Final roasted product! It went a little farther than I wanted, but the headlamp I was using ran out of batteries and I had no visual of the roast at the end. These are halfway between first and second crack, I believe. I was aiming for slightly lighter. This is REALLY consistent roasting compared with my usual. #coffee #roasting #diy #coffeeroaster
Roasting! This is right at "first crack" #coffee #diyroaster #diy #coffeeroaster
FLIR says 465F after first crack #flir
Final roasted product! It went a little farther than I wanted, but the headlamp I was using ran out of batteries and I had no visual of the roast at the end. These are halfway between first and second crack, I believe. I was aiming for slightly lighter. This is REALLY consistent roasting compared with my usual. #coffee #roasting #diy #coffeeroaster
**ps: the half Talenti container (which is about 235ml of volume, unsure on weight) expanded to a full pint, 473ml, now that it's cooled! So, not too terrible of a yield. I didn't realize coffee beans expanded when roasting, but that makes sense (since "first crack" is the same kind of mechanism as popcorn popping) #coffee
Yesterday's roast into the 1800's manual grinder. You can tell what kind of roast by how it grinds by hand, very similar to how you have a better feel of the road and your vehicle's performance with manual shifting of a transmission. Lighter roasts grind more and have more resistance (more caffeine!). The darker the toast, the easier they see to grind. This one is slightly past a medium, so will taste the roast more than the beans. I like it a little lighter, but my fault for roasting in the dark. Minimal chaff using the heat gun, that might actually just be remnants from the last grind. #coffee
Into a coffee press (metal, because I have broken too many glass ones). Then filtered. Tastes better unfiltered, but the filtering removes coffee oils, which are not great for your cholesterol levels. #coffee
