What can you find in the coffee you roast?

#1: Post by **KingDL1** » March 11th, 2014, 4:24 am

I found my first rock in about my first 50 lbs of coffee roasting. It got me thinking if you do this long enough I would figure people have found all kinds of things. What is the most interesting?

I figure this rock could do a hell of a job on the ceramic burrs of my Vario.

I tried a search but did not find this topic.

#2: Post by **espressotime** » March 11th, 2014, 4:35 am

What happened to tbe beans?
Half of them look burned.

I found a little rock once .Went into my Major but caused no damage.
Roasted about 300 lbs of beans.

March 11th, 2014, 4:50 am

This is my culled bowl I roasted 5.6 pounds yesterday. I have a home-built, my drum is a vegetable roasting drum from a big George Foreman rotisserie. It is hinged in half like a clam shell. Long story short I seal the back seam with a small bit of foil to keep the beans in, the rest of the seams are tight. I roast a pound or a bit more at a time and anywhere from 2-8 beans can get caught in the foil and over roast. So I cull each roast I do, looking for those and any other things I don't like. That was the total of what I did not like from all roasts yesterday.

#4: Post by **Boldjava** » March 11th, 2014, 8:16 am

I distribute greens so get to see "hitchhikers" first hand.

Due to use of same drying platforms, I see lots of corn, some beans, burlap strings, and 'cement' chips. When I visited a commercial roaster, he had an array of items that they had found - lots of stones, rocks, string, some bottle caps, and even a bottle opener.

#5: Post by **Bodka Coffee** » March 11th, 2014, 8:18 am

I have found a tiny rock or two and two pieces of corn.

#6: Post by **jamoke** » March 11th, 2014, 8:24 am

In about 3 1/2 years of roasting I've only found one stone, about the size of the one in Tony's photo. Like Tony, I found it with my eyes, not my grinder.

#7: Post by **Burner0000** » March 11th, 2014, 9:45 am

I once found 5 stones in a 30 lb bag of Guatemala.. Never buying that one again.

March 11th, 2014, 9:49 am

Funny weird, these greens were from Guatemala too, the Antigua region.

#9: Post by **boar_d_laze** » March 11th, 2014, 10:39 am

Found these in some Colombian. As you can see, they were big enough to landscape the pond area of my backyard.

Rich

#10: Post by **jamoke** » March 11th, 2014, 11:46 am

Rich, it looks like your koi have lots of room