@@TheCaptainsCoffee I make several samples this way each month and share it at work and the one people like the most, I order 50 pounds of, roast it and then sell it at the office. It's been a great side hustle for me
I was trying to learn how to roast some coffee beans at home which were given to me as a gift. This video was super helpful and detailed. Really appreciate it.
Thank you for this wonderful guide! This has helped me start roasting my own coffee at home and get great results. I roast my coffee medium-dark and it is perfect for espresso
I ordered a whirley popper just for a fun experiment and I was successful on my first try (washed), and also my second (honey). I've been using the SR800 exclusively. The chaff stayed in the kettle and poured into the bean cooler without flying everywhere. Both batches made good espresso. I like it so much I may use my SR800 a lot less.
I've got a whirley pop and used to love using it too! Really surprisingly even and quality roasts for such a simple contraption. Unfortunately, the main gear between the crank and spinner starting binding up so I haven't used it in a while. I wish the construction was a little higher quality, I'd be happy to pay a premium for one with less fragile gears
I just tried pan roasting for the first time using aged and dried arabica brought from India by a collegue. I only did 18g for an espresso as a test in a small steel kettle. It turned out really great! The flavour was really complex and interesting. I think the uneven roasting you get by pan roasting may even be a benefit to get all these taste notes in a single cup. I will definitely try this again. Thanks for the video. It was very helpful.
Great video! I have a bunch of coffee beans from Eritrea, but the traditional stuff they use to roast and brew the coffee is at my mom's house... I'm really excited to try roasting the beans on a stainless steel pan. And you're right, sitting around roasting coffee is an amazing way to spend time. The coffee ceremony in Eritrea with friends and family was the most peaceful and memorable past-time for me, every evening.
I haven't tried pan roasting robusta specifically, but I imagine it would work largely the same way! If anyone has experience pan roasting robusta please chime in!
Great video i Will definitely try roasting my first green coffee with your method and see how it goes as I'm getting disappointed lately with the nit so fresh roasting dates from the coffee that I receive online
Thank you SO much for making this video!! 😊I’m currently visiting my grandparents who live in a small, rural town where there isn’t much quality roasted coffee to buy. And I don’t have any coffee either! But a local friend brought over some green coffee beens and offered us some. I’m excited to try roasting beans by myself for the first time, and this video is amazingly helpful!! Very well made and generously informative.. deserves way more views!! Thank you, I’m excited to see how pan roasted coffee tastes
Many thanks, I hope you have a blast!!! Remember: it's not gonna be as even and pretty looking as roasting in a dedicated roasting machine, but it's sure gonna be WAY tastier than 6 month old grocery store stuff and way more satisfying to roast yourself :)
Now sir... While I am crazy, I have actually been running a company that roasts primarily in cast iron pans for the last 6 years. Funny that these two things would pop up in the same video.
Great video, thanks ! Totally new at home roasting, but have had much success thanks to the videos you have published. I'll have to go rustic and give the pan roast a go. My son also seems to enjoy the Captains Coffee stickers that come in the orders, they are placed on various appliances throughout the house :)
I am so glad to see that you are continuing your Videos. I am brand new at roasting and I just ordered my First Roaster, the SR800 and I just received from you 3 lbs of beans to roast. So this week is gonna be roast week :). I try to watch every roasting video you and others have but it seems that over the past year the videos have slowed down so my binge watching is a little interrupted. No worries, I just re watch. Anyway thank you for continuing and I look forward to buying more beans and watching more videos on how to. I look forward to this new journey.
Aww shucks, thanks so much for all your support! We definitely plan on putting out more vids, I just get side tracked researching and trying new things all the time so it ends up slowing everything down 😂🙄
Excellent, added the extension chamber and it made it better for me. Still learning but I think things are going well, a lot in part to the help I have gotten from Dave at the Captains Coffee. Thanks for asking@@indeskys9714
I like my coffee dark and oily so I would turn the heat up high and roast quickly. I had a Fresh Roast SR500 years ago but it did not last very long. Since then I have been using a very large heavy stainless steel frying pan. I put it on my electric stove at full heat with a wire grill under it and stir with a stainless steel spatula. When I'm finished I cool it in a stainless steel bowl in my sink with cold water, stirring constantly until cooled. Maybe I'll get the SR800. It will be less work.
very informative, just bought 10 pounds of green coffee to try this out :D. By the way if you were to do this on a coal grill how would you manage the heat?
Hmm I would likely be using a heat proof glove to hold the pan first off! I'd get your heat pretty crackin' then manage the heat to the beans by holding the pan closer or farther away from the coal bed. I think this would work best with a wood fire situation so you could have a flame going to direct the heat to the pan rather than it diffusing in a wide area with a coal bed
@@TheCaptainsCoffee is a manual one good? I’ve hesitated to buy as I’m still thinking. I heard the burr grinder is good for electric. I make one cup at a time and only grind for the cup I’m drinking.
