Use The Ikawa Home Roaster To Cook Your Own Coffee Beans At Home

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Many people already grind beans at home, on top of all the fancy brewing people have been undertaking inside their kitchens. The Ikawa Home Roaster takes things even further (maybe too far?), letting you roast your own darn beans from the comfort of your abode.

Billed as “the world’s first digital micro-roaster,” the appliance lets you roast small batches of beans straight from the kitchen countertop, leveling up your coffee snob game a full step above all the other connoisseurs who judge people that own Keurigs with a snide look. Yeah, you’re in a different league now.

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The Ikawa Home Roaster is designed to pair over Bluetooth with the accompanying app, where you set all the different roasting parameters (no controls on the appliance itself). To use, simply turn on the roaster, put 60 grams of green coffee beans on the doser compartment, and leave it to pre-heat. You can monitor the pre-heating process directly from the app, with your phone alerting you when the roaster is fully warmed-up. From there, you simply choose a roast recipe and manually turn the doser to send the beans to the main chamber, where the actual roasting begins. Depending on your settings, the roasting should take anywhere between three to 10 minutes, churning out 50 grams of freshly roasted coffee spreading its aroma all throughout your home.

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Features include a 3.5mm-thick aluminum casing, a high-accuracy PT1000 temperature sensor, an onboard PID controller that precisely manages the heating element, and a toughened glass lid. Yes, it will produce smoke (you’re roasting, after all), but it should be small enough to not get the smoke detectors acting awry.

A Kickstarter campaign is currently running for the Ikawa Home Roaster. Pledges to reserve a unit starts at £500.

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