David Almond's 12oz Flour Sifter Roaster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Sweet Maria's customer, David Almond cooked up this minimal but functional kitchen coffee roaster. Sure, chaff and smoke are free to roam but it's an awesome roaster considering you can probably build one for a few bucks in under an hour.
This is actually an upgrade from David's original invention that roasted half the amount. Check out our blog post to see how this machine was born.
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This would be great with a Coleman burner and doing it outdoors to keep the mess down. Great stuff.
Great technique and video! You can also use the valves from old roasted coffee bags that have the valve built in and cut around them in a circle large enough to fit in the top of the mason jar (in place of the removable metal lid) so your freshly roasted coffee can easily exhale the co2 and the purchased bag gets some extra life. I cut my old roasted coffee bags apart and cut out the valves and reuse them this way. When you screw the lid down it holds the flimsy valve in place perfectly. After a week or so when all the co2 has been expelled you could replace it with the metal lid if you wanted to. Reduce, re-use and happy roasting! (PS I'm over the moon over my Sweet Marias Ethiopian Kiddame.)
I love this technique!
We love dave almond. optimizing life. twice.
Good video...after that roast you deserve a good cup of coffee. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the upload!
It is something I would like to try sometime.....I would most likely do it outside though.
The mess is part of the fun! And it would clean up fast.
I love it! How is the flavor compared to the SR540 or SR800?
Although they do roast differently, the resulting flavor will be influenced by many other factors like the coffee being roasted, how it was processed and roast profiles.
Great video.
It looks a little rough and ready and my divorce papers would be in the post if i did that to our kitchen. But that roast looked very even, I kind of expected it to be a little darker, because of temperature and maybe a little coasting and at least some tipping. But i did not see any tipping at all. Its very impressive to be honest.
My wife and I got a good chuckle from this comment! So far she has not contacted a lawyer. The tipping is avoided by a slow temp increase. Our stove burner goes from 1-6, so I do a minute on 2, a minute on 4, then go to 6 until yellow, then back to 5 until start of 1st crack, then drop to 3-4 depending on how fast 1st crack is going, then drop to 1-2. The results you see are after a year of working it out. Thanks for your thoughts!
Creative with a big batch capacity but the hand-cranking would turn a fun process for me into _a big hassle._
What did you use the cast iron pan for that is mentioned in the instructions?
My question as well
To stabilize the sifter, and allow you to hold it far enough away from the flame so as to not burn your hand. I should have detailed this more. You use a C-clamp to clamp the bottom of the handle of the sifter. When roasting you are actually holding the C-clamp, not the sifter handle. But even holding the C-clamp is problematic. It needs to be stabilized too. So that's where the heavy cast-iron pan comes in. You configure it so the handle of the cast iron pan goes through the C-clamp. When roasting, my left hand is holding the C-clamp and the cast iron handle, sort of clamping them together. You need that weight to prevent the sifter from jerking all over the place as you turn its handle with your right hand (this all assuming you're not a Lefty). If I had better TH-cam production skills I would draw a diagram of all this, but this is the only TH-cam video I have ever made...
There you go another way to roast, I still like the popcorn cooker that you crank best, throw in a couple cups or more and your good for a week.
Have you had a fire happen? A guy mentioned doing it over a Coleman burner and his mixer jammed right when the beans cracked and the oil spilled down from it. He said about a 3 foot flame shot out!
David may have more info on this but it might take a little modifying to keep the mixer spinning freely. If there's a serious jam, one could just remove the roaster from the heat source to avoid a fire.
Wow. Brave. I did my first roast (air popper) inside - what a mistake. It took about two weeks for the roasting smell to dissipate. But this is a cool method - i roast heat gun dog bowl. .
Is there a non messy way ?
Not really. People suggest doing it outside using a Coleman or something like that. I've thought of doing that, but am too lazy. I've lined the stove with aluminum foil, cutting holes for the burners. That helps a lot. I also sometimes have a vacuum handy for a quick clean-up. But at the end of the day, the comments about wives (or spouses I should say) is true. I do this when my wife is out of the house and I know I'll have enough time to clean all the chaff up.
This isn’t working for me, the beans get jammed inside the sifter on almost every turn, my wire top pops off and my screen inserts drop out. Pia. but I guess if you had a sifter that didn’t jam it would be ok?
I suggest you modify the shaft to take in steel paddles like Larry Cotton's tumbling disk designs. I personally used thin steel spoons which I inserted into the groove I dremelled in the shaft. You can check out my set up here th-cam.com/video/2otrJbjBkdY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=weeliansoh
Yes, that's a problem. The beans can get caught between the sifter blades and the screen as you crank the handle. You have to find a sifter where the blades slide along the screen. I often have to fuss with the screen by pushing it upwards, kind of bending it so the blades touch it directly.
Why do you not recommend getting the flour sifter from Amazon?
It's political -- they were union-busting in Alabama. Jeff Bezos is worth over 100 biillion dollars. He can afford to pay his workers over $15/hour. The wealth concentration in the US is criminal.
Preach@@almonddavid
Your method is pretty great! However, since I love being married, I would need to take it outside. Not an issue since I'm in Texas. Just need to rig a shaft spinner onto a drill with a long shaft and done. Thanks!
@@beanmeup9902 Surely this isn't applicable when the drill is being run at 10% speed/torque...
@@beanmeup9902 you are not going to overheat a drill motor with ten minutes of 10% duty cycle. That's ridiculous. Honestly a drill is a bit overkill for such an application, electric motors have no issue turning over some beans for ten minutes at a time.
use a electric heat gun is better becaus it forces hot air through the mass
Looking good aside from all that chaff coating the stove. Stresses me out just looking at it!
Haha, who “disliked” this... what do you care about how someone does their hobby?... anyway... since you’re doing this over a gas stove, have you tried it over electric? Or you could do it over an outdoor burned for less clean up... I dump into a ss spaghetti strainer and shake and toss to cool down outside... cool video!
I came here because the title talks about flour.
How can I roast flour, not beans?
You'll have to find another channel to ask... we deal with coffee! Good luck :-)
@@SweetMariasCoffee then why does title say ..Flour Sifter Roaster ?
It is a DIY coffee roaster that uses a sifter as a base.
You are really ok with all of that chaff going everywhere? That seems really dangerous...
I should have mentioned that I usually line the whole stove with aluminum foil first, then just remove. And you're right, if you do more than 2 batches sometimes the chaff ignites under the burner flame. We're sort of farm people, so used to mess inside and outside the house. I guess I don't have the highest standards of cleanliness or safety for that matter.