# The joy of home roasted coffee. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-joy-of-home-roasted-coffee/343003 "2006-02-04T18:06:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-joy-of-home-roasted-coffee/343003/1 "2006-02-04T18:06:07Z")
A couple weeks ago a co-worker gave me a bunch of green coffee beans that been given to him for Christmas. After doing a bit of searching on the internet, I found a site that tells how to roast coffee using a hand crank popcorn popping pan. I have a popcorn pan I haven’t used in years so I put it to use. I discovered a couple of things real fast. Roasting coffee makes a lot of smoke. A whole lot. Plus the house tend to smell like this smoke for a few days. I have been using the side burner on my gas grill outside the garage and this has worked pretty good. And the coffee I have roasted has been good to great. Yesteday a another co-worker returned from a trip to Hawaii and presented me with a 2 pound bag of Kona beans, it’s not the Kona mix normally found in most stores. This morning I roasted me a batch of the Kona beans, ground them while still warm and made me a pot of coffee. I am in Heaven. The flavor is strong without a bite and there is no bitterness at all. This is easily one of the best cups of coffee I have ever had. Excuse me, I going for a refill. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-joy-of-home-roasted-coffee/343003/2 "2006-02-04T19:33:06Z")
I always wanted to try roasting my own coffee beans. I saw a batch of green coffee at the local bagel shop and briefly entertained purchasing some just to fool with it and see what happened. Maybe I’ll make that a weekend experiment now that I’ve heard the good results! -foxy ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-joy-of-home-roasted-coffee/343003/3 "2006-02-04T19:39:24Z")
My brother is hooked on roasting/grinding his own. He roasts his in a wok. He never mentioned the smoke; are you sure you aren’t overroasting yours? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-joy-of-home-roasted-coffee/343003/4 "2006-02-04T20:44:45Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > My brother is hooked on roasting/grinding his own. He roasts his in a wok. He never mentioned the smoke; are you sure you aren’t overroasting yours? Nope. After posting this morning, I checked out a couple of online bean sellers. Both also sell coffee roasters and the all the roasters are sold with hose adaptors to vent the smoke outside. [Here is the site](http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/10/stovetop/) I used to get the info for roasting in a popcorn popping pan and they mention the smoke problem. In fact, I have found the amount of smoke tells me when the beans have been roasted enough, when the smoke is so thick in the pan I can’t see the beans, they are done. I have also found taking a deep breath of the smoke is not such a good idea, it took me about 10 minutes to get my full breath back.