Thinking about home roasting? Looking to gift the home roasting hobby? Is it time to update your roasting lab? Whatever your reason, these Starter Kits have everything you need at a great price.
The Popper Starter Kit (special price)
People have roasted coffee with hot air popcorn poppers for decades because of their accessibility, low cost and ability to produce great results. Popper roasts the same way electric poppers do but gives you control over time, temperature and air speed. This roaster is ideal for light and medium roasts and can roast 85 grams of coffee in a few minutes. The Popper Starter Kit comes with:
- Popper is a 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...
- 5 pounds of green coffeeGreen coffee refers to the processed seed of the coffee tree fruit. Coffee is a flowering shrub that produces fruit. The seeds of the fruit are processed, roasted,...
- a watt meter
- Sweet Marias Roast Color Card
Behmor Drum Roaster Starter Kit
Behmors have always been a top seller at Sweet Maria’s. Our customers love them because they roast up to a pound and they are easy to operate once you get used to the controls. It does a great job of eliminating most of the roast smoke before it has a chance to set off your smoke alarm (we still recommend good ventilation). Clean up is easy and a little TLC will make it last for years. It’s awesome for light to medium roasts and produces nice, even batches. If you are looking to roast dark on a regular basis, there are better options, like the Gene Cafe, Hottop and Bullet. This starter kit comes with:
- A 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... 2000AB Plus Drum Coffee Roaster
- 8 pounds of green coffee
- Ten 1/2 lb Botanical Print Biotre Compostable Valve Bags for storing your roasted coffee
- A Digital Coffee Scale with 3000 gram capacity and timer
- Sweet Maria’s Roast Log for recording your roasts
- Sweet Marias Roast Color Card
Fresh Roast – Air Roasting Starter Kit
The Fresh Roast is a fluid bed air roaster featuring 9 heat and fan speed adjustments, a glass roasting chamber that delivers great visibility, and a nifty chaffChaff is paper-like skin that comes off the coffee in the roasting process. Chaff from roasting is part of the innermost skin (the silverskin) of the coffee fruit... collector that makes clean up easy. If you are used to roasting on an electric popcorn popper and want to step up to a machine with much more control, a Fresh Roast would be perfect for you. This kit contains:
- A Fresh Roast SR540 (or SR800 for larger capacity)
- 8 pounds of green coffee
- Ten 1/2 lb Botanical Print Biotre Compostable Valve Bags for storing your roasted coffee
- a digital coffee scale
- Sweet Maria’s Roast Log for recording your roasts
- Sweet Marias Roast Color Card
Electric Popcorn Popper – Air Roasting Starter Kit
We did our research and found you the best stand-alone electric popcorn popper for coffee roastingThe 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 Nostalgia popper gives you full access to the sights, sounds and smells that will give you full access to the roasting experience. It’s perfect for beginners and have even found that many of our customers make this their go-to roaster for life! This kit includes:
- A Nostalgia Popcorn Popper
- 4 pounds of green coffee
- 10 1/2 lb Botanical Print Biotre Compostable Valve Bags for storing your roasted coffee
- Sweet Maria’s Roast Log for recording your roasts
- Sweet Marias Roast Color Card
VKP Popper – Stovetop Roasting Starter Kit
This is your tried and true, back to the basics, DIY, cowboy style coffee roasting. The 6 Quart stovetop popper (roaster) is 100% manual, meaning you need to set the right stovetop heat, crank the popper consistently for 8 to 11 minutes, and pour the roasted coffee into a colander to cool.
- A stainless steel popper
- 8 pounds of green coffee
- 10 1/2 lb Botanical Print Biotre Compostable Valve Bags for storing your roasted coffee
- A thermometer
- Sweet Maria’s Roast Log for recording your roasts
- Sweet Marias Roast Color Card
