Mikey Sklar shows how to roast your on coffee using a free popcorn popper. This can save you money and offer fresh delicious roasted coffee which is fun to make and share with your friends.
How to roast green coffee beans using a popcorn popper – from start to finish. In this video we use a Westbend Poppery (with the cover removed) and Sweet Maria’s Sumatran Mandheling green coffee beans: www.sweetmarias.com Also shown is a simple homemade setup that helps you cool your roasted beans faster and easier.
This is my very first try. I am Roasting a very nice espressoblend from “the Roastery” In Copenhagen. I am Roasting 80gram.
Short vid of coffee roasting in a Poppery II, this was started about a minute into the process. You can see the beans just starting to lose their green color and go brown. FYI these are Nicaragua Pacamara Peaberry beans from Sweet Maria’s.
Still a novice but thought since my Behmor roaster was coming I better capture my first method of roasting I tried … the popcorn popper. Here I’m roasting some Espresso Monkey Blend from Sweet Maria’s. Espresso Monkey Info: www.sweetmarias.com Visual Guide to the Roast Process: www.sweetmarias.com
Tom from Sweet Maria’s goes to the local thrift store to pick up a popcorn popper to roast coffee with. This just goes to show you that you don’t need an expensive machine to roast great beans. We are huge advocates of the popper method. You should try it!
Tom from Sweet Maria’s shows you how to roast great coffee with nothing more than a popcorn popper and a few kitchen items.
Short vid of coffee roasting in a Poppery II, this was started about 5 minutes into the process. The first crack was just ending as you can probably hear, and I dumped them maybe 30 seconds after the video ended. FYI these are Nicaragua Pacamara Peaberry beans from Sweet Maria’s.
I converted an old air popper, adding speed control to the fan. Slowing down the fan heats the roasting chamber up more. I removed the overheating safety. Yes, this is dangerous, and shouldn’t be done. However, I rewire things all the time, and watch it closely. I roast outside, of course, and my next one [...]
Took this Walgreens Kitchen Gourmet and put in a dimmer switch for the fan and heater. Otherwise the roaster doesn’t get hot enough to do much to the coffee beans… I have since replaced the heating dimmer with a switch. The fan gives you enough control of the heat on the beans. If you are [...]
Using a hot air popcorn popper, you too can roast your own coffee! This is a video demo of the blog posting at blogs.sun.com
I’ve gotten better at roasting coffee in the hot air popper. One of the most important things is to be able to monitor the temperature as you are roasting. I like a lighter Full City roast which you get at about 444 degrees. With this thermal couple I can measure the temperature of the beans [...]
Learn how to make great coffee using a air popcorn popper.
How to home roast your own green coffee with a hot air popcorn machine…
My first attempt at roasting coffee in a hot air popcorn popper. It was very simple after a little trial and error. I found that with this model of popper 1/3 cup of beans for 4:00 minutes yielded the best results. You really have to monitor it closely, once that 2nd crack starts at 4:00 [...]