May 23 2011
Unroasted Coffee Beans
Nothing beats the smell of a fresh pot of coffee brewing in the morning when the alarm goes off. This is how millions of people around the world start their day and how many people continue their day at the office. Coffee lovers have long known the importance of roasted coffee beans and now they are learning the satisfaction of buying unroasted coffee beans and preparing them for brewing at home.
Roasting coffee beans at home is fast becoming as popular as grinding coffee beans. In the beginning the only thing the home roaster needs is unroasted or green coffee beans and either an air popcorn popper or a frying skillet. Later, if the process goes well and the coffee drinker enjoys roasting their own beans they can purchase a coffee roaster.
Roasting coffee beans is an art form that takes time and practice to perfect. It requires learning to smell the various stages of the bean visually know the colorizations of each stage and learn to know the sound of the different stages by the cracking of the beans. Listening is one of the most important parts of the roasting process because some of the methods do not have a visual component and the roaster must rely on their hearing.
When coffee beans are roasting they make cracking noises as they heat. In the beginning the first couple of cracks will continue on and slowly start to taper off. The more the beans crack the darker they are becoming. Learning this allows the roaster to determine the roast of the bean by the sound of the cracking. Cracking noises that continue on for a long time means that the beans are dark roasted, if they continue to crack for too long they will scorch.
Once the beans have roasted to the proper roast for the coffee drinker they need to be cooled off quickly to stop the roasting process. If the beans are not cooled quickly they will continue to roast and possibly scorch. Cooling can be accomplished by pouring the beans into a stainless steel or metal bowl and stirring them quickly and constantly until they cool down and stop cooking.
Unroasted coffee beans are part of the process of preparing coffee at home from the green bean to the final ground product that brews the best pot of coffee on the street. All that is necessary is green coffee beans, a coffee roaster and a grinder in order to have the freshest post of coffee ever.
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