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Feb 2024
46m 20s

Coffee Roasting, Part 2: Roasting made e...

JAMES HARPER
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Roasting coffee can be maddening. Just 4° Celsius is enough to make the same green beans taste distinctly different! And there are so many things roasters can play around with: temperature, time, fan speed, drum speed, types of probes…the list goes on and on. So, if you want to start roasting yourself, where do you start!?In the first half of this episode, I ... Show More
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