Affordable Coffee Roaster You Can Learn Roasting On 

Bro your English is EXCELLENT. I am truly impressed. This is the first video of yours I watched and it was incredibly informative! Definitely subscribing!

I think for a beginner, a coffee roaster selling for under $300 makes more sense. Why, because not all beginners are going to fall in love with roasting coffee for the long term and become professional roasters. So, realistically just buy an inexpensive less difficult roaster to operate and try different coffees and methods because if you lose interest or figure out that you can't drink 1 1/2 lbs of coffee in a week, you're only out a small investment. Also, if you're married and your wife doesn't share your enthusiasm or passion for (any of your hobbies) coffee roasting to include the coffee roasting smell and mess, then face it, you now have two strikes against you..... But some very expensive small roasters do have a nice appearance and would work well as a flower planter in your kitchen.

I use a hot air popcorn maker that I found on a sidewalk in Portland, OR.

Great idea. Great info. Awesome that you are multilingual and helping us all.

I've got fully controllable popcorn popper based roaster with some additional safety measures compatible with Artisan for under 40$.

The Koreans have the Kaldi Home (400~500 USD, drum and motor/hand crank) and Kaldi Wide (600+ USD, drum and motor) selling on eBay, Amazon or Gmarket (Korean eBay). These can roast 200~300 grams of green coffee. They have a similar build and peripherals as the Hulky.

Could you give more info on the heat snorers and gauge you use please. I am almost sold on a Huky but want to research the sensors a bit more first.

thank you so much . can you tell me in the link or name of that M PROBE which i can connect with artisan . where can i fine it pls ?

can you tell me where I can find the air from the fan that collect the chaff? or do you have link for it. thanks

For cooling you should try a electric mixer they sell them at Walmart. Just a thought

Excellent! And using Artisan too!!

what the name of thermometer?

You mentioned that you were able to roast 600-700 grams on this machine. What are you roasting, are you sourcing your own heat, and where are you taking it? The roaster is rated at 500 grams on the Crop to Cup site, and a Huky user did a clip with Sweet Maria's, and he indicated that he had some issues reaching FC at a 500 gram charge with the IR burner provided with the kit. He indicated that the sweet spot is around 450 grams.

Where can I buy one

What was the name of this roaster?

Wow! That's impressive. No beginner coffee roaster should come anywhere close to $2,000, or $1,000 or $500. If you are talking roasting coffee for home use, maybe a pound at a time, you can make a reliable, reproducible roaster for under $50. Maybe not as elegant as the fancy chrome roaster with all the bells and whistles, but a repurposed bread machine from a thrift store and a heat gun will produce beautifully roasted coffee.

Dear Valerian ! Is it possible to make instant coffee like Nescafe ? If so pls. let me know. Have a good day.

hello from nepal we are planningto bulit commercial roaster here in nepal .

I thought it was bigger and further from you. That tripped me out when you turned and touched it.

Sir, what is that dimmer name? where can i find that? tq

If you want to roost a lb at a time kaldi fortis 600

electric frying pan!

So, you consider $2000.00 "affordable" for a learning roaster?? That's crazy, man.

Lots of complaints about the price of a roaster and let me put it this way. Try it on a cheap method knowing the roast won't be perfect like a bowl and heat gun method or pop corn popper. Look at how much coffee you drink. I go through about 1.5 bags of coffee and I was spending on avg $10 per 12oz bag. I now buy my beans for about $4 on avg per lb, some more and some less. Roasting at home costs pennies per pound and same with storage. So how much am I saving a year roasting my own coffee? $468! My parents go through about a bag a day, no joke, $2190 in a year if they roasted their own beans. I started with a Fresh Roast 500 series, paid for itself in no time.

Why is it so expensive? gas heaters are cheap, steal frame can be taken from old gas bomb, or old small washing machine, electronics is cheap. Pipes can be made very cheap on a pipe machine, bending and all.

For 2k usd, just buy an Ikawa

Christ it’s not exactly a cheap roaster, to be honest a heat gun and a pan will give you just as good result with some practice