How to get your foot in the door to become a commercial roaster? - Barista Exchange2024-03-28T14:59:10Zhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/how-to-get-your-foot-in-the-door-to-become-a-commercial-roaster?commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A1559174&feed=yes&xn_auth=noStart a guide on youtube abou…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2015-06-12:1688216:Comment:15594212015-06-12T16:36:37.600ZCoffeedivahttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/Coffeediva
<p>Start a guide on youtube about different roasts and tips, and then you can add this to your cv when you send off to companies.</p>
<p>Start a guide on youtube about different roasts and tips, and then you can add this to your cv when you send off to companies.</p> Check out the Quest on Sweet…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2015-06-11:1688216:Comment:15591742015-06-11T00:48:31.570ZTricia H.https://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/TriciaH
<p>Check out the Quest on Sweet Maria's. It has a tryer and an air temp gauge. I think you can get a bean probe too if you wanted to install one. </p>
<p>Check out the Quest on Sweet Maria's. It has a tryer and an air temp gauge. I think you can get a bean probe too if you wanted to install one. </p> Hi Joshua. You can at least t…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-12-04:1688216:Comment:15432042014-12-04T06:28:10.422ZAlice Paigehttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/AlicePaige
<p>Hi Joshua. You can at least try roasting at home, practice makes perfect! You can also attend to coffee roasting training to enhance skills on this industry. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hi Joshua. You can at least try roasting at home, practice makes perfect! You can also attend to coffee roasting training to enhance skills on this industry. Good luck!</p> I would never recommend the H…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-08:1688216:Comment:15385892014-10-08T03:27:30.942ZMike McGinnesshttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/miKemcKoffeeakaMikeMcGinness
<p>I would never recommend the HotTop as a commercial production roaster! Though I still use one of the two as a sample roaster. Sold the other one when USRC FINALLY arrived.</p>
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<p>That said I know how and would have roasted the needed coffee with wooden spoons and a carbon steel wok over a camp stove if I had to. I actually have a carbon steel wok dedicated for coffee roasting and have done roasting demonstrations outside the coffeehouse with it to show there is no excuse not to roast…</p>
<p>I would never recommend the HotTop as a commercial production roaster! Though I still use one of the two as a sample roaster. Sold the other one when USRC FINALLY arrived.</p>
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<p>That said I know how and would have roasted the needed coffee with wooden spoons and a carbon steel wok over a camp stove if I had to. I actually have a carbon steel wok dedicated for coffee roasting and have done roasting demonstrations outside the coffeehouse with it to show there is no excuse not to roast IF you really want to roast coffee at home. For kicks and giggles once used a 12" SS fry pan to roast 1/2lb no stirring chef toss only and only lost 7 beans lol.</p>
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<p>In hind sight would I have done things differently? YES, ordered my USRC 4 months sooner!</p> Thats very inspiring. I hones…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-08:1688216:Comment:15385042014-10-08T02:14:07.222ZJoshua Dittmerhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/JoshuaDittmer
Thats very inspiring. I honestly didn't think the HotTop was physically capable of such a workload. From your experience working with it in such a manner, would you recommend the HotTop to a beginning roaster, or looking back now, would you have done things differently?
