Archive for December 10th, 2007

CGA to protest against Coffee Board – Newindpress(Coffee News)

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Speaking to mediapersons here on Sunday, the Association president, B M Suresh alleged that the Agriculture Insurance Company and Coffee Board were dilly-dallying when the growers approached them to get the insured amount. The Board and the insurance company had jointly launched insurance cover for coffee six months back, he said. Hundreds of growers had paid the premium and got crop insurance cover. But due to incessant rainfall, the growers had failed to get good yield and approached the company for insured amount, he added. He urged the insurance company and Coffee Board to distribute the assured amount to growers before December 20. The Growers Association leaders B S Prakash, P Omprasad and B S Siddappa were present. More Cofee News

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Coffee Bean Roaster

Monday, December 10th, 2007

“Coffee Bean Roaster”Coffee beans that are off a gourmet variety are then sold to a large coffee bean roaster company or green coffee brokers. Green coffee is also called raw coffee. From the coffee bean roaster it is sorted and sometimes processed again. Then the coffee bean is put in large drum machines to be roasted. The coffee is then sealed in bags and sent to the market.

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If you want the entire java experience including buying green or raw beans and then roasting them at home, you’ll need your own coffee bean roaster. A roaster is a drum shaped machine and the heat is brought to the drum by different ways such as by electricity, gas fire, or by infra red means. The heat generated by the coffee bean roaster through metal in the drums is termed “conductive roasting.” There is another kind of class of this type of coffee bean roaster which is combination drum roasting. This type of roasting uses a hot stream of air which is streamed into the drum of the roaster. This is much like roasting the coffee beans on a sheet inside of an oven.

Another type is one that uses hot air to roast the beans. In this type of roaster an extremely hot stream of air is forced into the roaster and it suspends and cooks the beans as this is called convention roasting. This type of roasting takes less time but there is a limit to how many beans one can roast using this type of coffee bean roaster. So you can roast coffee faster using this type of coffee bean roaster but you will not be able to roast as many beans doing it.

You can go high tech to get your initial caffeine fix every day by using infra-red waves to roast the beans. This method of coffee bean roasting is efficient as it brings much energy into the beans but it takes a longer time to roast the beans than with a convectional coffee bean roaster.

If you want to spend the time or money involved to make your coffee from almost scratch get yourself a roaster and get to work.

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