JIAWANSHUN Coffee Roaster Upgraded Electric Coffee Bean Roaster 1.1lb Coffee Roaster for Home Use,0-240℃ Temperature Adjust&Timer 110-120V

Pros: Can roast up to 1.1lbs of coffee beans at once. Easy to use with adjustable temperature control. Consistent roasting results. Compact design, great for home kitchens. Cons: SMELL is very strong so expect it to linger A bit noisy during operation. The roasting process takes some time, so it’s not the fastest option. Experience: I’ve been using this roaster for a few weeks, and it’s been fantastic! It’s easy to use and gives me great results every time. The beans come out perfectly roasted, and I love the control I have over the process. Who This is For: Great for coffee enthusiasts who want to roast their own beans at home and enjoy a fresh cup every time. Final Thoughts: This coffee roaster is a great value. It’s easy to use, provides excellent results, and is perfect for anyone who loves fresh, homemade coffee!

My first 2 roasts were 300 g regular Uganda beans and 300 g of swp decaf Sumatra beans. I roasted outside ambient temperature 55 f. Roast profile was based on time and bean color. I tented the roaster with welding blanket due to outside temperature. Dried both roasts for 10 minutes with the Ugandan beans at 170 c on the dial and decaf at 160 c. I gradually raised the temperature on both, Uganda to 230 c and decaf to 210 c. Total roast time on Uganda was 26 minutes and decaf 24 minutes. Uganda came out a nice medium roast but the decaf was a light roast, looked medium but tough to grind. Mixed the 2 and coffee was great. On my third roast I decided to mix the Uganda and decaf Sumatra and roast them together, 150 g each. This time I decided to use infrared thermometer gun to roast by temperature. Roasted outside in 40 f with welding blankets on top and bottom of the roaster (placed roaster on cookie sheet with blanket under that). Dried the batch for 10 minutes at 170 c on the dial then set the dial to 225 c and monitored the surface temperature of the beans till they reached 415 f. Total roast time was 24 minutes, came out medium roast. Great.

Update 7/2024: The newer version of this roaster gets hotter, faster. 10 minutes at 170 to dry them out, 8-12 minutes at 240 to roast depending on what you like roast-wise (I like a medium roast just into second crack). The first batch will roast faster than subsequent batches. I don't use the welding blanket anymore, it gets plenty hot on its own now. Original review: This coffee roaster is so-so out of the box. It functions like an old whirley-pop popcorn maker from back in the day, with a non-stick base and a rotating blade that agitates the beans. Its major design flaw is that the glass lid, while sturdy, does not sufficiently insulate the roaster to get the beans hot enough to roast them to proper coffee roasting temperatures. You can barely get them to 200 degrees centigrade after 45 minutes or more, even at the hottest setting. However, get yourself a welding blanket (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B019SWRT0E/) and this roaster goes from so-so to outstanding. You can roast 300 grams of green beans in about 45 minutes. I recommend setting it to about 180 degrees centigrade with the lid on for ten to twelve minutes to drive out moisture. Then, remove the lid and wipe off the condensation. Replace the lid and turn up the heat to 240 degrees. Place the folded welding blanket over the roaster. Set your timer for 30 minutes. (This is far too long on newer models; see second update) After that, come back and check the temperature (using your infrared thermometer) and color of the beans, based on roasting charts you can find on the internets. If they aren't done, continue roasting in five minute increments until they reach the desired temperature and color. A note on smoke: many reviews talk about how smoky coffee roasting is, as though your neighbors will call the fire department on you if you roast coffee. This is nonsense. Yes, there is some smoke, but it's nothing terrible. Just roast your coffee under your stove's hood, and turn the fan up to at least medium, and you should be fine. So, I knock off one star for not functioning as designed out of the box. But add a welding blanket, and this roaster works great. Green coffee beans are very inexpensive, and unlike roasted coffee beans, green beans keep for years in a cool, dry place! We haven't bought roasted coffee beans once since we figured out how to use this thing properly, and it has easily paid for itself. Update 7/2022: After just under three years, the heating element is starting to wear out on this device. Even turned all the way up, we can no longer get my coffee roasted at the stage we previously did. This seemed to happen very suddenly - one week it worked fine, the next week, not so much. So, still a great value, but it looks like we'll need to replace it soon.

I've been roasting my own coffee for over 10 years. My method was in a stainless drum in my BBQ. The drum is having serious issues after all this time and it is now $260 for a new drum. I found this for under $100 and decided to give it a try. It came today so I set it up and threw in 1 pound. 25 minutes later I have a perfectly roasted pound of coffee. If you like a lighter roast I'm thinking it would be 18-20 minutes. Color me impressed and hoping it lasts. The arm that rotates the coffee did a great job and nothing got stuck and burned. I was able to see the beans the entire roast so I could gage the exact time to remove the batch. With the BBQ I had to gage by sound alone so seeing the beans was really nice. A wet rag after the unit cools is the only clean up. I'm absolutely thrilled! If you want to roast your own coffee I would highly recommend getting this and giving it a try. Lastly, for those who haven't roasted before it does give off quite a pungent smell. I love the smell but wouldn't want it in my house so I roasted out on the deck.

