What Do We Really Know About Roasting Coffee?
A 40-year-old specialty coffee industry behaves like everything about coffee roasting is already settled. But what if coffee beans don't really care about a pretty line on a monitor—we do? Let's play a game of Specialty Coffee Roasting Bingo and look at the rigid, unverified dogmas we’ve blindly accepted.
The Automation Dream: total repeatability and implementing of AI in roasting coffee
The dream of a fully automated roasting machine—one that requires only an operator to press a button—is a business owner’s paradise and a roaster’s nightmare. It’s the ultimate trade-off: saving on labor and knowledge in exchange for stability. But as we move closer to this reality, a critical question remains: Are we roasting the coffee, or are we simply roasting for the probes?