How To Easily Roast Coffee Beans At Home In 10 Minutes
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2023
- You don't have to spend a lot of money to roast fresh coffee at home from green beans. With a few simple tools lying around your kitchen and garage you can have beautiful roast coffee, roasted to your exact preference. Here I use a 2000W heat gun and some bowls and a steel serving spoon to roast coffee from the exceptional beans of Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Roasting your own green coffee beans at home guarantees you the freshest cup of coffee, with the beans roasted exactly the way you like (blonde/medium/full city/dark/espresso). It is not expensive and some people use an air popcorn popper. That's not the best way, as it's only good for small amounts and roasts the beans far too quickly. Full flavour is developed over a profile of drying and browning the beans over a 12 to 15 minute period to allow the Maillard reaction to turn carbohydrates to sugars and roasting coffee is simply heat applied over time, just like any cooking process. The next easiest method to roast, with good control over the roasting time and heat applied, is to use a hot air gun and a bowl to stir in. This way, you can actually control the heat by the power switch, and how far away you hold the heat gun. With the addition of a thermometer you could actually develop your own roast profiles with this method, but really that's just over-complicating things! Just try this outside at home and don't burn yourself!
Great video. I have been roasting at home for about 2 yers, starting with a popper and moving up to a small roaster. What you’re doing is a great method as well and you’re obviously well practiced at it. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
We tried a popcorn popper at first but the quantity it can roast is quite small and the roast went too quickly for flavor to develop properly. We found the ability to slow things down and adjust heat intensity with the heat gun made things go much better. We also have a full size roaster but prefer this method for its simplicity and convenience to do a quick batch to check bean quality. Thanks for watching!
I have to say, I was a little skeptical when I saw this video popup in my feed, but those ended up being some beautiful roasted beans. Usually, people that claim they roast perfect coffee in a frying pan or some other method end up with...well, you know. Anyway, a few years ago I ended up going down the rabbit hole and buying equipment to roast my beans, which I love to this day, but every now and again it would be nice to just whip up a quick batch without all the data. Definitely gonna have to give this method a try!
Fantastic tutorial. Thanks for sharing your process and knowledge. I liked the running explanations about the phases (eg drying phase etc), what smells and colours to expect, how to detect the first crack, etc., and the explanation of the slower 10 minute air gun process being better than the fast popcorn machine process. Super informative video and very enjoyable viewing.
Thank you for your kind remarks.
Just put up a new video today roasting peaberry coffee!
best roasting video I've seen. It looks fun and takes no expensive equipment. :)
Thanks for watching, I agree! I have professional roasting equipment too, but often just use the heat gun as for 300g or so it works just as well as the expensive equipment, and you do learn to use all the senses to tell drying phase, first crack and second crack. Just best done outdoors where all the chaff can blow away.
Agreed!
Good
Thanks for making this video. I've been wanting to start roasting but didn't know where to start
Thanks for watching. Give it a try, it's so easy! This method is a step better than popcorn poppers or iron skillets as you can control the heat better for a consistent roast.
I am planning on doing a video on the next step up - a hand cranked drum roaster on a butane picnic stove - so stay tuned for more! Coffee roasting is an addictive pastime once you start! I began with a popcorn popper 7 years ago.
Thank's for this video, very helpful. I tried the popcorn popper but like you said it is not easy to get an even roast as it roasts too quick and makes a mess with chaff and smoke. I will try this this summer outside. Regards.
Thanks for watching! You will like the heat gun method as you can adjust the heat very easily and follow an actual roast profile closer to the professionals. I actually prefer this over my more expensive drum roaster with gas heating and thermocouples.
good video!
Thanks for watching! Did you try this?
Shows how easy it is to have super fresh coffee at home. In the stores that coffee could have been roasted 6 months ago or more!
Thanks, we just roasted some peaberry coffee today on a new video!
Heat+Time=RoastCoffee
It's a brilliant idea, effective and cheap! I would greatly appreciate if you could provide us with some information regarding the heat gun. Such as the brand and specifications! Thank you!
Any heat gun should do the job. Mine is a cheap Total brand 2000W model, used on "high" setting as you adjust the roasting by moving the heat closer or further away from the beans as necessary. It's important to wear thick gloves as the bowl and spoon do get very hot, and you must keep stirring the beans to get an even roast. Thanks for watching.
I use 2000W model. More than enough heat.
Could you possibly provide links to the bowl you’re using and heat gun? And stirring spoon?
They were just regular stainless steel items from a homewares store bought ages ago, any stainless steel bowl will work but get a larger one is best. The spoon works best with some kind of plastic handle for insulation otherwise it can get too hot. The heat gun was TOTAL brand in Asia, but any 2000W heat gun will work, this one cost less than $25. Just experiment as that's how we learn, like the roast level that suits you best light-medium-dark-espresso. Also try making small batches of say 100g and varying roast levels to sample the results to determine what tastes best for any particular beans you buy.
roasting the beans direct with flame hahahah
No flame, just hot air just like a drum roaster does.
