276643 Sat Feb 19 17:47:06 -0800 2005 4 31 Home Cooking 0 1460017 Does home roasting coffee count as cooking? For Striperguy and all you home coffee roasters, here is a perfect example of techie overkill, courtesy of slashdot. I actually bought a hot air popcorn popper to roast coffee, but have been too busy (read: "chicken") to try it! The comments about flame and smell have been the principal deterrents! Link: http://home.columbus.rr.com/thegramilas/coffee/roaster.html Sat Feb 19 17:47:06 -0800 2005 0 pastrytroll 1 1460029 i wouldn't. there is an article somewhere by jeffery steingarten (i think) that will make you realize this is not for you to do, this is for you to purchase from someone with superior machinery to yours and knowledge gleaned from years of standing over it. Sat Feb 19 20:02:28 -0800 2005 1460017 0 java 2 1460049 I would like to see more opinions on this. All the freaks on the home-roasting boards say that it is a good idea. I really respect Steingarten and I will never try to dry-age any beef at my house (for example) but I am getting tired of hitting the grocery store every week for coffee. Has anybody out there tried home roasting and found that it sucks? Sun Feb 20 00:04:03 -0800 2005 1460029 0 john clark 1 1460034 Just do it outside where the chaff and odor and possibility of fire don't matter. I use a Poppery, unmodified except for a tin-can-with-both-ends-cut-out "chimney" extension, and it works great. Jim Sat Feb 19 20:58:11 -0800 2005 1460017 0 Jim Washburn 1 1460037 my great grandparents roasted coffee daily in an iron skillet and stirred with a wooden spoon until the beans reached the desired browness. Sat Feb 19 21:10:27 -0800 2005 1460017 0 Candy