I did this for a while with sweet maria beans and some of the air popcorn poppers, later upgrading to a purpose built coffee bean roaster (that worked like the air popcorn poppers). It was a lot of fun, I enjoyed doing it. But a huge amount of work for very little results. I forget the amounts but the air popcorn poppers and most consumer grade poppers could only roast 2-3 days worth of coffee at one time. It gets risky doing batches back to back as the roasters get too hot, you're supposed to wait for it to cool down first which adds 10-20 minutes b/w roasts. So it could take 45 minutes to get a weeks worth of coffee roasted in one sitting. Oh, and you need to do this outside lest your family revolt against you. It can get smoky. This was 8 years ago, so maybe the market for consumer roasters has changed. Again, enjoyed it, taught me a lot and it was relatively cheap to get into if you do the popcorn air popper route, but not something that was sustainable. And someone mentioned stovetop, which I guess is how grandma and her generation used to do it, but I've never tried it.
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