Design of Experiment #1

Finally after two years of thinking about the first roasting design of experiments (DOE), the first two factor and three level DOE has been conducted. A simple design is illustrated here:

Next step is testing. The tests will including roasted whole bean agtron, ground agtron, and cupping results.

Coffee Research Pondering

Lots of progress has been made over the last few weeks on some home coffee projects. I have a few goals over the long weekend to read some coffee research articles. It would be fun to run some roasting design of experiments and publish a research article on some results.

Craft instant coffee seems to be a thing now. It might be interesting to try to make a good and alternative in a novel way. Some brainstorming ideas are in progress.

Pandemic Roasting and Baking

Creating this blog post to track progress on coffee roasting during the pandemic. One year later, I realize that I haven’t made as much progress as desired. I plan to use this blog to track coffee experiments and a few side baking projects.