Are there any other home-roasters in the community? I live in an area where the commercially available coffee tends to be pre-ground and stale. Over the years, I’ve started roasting my own coffee. Feel free to chime in to this post if you do the same or if you’re curious about it and we can compare notes on technique!
Here’s a follow-up thought that you can take or leave. Having tried both head to head, I think that there is a flavor difference between what I do with my oven and a good high-temp low-time roast. Personally I think that the difference is minor, especially when you compare the flavor of either method to most of the coffee that you can buy from a grocery store. I suspect that the high-temp low-time issue is emphasized online because (if it is accepted as both true and important) it favors the purchase of specialty gadgets. Please try both and draw your own conclusions.
Thanks a bunch for sharing the perspective and experience I’ve thought this might be the case since I’ve discovered it to be the case in so many other areas of the coffee hobby so far.
I could be wrong, depending on your sense of taste. Once I cross the divide between bad coffee and good coffee, my ability to be a nuanced critic of flavor takes a nosedive.