Coffee Bean Roaster

Are you aware that the bitter taste you experience from coffee, even when freshly brewed comes from the coffee bean having been roasted way back when and just sitting around on the shelf? Even when packaged and stored properly, grindly store-bought roasted whole coffee beans can still produce a bitter flavor, so why not take control of your favorite morning beverage and roast your own in an easy to use coffee bean roaster?

Within a day or two after being roasted, coffee beans start to lose their flavor and tantalizing smell. Storing your freshly roasted coffee beans in an air tight container helps somewhat, but won’t prevent them from developing the bitterness or even rancid taste we’ve come to associate with the usual store-bought whole coffee beans. On the other hand, upscale coffee bars know that roasting green coffee beans in small batches as needed is what keeps bringing their customers back.

As a true coffee lover, you may be happy to learn that it’s quite easy and quick to roast your own coffee beans in your own home. So much of our lives are spent drinking it– to get ourselves up in the morning, to keep ourselves going through boring days at work– that we tend to assume that we’re resigned to whatever coffee we can get. But that’s no excuse for bad tasting coffee!

There are people who swear by the stovetop crank style popcorn maker. But that’s a lot of work and may not produce the even roasting and brightness of flavor that a coffee bean roaster machine can deliver. These days, home coffee roasters come in two popular types: fluid bed roasters and radiant drum roasters

Most people will be happy to start off with the fluid bed roaster. These are easy to use and clean and work somewhat like a hot air popcorn popper. Using heated air, the coffee beans are circulated within a roasting chamber for even and quick roasting. Most fluid bed coffee bean roasters have a glass roasting chamber that you can see the beans as they roast and check to see if they are roasted to your liking.

For those who enjoy a more hands-on professional coffee roasting experience, the radiant heat drum roaster may be a better choice. The quality of the freshly roasted bean using a drum coffee bean roaster parallels that of the professional roaster. Be aware though, that many machines of this type can emit a lot of smoke while roasting, so proper ventiliation might be required.

Coffee bean roasters come in many sizes and styles and range in price from under $100 to nearly $1,000, all depending on the amount of beans that you want to roast at any given time. You can find coffee bean roasters in retail sites and stores all around the country as well as online stores.