Thats very inspiring. I honestly didn't think the HotTop was physically capable of such a workload. From your experience working with it in such a manner, would you recommend the HotTop to a beginning roaster, or looking back now, would you have done things differently? You find it hard to believe a…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-08:1688216:Comment:15387642014-10-08T01:42:15.984ZMike McGinnesshttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/miKemcKoffeeakaMikeMcGinness
<p>You find it hard to believe and therefore it is not possible. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">7 years ago I used 2 HotTops for over 3 months to supply my new coffeehouse location's grinders and retail bag shelf while waiting for my USRC to be built and delivered... (Both modified for computer profile control so running 2 laptops.) Indeed I was roasting every waking moment not at the…</span></p>
<p>You find it hard to believe and therefore it is not possible. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">7 years ago I used 2 HotTops for over 3 months to supply my new coffeehouse location's grinders and retail bag shelf while waiting for my USRC to be built and delivered... (Both modified for computer profile control so running 2 laptops.) Indeed I was roasting every waking moment not at the coffeehouse, every single day routinely running them non-stop from the moment I got home until I went to bed late at night and for over 12 hour stretches Sundays. I did what I needed to do. I looked for and found solutions, no excuses given or accepted. </span></p>
<p>Do or do not, there is no try. It is not just a saying from Yoda in Star Wars.</p> Hey guys so here's an update.…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-08:1688216:Comment:15387602014-10-08T01:05:28.350ZJoshua Dittmerhttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/JoshuaDittmer
Hey guys so here's an update....<br />
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After trying to get my foot in the door at a lot of the big name places, (I.e. Intelli, Stumptown, Blue Bottle etc, I ended up hooking up with a much smaller Manhattan based coffee company (Birch Coffee). I'm currently managing there newest cafe in the upper east side of Manhattan, (they have 4 total). The great thing about Birch is they have just signed the lease on there own roasting space, and that should be up and running by next year, at which point I may…
Hey guys so here's an update....<br />
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After trying to get my foot in the door at a lot of the big name places, (I.e. Intelli, Stumptown, Blue Bottle etc, I ended up hooking up with a much smaller Manhattan based coffee company (Birch Coffee). I'm currently managing there newest cafe in the upper east side of Manhattan, (they have 4 total). The great thing about Birch is they have just signed the lease on there own roasting space, and that should be up and running by next year, at which point I may have the opportunity to apprentice the owner in a roasting position. The owner is a fairly new roaster himself, however, he's good friends with Tracy Allen of the SCAA so he's learning a lot from him. The bad news is that I'm fairly new to the company, and while I believe my passion and desire to roast outweighs most of our employees, everybody seems to want to work in the roast house. The other bad news is (not to pat my own back or anything) but I've done such a knock up job running this new location that they want to keep me in the shop rather than using me in the roast house. I will have to continue to take the advice of everyone and keep begging and pleading, as well as offering lots of unpaid time just trying to be around the roast house, etc.<br />
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My other idea, and I would love to hear your guys opinion on this, is to try to start up a little online/ farmers market roasting company myself. I've seen on kickstarter little roasting companies who use a HOT TOP 1/2 lb roaster yet they are able to raise $30000 on kickstarter for a new roaster. I've never used the hot top but I find it hard to believe you can start a company with one. I was trying to do it a little bigger than that, maybe save up and get a probatino or an Ambex or something. What are your thoughts on that?????<br />
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sorry for the 2nd novel, and for my lack of presence on Barista Exchange. I have a shitty computer/phone and can't always stay up to date on BX. Thanks for the continued support and knowledge though, I'm always happy to see in my inbox replies to this post! Looks like his last activity…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-07:1688216:Comment:15385822014-10-07T23:56:46.607ZMike McGinnesshttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/miKemcKoffeeakaMikeMcGinness
<p>Looks like his last activity of any kind on BX was in March so who knows...<br/> <br/> <cite>John P said:</cite></p>
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<p>Looks like his last activity of any kind on BX was in March so who knows...<br/> <br/> <cite>John P said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.baristaexchange.com/forum/topics/how-to-get-your-foot-in-the-door-to-become-a-commercial-roaster?commentId=1688216%3AComment%3A1538581&xg_source=msg_com_forum#1688216Comment1538581"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>As this thread was started in January, I wonder how Joshua has fared?</p>
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</blockquote> As this thread was started in…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-07:1688216:Comment:15385812014-10-07T21:16:13.095ZJohn Phttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/JohnP49
<p>As this thread was started in January, I wonder how Joshua has fared?</p>
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<p>As this thread was started in January, I wonder how Joshua has fared?</p>
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<p>Joshua?</p> How to get your foot in the d…tag:www.baristaexchange.com,2014-10-07:1688216:Comment:15387502014-10-07T19:10:22.544ZMike McGinnesshttps://www.baristaexchange.com/profile/miKemcKoffeeakaMikeMcGinness
<h1><em>How to get your foot in the door to become a commercial roaster?</em></h1>
<p><em><br/></em>Constantly knock nay beat on doors until one opens.</p>
<h1><em>How to get your foot in the door to become a commercial roaster?</em></h1>
<p><em><br/></em>Constantly knock nay beat on doors until one opens.</p>