- Catalytic converter smoke elimination system
- Comes with Zach & Dani's 100% Arabica premium unroasted coffee beans
- Removable, dishwasher safe parts
- Roasts 2-4 days of coffee per roast
- Auger ensures a completely even roast each time
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The Zach & Dani's Gourmet Coffee roaster will give you the freshest, most flavorful cup of coffee in the world. The Zach & Dani's Gourmet Coffee Roaster is the only home coffee roaster in the world that eliminates the smoke from the coffee-roasting process. It's fast, fun, easy and the delicious coffee will amaze you! The Gourmet Coffee roaster comes with three 1-pound bags of Zach & Dani's premium unroasted coffee beans (1 bag of Zach's Breakfast Blend, 1 bag of Colombian Supremo and 1 bag of Guatemalan Huehuetenango) and an air-tight storage canister to store your freshly roasted coffee beans.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good indoor roaster for medium roasts but not dark,
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This is an economical indoor home coffee roaster for those interested in light and medium roasts. Its unique catalytic converter design offers hope to those in cold climates for whom roasting outside is not an option.
That said, there are drawbacks. The Z&D seems to use a low temperature design, thus making roasts take a long time relative to other roasters (thus making it difficult to roast very much in one sitting), and making it quite difficult to get to a darkness above City. In other words, if you prefer darker roasts or want to do roasting for an espresso machine, you probably want to look at the Fresh Roast Plus or the iRoast. Personally, I think the iRoast is the way to go.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent service, very good coffee,
By WA Yankee in TN (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This machine is a fine way to get into home roasting. I'll say up front that mine broke after about a month -- the heating fan went "pop" and stopped blowing the heated air through the roasting cylinder. But the Z&D rep was extremely helpful and they had it back to me in one week (door to door) working better than before. Perhaps a refurb replacement, but amazing turnaround nonetheless.
The coffee itself is quite satisfactory and consistent, and the long roast time does lend more control over the process, though you don't really have to fuss over it. It's relatively smoke-free too, fine for indoors, though not quite enough to avoid setting off my kitchen smoke detector; I run it near a stove hood vent to be on the safe side. Chaff removal is so-so. I recommend dumping the roasted beans into a slotted collander to sift out what the chaff collector doesn't catch, and to cool the beans more completely than the 5-minute cooling cycle does. It's also very easy to see the developing roast, and to add time -- or go immediately to "cool" -- if you wish. I've had no problem achieving a wide range of roasts, including oily dark espresso, although the extensive review at Sweet Maria's -- praising the results with lighter roasts -- seems apt. All in all an excellent choice for someone who likes the idea of DIY roasting but without guesswork.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
mmm,
By Michal "Michal" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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The coffee coming out of this thing is great. I've really put it through the hoops. It handled 13 batches one right after another without skipping a beet, this weekend. Normally I do a batch every three days and have had it since the begining of 2006. No problems here. I roast indoors, and the smell is minimal. I use 4oz of unroasted coffee per batch and it takes about 22-23 minutes. This just gets into second crack(some coffee it goes all the way through), and I use it for esspresso. I've had no problem getting darker. If you are having problems with it taking too long, just use less coffee. Use a scale, half an ounce makes a difference. 4.5 oz, does take forever.
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