Comments on: Home Roasting Recommences http://forgeover.com/articles/2009/03/09/home-roasting-recommences Boldly bucking convention and common sense so you don't have to. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:09 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tucker http://forgeover.com/articles/2009/03/09/home-roasting-recommences/comment-page-1#comment-34 Tucker Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:48:10 +0000 #comment-34 <p>Runts are imperfect beans. In many cases they are fragments of beans that blew up during the roast. These fragments, as well as the more cylindrical runts are evidence of substandard green beans. I recall from my roasting days that I would average about 2-5% runts. In my Peets exercise I didn't even bother to remove the beans that had divots blown out of their cell walls. This is another sign of a bad bean.</p> <p>In many cases the fragments are the result of mechanical intervention, but the end result (bunk coffee) is the same, due to the rapid off-gassing of CO2 that ensues. This off-gassing causes the beans to loose their good qualities.</p> Runts are imperfect beans. In many cases they are fragments of beans that blew up during the roast. These fragments, as well as the more cylindrical runts are evidence of substandard green beans. I recall from my roasting days that I would average about 2-5% runts. In my Peets exercise I didn’t even bother to remove the beans that had divots blown out of their cell walls. This is another sign of a bad bean.

In many cases the fragments are the result of mechanical intervention, but the end result (bunk coffee) is the same, due to the rapid off-gassing of CO2 that ensues. This off-gassing causes the beans to loose their good qualities.

]]> By: Abigail http://forgeover.com/articles/2009/03/09/home-roasting-recommences/comment-page-1#comment-33 Abigail Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:33:32 +0000 #comment-33 <p>What are the runts, other than smaller? Do they taste funny?</p> <p>I'm going to try beans from Philz this week, I think.</p> What are the runts, other than smaller? Do they taste funny?

I’m going to try beans from Philz this week, I think.

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