Washing, rinsing then drying greens before roasting!

#1: Post by **TomC** » February 7th, 2014, 2:31 pm

This is the oddest thing I've seen in regards to roasting. Nevermind that the user roasted the beans for nearly 19 minutes. Someone shared this with me recently and I thought it was worth sharing. It's odd, and I'm nearly certain it would detract not improve the results, but I'm almost curious to try it with a plain random cheap green I have and see if it would cup different or cleaner, ha ha.

#2: Post by **yakster** » February 7th, 2014, 2:46 pm

I was actually in the middle of trying this with back-to-back roasts in my Behmor with the same coffee when I had a problem with the roaster and couldn't complete the roast on the (re)washed coffee.

I replaced the control board (after five years of roasting on a refurbished Behmor) and am back in business, but I have not revisited this. This might make sense for some patio dried coffees, but I'm skeptical.

#3: Post by **kajer** » February 7th, 2014, 5:05 pm

It makes sense. You wash your veggies before prepping, right?

Although, I'd think the 400+ degrees in the roaster would kill anything hitchhiking with the greens, like monkey poop.