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
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
Popcorn maker
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A popcorn maker is a machine used to make popcorn. Since ancient times, popcorn has been a popular snack food, produced through the explosive expansion of kernels of heated corn. Charles Cretors inves
Home roasting coffee
…Inventor Jabez Burns, the nephew of Jabez Burns the religious scholar, noted that, with skill and experience, even the simplest implements such as a corn popper could be used in the home or camp to obtain evenly roasted coffee. He said in 1874 that "patent portable roasters are almost as numerous as rat traps…
A hot-air home popcorn maker
An early popcorn machine in a street cart, invented in the 1880s by Charles Cretors in Chicago
A popcorn "cannon" seen in Taiyuan, China
The Detonator stove-top popcorn popper