FreshRoast Plus 8 Home Coffee Roaster with 1 lb. Sumatra Takengon Organic Green Coffee
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- The perfect home roasting machine for households with 1 or 2 coffee drinkers.
- Roasts 3.5 oz. Green coffee in about 7 minutes
- A good machine for beginners at an affordable price.
- Includes a pound of Fair Trade certified organic Sumatra Takengon green coffee beans.
- Operates on standard 110 volt household current.
The Freshroast Plus 8 features a glass chamber for a 3.5 oz. roast batch and a fast roast cycle. Ideal for a household of 1 to 2 coffee drinkers, it takes just 5-7 minutes to roast the green coffee beans with a 2 minute cool-down cycle. The Freshroast Plus has a mechanical timer and the chaff collector is simple yet effective. Because the roast chamber is smaller and the roast cycle is shorter than other home coffee roasting machines, it uses less energy to roast a batch of beans. Because of its basic design, this is the roaster that will outlast all the fancy, computer chip controlled machines out there. If you are a serious home coffee roaster, it is worth having one of these just in case your other roaster fails. Because of the mechanical timer and the fast roast time, this unit requires a little more attention to achieve your favorite roast. This is a simple matter of monitoring the bean color and aroma, then manually turning the machine to cool when the beans are perfect. Typically, in a Freshroast the beans roast a little darker on the outside and the coffees bright notes and aroma are accentuated, while deeper tones can sometimes be muted because of the fast roast time. The roast time will vary between coffee types, but results can be duplicated by recording the roast time for each type of coffee you roast. Includes a pound of our Fair Trade certified organic Sumatra Takengon green coffee.
Title: FreshRoast Plus 8 Home Coffee Roaster with 1 lb. Sumatra Takengon Organic Green Coffee
Sales Rank: 150670 in Kitchen
Manufacturer: Freshbeans, Inc.
- Simple, easy, and it works
- I've only been using mine for a few days now, but it's every bit as easy as I've read elsewhere, and mine hasn't even produced hardly any smoke. I haven't gone as far as a super-oily roast yet, so I'm sure that's why. But I've got several small jars of varyingly dark beans and they all smell great.
- Best I've found so far... as long as you have ventilation!
- I bought my husband one of these for a present in Christmas 2004. He is a total coffee addict and had been making all kinds of sounds like he needed a roaster. O got him this one because it seemed the cheapest and easiest to figure out. He figured out how it worked pretty easily and it didn't take long before he had figured out all the different… More reviews
- Great when it works
- I purchased this roaster, the FreshRoast Plus, a little over a year ago. In that year I used it roughly every two days and after a bit of a rough start had no problem getting just the roast I wanted. Thats not to say that you can just turn the dial and get the same roast each time. Slightly different amounts of beans… More reviews
- great product. the smell will make your neighbors cry
- The first one I got burned out in about 5 days, but I got it replaced and this one is now a year old and works great. Roasting coffee will set off all your smoke alarms so be prepared to go outside or roast by an open window. I think the smell is great, but it is powerful.
At first I only made fresh beans on sundays, but gradually… More reviews
- It fascinates the cats
- I have the feeling that roasting is out of vogue as I could not find a local outlet to sell this critter. However I did not let that stop me.
A lot of the fun was unpacking the roaster and the accompanying bag of beans. I just scanned through the manual and any warnings. I later read it several times from cover… More reviews
