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The coffee bean roaster is fast becoming a “must have” in today’s kitchens. The flavor and freshness of coffee is at its best when it is roasted in small batches at home.

Roasted coffee is very susceptible to oxygen damage when it sits on store shelves and in café bins for days or weeks at a time. It spells disaster for specialty coffee beans creating stale, flavorless coffee.

Today, the coffee bean roaster is a coffee enthusiasts dream, bringing the freshness and quality of roasting fresh gourmet coffee at home. It is the beginning of a new era in coffee history and a major step in the return of great tasting coffee.

You’ll be surprised to learn how easy and fast it is to roast your own specialty coffee beans at home. Once you experience the flavor of fresh gourmet coffee like this you’ll want to share it with everyone you know.

There are basically two types of home coffee bean roasters: fluid bed roasters and electric, radiant heat drum roasters.

Fluid bed roasters work like hot air popcorn poppers. They have a glass-roasting chamber so you can watch as the coffee beans are roasted and stop at the desired roast. These are good for beginners and a great way to get started in home roasting.

The radiant heat drum roaster is more like the professional coffee roasters use. These do not allow you to watch as the beans are roasted so you have to roast by smell or sound.

How about having a roasting party with friends or the family? Home roasting is a lot of fun. You can try some of the best coffees in the world and roast them just the way you like them. What’s even more fun and tasty is creating your own custom blends.

So if you haven’t tried home roasting, get ready for an amazing treat. Your coffee drinking experience will never be the same once you taste the fresh gourmet coffee you made with your home coffee bean roaster. “Enjoy”

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With a long, esteemed history that stretches back to the 60s era, Braun coffee makers are now considered one of the longest-running and most trusted companies in the world of coffee making. The Braun brand continues to dominate the market with its wide array of products, most of which are born out of their own, brilliant innovations.

Braun came up with their first commercial coffee maker back in its early days, and played a crucial role in the creation of home coffee makers. Thanks to Braun, even at home, you can enjoy a freshly brewed cup of rich and great-tasting coffee with a quality that gives café coffees a run for their money.

Braun coffee makers are clearly heaven sent to homemakers who no longer have to be frustrated in trying to brew good-quality coffee at home. The expertise of Braun can now help them do so using excellent, top-of-the-line Braun coffee makers designed to brew you your most unforgettable cup of coffee.

The Equity of the Braun Name

The Braun legend of coffee making started in German, where the company first took root. It was able to establish a presence in various industries, not just the coffee making industry. Aside from kitchen appliances like coffee makers and grinders, Braun also produces health products such as thermometers and blood pressure monitors as well as grooming and personal hygiene products such as electric hair trimmers and hair epilators as a subsidiary of Gillette.

But still, their greatest products are coffee makers and their various innovative contributions to the coffee industry. New models of coffee makers with new features and sporting new and modern designs are still being churned out at an amazingly fast speed at the Braun headquarters.

Why Buy Braun Coffee Makers?

Aside from the fact that they come from the company that pioneered home coffee brewing, Braun coffee makers are definitely worth buying because of many reasons. First of all, Braun coffee makers operate using a specific brewing system that brews coffee fast and conveniently. They have very speedy coffee makers that can brew you an instant cup of coffee. Aside from that, their products are also designed with features to make coffee making hassle-free for you.

From no-slip handles to water filters, you will really get great features that bring great benefits to your coffee experience. The no-slip handles can help prevent spills and accidents, and the filters can help flush out any unwanted flavoring in the water to make sure that it does not interfere with the true taste of the coffee. The water filters also work to ensure that the water used in brewing your coffee is perfectly clean and safe for drinking.

Also, when your coffee maker needs additional accessories, Braun also has it. In the tradition set by their invention of the first paper filter, Braun continues to offer various types of coffee filters as well as optional water filters, and separate coffee pots that you can avail of for replacing your old cups or supplementing them in case you feel you need a spare. And you can be sure that with every product that you buy with the Braun name on it, you will get nothing but great quality.

What’s A Braun Coffee Maker to You?

Badly need a coffee fix? Or craving for your rich cup of fresh off the pot coffee? Those are situations that only Braun coffee makers can resolve, and the ultimate solution can now be found right in your very own home. With Braun coffee makers, you can brew your perfect cup whenever you feel like it.

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Throughout all of history, coffee houses have been more than places where innocent people like you and I could get a regular caffeine fix.

Although coffee itself apparently originated in Ethiopia before the 11th century, the first coffee house known to history was located in Constantinople in 1475. I know that coffee is an important part of MY life, but in those days a wife could divorce her husband if he could not keep her properly supplied with coffee! In Turkey, coffee was normally brewed in an ibrik, a long-handled pot originally designed for brewing coffee upon the desert sands.

In the early 1500′s a coffee house was established in Vienna, Austria by the only person in town who had both lived in Turkey and who recognized the intrinsic value and potential income lurking in several bags of coffee abandoned by Turkish invaders. It seems to be about this time that the custom of softening coffee by adding sugar and cream came into practice. Value was added when coffee shops began serving pastries as well as coffee. Although some pious individuals considered coffee to be the drink of the devil, the pope who was asked to so describe the beverage in this manner was already a coffee drinker and, instead, blessed it, calling it a Christian beverage.

