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Coffee lovers, listen up! We’re going to explain how you can roast your own coffee beans, right at home. If you’ve landed on this page, chances are you’re keen to learn how to roast coffee beans. By now you can probably brew a tasty cup of coffee. The next level is roasting your own beans. If you can roast your own beans, you have influence over every aspect of your fresh, home-brewed coffee. To make it easy for you, we’ve put together a short overview of how to roast your coffee beans. The step-by-step guide is described in more detail below. In any case, you’ll need: unroasted coffee beans, a (wok) pan, a colander or tray, a hob and a spatula. If you have all these items at home, you can roast your own coffee beans. Be aware: it does take some practice to get the perfect result. Once you’ve got the knack, the goal is to find your ideal roast on subsequent attempts and keep it consistent every time.

Step-by-step guide to roasting coffee beans yourself

1. Preheat a wok, pan or drum roaster

Coffee comes from the Latin name of the plant genus Coffea. The genus belongs to the Rubiaceae family and contains over 6,000 different types of plants and trees, which mostly grow in tropical regions.

The genus Coffea contains at least 25 different species, some of which can grow more than 10 metres tall. For us, there are 2 important species within the Coffea genus: Coffea Arabica and Coffea Canephora.

Coffea Arabica vs. Coffea Canephora

• Coffea Arabica produces Arabica beans, which most quality coffee is made from. Arabica is the only coffee that can be drunk without the beans being mixed with other types of coffee beans (a mix is called a blend). Arabica coffee is generally fairly mild and comes from places such as Brazil.
• Coffea Canephora produces Robusta beans, which are often used in blends (mixed with Arabica beans). This coffee is considerably more bitter.

There are also the C. liberica and C. excelsa plants that produce liberica and excelsa beans. However, these are used much less