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  "title": "Roasting coffee",
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  "html": "<p>I've been roasting coffee at home, off and on for years now. I roasted some more last weekend.</p>\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<image-gallery>\n<img src=\"attachments/IMG_8277.jpeg\" width=\"\" height=\"\">\n<img src=\"attachments/IMG_8280.jpeg\" width=\"\" height=\"\">\n<img src=\"attachments/IMG_8281.jpeg\" width=\"\" height=\"\">\n<img src=\"attachments/IMG_8283.jpeg\" width=\"\" height=\"\">\n<img src=\"attachments/IMG_8285.jpeg\" width=\"\" height=\"\">\n</image-gallery>\n\n<p>It started as a kind of ADHD enthusiasm hobby about 15 years ago. I read a dozen books, fell down the rabbit hole of forums and docs online. My first few dozen batches were carefully logged. I tried filling my head with details of varietals and roasting profiles. This was serious scientific business! Until I got bored of that, at which point I stopped being careful.</p>\n<p>These days, I mostly just wing it and push the buttons on <a href=\"https://www.sweetmarias.com/behmor-2000ab-plus-roaster.html\">the Behmor toaster oven</a>. I hang out and watch to make sure nothing catches on fire. I listen for the cracks and sniff the air to decide when to end the roast.</p>\n<p>It takes about 20 minutes, all told, and the coffee ends up plenty good enough for a week of daily drinking. And, given the current era of tariff madness, green coffee beans end up a little cheaper and have a relatively long shelf life that make them worth buying in bulk and hoarding in the basement pantry.</p>\n",
  "body": "\nI've been roasting coffee at home, off and on for years now. I roasted some more last weekend.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<image-gallery>\n![[attachments/IMG_8277.jpeg]]\n![[attachments/IMG_8280.jpeg]]\n![[attachments/IMG_8281.jpeg]]\n![[attachments/IMG_8283.jpeg]]\n![[attachments/IMG_8285.jpeg]]\n</image-gallery>\n\nIt started as a kind of ADHD enthusiasm hobby about 15 years ago. I read a dozen books, fell down the rabbit hole of forums and docs online. My first few dozen batches were carefully logged. I tried filling my head with details of varietals and roasting profiles. This was serious scientific business! Until I got bored of that, at which point I stopped being careful.\n\nThese days, I mostly just wing it and push the buttons on [the Behmor toaster oven](https://www.sweetmarias.com/behmor-2000ab-plus-roaster.html). I hang out and watch to make sure nothing catches on fire. I listen for the cracks and sniff the air to decide when to end the roast.\n\nIt takes about 20 minutes, all told, and the coffee ends up plenty good enough for a week of daily drinking. And, given the current era of tariff madness, green coffee beans end up a little cheaper and have a relatively long shelf life that make them worth buying in bulk and hoarding in the basement pantry.",
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