Although coffee houses spread through Europe, England actually got into the act through a Turkish link rather than the import of the new custom from the continent.

It was in 1652 that history records the first coffee house being founded in England by two servants of an importer of Turkish goods. They left their employer and went into business for themselves marketing the new brew at their establishment, The Turk’s Head. Coffee houses of this era were referred to as “penny universities” because of the penny that was charged for admission and the camaraderie and exchange of ideas that were included in the price.

In fact, coffee houses of that era were the mass media of the day. The free public exchange of information was actually frightening to those in power. Because of this, coffee houses in England were shut down for a while in 1675. Public outrage was so great, however, that this only lasted a few days.

One figure of note, Samuel Pepys, famed diarist of the era and proclaimed “right hand of the navy” noted that he often frequented coffee houses for naval news as it seemed to be more up to date and reliable than the information available to him at the admiralty. One well known coffee house of the day probably provided him with a great deal of news concerning ships and the sea.

Edward Lloyd’s coffee house which opened in 1688 (or 1687, by some sources) near the Thames river on Tower street, eventually lost its roots but became one of the most famous institutions in the world – Lloyd’s of London. This was perhaps a natural metamorphosis due to the number of seafaring men from the ships at London’s docks who found their way to Lloyd’s. Edward Lloyd, being an astute individual, as are all of us addicted to coffee, began in 1696 the practice of listing arrivals and departures of ships in addition to information received from arriving vessels about the conditions of ships and crews and conditions at sea. Eventually, so much shipping information was exchanged at the nearly round-the-clock establishment, that insurance brokers began doing some of their business there.

One of the earliest functions of the coffee houses of the past was to provide a meeting place for many, but particularly for intellectuals of each era. The combination of the exchange of ideas and caffeine proved to be a heady experience, launching careers and in some cases legends. Perhaps you have heard of Jonathan Swift, Honore de Balzac, Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, or Henry Fielding?

One source states that by the end of the 17th century, there were over 2,000 coffee houses in London alone. Although most were just in the business of serving coffee, some had unsavory reputations and customers, and more than one could have been mistaken for a brothel. They were also often the place for assignations or just plain dates.

It has been said that our modern word “tip” as in “to leave a tip” was first coined (no pun intended) in early English coffee houses. Usually a tin receptacle of some sort was marked with a sign reading “To Insure Prompt Service” (TIPS) to receive the coins of those who needed their coffee and needed it fast!

In the new country of America, the coffee house seemed to follow in the footsteps of its Britannic predecessors. One of the earliest coffee houses in America served as the founding location for the New York Stock Exchange. Of course, after the Boston Tea Party, being a coffee drinker was considered to be patriotic. Many strategies of the American revolution were born or raised in the coffee houses of the day.

A breakthrough in the history of coffee occurred when instant coffee was first successfully produced and marketed by Maxwell House in the 1950′s.

Whether instant or brewed, most modern American coffee drinkers would probably not recognize the brew of their forefathers. With a much higher ratio of coffee to water (one tablespoon to 16 ounces of water), and having been boiled for half an hour, not even the introduction of such common additives of the day as fish skin or egg shell would probably have done much to bring the taste close to a modern Starbucks mocha or latte.

In fact, the modern coffee house, typified by Starbucks or Tim Hortons might be recognized by the denizens of the past…if they were able to identify laptops as intellectual tools for research and the exchange of ideas, and cell phones as a means of conversation.

After much success in America, the modern coffee house, in the Starbucks name, image, and mold has moved westward to the East…the Far East, that is. Although coffee was not of much national interest until 1961, by the 1980′s coffee shops were quite the rage in Japan, and Starbucks opened its first store in Japan in August, 1996. Starbucks’ name recognition seems to have been its ticket to success in Japanese culture. By the time the first outlet opened, world-traveling Japanese had already had the Starbucks experience in foreign lands. The story is told that upon the opening of the first Starbucks store in Japan, the first customer, who ordered a “Double short latte!” did not speak English! As of 2003, Starbucks had 503 stores in Japan.

Starbucks opened its first store in China in 1999, and as of February, 2006, had 165 outlets, complete with cell phone carrying, laptop using customers like anywhere else in the world. I guess it’s possible that considering the history of coffee shops something besides coffee might be brewing.

Donovan Baldwin is retired from the Army after 21 years of service, has worked as an accountant, optical lab manager, restaurant manager, and instructor. He has been a member of Mensa for several years, and has written and published poetry, essays, and articles on various subjects for the last 40 years. Although primarily interested in the subjects of health, weight loss, and making money, he began drinking coffee at about age six and 55 years later, still hasn’t figured out how to stop…nor does he want to! In addition to caffeine, he is also addicted to blogging and blogs on the subjects of health, fitness, diet, and weight loss at http://nodiet4me.blogspot.com

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