i-Roast 2 Home Coffee Roaster

Back in stock. The new i-Roast 2 by Hearthware is the latest in profile programmable home coffee roasters. This version, just released, adds several desirable features to an already well-established and popular product. This unit is the most sophisticated, inexpensive home roaster on the market today.

Roasts and Cools in less than 20 Minutes Roasts up to 1 cup (150 grams / 5.3 oz) of beans Roasts enough beans to produce up to 24 cups of coffee Programmable roast profiles from light to French and anything in between Patented temperature control to give you consistent personalized roasting performance 2 Preset Automatic Roasting Curves for slower and faster roasts Glass Roasting chamber allows clear visibility, during every stage of the roast Double Filtration Chaff collection that also disassembles for easy cleaning Built in 4 minute cooling cycle

i-Roast 2 Improvements Built-in 10 memory function. This is perhaps the most important advancement. You now have the ability to save, recall or delete up to 10 roast profiles. 2 additional roast stages (now 5 in total) instead of 3 in the previous model. However, indicator bars still show three. Maximum roast time is still 15 minutes.

The chaff collector shown inside the chaff collector base. The lid for this section is not in place in this photo to show the location of the chaff collector.

Improvements The chaff collector screen fits snugly onto the protrusion groove inside the chaff collector base, so more chaff is collected including fine chaff. The fit of the chaff collector lid to the chaff collector base is much tighter. In the uppermost section, the fitting of the chaff collector base fits more snugly onto the roasting pot and a locking mechanism was devised to promote a tighter seal.

The smoke vent attachment is shown above. If you wish, you can attach a dryer hose to the top section so roasting smoke can be redirected. Not required during roasting.

Improvement Shot from above, looking down. The thermoreflector connection to the roasting pot is strengthened.

How does the i-Roast2 work? A directed stream of hot air moves upward through the beans, both roasting and mixing the beans to provide an even roast. The airstream then carries the chaff away from the roasted bean and moves it into the collector surrounding the top neck of the roasting pot, safely away from the roasted beans. The final minutes of the roasting cycle are a special cool down mode (roasting requires temperatures in the neighborhood of 450 degrees), which cools the beans and the roaster to a comfortable temperature.