--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2000-11-01T11:07:26' draft: false title: I've gone on here about --- I've [gone](/legacy/weblog/curtain/album/7.html) [on here](/posts/2000-04-30-how-i-destroyed-a-thriving/) [about roasting my own coffee](/archive/2000_04_02_archive.html#130136) beans at home. Without exception, all the people who have tasted my freshly roasted coffee has said it's the best coffee they've ever had. You can roast at home, too, without spending a couple hundred dollars on fancy roasters or other equipment. All you need is a hot air popcorn popper, and if you get really fancy, a special coffee roasting attachment. The Mountanos Home Coffee Roaster Company is [giving them away over the web](http://www.thehomecoffeeroaster.com/body_index.htm) in an effort to promote their mail order green coffee bean business. If you'd rather not go to that much effort, you can get a spendid roast [in your wok or skillet](http://sweetmarias.com/instructions.html), as I found out last week when my electric roaster lost its motor.