Coffee Roaster Facts

Learn About Coffee Roaster

With the 21st century penchant for convenience, do you sometimes feel a bit of nostalgia for times when life wasn't quite so mechanized and machine-driven? Sure, it's easy and convenient, when you're tired and aching to just kick back, to make a quick stop at the grocery for a ready made pizza. However, certain rituals require an old time approach for maximum enjoyment, where you can step out of the rat race and pretend, if for only a moment, that you're back in a time and place where life was not simply rushed, but savored. A case in point is your morning coffee. Some things in life are just too nice to take every shortcut available.

Back in the 1920's and 1930's, everyone bought green coffee beans in bulk and roasted them at home every few days. A cast iron frying pan, or a pot in the fireplace was the ordinary rural man's coffee roaster. In big cities, neighborhood shops offered the luxury of professionally roasted coffee beans, where the more affluent folk could have the job done for them.

Oh, but how times changed! By the time World War II ended, people tired of the many manual tasks that seemed so unnecessary, and industry complied. Vegetables no longer came out of your “Victory Garden”, but were conveniently supplied in cans. Coffee producers jumped on the bandwagon, bringing canned coffee to America. The neighborhood coffeeroaster was soon passe, dying an ignominious death.

Coffee Roaster - Freshness at Hand

Canned this and frozen that prevailed until the late 1960's, when the profession of the coffee roaster was resurrected, part of the 1960's revolution for all things natural. At first, this revival was a fringe oddity, well enjoyed by the natural advocates and observed with curiosity mingled with nostalgic yearnings  by the general public.

The spotty occurrences of the “new” coffee roaster in the neighborhood gradually took hold, as people began to notice that this new, odd coffee roaster product did provide a darn good cup of coffee! Fast-forward to today, when you can scarcely walk a city block without running into a coffee house boasting fresh-roasted coffee, with home baked pastries making a complete breakfast stop.

Today, the true coffee connoisseurs may bypass these coffee houses in favor of their own home coffee roaster. Yes, it's true! We now have the option, through modern technology, to be our own personal coffee roaster.

The coffee lover knows that the bagged and canned products lack freshness. Coffee is a delicate spice, quickly losing aroma and flavor by the means of the commercial coffeeroaster. The coffee you buy in a can or bag is, at best, weeks old and has lost much of its flavor and aroma simply through exposure to air.

If you are one who savors your morning cup, coffee heaven is within your reach. All you need are green coffee beans, a few minutes of your time and a coffee roaster.