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Back to back Fridays with pizza for breakfast. I can get used to this....yum!
There's a big gnarly storm bearing down on the Puget Sound. The grocery store shelves are bare, generators sold out everywhere. The dark gray ominous sky along with the heavy winds and rain we've been getting all morning lead me to believe it may be as bad as they are saying it will be. I even put everything in the backyard in the shed so it doesn't blow away.
Now we just wait for the power and internet to go out, then back to bed I go.

-Mike
 
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Ziltoid said:
How hard and expensive is it to get into home-roasting? Just wondering
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You can get started for $50 or less. You'll need to buy a popcorn popper which is about $20-30, then make some modifications to it, oven mitts to handle the roaster and beans, then something like a flour sifter for moving the beans while they roast. Those are usually $4-10. I still have, and use, my original popcorn popper roaster.
Then you'll need to buy some beans which you can get for $4-8 a pound shipped on average.
This is the thread where it all started for me: Invalid Link Removed
There are other home roasting options, and you'll find most of them discussed there.
You can also find great info at Home Roasting - Home-Barista.com and [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

As for how hard it is....I burned a few of my first batches, but if you really love and appreciate coffee, it'll come to you. You'll learn to rely on your senses heavily, smell/sound/sight. Not so much touch as those beans get up and over 300 degrees (fahrenheit) when roasting.
If you have a coffee roaster nearby, stop in and see if they'll give you a couple pounds of coffee when you are ready to start. With those popcorn poppers, you can only roast one cup of green beans at a time, maybe a cup and a quarter effectively. So the first couple pounds will be a good learning curve.
Roasting coffee generates smoke and chaff, so be sure you have ventilation in place. Otherwise you'll set off fire alarms and have whispy chaff all over the place to clean up.
For me, I roast by our oven and let the vent suck the smoke. I put a strainer over the top of the flour sifter, then let out the chaff every now and then during roasting, then vacuum it up when I'm done.

-Mike
 
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Ziltoid said:
I ordered a new espresso machine
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What did you get?

Mexican morning at our house, breakfast burritos with potato, egg, bell peppers, onions, 7 pot peppers, and cheese rolled up in a flour tortilla.
Coffee was the Guatemalan cold brew I made a few days ago. The longer it sits, the thicker and syrupyer it gets.

-Mike
 
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MJ5150 said:
What did you get?

Mexican morning at our house, breakfast burritos with potato, egg, bell peppers, onions, 7 pot peppers, and cheese rolled up in a flour tortilla.

-Mike
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Sounds tasty.

I got a Rancilio Silvia M. However, the store emailed me to tell me it's backordered so I don't know when I'll get it. I did receive my tamper and backflush soap, so there's that.
 
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