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A few of you have asked to see a few more of my roasters. In 2002 I attended the Specialty Coffee Conference and displayed some of my roasters. Before all the packaged coffee like Folgers and Maxwell House was the general stores where you could buy green beans and roast you coffee on your wood burning stove. Most of these home roasters were small and made to fit in the eye of the stove. From about 1840 to the early 1900s over 300 U.S. roasters were granted granted U.S. Patents. Although thousands were made very few have survived today. Scrap metal drives for the war effort during WW1 and WW2 destroyed many of these roasters.Richhttp://www.oldcoffeeroasters.com/scaa_roaster.htm