Roasting my own beans for the first time, that smell hit different

I finally tried home roasting with a simple pan method last weekend after reading about it on a coffee forum. The beans went from green to a nice medium brown in about 12 minutes, but what surprised me was how much chaff flew off, I had to clean my kitchen twice. I used a bag of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from a local shop in Columbus that cost $11, and the cup honestly tasted fruitier than anything I've bought pre-roasted. Has anyone else tried pan roasting, and did you get that weird smoky smell stuck in your clothes for days?

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wright.richard25d ago

Man, it's funny how the little things we do ourselves just hit different once we see the whole process.