Carolyn Erickson

As enthusiastic as my husband was to give tips about roasting your own coffee, he was equally keen to hear the results of Charmian’s first attempt. When she posted her results, I suggested he leave a comment with any additional tips he might have.

After about an hour of hunt-and-pecking his comment into the little box, he turned to me and said, “Did you know there is a limit to how many characters they let you enter?” I had mercy on him and told him I would let him put his comments here, where there is OBVIOUSLY no character limit. (Have you seen some of my posts?)

But since it’s my blog, I think I’m entitled to get a few words in too. My comments are in brackets [] below.

All looks good. Your experience brought back fond memories of  all my early roasting ventures. [Begin dream sequence...] I started out with one brand spanking new Toastmaster popper. Half a cup of beans. 8 minutes to a dark roast,chaff everywhere in my garage and a bunch of smoke. [Not to worry - the fire department is just down the street.] Temporary sweet victory. No more Charbucks for me!

[He says to himself, he says] Wait a minute to come up with three or four pounds of coffee for a week supply [it isn't like we have a problem or anything] is going to take a while, I’m going to need more poppers. Off to Target I went for another popper. WOW they just put them on closeout. $4.00 a piece. I bought 4. [Without consulting me.] Now I can do some serious roasting with 5 POPPERS. Being in the constrution business [much like Tim Allen] I installed 3 extra electrical circuits in my garage so I can run air compressors,saws,etc., without blowing or kicking breakers [or the dog]. Now running 3 poppers at a time all on different circuits. The other circuit i would run a fan with a colander [my colander???] on top to dump the beans in for cooling. Yes I melted all plastic tops. Also I used tin cans [I made him eat ALL of those green beans] that fit the poppers for extensions - top and bottom cut out of the cans.Some poppers re…

And that’s where the Blogger box came up saying, “Enough already. This is Web 2.0 buddy. You need to get to the point and get out of here.” The plan was that he would finish his comments, but our weekend was busy and my husband would rather roast coffee than type, so he hasn’t gotten back to it yet.

We’ll probably find time to get together and post the rest of it (it is a good bonding activity :)), but I’m not making any promises.

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