This product has 2 design/manufacturability problems: 1) the bottom halves of the arm must to be able to move very close to a flat surface. Which is not the case. I put straight edge at the bottom of the stirring blade and the ends were a' 4 degrees off. Too much, resulting in small beans (peabody) jamming under the blade, resulting in frequent reversals. 2) the really big problem: the person that operated the punch press to make the central hole in the arm, is using defective punch bit. The punch is dull and therefore tears and extrudes the hole. The somebody grinds the extrusion off. The result is oversized hole, and the original design that is to make the shape of the hole to look like D is destroyed. As result the drive shaft keeps turning and the arm in immobile. I am really disappointed I had the previous design that uses wire arms; it worked very well, but died after only 8 months. The unit is called BarWell. NOTE that the Chinese selling those coffee roasters do not provide any warranty beyond 3 months! I wrote to that company and of course there was not response. I opened the unit and found the problem: BAD CRIMP on the heating coil; it failed there and stopped heating. I will probably spend the money and buy the Behmore. Except i do not need all those thermal profiles. I use dual laser thermometer, timer and listen to the cracks.

Easy to use and great for beginner roasters. I don't care for the timer it came with so I use my own. I do wish there was a digital screen to set the temp to as the dial isnt very accurate. Can hold a good amount of beans, roasts quickly and fairly evenly. It works well.

Having used various roasters before, I recently pan-roasted for a few months with good if laborious results. I wanted something simpler but affordable. This unit has worked perfectly with all varieties of green beans I've tried. Running unit outside, I preheat at max with lid on for 15 mins, then add 400-450g of beans & set 35 min timer, leaving unit undisturbed. When timer goes off I check & when color is to my liking, I lift lid & use a fan to blow off chaff for a minute or so while unit runs. I try to avoid nonstick but for this I imagine stainless steel would require a lot of cleaning. The base portion stays very clean.

I've been roasting more than 100 pounds of coffee per year since 2002. Five previous roasting machines perished - I bought increasingly expensive machines, and the demise of the last one was partly due to my unwittingly loosening a wire when cleaning the inside. Given $600-$1100 replacement/repair costs, I was ready to try a less expensive machine. With high heat and moving parts, no roaster will run for a lifetime without refurbishing or replacement. This is actually a Bar Well SCR-300, but you will not find many English-language articles on the Internet for it. It has an on-off switch and a temperature rheostat. Arms stir the beans, and there is a thin riveted strip that jostles the beans when they are swept across it. There is no chaff collector and no fan. Instructions call for 10 minutes at 140 C, 5 at 180, 5 at 210. Other reviewers here are using higher heat levels, and I have moved from 180/210 to 190/230 for city-plus roasting level. I tried 4, 6, 8, and 12 ounce batches. I settled on 8 ounces at 20-25 minutes in a car port outside. You will probably want a strategy for handling the smoke. Chaff can be blown off, and beans dumped onto colander or perforated pizza pan to cool. I season the non-stick surface with a couple of drops of olive oil - definitely debatable whether seasoning will extend the life of the surface. The inside of the lid gets coated with residue - easily cleaned with soft scouring pad and cloth. The large lid provides wonderful visibility of the beans being roasted, but you need to ignore the spinning chaff's color and concentrate on the bean color, roasting smell, cracking sound. My significant other and I agree that the finished product is as good as the output from more expensive roasters. Watch out for the packet that contains the washer and screw to attach the lid - definitely needed and apparently missed by another reviewer. One of the feet came off - I glued all of them to prevent that from reoccurring. Update at about my one-hundredth roast. Beans that produce significant amounts of large chaff pieces (e.g. "honey" coffees/wet-processing) have needed me to lift the lid and blow/jostle that chaff out of the way; otherwise the chaff acts like a dam and blocks the beans from being swept around. Other than this issue, I still have no complaints worth posting. Update after about 550 roasts. The heating element finally failed, and I purchased another unit - it is very different from the original. Bowl is wider, stirring rod allows some beans to get stuck, and rod's speed is slower. Dial now has LED light. Original had 5 minutes for coffee to cool - later model takes 10 minutes. At 60 roasts...output is uneven, but the brewed coffee is consistently better than brews with the old unit I did need to tighten the nut on the rod to reduce beans getting stuck, and now it's just an occasional small bean at the end of the rod. I am running 8 minutes at 100, 5 minutes at 140, then up to 230 until second crack is relatively frequent. At about 240 roasts, the second unit's switch failed - 4 days past the one-year warranty expiration. I ordered my third unit.