Roasting coffee at home?

You can do that?

I had no idea until about 10 years ago when a dinner party host tossed some Papua New Guinea peaberry green coffee beans into a small pan and roasted them in the outdoor pizza oven still blazing-hot from dinner. In no time, the rock-hard, raw green beans transformed into bronzed baubles. It was a revelation. And after tasting coffee freshly brewed from these just-roasted beans, I was hooked.

Drink in these stories from three others who are equally passionate about home roasting.