Roasting coffee was Re: Detox Ideas (from concrete etc)

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> I'd be interested in roasting just to have the whole house smell so

good! No

> need to even drink the stuff just breathe in!.

Surprisingly, the smell produced during the roasting of beans is not

the nice smell of the final product. A lot of chemistry happens

during roasting...the green beans are much smaller than you

expect...they expand to around twice their size and have " cracking "

stages they go through and a skin that they shed. They also give off

CO2 and probably other gasses as well (after roasting you usually

want to let them " out gas " CO2 for a few hours else the coffee can be

too acid). Anyway, the bottom line is that they pretty much smell

like you are burning something when you roast them, and the smell

sticks around a while. I kind of like it but my DW does not, so

roasting is done outside at our home. The beans smell much better

when you grind and brew them!

> BTW I wonder if, by inhaling coffee-roasting-aroma, you get any of

its

> effects, you know, like a little bitty caffeine buzz? Sorry....

Hmmmm.... maybe THAT'S why I like roasting in the house! You've

caught me!