Roasting Coffee at Home with a Popcorn Popper
Next week, we’ll tell you how to track down the best roasted beans in your area. But if your college is out in the boonies, like many are, there’s probably no locally-roasted coffee at all. In that case, you might want to treat yourself to some dorm-roasted coffee.
It’s actually not that complicated. All you need is a popcorn-popper. Trying some truly fresh-roasted coffee will make it worth buying one of these $20 residence-hall-friendly devices. Finding the green (green coffee beans, that is) can be hard/expensive — but you have the flexibility of being able to ship them in, which wouldn’t work as well for roasted coffee since it goes stale quickly.
You can also get a lot more detail from CoffeeGeek, which initially turned me on to this concept:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Lesinski joined the HackCollege team in March, 2007. A Cleveland native, Chris graduated from Loyola Marymount University in May, 2009. He graduated with a degree in film production. Chris has a long list of awesome internships and odd jobs including Revision3 , the Los Angeles Times and Wired Magazine. An avid writer, Chris worked as a researcher and blogger for Comedy Central's tosh.0 before settling in the audience development department at Revision3 . Chris co-teaches LMU's first Web video class with Kelly. Chris is a digital media producer, journalist, productivity fiend at heart. Check out Chris Lesinski's website and personal blog He also likes to shamelessly SEO his single-serving website about the current price of a first class stamp. Chris is @ lesinski on Twitter. Chris can be reached at chris@hackcollege.com.