@@savvyvenus if you only grind for one cup at a time, manual works great and you'll save a buncha money over electric! the 1zpresso grinders are excellent bang for the buck. Lance Hedrik has a great video comparing lots of manual grinders here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JySL64iigT4.htmlsi=PYJAsnc_6CbF6GKE
Holy cow what an eye, you are right! It's stamped underneath (after cleaning off a fair amount of built up soot from pan roasting) with Revere ware -84 9inch. I don't see any markings that indicate the exact material but clearly you're the expert on these pans so I will add a correction in the description. Many thanks!
I tried to roasted green bean from Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, i got shitty espresso machine. The cheapest, and really fuck up skill for espresso. And my fuck up skill of roasted also. 1st tried i got dark roasted and kind over dark. And 2nd tried i got medium-roasted. Pan roasted does give uneven roasted. Even with my shitty espresso machine and skill. The medium roasted i tried after 24 hour taste much better than any other coffee i tried on coffee shop. The flavour is just different, i does making my own salted caramel vanilla. COmbine with both the taste is just different. I tried bean from starbuck medium roasted. The tasted is just way way better. The tasted feel much much more flavourfull. Although i kow my espresso is not perfect but the tasted is just much much better. The dark roasted kinda taste bad, but it might be from my taste because it still does taste good. Have a bit of fruity flavour but kinda feel bitter roasted. What can i said is anyone wanna tried to roasted their own bean, just do it. DOnt be afraid. Even if you fuck up just redo it. trust me the process is more simple than you think. After 2-3 tried you will get it. And the taste will blow your mind later.
Nice video! I will roast my coffee beans at home for the first time in my life. I will use this method. I have heating levels between 0 and 3. I want to use 2.5 for medium high, 1.5 for medium and 1 medium low. Is that okay?
Those sorts of settings will be different for everyone's setup so you'll have to play with it and see what works best for you! But my initial thought is that those numbers look like a good place to start for you
Thanks for responding. I have already roasted. I followed the steps in the video. I got great result for an amateur. I left beans to rest in a bag for few days. I am looking forward tasting it.
I know this is a bit of a dumb question, but as a total noob who's just looking for info before getting into pan roasting... would a titanium pan work as well as steel/aluminum/cast iron? I just ask because a lot of camp cookware is made of titanium so I figured I should cover all my bases.
I have a Hive Roaster without a thermocouple, so not much different than pan roasting. It really does tire out your arms though! It looks like you finished up your roast around 9.5 minutes or so. What would you say is the best time for a given roast? I can make a medium roast take 13 minutes or 9 minutes based on how much heat I apply. I know it varies a bit by bean, but curious what your typical targets are. Thanks, and I really enjoy your beans!
So glad you enjoy our beans 😁! As it happens, I just got a hive roaster recently and am doing testing on it for a future video! From what I've seen, the hive is much better than a pan mostly because the dome keeps heat in the system (remember that section on convection vs conduction from the video?). That makes the roast waaaaay more even and easy to dial in. But as far as your question: in general, my goal is to roast as fast as possible without scorching the beans. Yup, that's gonna vary from bean to bean, but the idea is that roasting fast locks in vibrant and bright notes. Roasting a little slower will help balance the cup with more rounded sweetness. But roast too long and the cup will taste empty and dull. Try the same coffee with 3 different roast times to about the same roast level and you'll see what I mean!
Excellent vidéo! What are your thoughts about using a carbon steel wok on a gas burner like you did with your stainless sttel pan? Would the concave shape of the wok help in the heat distribution and allow a better roasting of the coffee beans?
Woks are relatively thin gauge, so there's potential for more hot spots. But it's shaped much better for constant stirring and tossing. It would likely work as well as the pan above, better in keeping the beans in motion. And I think some of the B-roll showed roasting in what looked like a wok. Good luck!
I did not test a wok, though it was suggested to me by others as I was planning my testing! I figure just about any pan (except non-stick) SHOULD work fine, you just make have to adapt the general techniques to different shapes. Give a wok a try and let us know how it goes!
I was the designated stirrer when i was a kid until about age 9 we couldn't buy green beans at the store anymore unless we bought 100lbs at a time. Now 75 and trying to get back in it. Thanks for the video.
@@TheCaptainsCoffee Surely green coffee beans aren't harder than a good set of burrs? And some grinders have over three times the power and weight of entry-level grinders (for example the DF83V has a 680w brushless motor and weighs 9kg, while I've seen plenty of models with less than 200w of power). I haven't seen any videos of someone trashing a heavy-duty grinder with green beans just to show it can't be done, but that's probably because they're expensive and no one wants to take the risk. I also would think some heavy-duty hand grinders might be up to it, but even they're not cheap, so I won't be the one to do the experiment, so unless someone else proves you wrong, I'll effectively take your word for it.
