Consideration must be provided to the fact that coffee needs a higher temperature to roast, and also produces much more roasting smoke than peanuts. Furthermore, if you are roasting coffee beans in a perforated drum type peanut roaster you will need to be sure that the perforations are no bigger than 3/16", preferably 5/32". Anything bigger than 3/16" and beans will either get stuck big time in the perfs, or just fall through them.
Len
"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
Posted Fri Jul 13, 2012, 7:22pm Subject: Re: Can any nut roaster be used for coffee?
You are welcome. Some of the old drum peanut roasters are used now for roasting coffee, with the caveats I mentioned. They are quite nice looking machines.
Len
"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
Posted Sat Jul 14, 2012, 7:35am Subject: Re: Can any nut roaster be used for coffee?
There is a popular peanut roaster these days on eBay that is billed as suitable for coffee. It is not. It is underpowered for coffee roasting and most people seem to be disappointed in it.
Posted Sat Jul 14, 2012, 8:58am Subject: Re: Can any nut roaster be used for coffee?
MGLloyd Said:
There is a popular peanut roaster these days on eBay that is billed as suitable for coffee. It is not. It is underpowered for coffee roasting and most people seem to be disappointed in it.
I think it was called the Roto Roaster. It was a little machine with an 800 watt (?) heating element, right? I have a picture of it below. I don't think it is on eBay any longer. I remember that the company that was selling it was getting high negatives from people saying it was a very very poor coffee roaster.
Len
"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
posbusch Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2012 Posts: 1 Location: DE Expertise: I like coffee
Posted Sat Jul 21, 2012, 6:33am Subject: Re: Can any nut roaster be used for coffee?
CoffeeRoastersClub Said:
You are welcome. Some of the old drum peanut roasters are used now for roasting coffee, with the caveats I mentioned. They are quite nice looking machines.
I have heard that some of the refurbished really old peanut roasters are fetching upwards of $15,000 now.
Len
"Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water." ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674
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