Super Roasting Coffee With 600 Mirrors and a Giant Ball of Fire in the Sky
A not atypical coffee roaster, like an old-school Probat favored by Stumptown, looks like this (or this). Not a small machine. Unless you compare it to Dave Hartkop’s Helios 4, a solar-powered coffee roaster. Composed of more than 600 mirrors, it’s around 11,000 pounds and takes up over 1000 square feet. Sounds crazy complicated, but…