Coffee Roasting Temperatures
Here’s a chart of Coffee Roasting temperatures for those that have a home roasting machine that shows the temperature of the coffee beans.
(Degrees C has been rounded to nearest whole numbers)
- 275F/135C Nothing much going on.
- 275-300F/135-149C Beans turns greener.
- 330-345F/165-174C Green turns to yellow.
- 350-355F/176-180C From yellow to tanned yellow.
- 360F/182C Light tan.
- 370F/188C Medium tan.
- 375F/190C Dark tan.
- 385F/196C Light brown.
- 385-390F/196-199C First crack begins.
- 400-405F/204-207C Rolling first crack – then slowing down.
- 410-420F/210-215C Nice medium brown.
- 415F/212C Second crack beginning.
- 422-424F/216-217C Rolling second crack.
- 425F/218C Beans turn oily and smoke a lot.
- 426-428F/219-220C Second crack slowing, lots of oil
Beyond this point there be dragons, starbucks like, better get the fire extinguisher out.
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