I’m sitting here listening to a little humming motor as I type these wonderful thoughts. Ah, the art of multitasking.
Let’s rewind a bit and let me explain where I am heading with this fine little blog. Just a week ago the family had a 2 day garage sale. There was one item that we were all specifically looking to evaluate. You guessed it “fresh roasted coffee.” Both days were a little brisk so I also had free samples for the passerby’s. Surprisingly we found out that many shoppers were not coffee coinsures. One couple volunteered the fact that they worked downtown at the F. . .gers plant. Neither one was a coffee drinker. “We like the smell, but we hate the taste” they replied. I told them why they hated the taste, because they had never had my good specialty coffee, but I digress.
The point of this blog is to introduce you to my new purchase. Before this weekend I would slave over the stove cranking out coffee in my Whirley Pop. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great way to start roasting, and a great way to learn when about the entire roasting process. Last weekend I made a total of 5 lbs of roasted coffee. I spent over 3 hours spread out between two late evenings preparing for the sale. I was able to sell the coffee and get my name out to the neighborhood, but that was a lot of hard work. Last Sunday evening I had another pound to prepare and my faithful Whirley Pop was just about popped out. It was then that I decided I needed to change.
I would venture to say that over the past 2 ½ years I roasted over 50 lbs of coffee the old fashioned way. I now have a new friend the Behmor 1600 I mentioned it during the previous blog and now it's a reality. She’s fully paid for and I’m excited to spend the rest of my life using it so that others will be able to enjoy what true satisfying coffee is all about. The future is bright and the aroma of roasted coffee is here for good. Well the cooling process has begun and my blog is done. Thanks for tuning in.