Home Roasting Coffee Beans Master Iron Pot Roasting Skills

We can indeed bake coffee in our iron pans, which is actually what people in many European countries are doing. What you need is a light frying pan with a sealed lid, and of course you can pick a heavy one if you want to do an aerobic workout; and gas / electric stove, oven thermometer, tablespoon, metal sieve pan for cooling and insulating gloves.

In order for you to quickly master the skills of iron pot baking, I have summarized it into a ten-step concise guide:

1. Open your range hood or kitchen window. Keep all the items you need within reach.

2. Measure 9 ounces of raw coffee beans, or 12 ounces in a larger pot.

3. Cover the pan and preheat the wok over low heat. Measure 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 degrees Celsius) through an oven thermometer placed in the pan and keep it stable.

4. Take out the thermometer, pour the raw beans into the pan, cover the pot, put on the insulation gloves and start shaking the wok.

5. This is the most intuitive but also the roughest and most chaotic baking method. You need to shake the wok to keep the raw beans moving. Carefully distinguish the sound and fragrance of an explosion for about 5 minutes. Wait a moment and open the lid of the pot to check the color.

6. It is easy to scorch coffee beans if the temperature is too high, so it is best to fine-tune the flame after an explosion. Because the baking process will actually continue until the coffee beans completely cool, you need to pour the coffee beans from the frying pan into the metal sieve pan in advance when the color of the coffee beans is slightly lighter than you need.

7. Stir the beans in a metal sieve pan with a large spoon until the temperature is so low that you can touch them. You may need to wear insulation gloves to prevent scalds. Doing this step outdoors will help cool down faster.

8. If the beans are still covered with light silver skins, simply stirring and blowing will easily remove them. Please finish this process outdoors or in the sink, otherwise you will have to prepare to sweep the floor.

9. Beans should be kept away from light in sealed glass jars (not refrigerated), but for freshly baked beans, it will take 12 hours for them to discharge CO2 before sealing.

10. Freshly roasted warm beans are the most wonderful, but the best flavor of coffee beans appears 4-24 hours after baking, if you can keep them according to the above method. We can all call it fresh coffee beans in 6 days.

The moment you open the coffee can the next morning, you will deeply appreciate the true meaning of fresh coffee. All this can be done with a small iron pot, so what are you waiting for? Let's get started!

The simplest coffee roasting method of iron pan fried beans