If you're the type who loves to use their grill for just about everything, and you've wanted to try your hand at roasting your own coffee beans, the folks at The Art of Manliness have a great guide to roasting your own beans on a gas grill, using nothing but a little time, some heat, and a hand-cranked popcorn popper.Granted, you'll need the green, unroasted beans for this, a hand-cranked popcorn popper, and a gas grill. They note that you have to use a gas grill for this since charcoal has trouble getting hot enough to really roast the beans. They also note you could use the same method on a stove inside, but going outdoors to the grill gives you a bit more ventilation so you don't smell up the house with roasting beans. Preheat the burner, add the beans to the popcorn popper, and start cranking them. The whole process will take about 15 minutes or so (longer if you want a darker roast), and you'll want to stir them every few seconds the whole time. They'll start to turn yellow and get smoky as water released turns to steam.You'll want to listen for the beans to start "cracking," or making a popcorn-popping like sound that indicates they're roasting up nicely. Wait long enough and you'll hear a second set of cracks: They're softer, and the Art of Manliness describes them like the sound of bubbles popping in the air—that's when you'll want to bring them off the heat. There's some trial and error involved, but leaving them on much longer and you'll burn the beans. They get into the whole thing at the link below. They also note you can get even more precise control by using a thermometer instead of going by sound.It's not totally a DIY method—after all, we've shown you how to roast coffee beans in a skillet, with a drill and a soup can, with a heat gun, and in a popcorn popper—but this is the method the folks at Tested used, just with a stove, so moving the method to the grill makes perfect sense. Check out the full article for a walkthrough of the method if you want to give it a try yourself.How to Roast Coffee at Home on the Grill | The Art of Manliness
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Roast Your Own Coffee on the Grill
If you're the type who loves to use their grill for just about everything, and you've wanted to try your hand at roasting your own coffee beans, the folks at The Art of Manliness have a great guide to roasting your own beans on a gas grill, using nothing but a little time, some heat, and a hand-cranked popcorn popper.Granted, you'll need the green, unroasted beans for this, a hand-cranked popcorn popper, and a gas grill. They note that you have to use a gas grill for this since charcoal has trouble getting hot enough to really roast the beans. They also note you could use the same method on a stove inside, but going outdoors to the grill gives you a bit more ventilation so you don't smell up the house with roasting beans. Preheat the burner, add the beans to the popcorn popper, and start cranking them. The whole process will take about 15 minutes or so (longer if you want a darker roast), and you'll want to stir them every few seconds the whole time. They'll start to turn yellow and get smoky as water released turns to steam.You'll want to listen for the beans to start "cracking," or making a popcorn-popping like sound that indicates they're roasting up nicely. Wait long enough and you'll hear a second set of cracks: They're softer, and the Art of Manliness describes them like the sound of bubbles popping in the air—that's when you'll want to bring them off the heat. There's some trial and error involved, but leaving them on much longer and you'll burn the beans. They get into the whole thing at the link below. They also note you can get even more precise control by using a thermometer instead of going by sound.It's not totally a DIY method—after all, we've shown you how to roast coffee beans in a skillet, with a drill and a soup can, with a heat gun, and in a popcorn popper—but this is the method the folks at Tested used, just with a stove, so moving the method to the grill makes perfect sense. Check out the full article for a walkthrough of the method if you want to give it a try yourself.How to Roast Coffee at Home on the Grill | The Art of Manliness
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