<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Get a PopsRite or one that has the heat coming from the bottom, not the sides. Take off the top and store it. Put in about 2/3 of a cup of green beans, plug it in and get a long stick to stir it with or the beans will go everywhere</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Stir the whole time. When you hear what is called the first crack, start counting slowly. A medium roast will be about 60, dark about 90, but each bean is a bit different. Total time about 5 minutes. The next time you roast you can increase or decrease the count according to your taste. Very dark is a French roast. Beyond that all you have is carbon. Totally black. Let the popper rest awhile before doing a second batch.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Roast outside. The smell will infuse your house. I have roasted inside on the stove with the exhaust fan on high. No exhaust fan? Put on your coat.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Decaf is a bit different. You will find that you have to use a cup or so of beans.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">My regular coffee is a Gesha, sometimes called Geisha (mistakenly). Sumatra coffee is very different, and so on. At around $7 a pound you can experiment. My former favorite was a Yirgacheffe. So many choices. Mostly I buy from SweetMarias.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Right now I am mixing a Panama Gesha half and half with the Moka Java. I buy a lot at a time because you can't get your favorite bean year round. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">If you get into it you might be tempted to buy expensive roasters and grinders, but the popper works well for me and an under $50 grinder works just fine. I don't do anything to make the beans cool faster. Just pour them into a bowl and wait. There are chemical reactions going on which will take about 3 hours, so don't try to brew any before that. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I also use a French press made by Thermos which, unlike other brands, you have to decant into something else, keeps your coffee hot.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">More recommendations as requested. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12:36 PM Brian Manning Delaney via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> Most people have never had a cup of coffee outside of Starbucks etc. <br>
> that wasn't stale when they bought it. Some people buy five pounds of <br>
> ground coffee at a time. Stale stale stale. Roast your own and taste <br>
> the difference, at the cost of a popcorn popper.<br>
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Indeed. In fact: stale, and burned ("dark roast" – cough) in order to <br>
cover the staleness (and, often, moldiness).<br>
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> Three minutes in a popcorn popper and you are ready (ask me how).<br>
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How? :)<br>
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Brian<br>
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