I started of with a Gene Cafe' roaster, was a load of fun and a great intro to roasting. There are some great books about on home roasting on Amazon as well as some great internet resources. Have a look at http://www.homeroasters.org/, http://www.homeroaster.com/ and http://www.ineedcoffee.com/ for some good online advice.
I managed to create a whole load of caffein addicts amongst my friends and they all started asking me for coffee :-). I got a bit tired of roasting >2kg's of coffee a day in the Gene Cafe (roasts about 1kg per hr in 250gr batches) and managed to find a 15kg Probat I could use every now and again so I now roast about 10kg of coffee +- once a week for the addicts on the Probat which is a blast :-) Roasting will add a whole new dimension to your coffee, go for it :-) JohnB On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Ira<laza...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At 06:38 AM 7/13/2009, you wrote: >>Thanks so much for responding to my thread! Do you think a techie tard >>like me could learn how to roast? Is the machine you speak of really >>that easy to operate? > > If you can sit still for 25 minutes during each roast, using a Behmor > is mostly about paying a bit of attention during the roast, taking > notes so you know what you did last time and paying attention to > flavors so you learn how far and which button makes better tasting coffee. > > While I had nothing to do with the Behmor, from all appearances it > was designed to be used like: Weigh out some beans and put them in > the drum. Assemble the drum and chaff tray into the roaster, press > the appropriate buttons and read a book while it roasts the coffee > for you. Read because it's quiet and you're more likely to be aware > of the noises it's making in case you need to press Cool before the > end of the roast. In reality you probably shouldn't use it like that > and you'll never see that written down, but it just seems that that > was the thought in the back of the designers mind. > > If you don't have the self control to stay near the roaster for the > 20 minutes till the roast finishes, it's not for you, but if you can > do that, it's easy to get started. > > Ira > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To post to this group, send email to brewtus@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to brewtus+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
