Roast your own coffee beans and enjoy a fresh cup of coffee anytime, anywhere!

Gene Cafe Coffee Bean Roaster with
Large Chaff  Collector

Each unit of Gene Cafe Coffee Bean Roaster is fully backed by our 1 year parts and labour warranty with guaranteed prompt and efficient service.  We have a stock of replacement and spare parts. 

To get your Gene Cafe cracking in no time, grab a copy of the following:

• Coffee Roasting Using Gene Cafe - Tips and Techniques
  

The aim of this document is to kickstart your knowledge of coffee roasting using Gene Café.

• Sample Coffee Roasting Log of the supplied green bean variety using Gene Cafe.
  
  It is ideal to keep a Coffee Roasting Log every time you roast.  This is like a  roast journal that contains the method/technique you used.  Each green bean variety is unique requiring different roasting technique - that makes coffee roasting always an exciting adventure (never a dull moment!).  Having a journal that records your roasting profile (and don't forget to make some comments) will help you achieve that perfect roast tailored to your personal taste.
  
  Feel free to use sample roasting log below as a starting point.  Refine them as you go along to suit your taste.

  Brazil Yellow Bourbon Coffee Roasting Log Sample 

All About Gene Cafe

Gene Cafe Features:

• Innovative off-axis rotation
• Convective (hot-air) agitation of roasting beans
• 50g to 300g raw green beans capacity
• Time and temperature preset
• Viewable glass chamber
• Compact size and 5.5 kg weight makes Gene Cafe portable
• Australian electrical safety standard approved.  Approval No:  NSW22889
• 1 year parts and labour warranty
  

Freshness is one of the major factors that affects the taste of coffee. One way to make sure you have got freshly roasted coffee is to roast your own.

Gene Cafe coffee roaster is popular among home coffee roasters.  It is lightweight and portable coffee roasting equipment that is easy to operate.  Its two knob button (Temperature and Time, similar to your convection oven's controls, can be optionally increased or decreased during operation to give total control during roasting) is so easy to use and is making a lot of very happy owners. You may check it out yourself in Google and find out why their owners had come to love them :-)

For more information about Gene Cafe Coffee Bean Roaster,  please visit Gene Cafe - General Information (a list of brick and mortal stores that carry Gene Cafe is also in this web page).

Gene Cafe Owner's Manual

Large Chaff Collector

Gene Café’s Large Chaff Collector is used to direct smoke away from the roasting area.  It has a nozzle for attaching hose.  Due to bigger chaff capacity, it can handle chaff heavy dry processed green beans.

Refer to Wil97 and Paul L’s articles for more information/instruction on how to use Gene Café’s Large Chaff Collector.

Gene Cafe Reviews

Excellent (and presumably unbiased) product reviews of Gene Cafe could be found by Googling 'gene cafe review'. One of the Google search result, The Coffee Geek's reviews, is quite diverse. The best written review for Gene Cafe as judged by Coffee Geek's members is Eddie Dove's .

Other useful links

www.avacuppa.com.au/mediawiki
This is the Avacuppa Wiki. Avacuppa Wiki is using wiki to encourage everybody to share their knowledge by creating and/or editing articles.

Why roast your own coffee beans?
Some pointers for making a good cup of coffee
An Introduction Into Home Coffee Roasting
What is Profile Roasting?
Coffee Roasting Log  This is a coffee roasting log template. Print this out and fill it out as you roast. For a guide on how to use this log see the Coffee Roasting Log - User's Guide
Temperature converter software

We offer green beans from 1 kilo up to 5 kilos per order.  All green beans are packed in plastic resealable bags.