Small roasters are certainly available, but they're fairly expensive (US$75-100). My unmodified popper cost $15. I modified it 1) to save money; 2) because I'm an engineer by trade and considered it a challenge; 3) because I was not sure we would think the results worth the effort and wanted to minimize the initial outlay.
Dean
well, i start trying tea because my mother use to have tea from time to time, although at home everyone takes coffee, in fact spain is coffee drinker, there are 'cafeterias' or bars where having a coffee everywhere. in fact i begun to take coffee because is one of those things you are suppose to do, but never liked completely, and i tried all the possible combinations. i like very much the smell, the morning freshly made smell of coffee is quite warm, and then the taste is another thing, although here we also use to have a dense coffee, as italians and portugueses
but also my mother use to make her own mix, i have the memory of going with her to the market, and there bought several packs of coffee beans and mix them in 75%, 25% ['natural' and 'torrefacto', like natural roasting and a stronger one] and then make the grinding and packing in the moment. afterwards this shop was closed, there was not another place to grind the coffee that way, so she begun to do the same at home with a small grinder have been always at home, since i remember, i know it's not the same wide variety of different teas, but it's not as simple as it could seem go to the cafe and ask for a coffee. i'm now remembering a shop to buy coffee in beans in the very center of madrid and the coffee smell spreading all along the street... don't rememeber the name, in preciados or carmen street...
but it's true that is not usual to find places in which you can ask for a particular coffee... maybe is something related with an industry or just likes and dislikes... first time i went to england and go into a food shop, i searched among other things plain yogurt, and i couldn't find it, there were flavoured yogurts in all inimaginable varieties, but not plain, not sugared, not diet yogurt. it was astonishing.
regards from madrid, bonifacio barrio hijosa
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