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Title: Roast your own
Review: I too thought this would end up with the bread maker, the pasta maker, the juicer, etc. but I've been using it for over a year and I make some of the best coffee around.I make espresso and cafe creme, our favorite from a Paris trip. I am getting so good that my wife really won't drink any other espresso. But the credit goes to the roaster and the basic fact that beans have a < 7 day shelf life. You must wait 12 hours for them to breathe, then they are awesome if used with a good burr grinder. One warning: Roasting must be done outside as the beans smoke when heated to > 400 degrees and they smell something like burnt popcorn.My neighbors see me outside in the dead of a New England winter and wonder what I am doing. Why not just buy Starbucks beans? If you have to ask you'll never know.
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