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Last updated: 22 June 2018
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Roasting your own coffee is an art form that takes trial and error but it'll give you two major advantages over plain pre-roasted beans: better coffee, and cheaper coffee. We lab test and review three models to help you find the best coffee roaster for you. Our coffee roaster buying guide will help you decide which coffee roaster you need, and how we test explains our testing rigour.

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You can spend well over $1000 on a coffee roaster, but there are cheaper alternatives. Our expert testers give every coffee roaster a thorough workout to help find the models that:

  • perform the best
  • are easiest to use
  • are the noisiest
  • come with useful roasting features.

We also give you good and bad points for each model, as well as the dimensions, so you'll know how much space they'll take up. Our Recommended rating will help you see quickly which models come out on top.

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List of brands we tested in this review.

    Price

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    This is the manufacturer's recommended retail price. Prices are generally flexible, so shop around both online and in bricks and mortar shops for options.

    enter value/s in increments of 1 between 495 and 1700

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    Roasting capacity (g)

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    The maximum quantity of green beans the machine can roast at the one time, measured in grams.

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      • Performance score (%)
      • Ease of use score (%)
      • Visibility of beans while roasting
      • Noise comments
      • Good points
      • Bad points
      • Cooling cycle
      • Coffee quality comments
      • Brand
      • Model
      • Price
      • Roasting capacity (g)
      • Temperature control (°C)
      • Roasting wait time (min:sec)
      • Pre-programmed settings
      • Programmable settings
      • Preheat cycle
      • Unattended safety switch system
      • Time setting
      • Manual roasting stop
      • Emergency stop
      • Items supplied
      • Weight (kg)
      • Dimensions (cm, HxWxD)
      • Time control
      • Origin
      • Contact

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