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Ohhh ... that is interesting. With your crappy dollar, it is quite affordable, too. I might have to um, have an accident, with the iRoast2.

Crap, doesn't do darker roasts well.

Amy,

Here makes as much sense as the alternatives. Really, it's just my quest to avoid posting everything in "miscellaneous".

One thing I've heard about roasting your own coffee ... Paul can verify this ... is that you don't want to do it in the house. Maybe the Behmor improves that.

As for me; I can buy such good coffee so affordably that roasting it myself doesn't make any sense. You're a bit further from your nearest coffee roastery, though.

The Behmor 1600 is the one my friend uses and he rather likes it. Not too much smoke and fumes, he likes the results, and it will hold a reasonable amount of beans.

Well, my iRoast-2 suffered an accident (Really!!) and I ordered a Behmor. Will report back.

I have a decent range hood (and pretty optimistic 600 CFM). When I did it in the oven, the range hood was not good enough and it was pretty smokey in the kitchen. With the roaster, the hood seems to be able to get rid of it well enough unless I go really dark.

Paul,

Sorry about the "accident," but look forward to hearing your reports on the Behmor!

Amy

Amy,

Sweetmaria's, which was linked to already, is an amazing resource for home roasting. They also charge the same shipping as closer suppliers (at least to NY) and have excellent, consistent product, and very good customer service. I did the popcorn popper thing for a while, but it is getting harder to find them for reasonable prices on ebay and such. I ended up buying the Nesco roaster (used to be called Zach and Dani's I think). It is essentially a popcorn popper designed for roasting. One nice thing about it is it has a good chaff catcher (roasting is messy) and a catalytic converter which takes care of a lot of the smoke. I roast in my half bath with the door closed and the fan on. There is a little smell in the house, but it doesn't set off my very sensitive smoke detectors. This book will tell you all you need to know: linky.

I have been roasting my own coffee for a while and love it. You can get top quality green beans for about $5/pound (there is some weight loss in roasting, so this isn't a perfect conversion), but it comes out much cheaper than buying good beans already roasted. Plus you get to do it yourself and, with coffee, fresh is so much better.

Hey, somebody want to clue me in to the code to change the display text for links on this board?
Edit: Fixed it. Thanks. I've gotten lazy with boards that automate it all for you.

Thanks Tim. I just looked on our library website, and the book is available through the Pitkin County library system. I just requested it!

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So glad to see you here,

Amy

Did my first roast in the behmor of 'regular' (i.e. non-espresso roast). Did 1/4 pound as an 'opener'. I let it go too long into the 2nd crack and got a bit of a too-dark roast, a lot of smoke and might a touch of flame. The flavour was slightly burnt, but all the other notes were right. Now for the next round!! And to take more seriously their admonition not to go more then 20s into the 2nd crack.....

Ya think?!

roflmao...

Let us know how the next round goes.

I'm still laughing...

Amy