Learn to Roast Coffee At Home! This book contains easy, step-by-step instructions and recipes which enable you to roast coffee at home using household appliances. Includes instructions for a hot air popper method, stove top method, oven method, and for home roasting machines. Roasting coffee at home is easy and fun to do. Using high quality green beans you can quickly create a roast to surpass specialty coffee roasts.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the price. Romatic, repetitive, without substance,
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This review is from: Coffee Roasting at Home (Magic Bean Coffee Books) (Paperback)
I read this 145-page booklet in less than one hour. It uses very large print (perhaps nice for readers with poorer eyesight), but it also limits the amount of information that the book contains. It is a self-published book, which clearly would have benefitted from the services of a professional editor. For example page 94 says "Vienna is in the Danube Valley in Italy". While Vienna is indeed on the Danube Valley, the city is the capital of Austria and the Danube river doesn't even come close to Italy! Page 106 says "the basic proportion for Frech press or drip brewing is two heaping teaspoons (sic) of coffee to 6 ounces of water". Every acknowledged coffee expert (T.J. Castle, Corby Kummer, Kenneth Davis) emphasize two TABLESPOONS as the correct proportion. A typo? Maybe. But if the book gets such basic, major issue wrong, what else is wrong? The reader is better off buying any of the books by the above-listed authors at similar prices.I got the impression that the authors are nice people that decided to self-publish their coffee roasting notes in a folksy engaging style. The book, however, lacks substance. There are five coffee-related, cute and romantic short-stories that belong on a creative writing book and not on a "how to" manual. Finally most of the information is repetitive. How many times do we need to be told "to be careful, the beans are hot when coming out of the roaster"? The book is not a total loss. Some people may like their step-by-step guides for the true beginner that is looking for a "cheat sheet" The enquiring, serious coffee aficionado looking for guide on roasting coffee at home should look elsewhere
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing...to say the least,
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This review is from: Coffee Roasting at Home (Magic Bean Coffee Books) (Paperback)
At $17.95 I figured this book would be useful for both the beginner & advanced roaster. It is barely useful for the beginner. You can easily obtain all info contained in this book plus much more by going online, typing "coffee roasting" in your search engine, & hitting the "go" button. This book might be worth $5.00!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great home roasted coffee,
By lenny sachs (Valencia, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coffee Roasting at Home (Magic Bean Coffee Books) (Paperback)
I never expected roasting my own coffee to be so easy. For the cost of green beans and surrendering an air pop popcorn popper to the job, I'm hooked. I'm one of those people who has been grinding beans for brewing coffee for years. Fresh roasted is even better than expensive beans from your favorite vendor... Coffee Roasting at Home is a great little book with lots of tips. If you are a coffee fanatic, try roasting your own
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