated to a Behmor this winter and am loving it.