Our cacao roasting video and livestream replay are additional resources to learn more about roasting cacao at home
For roasting cacao and our Coffee and Cacao sample sets, we created some video resources lately. The cocoa roasting information parallel the articles we created:
- Introduction to Cacao / Overview
- Roasting Cacao at Home in A Behmor Coffee Roaster or Oven
- What to do with your fresh roasted cocoa!
Roasting Cacao at Home- An Overview and Demo
Thompson gives an overview of roasting cacao at home in this 20 minute video, to support our recent Coffee and Cacao Exploration Set. Roasting cacao is fun and has a lot of crossover with home coffee roasting
The application of heat to green coffee seeds (beans) to create palatable material for brewing a great cup!: Coffee roasting is a chemical process induced by heat, by.... The aromas when roasting cacao are amazing, and there are some simple things you can do with it like making fresh cocoa tea, or simply eating the cocoa beans! We also have a series of articles on our Coffee Library site to support this temporary detour we are doing into cocoa, including ideas to roast cacao in the BehmorA popular electric drum roaster designed for home use, with variable batch sizes (from 1/4 pound to 1 pound) and a smoke-reduction system. It has been modified and... coffee roasterA machine for roasting coffee. Or the person operating it! The basic requirements for a coffee roaster are a heating element that gets suitably hot and a mechanism... or your oven / toaster oven. This video parallels the article: Roasting Cacao at Home in A Behmor Coffee Roaster or Oven
Livestream with Jula and Jarret: Exploring the Relationship between Coffee and Cacao
We presented our work with cacao and what is so interesting and rewarding about it in a YouTube livestream
