How do you take your coffee? I take mine home-roasted with a little cream. Since I discovered roasting my own beans at home over the stove, my morning ritual has never been the same.
I’m always up for re-purposing little-used kitchen items. I experimented with a vintage Jolly Pop stove top popcorn popper and it worked like magic!
The lid of the Jiffy Pop has a nifty little crank handle that turns a slim bar inside the pot that shuffles the beans as they roast. The result is a perfect, even roast. Adjust the heat of the stove as necessary in order to get one, two or three “cracks” from your beans. If you’re impatient like me, cheat a little and open the lid to peek inside and check the color of the beans. Shake the pot occasionally in order to prevent the beans from burning. There’s nothing worse than a burned tasting cup of Joe.
The entire roasting process takes about 15 minutes but you get the best tasting brew 3 days after roasting. Roasting and brewing on the same day will not deliver an ideal cup of coffee. Patience is key here.
In California, I buy my beans locally from Kean Coffee, a roaster in Orange County. If you do a little searching, you can find distributors online who will ship green coffee beans directly to your house.
My little coffee experiment turned into a passion and I didn’t spend a fortune getting into it. The Jiffy Pop fits my hiking and camping lifestyle too. It travels with me, entertains the heck out of me over the camp stove and usually gets a chuckle out of the barista and coffee roaster when they ask what kind of roaster I use.