@@mathewmunro3770 it's a matter of torque and blade geometry. Grinders are designed with a particular torque and geometry for grinding roasted coffee in mind. Will you destroy your grinder? Maybe, maybe not! Will you shorter it's life span and prematurely dull the blades? Absolutely. Think about it like using your lawn mower to cut down a bush :)
Honest question of a newbie, can you re-roast the coffee beans? I was given a light roast coffee but it's too acidic my stomach can't handle, can I re-roast to get a medium dark roast? or what can I do with the light roast beans to make it less acidic? Thanks!
That was actually a pretty cool video! Amazing what you can do with a little ingenuity and not much else. I'm itching to try this out on my next camping trip. And I'm sure you're right about the coffee from even this bare-bones approach being superior to 90% of the store-bought coffee out there..Thanks for mentioning Mike from the Virtual Coffee Lab. He mentions you in his latest vids roasting with a (your) Gene Cafe. I've been roasting for a little over two years (SR800 with ext tube) and you and Mike have been the two greatest resources (by far) of improving my coffee. Thanks for what you do.
Mike's a great dude, I love his channel! Thanks for kind words 😀 This really is a fun way to end the day camping. The coffee may not be perfectly rested the next morning, but it's so incredibly satisfying to drink the coffee you roasted in a pan the night before!
Home roasting coffee is the best way to get the freshest coffee ever! I progressed from using a rotisserie basket to roast in a toaster oven then to building my own wobble disc heat gun roaster. Pan roasting is one of the oldest and original methods to roast, I tried it on my induction stove top together with a heat gun, but it gets very messy with the coffee chaff flying all over the place :). This is my preferred roasting method now - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EXGXj9AlCqY.html&ab_channel=weeliansoh
After watching this video, I started roasting coffee beans in a pan six months ago. I try to imitate your technique as much as I can. However, I don't hear the first crack sounds at all, and I only hear a couple of crack sounds during the second crack phase. Is it important to hear those crack sounds? What am I doing wrong?
The sounds that you think are second crack are likely first crack :) Feel free to shoot me an email with more info on the coffee you're roasting and your method and we can look at it closer!
@@TheCaptainsCoffee Thank you. You are probably right. But I don't hear crack sounds until the medium roast phase. I have only roasted Jemen Mocha Matari beans so far. I will start to roast Jamaika Blue Mountain beans from now on. They are way more expensive. I wanted to ask before start with it. I will start to pay attention more and collect enough data of my method and coffee beans. I will right you an email in future, if it is necessary.
@@agir4707 I would recommend working with some less expensive beans until you feel more confident! Yemen Mocha is a delicious but difficult bean to roast, I'd suggest trying some Central or South American fully washed coffee so you have a baseline for the process.
@@TheCaptainsCoffee you were right. I heard the cracking sounds this time. But I had to wait almost 2 minutes more than you. Next time, I will use more heat during roasting. By the way, I want to wash the coffee beans with cold water before roasting. Would that spoil the beans?
@@agir4707 I definitely would not recommend washing the beans. The moisture content of coffee is carefully balanced for optimal roasting! If your beans aren't clean, you can brush them off if you like, but honestly if the beans you're buying are dirty, I'd recommend buying better quality greens (like ours :)
I actually don't have a Behmor anymore, I may have to borrow one and see how the new models are! I wasn't a huge fan of the old 1600+, but hopefully the 2000AB is a big improvement! In the meantime, my buddy Mike has a whole playlist on roasting with the Behmor that you might find helpful: ru-vid.com/group/PLe757VIiQrPb3aXj2kNhI67dlDYkJrHMi
I wouldn't recommend it for one reason - while coffee is roasting it needs to be agitated/rotated/moved constantly or it will be unevenly roasted! I don't know of any air fryers that reach the necessary temps while still agitating the beans
@@TheCaptainsCoffee thank you for the reply, I was toying with the idea, but I think you've helped me see reason. Thank you again, great channel, and video, liked and subscribed ;-)
What if roast a grinded coffee? 🤔 At least coarse. I guess it might help roast more evenly. Also should reduce a time of roasting. However as a downside there no longer be a crack. But a new time could be figured out by just several tries.
Pan roasting coffee is a BAD idea! Your beans will come up uneven and your coffee will taste like shit! there are some Japanese gadgets out there that will make your coffee beans roasting way better than pan roasting
That's like saying "cameras take better images than painting with a brush." Well of course, but there's an art to both and people like both for different reasons.
