If I want to start a home business of roasting coffee and selling it online, what home roaster should I buy?

Question by Captain Hydro: If I want to start a home business of roasting coffee and selling it online, what home roaster should I buy?

I've done it with a popcorn popper. A restaurant owner recently expressed an interest in purchasing some so I was thinking of upgrading my hardware.


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Answer by Coffee Mom
This is tricky, since many states do not allow "home roasting" equipment as they put out chemicals. I own a coffee roasting business so I can tell you this with a high level of expertise.
You need to check with both your state and county laws before you buy anything. It would really suck for you to pay out a couple of grand and then get a ticket for air pollution! Also, you may have to pay sales tax on internet sales depending on what state you are in. You also need a business licence to sell anything.
If you get the go ahead, then get a small drum roaster, it really tastes so much better than air roasters (you may as well use a popcorn popper!) The drum roasters are around $ 1,000.00. We recommend the Euroroast. But there are a lot out there. Don't go with cheap ones, as they will fry after several batches. Home roasters will only roast about 8 oz at a time. It is pain, and very, very messy. The clean up for any roaster is about 30 minutes after each batch (due to the sticky chaff). If you don't clean it out, you will get a fire (which your homeowners insurance will not cover, and if you rent, you risk a law suite if you don't have written permission from the owner to use a home roaster).
Also keep in mind you will need to source green beans (you will need to buy a full bag weighing about 130 lbs at no less than $ 2.00 per pound).
If you still really want to roast, but the information I have provided you with seems like a headache (which it is), then I HIGHLY recommend that you find a local roaster (they are in almost every state) and have them toll roast for you for a small fee. You don't have to worry about the nasty roasting operation, and you can still roast the coffee to your specifications. However, you still have to have a small business licence.
I don't personally recommend that anyone go into the coffee business right now. The market is fully saturated on-line. You are better off finding a coffee you love (by requesting samples around $ 1.00 each) and purchasing it.

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Roasting your own coffee beans--How long?

Question by Nemo the geek: Roasting your own coffee beans--How long?
do you leave them in the oven and what is a good temp for it. I'm a newbie at raosting my own coffee beans, I have 2 pounds of Green Coffee Beans coming this week. I'm trying to find out how to make white coffee and/or light roast........


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Answer by Paul in San Diego
How long to roast the coffee depends on how much you want to roast it. It also depends on the method and the temperature. About halfway down the page on this link is a good explanation of the phases of coffee roasting (see step 3): http://www.sweetmarias.com/instructions.php . And, coffee roasting is kind of an art. Professional and artisan coffee roasters develop a feel for when the coffee is roasted perfectly and, in the case of a darker roast, when exactly to stop the roasting process before burning out all the sugars in the beans. So, I would only do a small amount at a time, testing out various methods, and roasting times and temperatures until you get it right. Otherwise, if you screw up the first time with the whole batch, you'll have to go get more Green Coffee Beans before you can try it again.

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How would longer roasting times of green coffee beans effect its caffeine content? Why?

Question by Chris G: How would longer roasting times of Green Coffee Beans effect its caffeine content? Why?



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Answer by hweizman84
ARSCHGESICHT!!! So, this is where my students go for help after class. To be honest, I'm ashamed. My students would rather utilize the internet as a tool to advance their schooling rather than talk to me. Is this what my grandfather fought for in WWII, so my own students can patronize me? You know, I regularly use google to check if my students ask the questions that I give online, and looks like I caught you red-handed. I'll tell you what roasting freaking coffee beans does to its freaking caffeine content. Meet me in the dean's office and we'll roast some coffee over your ripped up lab report. I'm already having ACS track your username and find out which student of mine you are. I'm glad you displayed curiosity in this topic, and I'll be seeing you soon.

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Can you make a light roasted coffee darker by additional roasting?

Question by What I Say: Can you make a light roasted coffee darker by additional roasting?
If you have the whole beans for a light roasted coffee, can you roast the beans darker to get a stronger french roast type coffee? Can you do this under a typical oven broiler, or is there another way?


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Answer by puppy ailens
add more beans will help make it darker.

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How much Money would a Coffee Shop save by roasting their own beans?

Question by asmalaska: How much Money would a Coffee Shop save by roasting their own beans?
Hello,
I am a small drive through shop that serves about 40 lbs of coffee per week. Does anyone know the math of what I would save if I roasted my own beans assuming I spent $ 900 on the roaster?


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Answer by Latanya
you can roast coffee at home, but most people don’t for these reasons.

You can roast coffee in an ordinary oven, but the quality of the roast will be uneven.
You can buy a machine for roasting coffee beans, but these machines are expensive and don’t roast much coffee at a time.
It’s hard to find Green Coffee Beans unless you are buying in wholesale quantities, e.g. 100 pound bags.
The smell is overwhelming.

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