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Questions Doubts and Requests => Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: spanner on October 26, 2009, 02:22:15 am

Title: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: spanner on October 26, 2009, 02:22:15 am

My brother-law has finally bought a TMX.!!!

His forst request of me was .  " I have picked my coffee beans now how do I roast them in the TMX?"

I have no idea so can anyone tell me how to go about roasting home grown coffee beans in the tmx.......  please help!

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: cookie1 on October 26, 2009, 03:04:42 am

I'd love to know too. Maybe some of the FNQ people may have some ideas.

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: gertbysea on October 26, 2009, 05:46:29 am

Hmmmm I wonder how that could be done. I do know that you can buy a home bench top coffee roaster at the Skybury coffee plantation in Mareeba.  I saw one in action and it was pretty noisy   http://www.skybury.com.au/home  Might be worth while buying some green beans and experimenting

Gretchen

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: gertbysea on October 26, 2009, 06:07:20 am

Quote from: Gertbysea on October 26, 2009, 05:46:29 am

Hmmmm I wonder how that could be done. I do know that you can buy a home bench top coffee roaster at the Skybury coffee plantation in Mareeba.  I saw one in action and it was pretty noisy   http://www.skybury.com.au/home  Might be worth while buying some green beans and experimenting

Gretchen

Don't think it can be done as the TMX does not get hot enough.

Gretchen

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: baf65 on October 26, 2009, 06:44:46 am

It definitely cant be done.  For roasting coffee beans you need to be able to get up to around 250C

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: Meagan on October 26, 2009, 06:45:35 am

Not sure it can be done either as I have read about people using a popcorn popper to roast coffee beans and the TMX doesn't pop popcorn....make sense!!??

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: Thermo convert on October 26, 2009, 08:57:46 am

I doubt it can be done spanner. We recently bought a small home roaster after my other half persisted with the bbq rotissorie (that he had modified), without a great deal of consistent success.  If your brother in law grew the beans he has to soak them them mash them with a stick then hand pod the beans. (All of this I'm sure he knows) Then they have to be dried.  Makes buying the green beans sound easy.

When using our roaster it has to be preheated then the beans are put in and the temp raised to about 220 degrees I think.The roaster tilts and different angles as it is going and there is a paddle that seems to evenly distribute the beans.  Much as I love the TMX I this is a little out of its territory. 

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: Sundari on October 26, 2009, 09:01:01 am

Once he's roasted them he'll be able to grind the coffee in the TM!

Title: Re: roasting coffee beans - how to!
Post by: Tebasile on October 26, 2009, 02:56:48 pm

Friends of mine using the popcorn popper outside. The firealarm will start  :-))