Coffee. Make some.
The crucible of my coffee roaster broke.
We ran out of coffee.
Time to roast some.
Start with the stove-top popcorn popper. Turn on the vent-a-hood over your stove. Turn the fan to HIGH.
Heat slowly. Crank that crank.
Crank it.
Really, you should probably not stop to photograph it. You'll burn some beans.You're hearing the beans popping now, as the chaff pops loose from the bean.
Darker. That's not poor focus; that's smoke coming off the beans. Crank it fast. Put down the damn camera! Cranking faster, you're knocking the hulls off the beans.
Shake the beans to cool them, and loosen the chaff. Blow on them to blow away the loose bean hulls. Once they're cool, pour them into your burr grinder. Grind away some beans while you filter some water for your coffee maker. Make coffee right away.
Note: If your vent-a-hood isn't professional strength, you're probably going to want to cook this outside. It makes your house smell like there was a fire at the coffee roasting plant for a day or two afterward.
Labels: Coffee, Field Expedients, food, pictures
6 Comments:
My old boss use's a hot air popcorn popper and it works really well.
For what it's worth, I didn't use this method until Mike and Jennifer gave me some coffee made from that method.
I could live with the smell of coffee :-)
I do this over an open fire at Rev War events all the time. Make sure you're standing upwind you shake the roasted beans to get the silver-skins (chaff) off.
Atta boy! It's been entirely too long since I last bought green coffee. May have to fix that...
Great photos. I prefer to wait between 8 and 24 hours for the CO2 to dissipate after roasting. I always find an early grind to be kind of sour. Can't wait to try the stovetop popper. I have a modified hot air popper with a speed control for the blower and switch for the coils. It works great but takes forever for any real volume.
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