Until the early 20th century, roasting coffee, like baking bread, was one of many common weekly household tasks folks did themselves. Much of the coffee was roasted in an open pan on top of a hot ...

Straight to the Point Our favorite home coffee roaster is the Fresh Roast SR540 Automatic Coffee Roaster, which roasts great coffee and has easy-to-adjust settings and an automatic cooling cycle. The ...

For as long as he’s been a chef, Steve Caravelli has been a hobbyist maker, experimenting with everything from making his own wine and brewing his own beer to making bread. None of those experiences ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some people had sourdough to help get them through the pandemic. Zach Whitney had coffee beans. The former barista began ...

It all started about nearly 15 years ago when I had a conversation with a friend who’d recently taken up the hobby of home coffee roasting. The motivation? First, quality and taste, but also to cut ...

The light aroma and soft popping sound of roasting coffee beans weaves throughout the rooms of a new coffee roasting shop on Magazine Street. Current Crop Roasting Shop stocks green, unroasted coffee ...

Historically, roasting coffee has been a very hands-on, sensory experience. Roasters used their senses of hearing, smell and sight to determine what stage a roast was at. Today, new technology is ...

Bolton’s Jim Varney, 51, left the industrial design business to open a coffee roastery with his wife, Deanna, last year. The pair now, ...

The rise of home machines and the educated ‘prosumer’ is shifting the landscape for cafés, but in ways people might not expect.