WHEN BUYING A COFFEE ROASTING MACHINE FOR HOME

Although it is not a big trend in Italy, more and more coffee lovers like to prepare their own blends.

In Italy it is quite rare, but in other countries it is getting common that people buy the green coffee beans and roast the coffee to prepare their own blends.

To buy a roasting machine requires, like every technology, a bit of knowledge.

First of all it’s important to decide where to roast. The roasting procedure of coffee beans produces smoke and waist made of the burnt bean membrane. The darker and the longer the roasting procedure is done, the more smoke it will produce.

Therefore, if you’d like to make the coffee become very dark with the roasting, it would be better to do this outside.

Furthermore, in some machines you can choose to include a filter for the burnt bean membranes.

It is also to consider the noise that this machine makes, especially in apartments. (It can be compared to a hair dryer that keeps going for 20 minutes!)

The decision to make is: noise or high price?

Price means cost and for a good roasting machine and this can easily arrive around 1000€.

Don’t expect that the machine will last forever because with a quite frequent use, they usually get to 2/3 years.

Although it has so many controversies, roasting a coffee at home is, like a famous commercial would say, “priceless”.

Otherwise, as you can see from the following videos, there are a few alternative methods.