The Best Home Coffee Roasters on the Market

Roast Your Best Coffee Brew Yet

There are two types of home coffee roasters on the market today fluid bed & drum. The most common are fluid bed roasters.The Fresh Roast Plus "8"Enhanced, the Heartware I-Roast 2, and the Nesco Professional are popular and inexpensive. They will roast a batch in 7-20 minutes and pretty simple to clean and maintain. Drum roasters is an oven with a roasting drum.

Fluid Roasters

Fluid bed roasters are similar in design and can be compared to air popcorn poppers. You can actually watch the coffee roast through the glass roasting chamber. A good hearty batch yields about 8-20 cups depending on how you make the strength of the coffee also the type of coffee maker you are using.

Fresh Roast Plus "8" Enhanced- has increase fan speed to reduce roasting temperature to provide a nice balanced even roast. Its roaster chamber is new and improved. Price $89.99

Hearthware I-Roast 2 Home Coffee Roaster- is a fully programmable brewing system. It roasts light, medium and dark. This coffee roaster has preset automatic roasting curves for small and large sized batches. Price $179.99

Nesco Professional- this new model of the Nesco smoke less roster has higher roasting temperature which cuts down on roast times. This roaster produces a better tasting cup of coffee. It is even easier to achieve a darker roast. Price $159.50

Drum Roasters

Bravi, Behmor, or Gene Cafe are indeed the best drum roasters. Burman Coffee Trader Company has thoroughly tested each coffee roaster and given great information regarding the roasters. On their premier website you will find the pros and cons regarding the use of these coffee roasters. These roasters are a bit more expensive.

Gene Cafe Coffee Roaster-A top of the line roster that uses principles from the fluid bed and drum roasters. The Gene Cafe is quiet, easy to use, roasts 10-12 oz. by weight of coffee per batch. This roaster is sensitive to batch size. One should weigh out the coffee before putting in this coffee maker otherwise coffee may be inconsistent. Price $495.00


Swissmar Bravi- A precision-made Swiss designed home coffee roaster. Best choice for roasting larger batches. The capacity is ? a pound of green coffee per batch. The time for roast is 20-25 minutes. Easy to use and well crafted. This roaster is recommended as an excellent home coffee roaster.Price $299.00

Behmor 1600 Coffee Roaster- It is the largest capacity home roaster. This amazing coffee roaster produces out of this world coffee. After only a few tries you will get the hang of the roaster. Your friends and family will think your home is the new coffee house after tasting an amazing batch of gourmet specialty coffee that you roasted. Maybe they will deem you the "Master Roaster". Price $299.95


Simply put in 4-16 ounces of green coffee beans and choose a batch size, profile and then time settings. When your desired roast is reached hit the cool button. The roaster should be almost perfect after all the years of trying to make the ultimate home coffee roaster. Behmor has had its trial and error episodes. A local roaster had a personal quest to make sure of its success it took 8 years of diligent research and 250 thousand miles traveled, thousands of tests and trial roasts not to mention all its revisions before the final model Behmor 1600 brand of coffee roasters was born.

Home Voltage

Mostly all coffee roasters are sensitive to your home voltage. Roast on a circuit that isn't being used at the same time you are roasting. Don't get confused. Home roasters are not the same as commercial roasters they must be allowed to cool down in between batches or you could set off the thermal protection that will require the roaster to be reset by the manufacturer. You don't want that kind of hassle.