Thank you Tom for always bringing budget friendly options 👌🏽

I'm trying your method now and on small batches of 100gms (3.5oz), I can get the beans roasted within 11 minutes. I tried using a fine metal mesh flour sifter and also a thin aluminum baking tray (both worked great) and the beans are spread out evenly. I also use aluminum foil to cover the glass but with a small hole to observe the beans as they roast. I use a powerful LED torch to observe the beans and I never open the door to maintain the oven temperature. My oven can go over 500F but I kept it around 480F. So far the batches I roasted are very promising, I shall be retiring my rotisserie wire drum as it takes too long to roast.

love this video! I've been a customer of yours for MANY years and have always loved your products and the time you take to write about each variety of bean you offer. A fantastic education for me and countless others, I'm sure. I've also been happy to turn others on to your coffee and knowledge!

thanks for the tips. I don't have a convection toaster, but I begin my roast in a regular toaster oven before moving the beans to my Whirlypop. It significantly shortens the time I am standing over my gas range.

Found this video after trying my first as similar to you did. Your experience is very helpful here.

Thanks for all you do Tom to help home roasters! I think a "Barbi-Q Grill Mesh" might be a good choice to use rather than expanded metal. It's a high temp mesh screen for outdoor grills. Cuts to size easily with scissors and the edges won't cut your fingers like expanded metal can. Also, I don't like the idea of non-stainless steel in cooking. Anyway, thanks again, great stuff!

This is my first time ever home roasting. I thought the cast iron would be good.... Until I thought why not my toaster oven?? So I tested both ways, 1/2c of green beans and the toaster oven wins hands down!! The roast is sooooo much more even and there are no burnt beans... The cast iron was not the same at all... I wish I could share a picture side by side... THANK YOU FOR YOUR WALKTHROUGH AND SAVING ME MONEY 🤑💰.. I was really considering buying a home roaster after I saw the results with the cast iron... I'm sure with more time I could perfect it but the toaster oven is the ticket 🎟️..

I like experiments and this was a good one, turned out very well.

Very Clear Instructions Thanks Man

Great method! Thanks!

This is my roasting setup in my other channelkzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMd2hrylxLO-d6s.html. Been using my toaster oven setup since 2018 and I have excellent results with it. I recommend you wrap the glass with aluminum foil and cut a small hole so you can observe the roast color, the aluminum foil on the reflective side facing inwards will prevent heat from radiating out from the clear glass and maintaining a higher roast temperature. I still prefer using the rotisserie as it gives me a very even roast.

Article shows no mention of oven temp. Also, turn off fan when opening oven for less heat loss. Good vid. 🙏

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Thanks for sharing this experiment. When these rotisserie style/toaster oven format air fryers started to appear en mass, several with drums, that was the first thing I thought about as well, was potentially experimenting with one to roast coffee. I have a FreshRoast 540, which I like a lot, but have to roast at least a every other day, due to the small capacity. (Hoping to get a Razzo extension chamber soon though) but your tray idea for bigger batches is interesting. Love Sweet Maria’s green beans by the way, about to order more soon.

I appreciate this video thank you for all of the information. I'm picking one up today.

How crazy is it to try this in a large commercial convection oven?

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Wow! It's great. I got a very even roast.

Awesome imaginative, yet coffee-related, use of an Aeropress Go! :-)

More this plsss!

How do you remove the chaff? Just shaking it around during your fan cooling at the end?

Thanks Tom! This is pretty awesome. I am going to try this. Anyone on the channel know where to get the right wire mesh to make the basket hole smaller? I want to put one in the bottom and 2 on the top to trap the chaff.

very cool video. if you have the time, could you elaborate why a slow bake is preferred to a quicker hot roast? i know it takes above a light roast to develop caramels and sugars, but wouldn't they develop in a slow roast, or are they like sweet potatoes that need high heat to convert to sugars?

My air fryer has a rotisserie basket!

This is how I roast coffee too, my oven has an air flow mode.

I’m so disappointed the drum didn’t work. I chose my air fryer model pretty much based on this. That’s why we should do research before buying 😅

It takes guts to roast in the house. It takes guts to take the air fryer and coat it with a coffee patina. Buying one at 100 instead of 350+ for the Behmor 1600 is a good idea. The amount of work you have to do equals the behmor 1600 experience as well.

what about the smoke and that lingering odor that is not good? you do that indoors? or even if done outdoors the odor will remain in the air fryer - plus roast looks uneven

Hi, Why did you give up trying to use the drum... thx

Do you have a suggestion for getting rid of the chaffe?

Are you drinking all this coffee yourself? But seriously, I’m just getting into roasting, but I’m the only coffee drinker in the house so it’s a dilemma - I want to keep roasting but do I do with all the coffee?

I like the idea of convection vs conduction. I think it’s possible for the product to absorb the salts of the metals when they are hot. Any thoughts on this?

Why did the rotisserie not work. You mentioned it was slow?

how many minutes for espresso coffee?

Curious question, considering we have electric air fryers which are technically ovens with a very high airflow, would it work too?

could you elaborate more on why the rotisserie did not work? did it spin too slowly? seems like if you could get that working, the consistency would greatly improve & would yield a poor man's Behmor result ... i've heavily mod'ed a bread machine & am using a heat gun (Corretto) to get some fantastic roasts, but this is interesting

Thanks for sharing but I think it’s too much work for a single person to roast and grind coffee

Consider parchment paper?

no good bad expiencia y bastante cara