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Question: Has anyone tried to roast coffee beans?
Document: I purchased this for popcorn & nuts, which works great. But I mostly wanted it for coffee bean roasting and grain roasting for my beer homebrewing. The popcorn setting is at 450 F deg which is perfect for coffee beans, which takes about an hour for French Roast and the Nut setting is at 350 F deg, which is perfect for grain roasting.
Got this today as the stirring mechanism seemed to make it great for roasting coffee beans. Guess what broke during the first use.
Unit would shut down after 15 minutes not enough to roast my nuts then would come back on when cooled down definitely not good for popping multiple popcorn for parties. Or for roasting coffee.
I would not recommend it to anyone. Lid does not fit and spits oil & etc. out onto counter and person . Have to buy clamps to hold lid on. Kernels get stuck under stirrer . Electric cord is much to short. I have not tried nuts yet.
Bought this to experiment with coffee roasting, but turns too slowly and is not quite hot enough. Ended up giving it away.bot a small grid roasting drum from Sweet Maria's and installed in a rotisserie roaster, and that's been working great for coffee roasting.My friend really like this for nuts and kettle corn, so for it's intended use, it's great.
I love this product! It is extremely easy to use and clean. It is great to have the kitchen fill with the wonderful aroma of real popcorn. I am extremely pleased with this purchase and highly recommend it to anyone, especially those wishing to control oil and artificial chemical intake.
He also loves using the little well in the top to melt butter. He says this is his best gift ever. He does not roast nuts so can't rate that part of it.
I like this popper/roaster.. When roasting nuts, it is an easy cleanup if you follow the directions given. The only draw back is that you can only roast 1 cup at a time. But-the results are good. The popper works well......
I received this item and did not use it for nearly 30 days. All it did was pop a cupful of popcorn and roast the rest of a 1/3 cup of kernels turning them from yellow to a deep brown. Needless to say it is on its way back. I have owned a previous version of this that did at least work.
Read up on the with allllll the feedbacks (both this and the model which doesn't roast nuts). Lots of fuss about the arms, about the handles when you go to flip, the short cord, the metal screws that hold the handles in place, and the butter drip. So let me say this. I am 71, with neuropathy and arthritis in my hands. I opened my package and set about to test drive my new popper.
Answer: Yes, but it will roast the beans better if you replace the Kettle Krazy's plastic bowl/cover with a convection oven lid, like this one:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NJGCUK/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc;=1 This Kettle Krazy is actually better to use for roasting coffee beans than the West Bend 82306 Stir Crazy 6-Quart Electric Popcorn Popper - 1) because the stirrers are thicker than the Stir Crazy, and 2) the heat base in which the stirrer attaches to is metal, not plastic.  If you Google Stir Crazy Convection Coffee Roasting, you'll see what I'm talking about, however, all those examples, they had to modify the Stir Crazy by replacing the cheaper stirrer, plastic heat base and some examples they even added one of those stands or a base from a wok so that the convection lid they're using had enough room to sit or fit on the Stir Crazy.  The convection oven I pointed out above is unlike the ones in the examples where it has a taller glass cover, which is perfectly designed to fit over the Kettle Krazy, due to the KK's taller metal heating base. Plus, Kettle Krazy has a Nut setting, which IMHO, is better for roasting the coffee beans vs. using the popcorn setting, however, the real roasting will come from the convection oven lid.