Product Description: The Zach & Dani's Gourmet Coffee roaster will give you the freshest, most flavorful cup of coffee in the world. The Zach & Dani's Gourmet Coffee Roaster is the only home coffee roaster in the world that eliminates the smoke from the coffee-roasting process. It's fast, fun, easy and the delicious coffee will amaze you! The Gourmet Coffee roaster comes with three 1-pound bags of Zach & Dani's premium unroasted coffee beans (1 bag of Zach's Breakfast Blend, 1 bag of Colombian Supremo and 1 bag of Guatemalan Huehuetenango) and an air-tight storage canister to store your freshly roasted coffee beans.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Nice roasts, dangerous build quality issues
While this roaster works, it produces nice medium-dark roasts, and a good amount beans for a 1 or 2 coffee drinker household. It's a bit loud, but the relatively smokeless operation means you can run it anywhere that's fairly well ventilated.
The problem with these roasters is the terrible build quality. I repeatedly had the central auger jam. If not freed up immediately, the jam will cause the beans to heat unevenly and catch on fire. I had this happen on two occasions, ruining the roaster both times. The second time, I was past warranty.
Rating: - easy to use, poor roasting, terrible quality
There are two pros to this unit. It is very easy to use, and is very low in price compared to other home roasters. The cons are the roast times are way too long for a quality roast and the quality is terrible. I received this unit as a gift over a year ago but due to moving to a new state I just started using it a month ago. After roasting about 4lbs of beans it stopped working and I haven't figured out how to repair it yet. I would completely avoid this unit with reliability as poor as this. Another good reason to avoid this unit is their customer service is non existent. [...]
Rating: - Great to roast your own coffee! This product needs competition though!
The Z&D Roaster is great, but not built to last. The smell of coffee roasting is all you get from this. No smoke as the air is circulated and I believe it is one of the only units of this kind that has a catalyst to keep the smoke smell virtually gone. All you smell is the aroma of fresh roasted coffee - even coffee drinkers love that. I used mine very regularly, but it has been about 18 months and just like the other reviewers. Bam! The fan blade broke in 2. I have replaced the glass cylinder twice at $20 a pop. I didn't catch the blade break in time and my unit melted slightly to where ... Read More
Rating: - Doesn't last long
I have had my Z & D roaster since Christmas 2004. I had to send it back for warranty work within the first 6 months. They took care of everything, but I was out the roaster for the duration and of course the shipping expense. It just broke again yesterday and it is well out of the warranty period. While it worked, it worked just fine and we were happy, but I'm with the other reviewers. A $150 appliance should last longer than a year and a half.
Rating: - Chamber cracks
I've had the roaster 2 years. Have had to replace the glass chamber 3 times. The last chamber cracked after 2 roastings. Customer service said we don't cover the chambers, we won't help you. The coffee roasts alright. Sometimes light, sometimes dark. We never know what we will get. My husband still loves it but I'm going to find a better product.
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