Roast your own Coffee Recipe

How to make it

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• Buy some green coffee beans. Find them on the Internet or go to a good little coffee shop and buy some green beans. If they really love coffee they should be happy to share the experience with you.
• Once you have the green beans you now need an air popcorn popper. The type of popcorn popper that blows hot air on the kernals and pops them. All you have to do is put about a table spoon of green beans into the popper and keep a sharp eye on them. I can't tell you how long to let them swirl around, it depends on humidity, etc., etc. Watch them and smell them (they will smell great). Experiment. Once roasted to the perfection that only you as a newly annointed master roaster can give, let them cool, grind 'em up and enjoy.
• I've found that the beans blow out the top of the popper easily so look in your cupboard for a tin can that will fit right onto the top of the popcorn popper heating cavity. Remove the top and bottom of the can, wash, dry and put on top of the popcorn popper. This extension will stop the beans from blowing out.
• Roasting your own coffee is (for me) a hit and miss operation. I guess I'm not methodical enough. But the results can be surprisingly good. It is easy to over-roast the beans. I like expresso anyways. Overroasting happens because it is so cool to watch the beans swerle around and smell so great. You loose track of time. The operation is, however a great party trick. Roasting your own coffee after a fine meal with friends generates all kinds of interest and excitement. And the aroma is wonderful (as long as it's aroma and not smoke).