This kit includes  

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  • Freshroast SR500 
  
  
  • a 4 or 8 Pound Green Coffee Sampler
  
  
  • ten 1/4 pound valve bags for storing your roasted coffee
  
  
  • Bodum Electric Bistro mill (optional)
  
  
  • Book: Home Coffee Roasting Roasting: Romance and Revival (optional)
  
  
  
  



You could buy all these things ala cart from the website - this just lumps them together. 




The Fresh Roast is a good choice for folks who want to get started with a machine that controls the heat, and length of roast,  and plus it agitates the beans for you.




The Fresh Roast is an easy-to-use, quiet, quick roaster, a great value. It's the ideal roaster for a 1-person coffee drinking household (okay ...there's enough for two folks).  If you are new to roasting, this is a great place to start, and if you move up to a larger machine, people have found the Fresh Roast to be a great back-up machine. The roast time is about 7 minutes for a Full City (medium-dark) roast, with a 3 minute cool-down cycle.




The Fresh Roast SR 500 has a 1/2 cup capacity - though for best agitation I prefer to use less - more like 1/3 cup (90 grams).  The SR500 is the better of the two Fresh Roast models;  it gives you more control over the roast, with three heat settings and  variable fan control.  I've detailed my thoughts on how to best use the roaster here on the details page.




If you don't have a coffee grinder, home roasting your coffee means you will need one,  so we include a basic whirley blade mill  here as an option. A blade mill is a fine choice for drip coffee - or makes a passable French press grind.