Roasting Coffee with Sunlight


Tije wondered if it would be possible or even easy to roast with sunlight and a magnifying glass. As a boy he was successful at setting stuff on fire with his magnifying glass, so there might be enough solar energy to collect in a metal, reflective bowl catching the full blast of solar heat on a handful of coffee beans. Add a little shaking device and anyone can roast their beans on a sunny day. It's grean, sustainable, fun and all. Tije made some tools and came over to try this together with Jan van der Weel and me. We'd like to say that the first results are simply astounding, but alas, they are not. A sunny afternoon went up in smoke. Very little smoke. But we had a great time.

Wout Lipper (1980)
PS 9 Oct 2016:

Then last week I saw a vintage solar powered coffee roaster in the museum collection at Probat in Emmerich. Fantastic object, looks like a machine to burn the world in a sixties James Bond movie, built by an evil scientist with a keen sense for fine design:



Also see this: http://www.solarroast.com

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