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Air samples suggest roasting coffee is really bad for your lungs

Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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Looks like you need to has good venting when you roast coffee at home. My solution is to use a popcorn popper outdoors.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 6 months ago
    According to the same class of pundits from the 80's I should be under water at present. As a matter of fact, I should have been inundated for the last 15 years or so.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 8 years, 6 months ago
    I remember as a kid, one of my jobs was at a "botique" coffee roaster, his equipment dated back to late 30's Germany... the steam & smoke when the batch dumped into the cooling tray would get you wired for about a day and a half - one of the rights of passage was to get the new person for an unload, and have them "smell the fresh roasted coffee" fresh off the roaster... then watch them twitch! --grins--

    Of course, the EPA made us install all kinds of filters, was talking about forcing us to get "modern" equipment that ran remotely to remove "the blatant workplace hazard" this caused...
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  • Posted by minorwork 8 years, 6 months ago
    I've talked to a shirt tale relative, a pulmonary specialist. He takes lung damage seriously, claims the studies on lungs damaged by diacetyl are not at first visible but are mostly an emphysema stiffening of alveoli walls which CAN be detected by the isolation chambers and tests they perform when testing for Black Lung and the effects of smoking tobacco and pot. The effects are there and exaggerated even if a person has a mutation that inhibits lung enzymes. Risk management cannot be done without information and awareness of risky behaviors.

    But if known do we need government to stop us from the inhalation of diacetyl?
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  • Posted by JCLanier 8 years, 6 months ago
    Dark Roast may taste a lot stronger but it actually has less caffeine. The lighter the roast the more caffeine.
    I am addicted to the smell of coffee. I'll take it dark and strong even thick- type Turkish coffee.

    Freedom, I am intrigued with your idea of using a popcorn popper to roast your beans... Do you just judge it by the color your aiming for and turn it off or what?
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    • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago
      Here is a good description:
      http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/airpop/...
      I use just enough beans so the air swirls them constantly. Determined that by adding until they stopped and removing a little. Then measured that amount so I could repeat it easily. Done-ness depends on how dark you want the roast, but the beans make a "crack" sound when they are done enough, and that is usually medium roast. If you want dark roast, you let them keep cooking and they will crack a second time at about the time they are dark roast. It will take a little experimentation on your specific popper to determine the time this takes. Then you can repeat it based on timing it. Yes, I also watch the color so they don't get too done. After you have done it a couple times, you will be able to set an alarm or timer to the correct amount for your popper, your taste.
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