{"id":917,"date":"2011-02-10T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:32:06","slug":"coffee-roasting-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/coffee-roasting-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee roasting at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/5432460769\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4078\/5432460769_ff07fe946c.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee roasting\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;re looking at me like I&#8217;m crazy, but roasting your own coffee is where it&#8217;s at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s pretty damn easy and it doesn&#8217;t take much to get started. I tinkered with roasting for years using nothing but a $3 electric popcorn popper I got from Goodwill. But you don&#8217;t even need that &#8212; Blue Bottle&#8217;s James Freeman got his start roasting coffee in his oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got this particular roaster because it has a catalytic converter to reduce the smoke output. I also like the humor of the word &#8220;Professional&#8221; written on the plastic housing. It&#8217;s great for home use, but professional? Please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a number of places to buy raw coffee beans. Oakland-based e-tailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetmarias.com\">Sweet Marias<\/a> is the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I&#8217;ve been using the Nesco roaster for almost a month now, and give it two caffeinated thumbs up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re looking at me like I&#8217;m crazy, but roasting your own coffee is where it&#8217;s at. It&#8217;s pretty damn easy and it doesn&#8217;t take much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Coffee roasting at home - MrEricSir.com","description":"You're looking at me like I'm crazy, but roasting your own coffee is where it's at. It's pretty damn easy and it doesn't take much to get started. I tinkered wi"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75,379,74,155,380],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-coffee","tag-coffeeroasting","tag-espresso","tag-food","tag-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10387,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}