Coffee production
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Coffee production is the industrial process of converting the raw fruit of the coffee plant into finished coffee beans. About eight months after coffee cherries appear on a coffee plant, the cherries
Traditional coffee drying in Boquete, Panamá
Coffee bean harvesting machine, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia
Mechanical strippers used for coffee fruit harvesting
Workers pulping coffee beans in Guatemala
Home roasting coffee
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Home roasting is the process of roasting coffee from green coffee beans on a small scale for personal consumption. Home roasting of coffee has been practiced for centuries, using simple methods such a
Coffee production
…roasted coffee in general one of four degrees of roasting: light, medium, medium-dark, and dark. Consumers can also elect to buy unroasted coffee to be roasted at home. Green coffee can also be used for the preparation of infusions or ingested as ground powder, but this is of limited relevance to the global coffee…
Roasting coffee beans in a wok on a kitchen stovetop
15th-century coffee roasting pan and stirring spoon from Baghdad
A hand-cranked wood stove top coffee roaster circa 1890–1910
Home roasting outdoors with a modified popcorn maker