Product Description: The Gene Cafe home drum coffee roaster is one of the most significant advances in home coffee roasting to ever hit the market. This special package includes the Gene Cafe Roaster and 8 pounds of Zaccardi's green gourmet arabica coffee beans. The Gene Cafe will roast a large batch of green coffee beans ? a half pound (8 oz) after roasting. Since you can lose up to 10 or 20 percent of the bean weight when roasting, this is a very welcome feat, making this one of the largest capacity home roasters in its class. The Gene Cafe coffee roaster also uses a unique patented way of mixing and heating the beans to produce a very even roast with excellent body without sacrificing brightness. The roaster uses an off axis rotation that tumbles the beans combined with hot air flow. While it looks like a drum roaster, it also shares some of the roast characteristics of a hot air roaster. If you are having a hard time deciding between the benefits of a hot air coffee roaster (which produce even roast, bright flavor) and a drum roaster (which produce full body roasts and larger capacity) then the Gene Cafe roaster is a great choice. The Pyrex glass construction allows you to see the roast production for excellent monitoring of the roast progress and the low noise level (65 db) compared to other home roasters, allows you to hear the first and second crack of the coffee beans. This will prove to be a real asset for this roaster since the sound of the beans cracking is one of the best ways of monitoring your roast. Perhaps the most significant feature of this roaster, however, is the ability to control the roast. The Gene Cafe is one of the most controllable home roaster of its type. Although the controls are not digital, they allow full instant control which many prefer. Two knobs on the machine allow you to adjust both the time and the temperature independently. This roaster is perfect for both the novice and expert home roaster alike. You can set a time and temperature and l
