Roast Coffee Like Never Before

Meet Roastino

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to roast your own coffee? To hear the crackling beans, to inhale the rich, evolving aromas, and to witness the transformation from green to perfectly roasted? With Roastino, we bring the captivating experience of manual coffee roasting to your hands, making it accessible to everyone.

Our inspiration for Roastino came from a vintage drum roaster, ingeniously made from household parts by a passionate craftsman. We’ve taken this humble yet effective design and meticulously refined it to ensure durability and consistency. Whether you’re a coffee enthusiast or a professional, from home-roasting to commercial sample roasting, Roastino caters to all levels of expertise.

Manual Coffee Roasting

Roastino brings the art of coffee roasting to your hands, allowing you to enjoy the full sensory experience from crackling beans to evolving aromas.

Versatile and Robust

The adjustable drum height makes Roastino compatible with various heat sources, providing reliable roasts in any setting.

Precise Roast Profiling

The built-in thermometer enables easy and precise roast profiling, ensuring each batch meets your quality standards.

Easy Maintenance

A little greasing to the axle from time to time will keep your Roastino in top condition.

Roastino is your ultimate coffee companion in any setting – be it your kitchen, backyard, or any place you desire. The adjustable drum height allows you to use a wide range of heat sources like gas ranges and stoves, alcohol burners, or beam heaters and more. Whether you’re a coffee enthusiast or a professional, from home-roasting to commercial sample roasting, Roastino caters to all levels of expertise.

Enhance outdoor roasting with our optional windshield add-on, which also provides insulation and safety indoors. With a capacity of 30 to 100 grams, Roastino guarantees consistent and repeatable roasts every time, no matter where you are.

Key Features

Small size
17 x 23 x 23 cm
Built-in thermometer
°C and °F option available
Copper drum
30 to 100 g capacity

Stainless steel base
Nitrided matte black option available
Adjustable drum height
For various heat sources
Windshield add-on
Recommended for outdoor use

Coffee roasting is an art and science that relies on trial and error. Roastino enables you the learning and experimenting process to discover and optimize your roast. As you gain experience and refine your technique, you’ll achieve exceptional results.

For further info read the F.A.Q. below, or get in touch with us!

SHOP

Roastino -stainless steal

$180

Roastino – black edition

$200

Windshield for Roastino

$40

Rekrow Micro Burner and Stove

$48

TESTIMONIALS

Read below if you are interested in our testers' opinions and impressions about Roastino.

Zoli Kis

Founder of Spektrum Coffee Roaster and holistik coffee

Roastino is a total game-changer: it puts a smile on my face every time I roast. It’s smoking hot, super portable, and lets me roast my morning coffee while I boil the water. I can roast pretty much anywhere I want. What other roaster can do that?

Rex Tseng

Founder of Acaia

I’ve had the privilege of testing an early Roastino prototype. The hands-on approach to roasting, which allows for precise manual control and the creation of your own artisanal coffee flavors, has provided me with one of the greatest satisfactions I’ve had in years.

Sascha Matiz

Departement Manager at Olympia Express

As a manufacturer of manual lever machines and as a home-roaster, I did fall in love with the Roastino immediately. The choice of materials and the design are perfect and give it a unique look that will age well. Of course, the roasting experience is as stunning as the looks. Turning the handle of the Roastino and having just the sound of the beans rolling around in the chamber feels meditative! Due to this you will also have no problem noticing the first crack. The Roastino is now my sample roaster of choice to test new beans out before I go in to larger batches.

Tamás Melis

Bean to Cup Manager at Cafe Frei

When I first received the roaster, I wasn’t sure who it was really for. But once I turned on the gas stove and started roasting the coffee, the whole process unexpectedly became enjoyable and meditative. I’ve roasted thousands of kilos of coffee before, but hearing the first crack with this roaster was fascinating due to its unique acoustics. Instead of setting parameters on Cropster, I was adjusting the flame with one hand and turning the drum with the other. It felt like I was relearning roasting and becoming part of the machine. It was a great experience to test this tool, and I was surprised at how consistently I could roast batch after batch.

Barb and Doug Garrott

Founders of orphan espresso

Very satisfying, easy to use little roaster! If we hadn't run out of beans Doug would still be sitting out in the backyard roasting! As TOTAL newbies we had no trouble at all roasting coffee, following your minimal instructions, and that speaks very well for the Roastino!

Gábor Hernyák

Hungarian Brewers Cup Champion - Twenty Eight Roastery

Thank you for the opportunity to try out the little roaster. It was incredibly exciting to bring the roasting process into my kitchen. I was initially worried about manually turning the drum for 8-10 minutes, but I was pleasantly surprised at how engrossing the whole process was. The end result was even more surprising, as I managed to regulate the gas burners well and achieved a great roast on my first try.

Doug Weber

Founder of Weber Workshops

In an industry seemingly full of me-too and consumerism focused products, Gabor et al. has created yet another unique object that puts some of the fun and love back into coffee. The Roastino is a tool that deepens the coffee experience while providing joy to the user in the process.

Gábor Karakai

Fellow leverhead

A very nice product: beautifully designed and easy to use. It fills your Saturday mornings with joy - and your kitchen with the perfume of roasting coffee. I have roasted a total of 1.5 kilos of green coffee with the Roastino, loading 60 grammes at a time. I achieved the richest flavour when I brewed my espresso two days after roasting. I hope the project will materialise, and more people will get a chance to hear coffee crack in their homes!

Marko Luther

Artisan Scope

THE minimal device to roast. A fit!

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F.A.Q.

The list of compatible heat sources is not limited to what we have shown, but here are some remarks that could help you choose:

the heat source should fit under the drum, where the lower and upper bounds are ~60 mm and ~120 mm respectively
for better control over the roast, we recommend using an adjustable heat source
smaller alcohol burners may limit your batch size to <50g
alcohol burner may leave soot on the drum

Optimal batch size roughly speaking is a function of the capabilities of your heat source, drum height setting, and environmental conditions.

After finding an appropriate place and configuration to start, begin your Roastino experience with these easy steps:

Preheat the drum to 90°C (194°F) while continuously rotating it, then load 100g of green beans and start a timer.
Rotate the drum throughout the roast with approx. 60 rpm and adjust your heat source so that your roast profile (i.e. temp vs. time readings) roughly falls on the following data points: 150°C (302°F) @ 3:00 min, 190°C (374°F) @ 5:00 min, 210°C (410°F) @ 7:00 min.
The event of the first crack (1C) should happen sometime after 7:00 and the roast level could be determined by the time between 1C and the DROP (i.e. ejecting the beans from the drum for cooling). A rough guide for roast levels is: 1C+0:45-1:00 min - light (filter) roast, 1C+1:30-1:45 min - medium (espresso) roast.
In the event of DROP eject the beans to a thick metal tray or colander and try to cool it as fast as possible with agitation and airflow.
After cooling, you may remove the leftover chaff by gently blowing it off.