Coffee Appreciation

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mmccarthy in reply to @Stevethecoffee

My nonsense is based largely on people with air roasters recommending peak flavour between 1 and 2 weeks and me finding coffee in the back of a kitchen cupboard 8 weeks after roasting and thinking “fuck me that’s great” leading to proper cupping experiments on this which confirms 3 weeks onwards FTW.

This sort of stuff is exactly why I picked up a little hand-roaster. Though I'm having a bit of buyer's remorse at not picking up the Hive instead. Looking forward to some experiments!

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jdp in reply to @mmccarthy

When you first mentioned home roasting my first (tongue in cheek) thoughts were 'mod a popcorn roaster' or 'frying pan on the hob'...and it seems that the frying pan method has had a hipster makeover!

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mmccarthy in reply to @jdp

Modding a popcorn roaster does seem to be a popular route!

I guess the Hive is a bit removed from a frying pan in terms of the cover providing heat retention, leading to more roasting by convection as opposed to conduction (the cover is also their apparent smoke elimination/reduction solution), so less chance of scorching.

I don't know what frying pans you have, but my arms would likely fall off if I tried to roast beans with a frying pan for 10 mins or so!

Will hopefully report back on the hipster mini ceramic covered tea leaf roaster/frying pan this weekend!

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