{"id":2574,"date":"2013-03-19T21:57:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2013-03-20T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T06:54:16","slug":"diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"DIY<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday evening I was in the midst of preparing our after-dinner coffee when I discovered to my dismay that the coffee packet was all but empty. I started running through the options in my head — Instant? Ew, no … tea? But I want coffee … I wonder if someone would run to the store?<\/i> — when Olof reminded me that we still had some packages of unroasted beans from years ago, when we made a brief foray into the world of home-roasting. <\/p>\n

At first I balked at the idea, but then I couldn’t resist showing off a little, so I set Olof to digging in the depths of a seldom-accessed cabinet for the popcorn popper while I hunted up the beans. It’s really no big deal roasting beans, but it does take a little time, and it’s smokier and smellier than I’d remembered. All told, it took about a half-hour to roast enough beans for a pot. I had to do two rounds of beans, and each round took three or four five-minute-ish intervals (I just run it until the popper overheats and stops running, then stir the beans around and wait a few minutes until it cools enough to start again. <\/p>\n

Once the beans are roasted, I spread them in a single layer on a baking sheet and let them cool almost entirely. Then all that’s left is to grind, brew, and enjoy. It’s easy enough that I could do it every day, if it weren’t for the smell. I remembered halfway into the first round the reason I had tired of the do-it-yourself roast all those years ago. The smell is pervasive. And it lingers. Once the snow is gone I might move the enterprise out to the balcony, but until then, we’re back to drinking store-bought.<\/p>\n

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Sunday evening I was in the midst of preparing our after-dinner coffee when I discovered to my dismay that the coffee packet was all but empty. I started running through the options in my head — Instant? Ew, no … tea? But I want coffee … I wonder if someone would run to the store?… Read More DIY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}