What's the recommended way to roast coffee beans at home? There are couple of different methods to roast beans at home. Namely;


Using a specific home roaster
Using a pan
Using a hair dryer
Using a (sometimes modified) corn popper


are alternatives I have heard of. I know that using heated air is advantageous as all beans are homogeneously roast. So, using a pan requires too much attention among these methods.

What do you think? Do you know any other methods? Do you think one of these methods are superior to others?
The best would be buying a home roaster, but that would be expensive.

corn popper does an amazing job considering how cheap and easy it is.
(hair drying is like corn popper in principle, but will need you to manually make sure the heat is used evenly, corn popper just do it automatically)

Using a pan need some practice but could be lot of fun to try.

So if you have the money and want to invest in it go for home roaster if not popcorn popper would be great.

just remember, you cannot make a good coffee out of bad quality coffee beans while the opposite is true.

Have a Good Roasting :)