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Last month I posted an article about the best way to store coffee beans for maximum freshness. One of the commenters on that story suggested that storing the unroasted beans and then roasting as needed was in fact the best way to ensure fresh beans for brewing. Yesterday I saw an article on Lifehacker describing how to roast your own coffee on the cheap using an old popcorn popper. Excerpt below:

Roll Your Own Coffee Roaster On-the-Cheap [Clever Uses]: ”

Love the taste of fresh-roasted coffee but don’t feel like shelling out $100+ for your own home roaster? The Cool Tools weblog details how to use an old popcorn popper (the author bought his for $3 at a thrift store) to roast your coffee beans. His method, which works virtually the same way as popping popcorn with the gadget, is simple, and the results look promising. If you’re a coffee connoisseur you may eventually want to go all out and purchase a more expensive roaster, but if you just want to try it out, the popcorn-popper-as-roaster looks effective.

Popcorn Popper as Coffee Roaster [Cool Tools]

(Via Lifehacker.)