Video: How Long to Cool Roasted Coffee Beans

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Learn about cooling coffee beans after they have been roasting with expert cooking tips in this free coffee roasting video clip.

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The beans are done. We start the cooling tray and drop them. These are pretty highly roasted beans. That is where all the smoke is coming from. They are more roasted than most beans. These would be like a French roast or Espresso roast. I tend to roast here pretty dark. People like them pretty dark in this area. Okay the beans have been cooling now and have been in this cooling tray probably 8-9 minutes, maybe 7 minutes I'm not sure. But I am getting ready to drop them. What I am going to do is release this lever. This will open this trap door and will drop into the bucket. During the roasting process, beans will fluff up, gain in volume. So even they all fit in here before I started, they all won't fit in here now that I'm done. I'm going to put the heat back on so that the next round gets ready while I'm finishing this here. Because I had some overflow, I'll just use a separate bucket and that is it. At this point I would be weighing those beans and comparing them with what I started out with keeping track of those kind of numbers.