Can any bread maker be used to roast coffee?
There are a few things you want to watch for when choosing a bread machine to use as a coffee roaster. You want an all metal stirring assembly and you want the bottom of the pan to be solid. Some bread machines have plastic pieces holding the stirring thing-a-ma-bob in place, and the heat gun could melt the plastic. Do not use any bread machine that has a plastic stirring assembly or if the receptacle in which the pan sits is plastic, rather than metal. In some machines, the bottom has a hole in it, and coffee beans will fall out when you lift the pan to dump the beans for cooling. Not good. I understand that some bread machines have Teflon coated bread pans. It is probably wise to avoid those as the off-gassing of Teflon in high heat conditions is a health hazard. Watch for Teflon stirrers/paddles as well. You can remove Teflon with a solvent or by sorta sandblasting it, but it’s apparently not all that easy. My machine once had Teflon on the paddle, but it has disappeared. As more fo