There's no flame in a heat gun....
@@fromtheflightdeck252 that's right unless you roast too long and make an Italian roast ;)
Here is my version. I saw many videos where they didn't move the beans fast enough so my technique uses constant movement of both the gun and the spoon. Also I think using a dog bowl with an insulating air gap helps keep the heat in the bowl.
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This inspired me to give it a go. I still have some adjustments because my times didn’t match yours. First crack was one or two snaps and then nothing. Maybe I couldn’t hear it over the air gun but I kept going past when you said second crack should occur and never reached it because I stopped at what I would judge as med dark. My total time ran closer to 20mins. I also didn’t get all that chaff flying all over the place. Today I tried a decaf bean. Do all the rules change? No chaff at all, no first crack. I just kept going until a dark roast was achieved. Close to 30 mins. I’m assuming the process of decaffeination changes the beans drastically.
My gun has two settings. I used the 300c setting. Is that too low? Like I said, I’ll need to adjust equipment and technique but I like the possibilities!
Wonderful, experiment to see what works! My heat gun is 2000W on high setting and I use high, seems to work best for me. First and second crack can be deceptive as I've had one bean sourced from somewhere where I never heard any first crack and only a very light second crack. Colour is the best judge of roast level sometimes, along with smell and smoke. Darker roasts really start smoking, French and espresso roasts especially. Thanks for watching!
Don’t do this, just stirring is not enough agitation to get an even roast. If you want to roast coffee in small amounts, try an aqua pro and if you want to roast large volumes, the aillio bullet. Don’t torture your coffee like this.
Thanks for watching! How do you roast your coffee?
@@ebikecnx7239 umm I just said, aillio bullet
@@cafecostella Is that a gas heated, steel drum roaster?
Well I get very even roasts as you can see in the thumbnail, and no tipping on the beans. It's very controllable, perhaps even more than my propane fuelled drum roaster with thermocouples and farkles!
@@ebikecnx7239 electric drum, sorta a hot air roaster bc of the fan
Wow is that ever a lot of trouble! No thanks. I can buy wonderful roasted beans ready for my grinder. What's next? Grow your own beans?
Yes, I grow them in the mountains and wet process them myself. That's why it's good to know your vocation thoroughly.
Just made a new video today with roasting a peaberry coffee.
Very uneven roasting process.
Not so, look at the roast beans!
Just added a new video today roasting a peaberry coffee.
@@ebikecnx7239❤peaberry❤
Don't roast coffee at home. It'll be uneven. Doesn't worth the effort plus it'll taste bad. Also the fresher coffee may not be the best. Coffee needs to rest about 10 days after roasting.
Thanks for watching.
Absolutely roast at home! I have enjoyed coffee for 30 years, and have been studying and working in a coffee region for 10 years. How do you think people in the past roast their coffee? Turkish antique stores carry little skillets where nomads roast their coffee over camp fires. Ethiopian coffee is one of the best, look up Ethiopian coffee ceremony where they roast the coffee over a fire.
I do have a $30,000 professional drum roaster but the heat gun produces coffee just as well as that on a smaller scale. I am simply showing people you don't need to spend that kind of money if you don't have a business in coffee. There are no roasting defects in the way I do it. No tipping, and an even roast. Plus, it's not necessary to degas for 10 days, I have had some of the best cups the very next day. Plus, I can assure you that 90% of the coffee in the supermarkets is much beyond the roasting sweet spot of 2-3 weeks maximum. Some supermarkets had almost a year old coffee on the shelves.
Plus there is the satisfaction of roasting coffee the way you like it, whether blonde or dark or something in between. There is the fun of it, the cost factor is also important. As I get my own beans from the neighboring mountains above 1000 meters direct from the farms, such as Doi Chaang and Thepsadet, the cost of my coffee is about 5 cents per cup.
@@ebikecnx7239 thanks for the answer. I am actually Turkish myself. I still do think roasting at home is not very convenient but it might be better than supermarket coffee.
Roasting coffee at home is perfectly fine. He has a pretty even roast there with what he just did, better than some videos I've seen. If you want to see an uneven roast check out pan roasting and that can still taste good. Generally in home roasting you do actually let the beans rest before the grinding, though some say only 3 days instead of 10. I suppose like many things it will come down to testing, personal tastes, and the specific beans chosen. That's specifically *why* roasting at home is a wonderful past time: you get total control of the coffee process, for good or bad. It lets you play around with all the variables and find out for yourself what does and doesn't work for your preferred beans. For those few that find they really enjoy it they can even make a business out of it. If they never try though they'll never know.
There's so much wrong with this comment. I will admit, there is a learning curve, but as with anything in life that's worth doing, you have to do it right...RESEARCH! If you are only going to try pan roasting one or two times and then end up with scorched beans, which you will, then get discouraged, don't waste your time; you will be VERY disappointed. However, if you are willing to put in the effort you will end up with some absolutely amazing coffee. I prefer green beans from the Central and South Americas roasted at a medium to medium dark roast and after roasting I only let mine rest three days before I dive into them.