Popcorn Popper Coffee Roasting

Roasting coffee with a popcorn popper is a simple and affordable method to achieve delicious, home-roasted coffee beans. Discover the steps and techniques for perfecting your own coffee roasting process.


 Popcorn Poppers are one cheap way to roast coffee that is a step up from the completely manual methods.  This is ideal for your first foray into roasting.  A popcorn popper can typically be purchased for around twenty dollars.  The biggest problem I have faced with popcorn poppers is the internal components burning out and it just stops working. If you have read all of the other methods, the idea of maintaining a log still applies here.  

    You just put the green beans into the popper and let it do the magic.  The popper circulates hot air into the chamber, so the beans are roasted more evenly than a manual method.  The popper won't have a chaff collector, and you are unable to control the temperature, making this one of the more low-tech methods.  With careful logging, you can monitor the time, cracking, and color of the beans to achieve a reasonably good cup of coffee on a consistent basis.

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