The total roast times for an air popper can vary between 4-7 minutes. ![]() Please read this entire post before your first roast, things move pretty fast and you won’t have time to read as you go. ![]() Ok, that was a lot of background info so let’s start the process. Here is some more information about roast levels and roast data. The main things we have is to go off are sight, sound, smell and temperature, that is what the laser thermometer is for, so we can measure the center of the bean mass. With an air popper we only have on and off so we are limited (there are videos out there to show you how to mod these things, but I don’t mess with that) in our controls. ![]() Many of the professional drum roasters have sensors and settings for temperature, heat, drum speed, air flow and many other things can be tracked and adjusted on the fly. Because of this I almost always roast outside. The coffee roasting process will create a lot of smoke and chaff (coffee skin) that flies all over the place. For my purposes I try to end a City Roast around 426F and a Full City Roast around 437F. The temperatures are approximate and you will see different guides vary a little.
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