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For those who are real coffee funs and love to be the masters of their cup of coffee and love to operate with one of those espresso machines best suited for real coffee and espresso making, always come the day when some certain thoughts come into head – but how about coffee roasting? Can I do it? Is it easy or complicated? However from other side your mind whispers in your ear that it is complicated, you don’t have skills and appropriate dishes and all these coffee companies have special appliances to roast the coffee in high quality and the like. But is this really complicated? Nothing is complicated if you know how to do it. Let’s take a closer look to coffee roasting and maybe you will decide to try it.

Basically coffee roasting is surprisingly easy and if you will try to roast coffee beans at least several times you will definitely agree with this statement. Equipment required is fairly simple. You will need some pan or maybe pot and spatula or spoon with fairly long handle. And definitely you will need green coffee beans. In coffee stores choice of green coffee beans are lesser than choice of already roasted coffee beans and that is understandable. The best place to find green coffee beans is Net where you can find almost everything. But for the first time you can buy small amount of beans in your local coffee shop. Most likely they will have at least some sort of green coffee beans.

The most unpleasant side effect of coffee beans roasting is smoke. First time this can even scared you or your family members so it will be better if you will warn everyone about your brave experiment. If you have powerful kitchen air extractor that will reduce the amount of smoke and maybe no one will notice what you are doing. Besides it would be better to roast beans on small flame or lower temperature if you have electric stove.

Pour coffee beans in the pot or pan and start roasting on slow flame or low temperature. Roasting can take to you about 20 minutes or maybe half of an hour. That depends of the heating temperature you will choose and definitely how dark you want to roast the coffee beans. It is important to moving beans without interruption. That’s mean that you will need to stir the beans non-stopping to allow them roast even and get perfectly brown beans in the result. This home roasting method can’t guaranty that all beans will be even roasted – some will be little darker but some – little lighter, but that is normal, don’t worry about it. While the beans roast you can hear funny popping sound. That means that coffee beans lose their chafe. Chafe is the skin of the unroasted bean. Chafe winnow or blowing away is the most unpleasant action of coffee beans roasting.

I’m absolutely sure that after trying you first cup (maybe not the first) made from the home roasted coffee beans you will find out that taste definitely differs and you will continue to improve your roasting skills.

Coffee is dark brown drink with just a little bit bitter taste. It is produced from coffee grains which contain caffeine. Caffeine creates the well known stimulating effect of coffee. Coffee has to become unimaginably popular around the whole World. There are huge amount of true and fictional stories about coffee beverage. That is just natural that people want to know more about coffee – where it come from, how people discovered coffee, how did it spread around the world and become so popular.

The most popular legend about coffee is about goat herd Kaldi from Ethiopia who find out that his goats become very active after they ate leaves and fruits of coffee tree. As legend betoken Kaldi tried these berries and felt himself very energetic, vivid and happy.

The effect of coffee was spread. In the 16th century coffee was used in the east, being roasted for the first time in Persia. The coffee had enemies even between the Arabs who considered that the effects of the drink of coffee were against the laws of the Prophet Mahmed. However, as soon as the coffee won these obstacles, even the Arabian doctors adhered to the drink to help the digestion, to cheer the spirit and to stay awake, according to writers of that time.

In Arabia, the infusion of the coffee received the name of “Kahwah” or “Cahue”, meaning in Arab “force”. The classification – Arabian Coffee was given by the scholar Lineu.

In 1675, the coffee was taken to Turkey and Italy, but the drink considered Arabian was forbidden to the Christians. Coffee was allowed only after the Pope Clement VIII tried it.

In its travel around the world, the coffee arrived Java later, reaching Holland and, thanks to the dynamism of the Dutch maritime commerce executed by the company of Occidental India, the coffee was introduced in the new world, spreading itself through the Guyanas, Martinique, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Cuba.

No one knows for sure how exactly coffee came into human’s lives. There are just legends and stories about coffee discovery which tells us about all those exciting events far away in the history. There are no historically approved evidences about those ancient evens. However we can enjoy these legends like kids tasting wonder of fairy-tales. All these legends allow us to feel some mystery and add additional taste to coffee beverages. Every time when someone put ground coffee in espresso maker, latte machine or coffee device and fragrance of freshly brewed coffee fill all room everyone can find out that coffee is special, even exclusive beverage.