OT: Roasting coffee

[mhorowit]

I know how to roast coffee at home using a hot air popcorn popper if anyone is interested - MikeH

[Forrest Barber]

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you da man , i had no doubt you could accomplish that task!

[Hank Jarrett]

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I don't know why, but when I saw this post and Mike sending it I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair. I can't for the life of me figure out why it is so funny?!?!?!
I don't even drink coffee!
Hank

[mhorowit]

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I don't know why, but when I saw this post and Mike sending it I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair. I can't for the life of me figure out why it is so funny?!?!?!
I don't even drink coffee!
Hank

Maybe it was the delivery?

[Hank Jarrett]

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I drink tea. I delivered most of that through my nose all over my shirt.
Hank
Still snickering, but can't figure out what the heck is so funny about coffee beans in a popcorn popper? I've heard your delivery in person. Funny, but not THAT funny. By the way, how do popped coffee beans taste? Do you put butter on them or cream?

[mhorowit]

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I drink tea. I delivered most of that through my nose all over my shirt.
Hank
Still snickering, but can't figure out what the heck is so funny about coffee beans in a popcorn popper? I've heard your delivery in person. Funny, but not THAT funny. By the way, how do popped coffee beans taste? Do you put butter on them or cream?

There is a style of hot-air poppers ( e.g. Popcorn Pumper) that have vertical exhaust vents in the popping chamber, so it forces the beans to swirl while roasting. The other kind introduces hot air from the bottom of the popping chamber - avoid that kind. Cut the bottom of a used can so that you have a cylinder that you can put in the popping chamber to extend it upward.
Put in 3/4C of green beans (I can point you to an inexpensive source, but for now, just go to your favorite coffee roaster and buy a pound of Colombian Supremo. Plug it in outside (lots of chaff and it will smell; nice coffee smell but wife may not want it in the drapes for a week). If it's cold outside, put the popper in a box or surround it so heat is kept in. In a few minutes you will hear something like popcorn popping. That's called 'first crack'. Smile and keep going. At about :10, you will hear a sound like clicking fingernails (Second crack). Wait about 30 second more, unplug the popper, pour the roasted beans in a collander or a cool pan and let them cool. Let them outgas overnight. Grind what you need tomorrow morning. Use 2T. for every 6 oz of water. I use a french press to brew mine.

If I want to get really fancy, I'll make 'close to' expresso using my mokapot.
- MikeH.

Now if anyone wants to talk about Double-edged razors, shaving cream and badger-hair brushes, I'm up for that too. As you can tell, I'm avoiding drilling a hole in my leading edge

[flyguy]

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I'll bet it isn't decaf, LOL.
Darryl

[Len Petterson]

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I have some green
Coffe bean
A popper from Walmart we can get
I wonder if the rear end
would sound like Jet
If the 'coffee popper' works like charm
and next morning we need sound a gas alarm!
Happy New Year all
Len

[Hank Jarrett]

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I still don't know why I thought this was so funny originally but I noticed that whatever it is it now has more responses than any other Rant & Rave (even without my comments). Whatever it is it sure hit a lot of people!
Hank

[mhorowit]

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Beats me; I just roast 'em - Mike