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Friday, May 21, 2010

Roasting Coffee Beans

Papa Bear's newest project is roasting our own coffee beans. BooBoo Bear is his partner in the roasting project.

They start with a few handfulls of "green" coffee beans from Deans Beans.


The beans go into a slightly modified air popper with a thermometer hanging over the reservior for determining the appropriate temperature.


The chaff gets blown out into a container.


The roasted beans are poured out into a collander for cooling.


BooBoo has his own unique technique for cooling the beans.


And, there we have it. Freshly roasted coffee beans, ready to be ground and brewed.


I must admit, they make a nice cup of coffee...