Electric Coffee Roaster Machine for Home Use 1200W,Coffee Bean Roaster Machine for Home Use with Two Optional Baking Modes (Med & Dark),Coffee Roaster Stovetop,110v~120V

I just started roasting my own coffee. My first try at pan roasting was, to my surprise, very successful, leaving coffee with an excellent flavor. But too smoky for my range hood to cope with. To avoid irritating my wife, I decided to get this, which I can run in the garage.The chaff collector is easy to clean and works very well, and operation is, on the whole, straightforward. I can see that it's going to require some experimentation to get optimal results though. There are only two settings: medium and dark, and there's a cooling mode for when roasting is finished. Another reviewer said medium was too dark. My experience was that it's not dark enough. (The unit went into cooling mode not long after the first crack finished.) I conjecture that this might depend on the variety of coffee and perhaps the amount of coffee beans used. I used slightly more than the recommended 70g. Next time I'm going to use less coffee and see if it's darker. I also need to try the dark setting. According to the manual it's possible to interrupt the roasting and send the unit into cooling mode right away, so this might be the way to go once I figure out timing.Anyway, the coffee was very good, and I'm very optimistic that I'll soon find the settings that give my preferred roasting level.

It's essentially a popcorn popper with a timer.The medium (more like medium-dark) is uniform as well as the dark roast. However, I would have preferred to have an option to set roasting time manually as it should not come at an additional cost technologically speaking.One thing to note is there is plastic on this device and the first ten roasts or so, there will be a horrible plastic smell. I nearly returned it due to this, but it seems it has subsided; at least enough to where I don't notice it anymore.The top chaff collector is very flimsy and could have been designed much better as the tabs almost never line up right when you reassemble it.Apart from these issues, it actually roasts fairly decent and uniform coffee. I suppose to get lighter roasts, one could just unplug the machine around the desired roast level, turn it back on and select the cool down mode.Update: It didn't even last five months before the heater element broke.

Like most people looking into roasting coffee at home you saw the prices of home roasters and saw the price of this and went "Yeah I guess this is my only choice!" At a sub $100 coffee roaster, it is in every regard, an air popper but with a small volume and the ability to collect chafe.I sound negative, but the truth is, it over performs at this price range. It can roast 4oz of beans safely and evenly at either Medium and Dark. Medium is more a Full City Roast, while Dark falls between a Vienna and Espresso Roast. Roasts are even every time and at 4 months of use now as I write this, it has not failed. Roasts and cooling takes anywhere between 10-15 minutes. The cool function works, invest in a bean cooler. You will have smoke, there is no smoke control, open a window.The unit is small and doesn't take up much space. It has the shape of a hourglass but with a handle. I wish the unit had a way to house the power cord in the unit.Chafe collection is fine, but with dark roasts at 4oz, beans can and will get blown up into the chafe collection chamber. A suggestion would be to add a metal bar structure around the interior edge to let chafe blow in and keep beans out. The container is plastic and while it hasn't failed, it feels flimsy. The mesh net around the housing is thin and doesn't fully keep chafe from escaping. It also doesn't lock onto the unit. The basket sits on two nubs that you sit on the unit and the door slips into a lock, that is a chore to get to work.Again at sub $100 this is the vast majority of people's only option for a real dedicated machine made for roasting coffee. This is more of an indictment on the rest of the sector that treats roasting coffee at home a luxury, when it's anything but. A whirly pop is the cheapest option and you have total control on the roast level, but it's always going to end up being uneven and probably a bit burnt.The Javastar does a vastly better job but only in small batches. If this lasts a year or more it's a steal at this price, otherwise if it fails it's just another expendable piece of tech meant to fail before its usefulness. I'd like to see a future unit that handles 8oz, have at least (3) roasting options and a better chafe collector (and less plastic). It's worth spending the money.

This roaster works very well. Ti roasts the beans very evenly. Chaf separation is very good. Only a small amount of beans end up in the chaf collector. The handle is very convenient for emptying the roaster.Drawbacks, I wish it had another roast setting before dark, just time your roast and notice smoking and aroma to get the roast you want.Not the easiest to see what level of roast your beans are at.Good entry level machine to see if coffee roasting is for you without spending an arm and a leg on equipmentThis is an update to my review. The internal control that turns the roaster from roast has quit working after 10 months of use. You must constantly monitor this roaster when using. You never know when this will happen to your roaster.Idk if this would be a fire hazard or not. Idk if other roasters switch to cool automatically or not.There is no customer support, I went to their website and sent an email, it came back as a non-existent email address.When using this roaster it doesn't heat constantly. It switches the heater on and off continuously so you will have a very difficult time knowing where your roast is in the various crack stages.