Air Roasting
What is
Air-Roasting
Simply put, the Air-Roasting process involves coffee beans being suspended and roasted on a bed of hot air.
The vortex within the roasting chamber created by the air, roasts each coffee bean at the same rate from all directions.
The Air-Roaster also removes dust, chaff and smoke from the roast chamber ensuring a clean, pure and balanced roast.
With Air-Roasted Coffee, you taste the coffee, not the roaster.
Air-Roasting also allows continuous and first-hand interaction with your coffee beans during the entire roast process using sight, sound and smell as well as to guide you through the roast from start to finish and to enhance your roasting experience altogether.
So, with a continuous stream of fresh hot air coming into the roast chamber and everything else but the roasting coffee beans being removed, the end product has a very clean taste that is intensely aromatic, together with enhanced flavour notes, minus the acids and bitter tars that are usually produced by conventional roasters, it produces an exceptional cup of coffee.
AIR ROASTING IS ON THE RISE!
5 Reasons to Air Roast on an
Air-Motion Roaster
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Air-Motion Roasters can roast a batch of green coffee beans in under 15 minutes.
This short roasting time reduces the formation of negative acidic compounds that can make coffee taste bitter or cause stomach irritation. This is one reason why air-roasted beans are thought to have a more pure flavor than drum-roasted beans.
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Like a popcorn popper, Air-Motion Roasters keep coffee beans moving with a perfectly controlled hot airflow for an even roast. The hot air forces out the chaff and contaminants that might burn into the beans and mask the beans’ true flavor profile. In short, the only thing being roasted is the bean. No smoke or particulate exhaust means no additional ventilation, afterburner, or chaff collector needed — making for a smaller environmental footprint that allows you to place the roaster almost anywhere.
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One of air roasting’s biggest benefits is the ability to accurately sense the digital bean temperature with a thermocouple. With this information, the degree of roast is known at all times, and you can easily adjust the settings for different degrees of roast and offer accurate reproducibility. The coffee “puffs” a bit more, the appearance is more even and attractive, and the roasts are very repeatable.
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You can produce a good amount of coffee in an 8-hour workday, thanks to air roasting’s short roasting cycle:
3KG = 25 lbs/hr, 200 lbs/8-hr shift
6KG = 50 lbs/hr, 400 lbs/8-hr shift
12KG = 100 lbs/hr, 800 lbs/8-hr shift
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The mechanics of air roasting are built on a simple “plug and play” platform. Just install with common tools and you’re pretty much ready to go.
No fuel.
Lowest emissions.
Unmatched control.Air-Motion Roasters are designed with an intuitive interface that is quick to understand and easy to train your team to use. They’re also usually made of commercial-quality parts that are easy to clean and maintain.