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[What's the deal on roasting your own anyway?
Info please.

Grow your own?...................Or is that a different subject



I would grow my own if I could but climate and elevation defeat me

Green beans are quite a bit less expensive than roasted and last for months without going stale. Roasted beans stay fresh for about a week to 10 days so small batches work well for us, just two drinkers on the farm.

I use a contraption called the iRoast from Hearthware Home Products to roast five batches for the week, each batch gives up a couple of large pots. It's a very compact machine that allows you to program different roasting curves to suit your needs; best used outdoors as roasting produces a prodigious amount of smoke (although it does come with a vent adapter for indoor use). Beans ship in from NJ based 1st-Line restaurant supply house once a month UPS. I'm having a nice cuppa Kenya AA as I type this...

I got started at a website named Sweet Maria's with a Whirly-Pop stove top popcorn popper and I just migrated toward automation as things progressed. I don't think I could ever not roast my own after tasting truly fresh coffee

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